Holy Rollers Provoked by Double Tragedy in Seattle
Seattle July 28 authorities moved to drive the Holy Rollers from the city after the killings surrounding Franz Creffield and George Mitchell. Esther Mitchell shot Mitchell in the Union Depot after a plot by his sister and Creffield's widow to avenge Creffield. Esther claims spirit of her lover urged the act. Mitchell was acquitted on temporary insanity. The Holy Roller sect, named for religious ecstasy, traces to Central New York, with a colorful history and a fatal family vendetta context.
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Seattle
Wash
George Mitchell
Bia Slater
Holy Rollers
Franz Edmund Crefield
Eather Mitchell
Creffield
Mitchell
Esther Mitchell
Esther
Union Depot
Perry
Fred
Haether
Holy Roller
Mia
Mies Mitchell
Joshua
New York
Shakers
Oneida
The
Holy Order of Kneebenders
Knowledge of What You Take for Woman’s Ailments
Dr Pierce promotes Favorite Prescription and Favorite Proscription as cures for female disorders and nervous symptoms. He offers a free booklet with extracts from medical authorities, mailed from Buffalo New York after a postal inquiry.
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Piarce
Pierce
Londing
Pierco
Invalide' Hotel
Atitato
Buffalo
N. Y
Crime in Barber Junction Murder and Arson Tragedy
A posse and bloodhounds hunt suspects after Ike Lyerly family is killed in bed and house set ablaze in Barber Junction. Reports say Lyerly refused to hire certain negroes, with a Rowan County sheriff-led investigation naming Neal Gillespie and others as suspects. A coroner's jury tied the crime to the group. one suspect confessed and pointed to bloody tools.
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Charlotte
WW. C
Ike Lyerly
Barbara Junction
Here
Lyerly
Janie
Johnnie
Alice
Gisle
Mary
Addie
Salisbury
Mr. Lyerly
Wis Janie
Rowan County
Neal
Gillespie
John Gillespie
Jack Dillingham
George ‘Erskine
Henry Lee
noKrooe
Barber Tunotion
Speed Creek News From July In Speed Creek Area
The Speed Creek farmers finish lay by and rest after a wet spell that raised streams. Minnie Cox is ill, Andy Cox returns home from Spencer, and Mrs Frank Brown visits relatives in Anderson. Harrison Sanders and J N Spira family visit, Rossi Cox returns from Anderson, Mrs Miller improves, R Osborne visits mother in Stone Mountain Ga. Sheriff to attend Pickens Normal School starting the sixteenth.
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Speed Creek
Minnie Cox
Andy Cox
Spencer
N. C
Frank Brown
Anderson
Thie
Harrison Sanders
J. N. Spira
Misa Rossi Cox
Borh
J. E. Ewing
Miller
R. Osborne
Nancy Lanter
Stone Mountain
Handy Sheriff
Pickens
Roebust
Virginia
Seal
Sick Cattle Still Kiled and Canned
Secretary Wilson said inspectors will not change their practice as tubercular cattle and lumpy jaw will be killed and only the infected portions removed for market. The remainder of the carcass will be sold for food despite concerns from veterinary experts. Connie Maxwell Orphanage Gets Big Money in Greenwood. Isaac Callaham left lands to fund the charity with proceeds from sale estimated at 10 to 15 thousand dollars.
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Chicago
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Callaham
Mars Red
Miles
Where She Had Seen Him Vicar Dr Hook Anecdotes
Vivid anecdotes about Dr Hook a Yorkshire vicar later dean of Chichester. An old acquaintance recalls his self deprecating humor about ugliness and a girl recalling him from a pole climbing incident. Includes bridge game vignette with a playful misfire on spades and Nellie. Also mentions dyspepsia tablets promotions and a general household remedy.
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Hook
Yorkshire
Chichester
Bier
le Boy
Walter Farquhar Hook
Pearson's Weekly
Tall Building Ambition Stirs New York Developer
A New York man boasts plans for an exceptionally tall building with an office atop the top floor. He hints a Philadelphia visitor would traverse half his journey by the time the elevator arrives, illustrating grand ambition. In Georgia, two Savannah children died in a Fort Valley house fire that engulfed their grandfather W G Jordan’s home. Inmates slept through the blaze which started in a closet and blocked access to the bedroom where the children slept.
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New York
Philadelphia
R. W. Wimbish
Savannah
W. G. Jordan
Fort Valley
Forty Suckers on Her String Mystery Miss Dale Case
In St Louis Mere and Rose Vinton and husband Charles Vinton were arrested amid letters found in Mere’s room. The letters show about forty men courted a woman they called Bessie Dale at 502 North Fifteenth Street and sent money for her entertainment, some seeking marriage. Vinton claims she is not Bessie Dale. Police reports indicate the writers doubted her sincerity and suspected she wanted only to spend their money.
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Bessie Dale
Mere
Rose Vinton
Charles Vinton
St. Louis
North Fifteenth Street
Hira
Vinton
Gillespy
Miss Dale
County Campaign Meetings Schedule Listed
The county campaign meetings are set in Famassen on Friday July 2, Salem on Saturday July 28, Newry on Friday August 3, Seneca on Saturday August 4, Cakreyi Thoraday on Thursday August 0, Westminster on Friday August 10, and Madison on Saturday August 11. Also notes Castoria advertisement and Ploesalve antiseptic healing properties sold by Dr J W Bell and W J Luonoy.
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Famassen
Salem
Newry
Seneca
Cakreyi Thoraday
Woestminster
Madison
J. W. Bell
Valhalla
W. J. Luonoy
Alliance Picnic and Reunion Notice in Oconee County
Announcement invites former Alliancemen of Oconee County to a reunion at Bount Land Academy on Friday August 3. Participants are asked to provide a near complete roll of members who have died since the alliance began and bring it. Hon C P Goodwill will speak. all welcome but no political speaking.
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Farmen _Islance
Oconee County
Bount Land Academy
Ihs
C. P. Goodwill
Les
Alliance Pionto
J. B. Pickett
Prize for Oconee School Boy Essay Contest
The State organizer of the International Sunshine Society offers a prize to the Oconee school boy who visits the Clemson car stationed at Westminster and writes an essay on what he sees there. Judges will be those in charge of the car. Essay due August 25. Address Sun beam Organizer Westminster 8 C Route No 1 Box 16.
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International Sunshine Society
Oconee
Au- Guat Sth
Westminster
Sunbeam
8. C
Patent suspenders prompt buyer banter on Michigan avenue
A young man examines embroidered suspenders at a Detroit area shop while a vendor named Bispasky boasts the item is patent and exclusive. The seller claims durability and rarity, joking he would trade ten barrels if the buyer can break the suspenders by jumping fences.
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Michigan Avenue
New York
Detroit
Free Presa
Dwight Mill Strike Hits Greek Laborers in Alabama
Gadsden Alabama July 19 The Dwight Manufacturing Company used Greek laborers in their large cotton mill as an experiment but they grew dissatisfied and went on a strike Saturday Most returned to work Mills across the region report trouble obtaining labor due to shortages in this part of the state
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Gadsden
Ala
Dwight Manufacturing Company
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H. F. Alexander
Alexander & Holleman
Seneca Bank
Beneca
C. If. Thomson
C. W. Pitchford Co
Holle
H, Moore, M. D
Walhalla Drug Co
W. J. Carter, M.D
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J. H. Burgess
Ofvion Owen Nimmons’ Stone
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J. W. Byrd & Co
Wu. J. Stratina
HeRnpon
J.P. Carey
J. W. Shelor
C. Walhalla
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