The Failure of a Great Business Man
A Decatur crowd heard J B Wadsworth of Gadsden speak on The Failure of a Great Business Man at the Delite Theatre. The address used Luke to warn that wealth without God is folly and urged virtue across vocations from farming to law and medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Wadsworth
Gadsden
Delite
Messig
Peake
Crane
Graham
Nicholdson
the Promised Land
N. B. Peake
Mr. Wadsworth
Andrew G. Patterson
Wadsworth
Etowash Trust Co
Decaturs
Luke'sospel
Farmer Jones
Barnes
Frey
Trial of Nabors in 1910 L N wreck case heard in court
The trial of William Nabors for wrecking a Louisville and Nashville yard train on August 3 1910 opens in the Law and Equity court with out of town witnesses. Jurors assemble after delays and Capt Browning and Engineer Luke Austin testify about signals and the switch lamp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Nabors
Law Ang Equity Court
King and Bowman
Birmingham
Capt
Browning
Nabors
Luke Austin
Austin
Lyons Hotel Opens March 1 With 75 Rooms
Cards announce the Lyons Hotel opening on March 1 under Harvey P Hughes management. The brick fireproof structure offers 75 rooms including 20 with private baths, sample rooms, an electric elevator, steam heating, and aims to be a premier home for travelers in the region.
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Lyons
Harvey P Hughes
Ughes
Rockefeller Jr Heads Work on Social Hygiene Bureau
John D. Rockefeller Jr. described prostitution as largely a man's business and a victimless crime for many women. He funds and directs the Bureau of Social Hygiene which probes exploitation of women and seeks to improve life prospects to reduce fall. He said poverty wages and poor home conditions push women into prostitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Bureau of Social Hygiene
Rockefeller
Europe
Beulah levee crevasse widens slowly near Memphis
Memphis area reports a Beulah levee crevasse widening to 125 feet wide and six feet deep while river trains run nearby without disruption. Planters in the Boguephalla basin brace for emergency, expecting limited losses as crews aim to seal the breach and levee material holds.
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Greenville
Miss
Beulash Levee
Riverside
Boguephalla
Ohio River Damage Report Ties Up Rail Traffic
The Ohio River remains stationary with widespread damage reported north and south of Cairo Illinois. Cotton Belt railroad traffic between Bird's Point and Malden is suspended and Henderson Mounds Missouri shows two feet of water on track.
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Cairo
Ohio River
Cotton Belt Railway
Bird's Point
Malden
Henderson Mounds
Army officer surveys flood conditions in Evansville
Evansville Indiana January 27 Captain William B E Elliott assistant to the depot quartermaster at St. Louis arrived in Evansville under orders from Major General Wood to survey flood conditions and arrange federal relief if needed. The expected river rise did not occur and upstream rains slowed the fall. The river stage stands at 44 feet.
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Evansville
Ind
William BE. Elliott
United States Army
St. Louis
Wood
Russia may intervene in Turkish upheaval
Paris reports a revived French Reign of Terror with wholesale arrests of Mime Pasha supporters. Two hundred influential men jailed under a military dictatorship as Sultan seen powerless. Russia reportedly plans intervention amid tensions with Germany over Enver Bey’s revolution.
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Paris
France
Mime Pasha
Baver Bey
Turkey
Revolutionary
Bey
Russia
Germany
Enver Bey
Sergeant Bert Moore to Instruct Local Company Militia
Sergeant Bert Moore of the U B A arrived to give Company EF military instructions. He will stay all week and drill the unit each night. Moore, well known to the company, conducts tonight’s session at 8 o’clock and the BE company members are urged to attend.
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Bert Moore
Moore
Wealthy Kansas City Publisher Dies in New Orleans
A prominent Kansas City publisher, known to authorities by an assumed name, died in New Orleans. The death raises questions about his true identity and financial affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Madison Publishing Co. Chief W R Madison Dies in New Orleans
W R Madison president of the Madison Publishing Company Kansas City Mo is dead in a New Orleans hospital on a South vacation trip. He used the name E O Rank while admitted and the reason for the fictitious identity is not known.
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Crescent City
New Orleans
W. R. Madison
Madison Publishing Company
Kansas City
Madison
Weather Brings Suffering to Refugees in Flooded Valley
Evansville Ind Jan 27 A cold Magn wed cnvicte ae veins are weather ig causing great suffering in the flooded valley. There is fright ful distress in several towns. Capt W M Elliott reporting for the war department for Kentucky has been authorized to extend aid from the regular army contingent funds.
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Evansville
Ind
W. M. Elliott
War Department
Kentucky
Extra Heavy Docket in City Police Court
An extra heavy docket in the New Decatur police court this morning heard seven cases before the mayor. Three white men and four negroes, six of them hoboes, faced loitering and related charges. Total fines amounted to 28.20 dollars for the city.
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New Decatur
McCarley and Smith Sentenced in Law and Equity Court
Frank Stumpy Smith received a life sentence in the Law and Equity Court for the murder of Minnie May McGuire during a June dispute involving Will and Mrs Lacy. Dr Gilbert McCarley, convicted of bribery to murder his mother in law, got three years. suspension pending appeal.
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Smith
McCarley
Moro Outlaws Kill Americans at Tagusi Engagement
Wireless dispatch from Brigadier General John J. Pershing reports January 23 fighting at Tagusi between Moros and a detachment of Philippine scouts and constabulary. Captain Patrick McNally and six scouts were killed. Lieutenant Townend and Lieutenants Cochran Whitney and nineteen enlisted men wounded. Townend and Cochran suffer serious wounds.
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Manila
John J. Pershing
Department of Mindanao
Tagusi
Moros
Philipine Scouts
Constabulary
Patrick McNally
William Townend
Ard
Cochran
Whitney
Townsend
South American nations ready for conflict in Peru Bolivia dispute
Lima reports an alarming editorial declares war seems inevitable between Peru and Bolivia due to Bolivian war preparations and statements by General Ismael Montes and other Bolivian officers in Paris. Bolivia aims for a Pacific port and regional influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Peru
Union
Bolivia
Ismael Montes
Paris
Pacific
Salvation Army Captain Attacked at Pueblo Sermon
In Pueblo Col on January 27 a Salvation Army captain Jamey Thompson was assaulted during a sermon after a man named Miles Young 23 publicly accused him of smoking. A scuffle drew bystanders and police arrested about six, with Thompson among those jailed though he sustained the worst bruising. Young tore Thompson's shirt in the clash. Thompson was previously known as a boxer.
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Pobeblo
Jamey Thompson
Salvation Army
Miles Young
Young
Thompson
Prohibition Cases to Be Heard This Week
The docket in the Law and Equity court for this week includes several prohibition cases. The schedule outlines hearings on multiple petitions and related motions in the prohibition docket.
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Law and Equity Court
Lace Sale Draws Crowds Despite Bad Weather
Crowds of ladies gathered before Buttrey’s doors for a grand lace sale. Shoppers queued in poor weather and made numerous purchases as the sale continued through the week with unusually valuable lace offerings.
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Buttrey'’s
Fire damages rear of Decatur post office building
Smoke filled the stairway of the Foster Pointer building on Hank street early yesterday. Firefighters confined the blaze to the second floor office of H Apple while saving the post office contents. Foster H Pointer, grocer, sustained the heaviest losses as water and smoke ruined much of the rear of his store and his reserve. The Decatur post office and several tenants narrowly escaped disaster due to prompt aerial and ground crew work by local firemen and community aid.
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Foster H.ie
Decatur Post Office
T. M. Jones
H. Apple
Apple
Sec
Geo. H. Fadden
W. H. Long
Driskill
Moseley
Foster H. Pointer
Pain
Decatur Grocery
Enberg
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John
the Baptist
L. N
Judge Wert
Pres
Lyons Hotel
United Press
Memphis
Ald
Washington
E. C. Rank
M’carley
Frank “Stumpy” Smith
the Law and Equity Court
Minnie
May McGuire
Will
Lacy
Little
Gilbert McCarley
Supreme Courts
Bank Street
Foster Pointer
Hank Street
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