Hooper and Kolos Campaign Stop At Hippodrome
Captain Hooper and Col Gus Kolos visited Elizabethhton drawing large crowds at the Hippodrome. Hooper spoke plainly while Kinlee varied. Gus Kolos urged votes for railroad commissioner, a campaign highlight amid crowd tensions and fireworks. Nearby New York fire injures eight at a garage. valuables loss estimated at 200000 dollars. One foreign employee missing believed burned. Firefighters injured during rescue attempt, two fatally perhaps.
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B W. Hooper
Gus Kolos
Elizabethton
Wor
Gus
New York
Avenues
Watauga News Items From Watauga Tennessee
Local notes include Mr and Mrs A J Sellars and daughter Georgia leaving for Prosser Washington to live with an uncle. J P Miller visits merchants on behalf of J H Shoun Co. Mrs James Johnson visits her desertion family in Bisbee Arizona. Max Ham and others fish the Watauga. Maj A D Reynolds of Bratol on business. Dr J W Wallace amputates J B Wolfes mangled hand at Pixney Viate. Miss Filla Million returns home from Limestone after month with Aunt A B Savalling. Allen Harris returns home from California with Harris family.
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Watauga
Tenn
A. J. Sellars
Georgia
Prosser
Wash
J.P. Miller
J. H. Shoun & Co
James Johnson
Ella Shell
R. P. Shell
Bisbee
Arizona
William Dempsey
F. B., St John
W. 2
Harrison
A. D. Reynolds
Bratol
J. W. Wallace
Pixney
J. B. Wolfe
Charter Revoked in Indiana Lawsuit Against Rail Company
Logansport Indiana Sept 21 Marshall suit filed in Cass county circuit court to revoke the charter of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company of Indiana claiming it was formed for fraudulent purposes and that it obtained its incorporation certificate on false representation.
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Logansport
Ind
Goy, Marshall
Cass County
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company of
Indiana
Secretary of State
Davis Made Senatorial Nominee in Tennessee
Knoxville reports John P. Davis of Claiborne county was unanimously chosen as the Republican nominee for state senator from the third district to succeed Daniel Cooper Swab. The decision occurred at a Saturday meeting of the third senatorial committee in the Hotel Imperial.
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Knoxville
Tenn
John P. Davis
Claiborne County
Republican Party
Daniel Cooper Swab
Three Cornered Contest Sways First District Race
Senator Daniel Cooper Swab withdraws from the congressional race in the First District citing a three cornered contest and factionalism. Gen Penland gains strength as a non factional candidate while Oscar M. Pit moves to Elizabethton to practice law with Lee F. Miller. Christian church to receive $5,000 expansion with Curtis Brothers as contractors and work starting soon.
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Knoxville
Daniel Cooper Swab
Senate
Congress J
W. FP. Brownlow
Benator Swab
Jax
Penland
Swab
First Congressional District
Congress
Senator Letts
Republican Party
Mee
Daniel Cooper
Oscar M. Pit
Elizabethton
Lee F. Miller
The
Christian Church
Eanineness Pare Sa
Curtis Brothers
Betrayal accusations swirl around census chief in district race
The letter campaign by HL Thompson urging support for Sells and Massey triggers a storm over political use of a census office. Criticism asserts the post was a Brownlow gift and should stay out of elections, while loyalists praise Capt W H Nelson as a steady Senate candidate. Margaret Baldwin’s operation at Nashville hospital succeeds but other complications may extend her stay.
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Kuitor Comet
HL. Thompson
Sells
Massey
Thompson
Browsiow
Brownlow
Mr. Thompson
United States
Sam Sella
Margaret Baldwin
Nashville
DeLong Rice Calls for Democratic Unity in Tennessee
Nashville dispatch reports DeLong Rice urges Democrats to close dissension and unite for the coming campaign. He resigns his nomination for state treasurer and insurance commissioner, seeks victory under a united Democratic banner, and backs mass meetings on October 3 and the October 6 convention as the party largest and most enthusiastic in Tennessee.
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Nashville
Tenn
Harmony
Tennesse
Delong Rice
Columbus Powell School Improvement Association Upgrades Corridors
The Columbus Powell School Improvement Association is laying rubber matting in corridors and stairways and will install sanitary drinking fountains along with other needed improvements in the building.
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The
Columbus Powell School Improvement Association
Governor Patterson Denies Hooper Charges In Interview
In Nashville on September 4 Governor Patterson refutes Republican candidate Captain B. W. Hooper’s charges about an election machine. He states Hooper pressed a petition for partition to free Knowles, convicted of manslaughter, while Knowles’ case waited in the Supreme Court, and that pardons cannot be entertained until final conviction.
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Nashville
Patterson
B. W. Hooper
East Tennessee
Hooper
Knowles
Supreme Court
Death Toll Rises In Tipton Train Collision
A head on crash on the Indianapolis and Peru division of the Indiana Union railroad between a limited passenger train and a freight car near Tipton, Indiana, killed six and injured six others. Passengers in the smoking compartment died. the motorman and conductor escaped harm. The injured were taken to Tipton for medical care as physicians were summoned. Edward Campbell of Birmingham, Alabama, staying with his sister Mrs. Geo H. Berry, is noted as a guest in the town.
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Tipton
Ind
Indianapolis and
Peru
Indiana Union Tracon Company
Edward Campbell
Birmingham
Ala
That City
Geo, H. Berry
New Water System at Washington College Promises Strong Supply
Greeneville, Sept. 2 A new water system installed at Washington college provides enough pressure to throw water over the highest building. Both Washington and Tusculum colleges reopen for the new scholastic year with strong attendance and bright prospects. Hilder Buchanan traveled from Bristol for a preaching engagement at the Central Christian church, where Mrs. Erwin of Columbus has reported over sixty conversions to date.
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Greeneville
Washington College
Washington
Tusculum Colleges
Hilder Buchanan
Bristol Yeeway
Clibritian Church
Erwin
Columbus
Ohio
8. C. Willemag
Son of a Confederate Soldier letter against Hooper in Tennessee race
In a Knoxville letter dated September 27 a Confederate veteran condemns Hooper for denying bread to an aged soldier forty years after the war. He argues Republicans who voted for pension bills deserve praise and predicts few Confederate veterans will vote for Hooper on November 5 as a result of his actions.
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Chattanooga
Hooper
Tennessee
Johony Rebs
Nashville
Looper
Hord
Bye
Knoxville
Tenn
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