Destruction of Texas Reveals Naval Armor and Design Flaws
Eyewitness accounts describe the Texas exploding during target practice, showing how wooden decks and exposed areas caused massive splinter damage. Analysts urge steel decks, stronger underwater armor, and reinforced conning towers to prevent similar disasters and protect crews in future battles.
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Car passenger sobs over barn raised in barn joke
A man walking through a train accidentally left a car door open. A large man shouted for him to shut the door, prompting the weeper to cry. He explains the joke makes him homesick, not hurt feelings, as every time he hears barn he is reminded of home.
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The Electric Fan Crowns The Hottest Season
A quirky adage praises the electric fan as the busiest and best remedy for heat waves. It urges readers not to wait until bread goes stale to waste it upon the waters, reflecting a lighthearted, thrift minded tone.
Texag tests reveal secrecy and mixed results in trials
Reports describe covert Texag tests with limited success and several failures, while shells caused surprising damage and near misses. Navy secretary Myer ordered destroyer actions as crews faced dangerous conditions and aimed to neutralize the conning tower. Two shells damaged turret gear, forcing partial immobilization of the vessel.
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Governor Blease Demands Dispensary Board Clean Record
Gov Cole I Blease asks county dispensary board chairs to explain purchases from houses linked to state fraud. He warns removal if explanations are unsatisfactory and urges confessing by those who defrauded the state to avoid criticism.
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Changes Wording of History for Public Schools
The Thompson history controversy in Columba centers on blame for the 1865 destruction of the state capital as the book will be used in public schools. The author from Atlanta and the State Board debated phrasing to shift blame from Sherman’s campaign to a broader property destruction narrative. State officials plan to publish course changes once committees finish reviews, with a note on delays for the final report. A Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound advertisement appears, praising relief for hay fever and colds from WM. M. Stewart of Chicago and others.
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Reverend Jacobs to resign as pastor after 47 years
Clinton July 14—The resignation of Rev W P Jacobs, founder and president of the Theorywel Orphanage, will be laid before Wrst Presbyterian Church next Sunday. His 47 years as pastor have featured many baptisms, marriages, and funerals, with sorrow anticipated by his devoted congregation.
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Peculiar Wreak of hight Charlotte, July 4
In Chadwick-Honking village a suburb of Charlotte, during a fierce electrical storm yesterday afternoon, Thomas J. Capps was struck by lightning. The bolt shattered the chimney and flashed to the doorway, turning him and throwing him prone.
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Toe Rabun Gap Industrial School Admission Notice
Announcement that Toe Rabun Gap Industrial School will accept additional boys and girls to provide a home and education. Admission information will be mailed on request. Signed by A. J. Ritchie, President, Rabun Gap, Ga.
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Notion to Debtors and Creditors in the South Carolina area
Notice to all debtors of the estate of Martin Swafford deceased and to creditors to present claims within the legal period. Also petitions for probate of nuncupative will in Oconee County with summons to named respondents to answer by twenty days. court notices and probate actions filed at Walhalla Court House South Carolina with authority of J. Jaynes and Smith.
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Notice to debtors and creditors of Rochester estate
All persons indebted to the state of John I Rochester deceased are notified to pay to the undersigned and all persons having claims against said estate will present them duly at the time prescribed by law. MRS F. V. Rochester, Administratrix. Walhalla S.C. May 6, 1900.
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