Engagement of Mrs Jennie Gwyn to Col Henry Capers CaPers
Announcement from Fitzgerald Georgia that Mrs Jennie Buckner Gwyn will marry Col Henry D Capers on February 14 1909. Col Capers a Confederate veteran and Georgia Veterans Signal Corps chief, speaks of Mrs Gwyn as a fine Southern woman. The note ends with an unrelated advertisement for Dr Thomas’s Electric Oil.
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Atlanta
Oconee County
Childress Buckner Gwyn
Fitzgerald
Jennie Buckner Gwyn
Henry D. Capers
Col. Capers
Colo- Wal
Mrs.Gwyn
Buckners
Kentucky
Veterans’ Signal Corps of
Georgia
South Carolina Society
Horner
Goats Called to Rescue in Forest Fire Plan
The United States Government seeks 3,000 Angora goats to clear bush in California foothills. Goats will be guided to form 300 yard wide lanes through forests, carving patches to prevent spread of fires. The plan, published by the Bureau of Forestry, aims to protect woodlands by creating firebreaks.
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Baltimore Sun
United States
National Forests
Jersey City
Hoboken
Harlem
California
Burea of Forestry
Nineteen-Year-Old Mother of Triplets in Brooklyn
Mrs. Richard Shuttleworth, nineteen, has given birth to triplets a girl, a girl, and a boy in New York. The mother will name the boy William Taft Shuttleworth.
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New York
Med
Richard Shuttleworth
Brooklyn
William ‘Taft Shuttleworth
Scott and Bownp at 499 Pearl Street New York
A fragmentary item appears to note Scott and Bownp at 499 Pearl Street in New York. The text is incomplete and lacks clear event or date details. Further readable context is needed to determine the full story or purpose of the notice.
Anti-Japanese school bill defeats in California Legislature
California legislators defeated the anti-Japanese measure, a issue long debated since its introduction by Grove L. Johnson. The bill sought segregating Mongolians and Indians in schools, sparking protests from Japan and drawing a presidential intervention. Despite initial momentum, a final vote 48 to 28 killed the school bill while a proposed popular-vote query on Asiatic immigration failed 22 to 12.
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Sacramento
Cal
California
Grove L. Johnson
Congress
San Francisco
Roosevelt
Eugene B. Schmita
Washington
Japan
Asiatic Exclusion League
Root
Gillett
A. M. Drew
Fresno
Gillette
L. Walter Leeds
Los Angeles
Senate
Tnis
Marc Antony
Monument to Old Ply Mule Erected in Witherton Ga
Royston leader W M Bowers has a monument raised for Old Ply the family mule. The marble stone bears inscriptions praising the beast and noting she died at 40 years and 6 days with a biblical verse from Proverbs 12 10.
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Witherton
W. M. Bowers
Royston
Berryman
Teace
Sucklen Arnica Salve Claim Promotes It as Best
An advertisement proclaims Sucklen's Arnica Salve as the best salve in the world. The claim highlights its soothing properties and superior effectiveness, aiming to attract buyers with bold superlatives.
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Sucklen
Liberia Aid Drive to Fund Liberia Commission Visit
Washington seeks $20,000 to fund a government commission to Liberia to study relief options. The action follows Roosevelt and Root proposals stressing humanitarian duty and atonement for slave trade practices. Liberia's conditions described as underdeveloped with poor transport and scarce resources, yet rich in potential. The State Department urges prompt funding to reach Liberia before the rainy season.
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Washington
Liberia
Roosevelt
Congress
Root
Edywin Denby
Foreign Affairs Committee
Shute O'Laughlin
United States
Laberia
State Department
Man jailed for bigamy ordered to wed Indian wife
Helena Montana February 12 Thomas Hanby a former South Carolinian was fined 100 and jailed six months for bigamy. He was also ordered to marry an Indian woman, Blackfoot maiden Merzy La Brecke, with the second marriage declared void. The judge instructed a US marshal to enforce the marriage immediately, a justice of the peace uniting the couple. The incident followed his first marriage.
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Helena
Mont
Thomas Hanby
Tranby
Wasso
Hanley
Fleet
Mery la Brecke
What Some of Them Said After Uny Engagement
A woman probes friends about reactions to an engagement with curiosity. Responses vary from exclamations of surprise to quotes like At last Who'd have thought it and Will wonders never cease. The scene ends with the fiancée dismissing further questions and asserting limited curiosity.
Letter Urges Action to Save Liberian Nationality
The letter argues for hope and courage, warning that failure would discourage the entire Diack race. It claims Liberia cannot be sustained without action and proposes another trial guided by civilized leadership before the inhabitants are extinguished as a nationality and blamed for being unable to govern themselves.
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Liberia
Sierra Leone
Republic
County Claims Audited At County Board Meeting
At the regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners held Friday February 6 1909 the board passed upon listed claims.
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Board of County Commissioners
Corpse Tomb Open Debate Shapes Koreshan Faith
Bristol Tennessee February 10 H W Silverfriend vice president of the Koreshan Trity and board chairman says he favors opening the tomb of Dr C R Teed dead December 22 and whose resurrection has been hoped since then If the body is found decomposed the religion would be exposed as false The body has been guarded day and night since Teed's death.
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Bristol,Tenn
H. W. Silverfriend
Koreshan,Trity
C. R. Teed
Hidden Civil War Pension Ends in Mattress Loot
Lockport New York February 18 more than fifty thousand dollars in cash was found in a mattress on the bed of James Mahan a Civil War veteran who died recently. His two sons James and Lawrence stand to inherit the money. The aged veteran who died at seventy one had been a prisoner at Andersonville and drew a government pension for fourteen years. He had not left his room during that time and kept his pension money along with much of his life savings in the mattress.
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Lockport
N. Y
James Mahan
James
Lawrence
Andersonville
Chicago Firm Wins Three Year Corned Beef Contract
London reports a Chicago company secured a three year contract to supply the British army with corned beef. The initial shipment ranges from six hundred thousand to one million pounds, due next July, with subsequent deliveries per army needs. Meat will be packed in Chicago under British officers supervision.
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London
Chicago
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