One Third of the State Now Have Compulsory Attendance
Tennessee cites 32 counties with compulsory education and notes East Tennessee’s leading role in enacting the laws. Prof. P. P. Claxton lauds the step as the start of ending illiteracy, with the Chesnutt bill expanding coverage to about twenty counties and urging further statewide adoption.
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Tennessee
East Tennessee
Eost Tennessee
P. P. Claxton
General Assembly of Tennessee
Middle
West
General Assembly
Anderson
Blount
Carter
Campbell
Clai-borne
Clay
Cocke
Cumberland
Fentress
Grundy
Grainger
Hamblen
Mancock
Hawkins
Jefferson
Johnson
Knox
London
Marion
Monroe
Morgan
Macon
Pickett
Roane
Scott
Sevier
Trousdale
Unicoi
Union
van Buren
Washington
Tow and the time required for attendance
A brief judge’s remark asserts the policy is mild and aimed at enabling children to read and write, reducing illiteracy. It notes the attendance time is shorter than in most states but sufficient to educate, with a rule: for any subsequent offense, two dollars per day of absence.
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Journal and Triburne
Vance's Composition Alleged Schoolboy Verse At Issue
A faded item from The Statesville Mascot prints an attributed but unverifiable schoolboy piece by the late Senator Vance. The prose imitates a boyish voice detailing toads, frogs, warts, and a trained toad catching flies, with rustic humor and misspellings.
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Statesville
Vance
Election laws 10 be contested
A short note lists contestation of election laws 10 with reference code 161, indicating procedures or challenges to legal provisions governing elections. The fragment implies formal or administrative action surrounding election law disputes without detailing parties or outcomes.
Laws On Election Contested Likely By Chancery Court
Nashville May 7 The election laws enacted by the general assembly before recess and the mandatory primary law will be contested with a bill expected to be filed in the chancery court before Judge Alison. Judge James C. Bradford, John J.
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Nashville
General Assembly
Chancery Court
Judie Allison
James C. Bradford
John J
Noonday of Life and Remedies Advertised Across Years
A fragmentary historical mix praises Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin and DeW New Life Pills as household remedies for constipation and indigestion. It includes testimonials to Rheumathol from Kelly & Brady Co and notes about Beaman, a railroad contractor, with stray quips about an inquiry in a Boston Transcript clipping.
Contest Over Election Laws Faces Lower House
Vertracs and D B Puryear from Summer County lead opposition on the floor to challenge the validity of the laws and the election and primary commissioners' selection. The new state board of election commissioners may seek to seize registration books, prompting resistance and possible injunctions. local school officials dread the $300000 high school bond vote on June 10 and anticipate clashes between county commissioners over calling the election and appointing officers.
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Conposed
Tigrett, Young and Maynarid
Augusta Evans Wilson Dies at 74 in Mobile
Mobile native and noted southern authoress Augusta Evans Wilson died at her Ashland home at six o clock from heart failure. Born in Columbus Georgia she was 74 and widow of Col L M Wilson of Mobile. Survived by three sisters and many southern relatives.
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Mobile
Ala
Augusta Evans Wilson
Mm. Evans Wilson
Columbus
Ashland
Matt Ryan
Sarah Howard Evans
Devota
Col. L. M. Wilson
Inez
St. Elna
Beulah
Tiberius
Speckled Bird
Evans Wilson
Virginia B. Bragg
J. W. Bush
Birmtotais
Leo Tarleton
New York
South
Entertainment and Peace Banquet Highlights and Train Ticket Sale
The program features songs, sketches, and performances by Earnest and the Johnson City magicians with well known stage figures. Selections include comedy acts, solos, and monologues, with reserved seats at Miller's drug store and prices of 10 15 and 25 cents. Also notes Secretary Knox and Cornelius Bliss spoke at the American Peace and Arbitration League banquet in Washington. The Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets to Asheville N C at a very low rate with departures May 2 3 and 4.
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Earnest
Johnson City
Meir
Alent
Smith
the Royal Chef
James T. Powers
Yorka & Adams
Jerome Sykes
England
Arthur T. Earnest
Miller's Drug Store
Washington
Southern Railway
Knox
Cornelius Trip Tckets
Asheville
N.C
N. Bliss
New York
Ambassadors and lawmakers push peace over war at forum
The gathering featured J E Shipley urging safe conduct and moral conduct, while Ambassador Bryce framed public opinion against war and urged open exchanges among nations. Speaker Cannon warned budgets will burden nations, and Associate Justice Brewer backed peace and arbitration over large armed forces.
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Bryce
United States
Mexico
Central America
Cannon
Brewer
Distinguished Tennessee Judge Cooper Dies in New York
Nashville May 7 A special dispatch from New York reports Judge Won PF Cooper aged ninety has died. He was a brother of J L Cooper linked to the Carmack killing case. Cooper served on Tennessee and Confederate Supreme Court traditions, edited chancery texts, authored Cooper's Chancery Reports, and studied at Yale with Evarts Taft. He never married and will be interred in Maury County Tennessee.
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Nashville
New York
Cooper
J. Cooper
United States
J. W. Carmack
Tennussee
Confederate States Supreme Court
Tennessee Supreme Court
Yale
William H. Evarts
Alonzo Taft
President Taft
Daniel’ Chancery Practice
Chancery
Alonzo Tall
Maury County
Tenn
State Supreme Bench
New York City
Earnest and Smith to Appear at City Hippodrome Shows
On Thursday Friday and Saturday evenings and Saturday matinee May 18 Arthur T Earnest of this city and Geo Porter Smith of New York will appear at the Hippodrome in addition to the regular program.
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Arthur T. Earnest
Geo. Porter Smith
New York
Hippodrome
Constipation Cure Promoted by Caldwell Syrup Story
Mrs Knight of Bellview Tenn tried Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin for five years amid many remedies. She found immediate relief and claims permanent cure for constipation and stomach liver or bowel trouble. Sample book offered free by Pepsin Syrup Co Monticello Ill. price noted as sec and $1 a bottle.
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Pepsin Syrup Co
Caldwell Bldg
Monticello
Ill
Sec
Madge
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Samuel Lewis
Roan
Jobe
Caldne Bridg
Kelly & Brady Co
Knoxville, Tenn
T. L. Beaman
Ion
Ketty & Brapy Co
Jonesboro
Elizabethton
H.C. Miller's
Bele
Boston Transcript
Dean
C. Willliams
Jxo
Cox
Naka
Tare
Cashier
Apam B. Crouett
Ass’t Cashier
ST. Elmor
Land
Os Bell
Nell
Kansas City Journal
Johnson City Steam Laundry
Turked
Cornelius N. Bliss
T.P. A
Grey-Sprowl Drug Company
Patton Drug Camps
Huyler
J. E. Shipley
Ville
WF. Gooper
D. B. Cooper
Degeased
Maury County, Tenn
Jalin Deye
Bucklen
Spring Street
Armbrust-Smith Building
Jos
A. Summers
Guy TL. Smith
HW. C. Jackson
T. VY. McQown
H .B. Shipley
M. Gaunt
J. C. Campbell
E. Miller
F.8. Brown
G. W. Swingle
E. A. Long
Frank Taylor
0. K. Marshall
W. . Nelson
F. K. Mounteastle
R. Sells
Jon W P, Riea
Las Lanter & Hg, Co Incorporated
MILL
East Carnegie
Johnson City, Tennessee
Jobe Street
CWA
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