Wreck Kills and Injures Dozens on Seaboard Line
A head on collision between Seaboard Air Line passenger train No. 44 and an extra freight near Hamlet, North Carolina, killed many and injured twenty three. most victims were colored passengers. Engineer Lewis and fireman died. rescue efforts and funerals follow as track is cleared and physicians alerted.
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Seaboard
Aix Line
Hamlet
Hawles
N. C
Avere
Seaboard Air Line
TF. B. Lewis
Ils
Byrd
Wiceman
Tom Bill
Ilie
Lcseuers
Lewist
As Dam
Hatm- Tet
Rockingham
Seaboard of
Raleigh
Rockinghoakd
What's in the name The Social Reformer quips on motherhood
In a London Sketch short item a narrator jokes about the mother at home asking a girl if her mother is present while noting the mother has gone to fight in a distant arena. The piece uses satirical tone to comment on domestic roles and public conflict.
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London
Czar Takes Stand as Parliament Dissolved in 1907 Crisis
Reports detail imperial ukases dissolving parliament and delaying elections to March 5, 1907, with martial law in St. Petersburg and Kiev. Troops mass at major centers as Socialists prepare an emergency address, while analysts foresee a constitutional path despite unrest and potential clashes. A separate note recalls a lightning strike and fire on a Norfolk & Carolina line depot with material loss.
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Kiev
Peterho
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Pskov
Ie ‘Suanee
Peror
Sthust Lake
Associated Press
Palmetto ATFAIRS Highlights Broad State News
A batch of live paragraphs surveys wide state topics from Palmetto. Coverage spans politics economy weather and social events as the paper traces ongoing public affairs beyond local borders.
Cotton Association chief urges market restraint to aid growers
Smith, president of the State branch of the Southern Cotton Association, calls on all associations to keep cotton off the market in Septem ber to Novem ber as mills stock up at low prices. He notes dwindling old cotton, rising world demand, and urges widespread action. A referendum on a mayoral salary increase appears in Anderson.
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Soililigi Cotton Association
Southern Cotton Association
South Carolina
Association
New York
Columbia
S.C
Campaign speakers draw crowd in Darlington race event
A South Carolina gubernatorial campaign visit in Darlington drew an attentive audience of about 200 voters. Speakers including Manning Ansel and Blease outlined education and dispensary policy while field lobbyist talk drew later crowd reactions.
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Darlington
Spendl
Court House
Mr. Manning
Messrs
Lyon
Ragsdale
Sloan
Ansel
Cole L. Blease
Lin
Ds 4 Tefouléh &Ven
Please
Wade
J. E. Brunson
Hell
Board of Control
Manning
A. C. Jones
State House
Tillman
General Assembly
Jones
Mr. Ansel
Mr. Jones
Blease
Brunson
Edwards
Southern Railway
McMahan
South Carolina
Assessments on Mills and Oils Rise in Tax Roll Shakeup
The board adjourned to reexamine real estate and business assessments with about ten auditors still drafting abstracts. Cotton mills, fertilizer plants, and cotton seed oil mills saw notable tax increases, plus new entries like Jackson mills and Royal Bay. Governor Heyward plans a pardon board meeting August 1 amid petitions and a July 24 hearing for Bob Smalls.
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Tthe
R G. Hill
Union
Radio Delinquent
Colic Mills
Iearle
Panbury HH. Wik
He Marin
AR Quinby
Aiken
St. Claire Ley
F. Cox
Lane
Marlboro
R. W. Cleveland
Greenville
W. Cannon
Derlington
W. J. Cunningham
Lanaster
A. J. Richbourg
Clarendon
R. A. Cochran
Edge
Alex. McTageart
Florence
Lt. Erich
Georgetown
Thomas L. Traylor
Fairfield
J. W. Alton Greenwood
R. P. Adair
Laurens
H. C. Gronch
Saluda
I. H. Hendrix
Lexington
C. C. Friecks
Pickens
J. E. Lomax
Abbeville
D. M. Ballentine
Chesterfield
Jackson Mills
Alling and Green Knitting Mills
Royal Bay and Yarn Company
Globe Manufacturing Company
Westminster Knitting Mills
America Press Cloth Company
Jordan Manufacturing Company
Neely Manufacturing Company
Heyward
Virginia
Pardon Board
Bob Smalls
North Carolina
Bank of Maysville Closed by Examiner
Bank of Maysville was shuttered by Special State Bank Examiner Holleman for an on site examination after a night closure. Officials cited clerical errors and lenient lending as possible causes and expect a quick reopening if possible. Fighting reported on the Salvadorean Guatemalan border escalates into clashes. Ex judge Hargis and ex sheriff Callahan testify in murder trial in Kentucky with Callahan under sharp cross examination.
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Maysville
Holleman
Bank of Maysville
Hargis
Callahan
Marcnm
Kentucky
Tragic Shooting Near Columbia Kills 1 Youth
A 12 mile from Columbia on the Winnsboro road in Camp Ground an accidental discharge by 22 year old D T Sharp killed his year old nephew Sam Sharp instantly. The boy was a prosperous farmer in the area and the mother witnessed the tragedy from nearby as the gun went off.
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Columbia
Spetul
Winnsboro
Camp Ground
Sam Sharp
Unele
D. T. Sharp
Sharp
Lightning strikes wire halting mills work at Union Buffalo
An electrical storm struck the power line from the Neals Shoals plant causing circuits to open at Union and Buffalo mills and power plant. Buffalo stopped about one hour and Union about five hours with no serious damage reported.
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Union
Neals Shoals
Buffalo Mills
Buffalo
Peasant Uprising Devastates Voronesezh Province
A displaced landlord from Moscow via cable reports a large peasant uprising in Voronesezh. Troops struggle as bands destroy estates and crops go unharvested. the revolt stems from landlords refusing to raise wages for farm women. Losses are described as colossal.
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Moscow
Bobrov
Voronesezh
Paleo
Distillery Operation Busted Near Jamesville
Washington N C Special agents brought William and James Sexton of Jamesville to jail on charges of operating an illicit distillery near Jamesville. The raid reportedly involved the same distillery raided two weeks earlier by Revenue Collector T C Meekins Jr. Both men were granted bond of 209 dollars each to await the term of court.
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Washington, N . C
William and
James Sexton
Jamesville
Meekins, Jr
Steamer Pokanokel Sinks at Wharf After Mutiny Arrest
The Pokanokel, recently commissioned by the Petersburg Newport News and Norfolk Steam Ship Company, sank at her wharf in Richmond. A mutinous fireman, a negro, was arrested and charged with opening her sea cocks.
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Richmond
Petersburg, Newport News and
Norfolk Steamship Company
Hoback Murder Trial at Floyd Second Hearing
The Fred Ho back murder case in Floyd was called for a second trial for Hoback. He previously received eight years in the State prison, a sentence later reversed by the Court of Appeals. W. A. Sawers, editor of the Fled Press, testified at Friday's session.
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Roanoke
Fred Hoback
Floyd
Hoback
Court of Appeals
W. A. Sawers
Fled Press
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