Convention or No Convention Reforms for a New Constitution
Reforms proposed by Nashville American reformers urge a constitutional convention to approve changes. They call for a reformed judiciary with cheaper, merged courts, faster criminal trials, extended Davis Law operations, optional county government, reformed taxation for farm and corporate assets, allowances for local tax incentives, elected state officers, anti free passes for officials, and stronger safeguards against corruption.
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A SICK WOMAN Should Consist the Best Physician Possible
A persuasive 19th century appeal touts Peruna as the premier remedy for worn, nervous women. It urges married and invalid women to seek Dr Hartman’s guidance and request a free book detailing female diseases and cures from the Columbus Ohio company.
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Pe-ru-na
Pernna Drug Manufacturing ‘Company
Columbus
Ohio
Facta and Faces
Dr. Hurtient
Marriage in Loninville as bride ill during ceremony
In Loninville Kentucky Mrs Serena Sickles hosted a small wedding for Pil Levy of Henderson and Miss Hattie Sicklin. The bride, sick with appendicitis, answered vows from bed as Rabbi Moses and the mother shared the wine cup. Relatives attended and the couple will reside in Henderson after health improves. Also, Leona Goodman, a popular Dardanelle society figure, was killed in Arkansas when a serenade ended with a shooter striking her neck. The murderer was captured and taken to Danville amid fears of lynching.
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Pil Levy
Henderson
Misa Hattie Sicklin
Serena Sickles
East Jacob Street
Rabbit Moses
Moses
Little Rock
Leona Goodman
Dardanelle
Roger
Ark
Yell County Normal
Lipp
Miss
Balloon Barat Ends Safe Descent For Barnard
In Nashville on June 11 ordinary observers watched A W Barnard pilot a balloon barat to a safe landing after a dramatic collapse. The airship fell two thousand feet then tore open a side and plunged before the bag filled with air and served as a parachute, guiding Barnard to a clear space outside the exposition grounds.
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Exposition Grounds
Remedy for simmering complaint from old household note
A rough recipe suggests simmering spices cloves cinnamon allspice leaf sage in water then simmering and adding soda. The text reads as a simple pleasant remedy to be taken in measured dosages, though the instructions are garbled and uncertain.
A Boy's Wen of This Father and Cures Promised
The item blends a quip about a boy's evolving view of his father with an advertisement offering a cure for consumption and related illnesses. It claims a reliable remedy and promises three free bottles to readers who send address details, citing T. A. Ruccow M.C. of New York.
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McKinley visit opens Tennessee exposition in Nashville
President McKinley and party arrived at the Maxwell House in Nashville for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. A guard of ex Confederates escorted the procession and a 45 gun salute greeted the president who, with Mrs McKinley, toured exhibits and heard speeches by Governor Taylor and other dignitaries. McKinley praised Tennessee and the nation, urging unity and prosperity under a rising industrial era.
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The Richest Man Living Riches and Ruins of Credit
A historic parcel of text discusses John D. Rockefeller and other magnates, noting Rockefeller’s wealth near 250,000,000 and claims of five months gains around 41,000,000. It sketches public scrutiny of Gould Sage Havemeyer and others amid legal and social pressure.
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Rockefeller
Attorney claims Durrant innocence and promises to speak out
San Luis Obispo dispatch notes Austin, once a leading city lawyer, now in Newport Oregon, writes County Clerk Wicher claiming knowledge that could exonerate Durrant from the Blanche Lamont murder. He asserts moral certainty of Durrant's innocence and says he would reveal his story to Durrant's attorney if safe. The piece also touches on constitutional reform debates and magistrate offices under county systems.
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Wicher
Newport
Oregon
San Francisco
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Chattanooga to Build New Jail and Rising Regional News
Chattanooga plans a new jail while Bristol eyes free electric lights and Memphis reports a slight river rise. Newport cotton mill shows increased business as a Bradford freight wreck is noted. Elizabethton begins staking for a steel plant amid a monster Chattanooga bicycle meet on July 4. Three car loads of sheep ship from Rogersville to New Jersey. Wheat threshing to start near Sweetwater Valley around the 20th. Clinton Chubback and family journeyed from Michigan to Sunbright. Memphis census shows 70,550. Walter Bishop the hypnotist slept for eighteen days in Nashville. Lookout battle mentions a dog killed and a lawsuit planned. T. N. Clark leases Roan County convicts for pipe work. Judge Clark orders Tennessee River Transportation Co sale on July 3. J. A. Denton arrested in Savannah on embezzlement charges. once Bradley County trustee. A sixty-year-old couple wed in Plintville after an eye float incident. A $15,000 female boarding home for Carson and Newman College at Mossy Creek. Mrs S Price of Txabolla in Polk County presents her husband with triplets. A Polski real estate man notes soil richness requires frequent dooryard grass cutting to find babies. Last week’s storm damaged Greene County with many trees down and wheat ruined. A Romeo incident: a woman killed by a falling limb while fleeing storm. her baby survived.
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