Dr Isham to Examine Cases at Piedmont Hotel
Dr Isham with 14 years hospital experience will hold private consultations at the Piedmont Hotel November 2 3 and 4. He offers free directions for Stockton antiseptic treatment and will indicate other medicines if needed. All exams private and confidential. Also California dried fruit at M Jackson’s 487 40.
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Isham
Piedmont Hotel
Stockton
Stockton Medicine Co
California
M. Jackson
Locomotive Boiler Explodes Killing Engineer and Fireman
A Birmingham bound Mogul locomotive on the Georgian Pacific Railroad exploded at North Birmingham at 2 AM. Engineer Wills of Richmond Virginia and fireman J W Buchanan of Jefferson Texas were killed. No other injuries. The engine and wreckage were severely damaged but no cars were wrecked. The cause remains a mystery and bodies were found at daylight.
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Memphis
Tenn
Birmingham
Ala
Georgian Pacific Railroad
North Birmingham
Greeneville
Miss
Engineer Wills
St Hunters House
Hunters
J. W. Buchanan
Wills
Hunter
Richmond
Buchanan
Jefferson
Texas
Per Cent Cheaper Than Last Year and New Styles
An advertisement touts prices "AQ Per Cent." cheaper than last year and promotes a vast, fine new line. It highlights the latest styles and claims the largest assortment yet available.
Georgia Killing Shocks Savannah Area in Thunderbolt
In Savannah Georgia William Quarterman shot and killed Joe Davis a colored man in Thunderbolt five miles from Savannah this afternoon. The murder followed a Sunday quarrel and Quarterman fled. In Shelbyville Kentucky last night a negro dance ended with one fatal and three serious wounds as James Venable fired into a crowd after being cut. William Graham died while Doc Morrison and Richard Freeman were injured with Venable's wound deemed potentially fatal.
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Savannah
William Quarterman
Joe Davis
Thunderbolt
Quarterman
Louisville
Shelbyville
James Venable
William Graham
Doc. Morrison
Richard Freeman
Venable
Local Notes and Drowning Tragedy At Hall's Ford
October 24 entries report Bluff City hog buyer Mr. Lockhart visiting, a marriage October 22 at the bride’s parents Milton Mottern and Miss Finn Feathers, and hotel register of M J Mullins and B K Greene in Atlanta. The Archer son drowned crossing Hall's ford. father swam free. Theft at David McIntosh's home leads to Lula and Sallie Hyatt's preliminary hearing. Lula sent onward, other acquitted for age. Also mentions fair expectations, Jonesboro visitors, and an advertisement for a business college in Nashville with 80 page catalogue and tuition refinancing.
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John Archer
Hall's Ford
Here
Mr. Archer
Lula
Sallie Hyatt
David McIntosh
Reg. Hall
J. F. Dravonon
Dyaughon
C. P. Business College
School of Shorthand
Nashville
Tenn
Hendrix Family Move and Silver Shipment Report
Mrs Zens Hendrix left last night on No 2 to join her husband at Perch Bedford county Va on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. Our agent G W Wigginton reports sending 18000 dollars in silver to Knoxville plus checks and currency and he plans to visit Knoxville tomorrow. Henry Lineback arrived from the mountains to assess flood damage and supplies logs for C F Camp and Carrier Moissen Co.
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Zens Hendrix
Perch
Bedford County
Chesapeake & Ohio R. R
G. W. Wigginton
Knoxville
Henry Lineback
C. F. Camp
Carrier, Moissen & Co
Poisoner Ned Jenskin lynched in Georgia mob
Ned Jenskin, a Black man, was hanged by a mob in Clayton county Georgia after confessing to poisoning the Burks family of seven. A county constable transporting him to jail was stopped by the assailants in a woods slip as the mob seized the prisoner. He had killed with arsenic in meals.
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Atlanta
Ned Jenskine
Clayton County
Wm. Burks
Burk
Death over a dollar in Guyandotte quarrel
In Guyandotte West Virginia on October 22 Owen Pleasant a barber shot and killed Millard Wellman in front of the Methodist church after a quarrel over a dollar. Pleasant was arrested.
Mob executes accused killer near Pikeville
Rosa Boring, an orphan girl found dead with her throat cut north of Chattanooga, was reportedly raped before murder. Local authorities arrested John Gamble alias Pate Cooper, who allegedly confessed. A mob then lynched Gamble by a tree near the crime scene.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Pikeville
Here
Rosa Boring
John Gamble
Pate Cooper
the Times
Gamble
Miss Boring
Desperado Bud Lindsay Shot by U S Marshal
Knoxville report says Bud Lindsay a noted desperado leader in Coal Creek mining troubles was mortally wounded near Jacksboro by Deputy U S Marshal J N McGhee. Lindsay known for capturing Gen Anderson and fighting moonshiners, after quarrel he may recover per H B Lindsay report.
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Knoxville
Bud Lindsay
Jacksboro
J. N. McGhee
United States
Lindsay
Coal Creek
Gen. Anderson
Carnes
Kentucky
Tennessee
H. B. Lindsay
Jackeboro
McGhee
East Tennessee
Sentinel
Fire destroys Lane wagon factory in Durant
A serious fire in Durant Mississippi destroyed the Lane wagon factory along with its machinery and supplies. The loss is estimated at $20,000 with $10,000 insured.
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Durant, Miss
Lane Wagon Factory
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Shakespeare
Mr. Smith
Hood
Hood’s
Uvalde
George Smith
Johnson City
Burris & Jackson
Georgia
Piney Flats
Mr. Lockhart
Bluff City
Milton Mottern
Finn Feathers
M. J. Mullins
B.K. Greene
Atlanta, Ga
Kindwell Hotel
Elizabeth Fox
Agnes
Jonesboro
W. E Wolfe
Ed. Hughes
Watauga
Arsenie
W. W. Kirkpatrick
Main Street
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