Cap'n Billy Smith Conductor Honored in Columbia
Milly Smith, veteran Southern Railway conductor on the Columbia to Greenville run for over 50 years, is celebrated for his fidelity and skill. He remains highly regarded by passengers especially ladies, and recalls Civil War era events, Reconstruction, and wartime anecdotes from a long career aboard the line.
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Columbia State
United States
Milly Smith
Columbia
Greenville
Billy
Bin
Tilly
Ho Fe
Smith
South Carolina
Main Street
Nicholson Hotel
Senator Chestnut
South
North
Hilly
Milly
Here
Mana
Hill
Hodges
Woman shoots lover in Augusta office amid jealousy
Miss Blinka Todd, an Augusta woman, fired six shots at her former lover Richard D. Watson in the Central of Georgia freight office. Watson, 25, is hospitalized in serious condition with wounds near the heart, abdomen, and collar bone. Railroad detective Hall intervened, escorting Todd to the barracks where she sobbed and recounted a two year romance and fear of being discarded.
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Blinka ‘Todd
Augusta
Central of Georgia
Richard D. Watson
Hall
Soung Watson
Atlanta
Watson
City
Foley
J.W. Bell
Valhalla
Stonecypher's
Westminster
Dreadnought bids opened for Wyoming and Arkansas
Congress authorized two new battleships the Wyoming and Arkansas at 6 million dollars each excluding armor and armament. Bids were opened at the Navy Department with William Cramp & Sons the lowest at 4 675 000 while New York Ship Building Co. Camden N J came next. Armor bidders Carnegie Bethlehem Midvale submitted identical Class A bids at 425 dollars per ton for 11 485 tons.
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Wyoming
Arkansas
Congress
Navy Department
Washington
Naval Establishment
Delaware
North Dakota
Utah
New York Ship Building Co
Florida
New York Navy Yard
William Cramp & Sons
Philadelphia
Camden
N. J
Bethlehem Steel Co
Carnegie Co
Midvale Steel Co
Anderson tribute to Lee Stribling at 19 years old
Lee Stribling son of Mr and Mrs M S Stribling of Westminster dies at home due to typhoid fever aged 19. He was known in Westminster Y M C A athletic meet where he won the high jump prize. His death shocks friends and relatives.
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Anderson Mall
Lee Stribling
M.S. Stribling
Westminster
Mr. Stribling
HH. Ek, Todd
Anderson
Westminster Y. M. C. A
Hot Potatoes and Hens Feed Sparks Laying Claim
A Spartanburg Herald interview recounts Congressman Johnson saying hot potatoes may help hens lay. He fed sweet potatoes baked daily to his flock since last November, claiming improved laying. Also notes Wichita saloons reopening under near beer rules with police limited by law and a reliance on chemical analysis to distinguish real beer.
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Congressman Johnson
Spartanburg Herald
Wiehitn
Kan
Aus
Wichita
Harvard Rumrill Scholarships Established At Harvard
Harvard University receives fifteen thousand dollars from the widow of James Augustus Rumrill to create four Rumrill Scholarships. Two undergraduate awards of 225 dollars yearly are for Virginias and three Southern states entrants. two more 225 dollar graduate scholarships target Southern college graduates seeking Harvard departments. Applications due September 1, 1909 for 1909-10 and May 1, 1910 for 1910-11.
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Harvard University
James Augustus Rumrill
Springfield
Mass
James A. Rumrill
Harvard College
Harvard
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Southern College
Aduate School of Arts On Sciences
Graduate School of Applied Science
Graduate School of Business Administration
Divinity School
Liaw School
Medical School
Ap. S
Rotary
Whch
J. G. Hart
University Hall
Cambridge
Million-dollar fake pesos trap unmasked in Louisville
In Louisville a counterfeit scheme unravels as John Roberts is arrested in Shelby county with a trunk containing a million dollars in fake Mexican pesos. Marion Roberts led the plot by offering the notes to a local broker, and deputy marshal Blaydes and Secret Service agents tighten the case with arrest of Will Koenty and planned examinations for all three men.
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Louisville
John C
Marion Roberts
United States
William Blaydes
John Roberts
Shelby County
Custom House
Central Police Station
Roberts
Secret Service Bureau
Atlanta
Hanger
Secret Service
Marion
Simpsonville
Marshal Blaydes
Mlaques
Mexico
Pedera
Will Koenty
Judge Roberts
Tilman speaks at Fountain Inn on race and education
Greenville reports Senator B R Tilman addressing farmers at Fountain Inn. He comments on dispensary results, Taft's South stance, and opposes compulsory education to avoid mixing races. He cautions against mobilizing black voters and says whites would bear tax costs for black schooling.
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Greenville
B. R. Tilman
Fountain Inn
Taft
South
South Carolina
Tillman
Sunshine Convention at Rock Springs Church Held August 28
The Sunshine Convention invites pastors and teachers of Oconee and all interested readers to Rock Springs church on August 28. County Organizer Mrs. Julia D. Shanklin hopes to engage attendees, including those not yet interested, to foster involvement before they depart.
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Oconee
Rock Springs Church
Julia D. Shanklin
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Cap'n, Billy Smith
Tom Lawson
Newberry
Willy
Lawson
Lin
J. W. Bell
Onecypher Pharmacy
Westminater
Stonecypher Pharmacy
Sor
Noah Ramey Co
Richmond
Boston
Mars
By Ure Ae Hamuey
Itia
Noah Remedy Co
Richmond, Va
Borton
de W. Bell
Walhalla
Noahs Liniment
Nowh Remedy Co
Mase
Les Eset
Alhatla
the Sunshine Conventio
Cortright
Heaven
Corte
Seneca Hardware Company
Heneca
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