Education Aid Act Opens Funds For Rural Schools
The act authorizes a fifty thousand dollar state fund to aid common schools across the state, with guidelines to disburse through the State Superintendent and district levies. No school lacking sufficient local funds or sustaining one hundred days of operation will receive aid. maximum grant set at one hundred dollars annually per school. Section 2 grants the State Board of Education power to issue rules for fund distribution. Approved March 3, 1909.
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South
State Board of Education
Friendship Tens and Church News from Pickens County
Special announcement for Friendship tens and Friendship Church notes on March 18. Preacher C D Mann Rey Ming Ollie Summerel urged wide attendance on the second and fourth Sundays. Sheriff Handy of Colemans MIN visited homefolks. Miss Sallie Janie Mertie Della and Ethel Sherif visited Speeds Creek. John Fredericks’s residence burned Monday morning while he stayed with Henry Hays. no furniture survived. P Bowen improving this week. Jeter Campbell and Bell Woolbright of Townville visited. Gussie Moore and sister Mime Mile guided their sister Mia Tyler Thrown Sunday GO.
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Rey
C. D. Mann
Ming
Ollie Summerel
Pickens County
Coleman
MIN
Misnés Sallie
Janie
Mertie
Della
Ethel Sherif
Speed's Creek
John Fredericks
Mr. Fredericks
Henry Hays
P. Bowen
Jeter Campbell
Bell Woolbright
Georgia Man Cleared of Murder in Hartwell Trial
Georgia man Hugh Wall was found not guilty by a Hartwell jury after a three minute verdict in the murder case of a black man. Wall had claimed self defense in a prior long-ago killing, with a prior planing conviction and a new trial granted by the court of appeals. He remains held for another matter in the court.
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Hartwell
Hugh Wall
Wall
Court of
Norria
Witehout Hig Sand
Uy Tiem
Devout Christian Man Dies in County Thirty Years
Ines Phiewood reports a devout Christian man has gone to eternal reward after many years in the county. The narrative recalls a 81st year for Brown and notes local rats terrorizing homes and animals, highlighting the town's struggle with pests and safety.
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Phiewood
Mavely
J. Nolan
Sven
Thin County
Tito
Brown
Louisville Depot Burned in Major City Fire
A devastating blaze in Louisville Kentucky tonight destroyed the Union depot the terminal for five railroads causing an estimated loss of 400000. The fire stemmed from crossed wires in the center of the old Illinois Central depot built in 1890. The fire department arrived after the building had become an empty shell. Chief Clerk W G Roach and Superintendent Egan fell through a skylight. All other occupants escaped unharmed. A woman telephone operator was rescued from the fifth story and flames rose high making the blaze spectacular.
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Louiaville
Union
Louteville
Ilinois
Egan
Return School Honor Roll Seneca March 11 1909
Honor roll for Return School ending February 26 1909 lists Nettle King 98 Singleton Dalton 47 2-4 Lole Morgan 97 Lester Olver 96 Xavier Crooku 95 Troy Moore 95 Queston King 95 Callie Moore 6 Pearl Edwards 95. Special mentions for department and regular attendance credit teachers praise parents for support and student efforts.
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Seneca
Nettle King
Singleton Dalton
Lole Morgan
Lester Olver
Xavier Crooku
Troy Moore
Queston King
Callie Moore
Pearl Edwards
Lela Bintr
Chaves Dalton
Isbete Jayne
Foley’s Honey and Tar Cough Cure Advertising Claim
A 19th century style ad warns Foley’s Honey and Tar cures all coughs and colds, even pneumonia and consumption, with a money back guarantee if it fails. It notes no opiates and emphasizes a genuine yellow package, signed by W. Bell of Westminster.
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Foley
W. Bell
Wathalia
Stonecypher Deng Co
Westminster
Pulpit Utterance Precedes Tragedy in Poland Ohio
In Youhsstown Ohio on March 14 the Poland Presbyterian pastor spoke on death as an hour unknown. Moments later Mrs Matilda Williams collapsed and died in the pew. The service ended with a prayer and the church closed.
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Youhsstown
Ohio
Presbyterian Church
Poland
Here
Matilda Willams
Unverified American medicinal plant extracts advertised
An advertisement extols American forest roots with alleged curative powers for heart ailments and women's ailments. It claims free distribution of a small medical book and promotes two medicines from native herbs, asserting alcohol free formulas and printed ingredient lists on bottle wrappers.
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Plovee
Amartcan
B. W. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Yi
Dr. Pierce
Gray Mairs In the Cabinet Portrait of a Aged Cabinet
The Detroit Prep Press notes that the new cabinet differs from Roosevelt and Taft in age. Every minister is over fifty except Frank Hitchcock the Nation Chairman, age forty four, who becomes Postmaster General. The piece contrasts gray beards and bald heads with the retiring generation around the cabinet table.
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Detroit Prep Press
Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Taft
Nation
Prank Hitchcock
Bears the Kind You Have Always Bought Liplilae
D. T. Major reports a hen laying triple eggs after reading the newspaper and Roosevelt anti-race death promotions. The hen produced three eggs at once, described as triplets, with two small and one large egg, while Major notes several double yolks previously.
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Liplilae
Greenwood Index
D. T. Major
Roosevelt
Mr. Major
Water Tanks Burst in Parkersburg Disaster
In Parkersburg West Virginia three people were killed and three others fatally injured in a morning water tank rupture. Dozens of houses were wrecked or badly damaged and many residents were injured as city water supply failed and substantial property damage occurred.
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Parkersburg
W.va Mareh
Widow from Atlanta charged with grand larceny on train
Mrs Frances J Ridley a wealthy Atlanta widow was arrested near Newark Pennsylvania Station by railroad detectives on a grand larceny charge after a chatelaine bag with jewels worth 7000 disappeared from Mrs Andrew Albright of New York. Ridley admitted receiving the bag but claimed she found it and intended to return it. Bail set at 5000.
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Newark
N. J
Marehi
Frances J. Ridley
Atlanta
Pennsylvania
Andrew Albright
New York City
Avlanta
Ensler
Atelanta
Eneler
Ridley
Navy aide to President Tait injured in Rock Creek Park incident
In Rock Creek Park Waxhincton Maryland May 18 an aide to President Tait Navy officer Htent Read was fatally injured as a horse stumbled and fell pinning him under its saddle. Several other naval officers rode with him and escaped injury.
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Read
Tait
White
Rock Croek Park
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