Rival's By Mila ina Strickland Killing at Church
In Strickland Georgia on December 29 Gabriel Len, after exchanging wedding vows with ova Lee Butler, was shot dead by Joe Jackson at the church near Lynn Station. Len and Jackson had rivaled for Butler's hand in a long, close contest. Deputies and bloodhounds hunted Jackson as a second person faced charges as accessory. The shooting has shocked the local area.
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Strickland
Gabriel Len
Ova Lee Butler
Joe Jackson
Lynn Station
Len
Jackson
Miss Butler
Evening Free Friday Exhibition At Y M C A Gym
The Y M C A hosts a free one night exhibition featuring gymnastic drills on vault and parallel bars, a pumpkin race, wrestling, tug of war, and a basketball game between the Y M C A team and a high school all star squad. Notable participants include W Merle Watkins, Ched Rogers, Tom Vance, and others. Miss DeVoe of DeVoe Mack is ill and may miss Casino Theatre appearance with travel plans dependent on health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium
W. Merle Watkins
Ched Rogers
Tom Vance
Willi Beall
Jas. E. Welch
Fred Ridenour
Chauncey Helms
Leland Price
Frea Abbott
Frank Cassell
Ward Lanham
Adrian Stansberry
Wm. Cassell
Lewis Doll
C. A. Platt
G. B. Bennett
Geo. Cassell
Joe New
Miss DeVoe
DeVoe & Mack
Casino Theatre
Reformatory Entertainment Earns Wide Attendance This Week
Supt. H. EB. Flesher hosts evening events in the administration building auditorium at the state reform school. Sleighing parties from Grafton attend and praise the high character of the entertainments, which have drawn large crowds and favorable remarks.
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Supt
H. EB. Flesher
State Reform School
Grafton
Herbert Leon Colt
Pruntytytown
Flesher
Reform School
Oldest Living American Poet Julia Ward Howe Profile
A summary of Julia Ward Howe born 1819 in New York, detailing her career as poet critic and reformer. Highlights include her marriage to Dr Samuel G Howe, works Passion Flowers Words for the Hour and Battle Hymn of the Republic, her humanitarian efforts, linguistic mastery seven languages, and Reminiscences 1810-1899.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Julia Ward Howe
Bowling Green
New York
the Battery
Erite
Samuel G. Hows
Boston School For the Blind
Asylum
America
Wm. C. Mack
Administration Moves to End Agricultural Futures Gambling
President Taft considers a legislative stop to speculation in agricultural futures amid the Ballinger inquiry and Nicaraguan tensions. Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith reports on cotton and grain gambling as a White House conference with Knox, Wickersham, Scott, Lovering, and Smith plans a bill to curb or ban stock gambling. The president favors strong action, possibly a drastic measure.
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Washingson
Ballinger
Taft
Herbert Knox Smith
Smith
White House
Knox
Wickersham
Scott
Kansas
House Agricultural Committee
Lovering
Massachusetts
Seven Children Cremated in Pa Home Fire Explosion
Dubois Pa Dec 29 seven children aged two to twelve perished in a fire triggered by a powder explosion at Stephen Bronosky miner's home in Sykesville near here. All victims were foreigners. Six were Bronosky family members. a boarder’s child died as well. The blaze followed an overheated coal heater and spread rapidly with mining powder nearby.
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Dubois, Pa
Stephen Bronoky
Sykesville
Bronosky
The Wizard of Wiseland at the opera houseTonight
No moving pictures tonight due to The Wizard of Wiseland at the aefokinen opera house. Thursday evening high class pictures at the Brinkman as usual. The Wizard of Wiseland promises entertainment every minute of the show. See it tonight.
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Aefokinen
Brinkman
Woman's Music Club Receives At Elks Hall
Petit jurors for January have been drawn for the circuit court. The Woman's Music Club held its most splendid 1909 reception at Elks Hall on Tuesday evening, featuring a large crowd, refined decor, multiple musical performances, and generous refreshments, concluding with mingling and a choral finale.
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Woman’s Music Club
Elks’ Hall
Circuit Court
Fred Heldt
B. F. Cole
J. M. Hakler
Thos. J. Jacobs
G. W. Smedley
Lee Stark
W.B. Roach
Nature
Woman’s Club
Former Grafton Girl Burned to Death
Tragic death of Miss Ella Douglass, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Unghe Douglass, former Grafton residents now near Youngstown. She burned to death in a Christmas morning accident when a lamp exploded in her home, before help could arrive. Cousins Daisy and Della Dudley of Philippi and Mrs. Charles W. Wells of the West Side among her many friends. She reportedly swallowed acid around six o clock morning, likely mistaking it for headache medicine.
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Ella Douglass
Unghe Douglass
Grafton
Youngstown
Miss Douglass
Daisy
Della Dudley
Charles W. Wells
Weat Side
Philippi
Woman in Cincinnati sets children on stove fire
Mary Lipp, driven by religion, hurled her eleven month old child into a stove as a living sacrifice. Neighbors rescued the baby and then her three year old daughter. She built a pyre in the yard and killed a cat and dog with a hatchet. Four men restrained her as both children suffered extensive burns and may die.
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Cincinnati
Ohig Dee
Mary Lipp
Teir
Yo- Tan
Miss Dunnington Dies After Carbolic Acid Ingestion
Philipppi December 29 Miss Dunnington daughter of the superintendent of the gas company here died Monday at about 1 14 p m from carbolic acid intake. She was about 16. Charles Broom of Keyser and his wife visiting the lady's mother Mrs Elizabeth Rendle on Main street returned home today. Mrs Broom will stay longer visiting friends.
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GH. A. Batson
Pruntytytown
Harlett Simpson Parsons
Bome
EB. Bennett Thomas
E. G. Chipps
Bilees B. Batson
Harry H. Jones
Misa Dorothy of
Belington
Benton's Ferry
Misa Katherine Gerkin
Pruntytown
Misa Jamison Barlow
Beverly
Mayme Cole
Washington Street
Howard Rice
Miss May
Brunswick
John O'Day
Keyser
Philippi
Miss Dunnington
Charles Broom
Elizabeth Rendle
Main Street
Amen Too Many Times At Revival Meeting
Duke Snider drew attention during a revival at Helen Run Mt church in South toward grand jury action. Testimony showed he attended services and became so stirred he vented his feelings, prompting questions about his conduct amid ongoing revival. Also an employment ad seeks $80 monthly to introduce poultry and stock holders for a new plan in Springfield Illinois.
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Fairmont
Duke Snider
Saia
Helen # Run Mt. 1. church
South
Grand Jury
Snide
Bigler Co
Springfield
Mlinois
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Mila Ina
Beide
Essory
Reformatory
Lothrop
Copyri
Reform School Letcure
PR. Bradford
Louise Tha
Wheeling
A. J. Brannon
John
Ophra Hou Pictures
Gretadier
Woman's Club
Schroeder
Mise Frances. Williams
James S. Moran
Web Club
Ella Douglas
Ohio
Iss Dunnington
John J. Stump & Co
Cumberland, Md
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