Visitors at Auto. Booth List of Local Residents
A long list of names and places appears as visitors to Auto. at Daily Booth including Athens Nashville Huntsville Birmingham Memphis Hartsville Trinity Sheffield and other towns. The compilation names residents and frequent correspondents such as E G Morris Grady Spruce Leona Waugh Frank White and many more across Alabama Tennessee and surrounding areas.
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Athens
H. H. Carroll
D. M. Trotter
A. Grisham
J. M. Matthews
Albany
G. B. Bartee
Nashville
Albert Bryant
Moulton
W. A. Hitt
Hillsboro
Janie Elkins
Hartselle
J. B. Winton
No E. Mathews
J. A. Fergueson
Tuscumbia
Bert Stennitt
Fred Black
Bailey
Elsie Stennitt
Robert E. Jones
Huntsville
Carl G. Carroll
Cary Gamble
Frank
White
Birmingham
D. W. Day
W. T. McDaniell
Timmonsville
8. C
R. L. Reynolds
Guntersville
C. H. Reynolds
Vinemont
J. L. Canon
Ezell Holland
Prospect
Tenn
Mary Harlow
L. Co. Callahan
Belle Mina
Kate Bile
Louise Lile
Trinity
E. A. Rultie
John Hammond
Chicago
K. W. Steele
Y. H. Mullen
Memphis
Genevieve Cook
Edna MaeKinney
Atlanta
T. S.mcferrin
Chas. Patterson
Gatum
Canal Zone
Roy Ninger
H.E
Wilson
New Orleans
Emil
Buettner
Cullman
Ivelyr-White
Cullmany
A. Burleson
Hartseile
Liquor Raids Net 200 Gallons in Atlanta
Liquor raids lasting over 24 hours in Atlanta resulted in 200 gallons of whiskey seized and 35 arrests.
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International News Service
Atlanta
Wireless Education Shaping Tomorrow's Wireless Men
The piece argues that amateur wireless stations educate many boys shaping the future of global communication. It notes that self taught youths built stations and operated them on sea and land during wartime and that an amateur wireless operator even flew the NC4 across the Atlantic, highlighting the pivotal role of youth in early radio progress.
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Atlante
Has Both Memory and Scar A Marine Enlistment Remark
Clyde D Jarvis recalls a Missouri beast of burden kick leaving a six inch scar on his left abdomen after an operation for a ruptured spleen. He joined the Marine Corps in Houston Texas and was accepted. A surgeon later revealed the spleen was intact and tattooed above the scar read Opened by mistake.
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Missouri
Jarvis
Houston
Texas
Marine Corps
Boston’s First Street Directory of 1708 Restored
The Massachusetts Historical Society offers for sale from its historic miscellany a copy of the first street directory printed in the United States in 1708. It lists 110 names covering streets alleys lands and squares, including now quaint or undignified entries like Paddy Lane Frog Cow Lane Padding Lane and Tithes.
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Massachusetts Historical Society
Boston
United States
Christian Science Monitor
Queen Bee and the Door
A brief domestic scene ends in a quarrel as a husband calls his wife queen bee to the office crowd. She retorts with a sharp jab about daytime honey and nighttime stings, prompting his exit as company departs.
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Mr. A
Water vendors and scenes fade as Palestine rebuilds
The article notes changes inJerusalem with water sellers and a native water carrier fading from memory as Zionist engineers plan large scale drainage and irrigation. A $10,000,000 restoration fund aims to reclaim swamplands and improve agricultural industrial and sanitary conditions in Palestine.
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Gunga Din
Jerusalem
Palestine
Self-Sacrifice Debate Spars Over Family Burden
An Age Herald excerpt features a southern man arguing against buying a washing machine to ease his wife’s burden. He asserts the wife and eight children depend on him, insisting they must endure hardship for the greater good.
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Age Herald
Monster Plane Sheila in World War Era Ballast
During the war period planes used remote bots weighing 20 pounds early on, but by the end some engines or payloads reached about a ton and a half, as noted in Brooklyn Kagia dispatches describing aviation development.
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Brooklyn
Quote on education as arsenal of knowledge by Carlyle
An educated man stands amid a boundless arsenal and magazine of weapons and engines drawn from all past ages. He works accordingly with strength borrowed from history, shaping action through learned insight.
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Carlyle
British Reply to France Seen as Close to End
Paris reports the British ambassador handed a note to the French premier after Sunday night exchanges. The Anglo French incident appears near resolution with officials indicating a near end to the dispute.
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Paris
Origin of OK term Stirred by Rum, Chiefs and Political Gags
A history of the term OK traces origins to Aux Cayes in San Domingo and Old Keokuk. It notes Major Downing’s joke that Jackson endorsed papers with Oll Korrect, later tied to party cries. Biographer James Parton found Nashville records showing endorsements "O.R." and argued the jokey explanation gained traction during Jacksonian politics.
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Aux Cayes
San Domingo
Keokuk
Andrew Jackson
Seba Smith
Jack Downing
Jackson
O. K
James Parton
Nashville
O. R
Major Downing
Oldest Metals and Early Copper Knowledge
The article notes copper use by 1500 B C and cites Tubal Cain as a craftsman in iron and brass. It explains brass as historic term not always the modern alloy and mentions bronze tools. Copper artifacts were found beneath Ram the Great’s statue, with debris layers revealing ancient copper items far below earlier debris.
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Tubal Cath
Ram the Great
Rheumatism cure claim ad from Swift Laboratory
An advertisement urges readers to cleanse the blood to cure rheumatism and promote a blood purifier identified as S. S. S. It directs readers to obtain a bottle at a drug store and to address the director at 102 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga, for medical advice.
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Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Abts Interest and Bond Holdings in Circular Ocala Portfolio
Bank records show interest earned and bond holdings including Liberty 23,500.00 Victory 54,310.20 Other Bonds 0.00. Cash and deposits from banks total 100,000.00 and 8,859.26 with stock in Fed Reserve Bank 7,200.00. Capital stock 000. Surplus and profits, reserves for interest and taxes, and deposits payable include amounts around 1,084,883.18 and 78,830.77.
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Son
Jesah
Fed. Res
Bank
Cass Cirenla
Geil Ns
Admiers
Gretna Green and the legends of elopement witnesses
The piece recounts Gretna Green as a meeting point for eloping couples and details how innkeepers ferrymen and tolthouse enders profited from these marriages. It notes professional witnesses and marrying parsons who used deceit, with the Glasgow to Carlisle rail line boosting elopement activity.
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Gretna Green
Glasgow
Carlisle
Pimples and Eruptions Linked to Impure Blood Remedy Advised
An old advertisement claims pimples boils and rash stem from impure blood and promotes Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a temperance remedy. It describes toxins in blood and claims revitalizing arteries and veins to clear skin and improve health. The testimonial cites New Orleans and a Mrs. Pierce’s product, urging use for dyspepsia and kidney vigor.
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Ierce
New Orleans
Alek
Dr. Pierce
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JH. Calvin CO
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Monster
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France
Morgan County National Bank
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Burk Auto’ CO
Courtland
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H. J. Hartgraves
Mollen
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