Startling History of Reelfoot Lake Formation
Long ago tale from Nashville Banner recounts an 1826 letter describing the 1811 New Madrid earthquakes and the sudden sinking of Reelfoot Lake. The narrative details darkness from sulfurous vapors, river upheaval, flooded banks, and the lake’s birth linking to Mississippi flow and distant Cherokee lands, with notes on later regional implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville Banner
Reelfoot Lake
Lorenzo Dow
Redfoot Lake
Brother
Providence
Mississippi
Theiver
New Madrid
Ronge
Tin
Ynyself
Madrid
McAllister
Supreme Court
W. H. Swiggart
Oblon
Lake Counties
Kentucky
Obion Rly
Mississippi River
Captankin
Samberg
Bayou de Cheta
Che Like
Astern Corner
Reelfoot River
Lake County
Ho Lake
Teex
Dyer County
FM. Safford
Tenneskee
Redfoot Creek
Oblon River
Sveral Wimaller Lakes
Caraccas
South America
Joseph Guild
Tennessee
Prohibition Candidate Claims Democratic Party Dead
Chicago November 4 Eugene W Chafin Prohibition party candidate after reviewing returns declared The Democratic Bryan party is dead The fight from now on will be between the Prohibition party and the whiskey Republican party and we will elect a Prohibition President in 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Eugene W. Chafin
Prohibition Party
Prohibition
Gig
Facts for Sick Women by Lydia Pinkham Ad
For thirty years Lydia Pinkham's Vey compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills and has cured thousands troubled by displacements, inflammation, ulcers, irregularities, pains, backache, indigestion, dizziness, and nervous prostration. Mrs Pinkham invites all sick women to write for advice. Address Lynn, Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia K. Winkham
Pinkham
Lynn
Masa
Bryan congratulates Taft in telegram exchange
In Lincoln Nebraska on November 5 Mr. Bryan sent a congratulatory message to Win H Taft Cincinnati Ohio November 6 Taft replied thanking Bryan for the courteous telegram and extending his own best wishes for the success of the administration
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
Mr. Bryan
Win, H. Taft
Cincinnati
W. J. Bryan
Mr. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Wm. H. Taft
Lungs Suffer Coughs Warned by Honey and Tar Remedy
Advertisement states that sore lungs invite pneumonia and consumption germs, and Foley's Honey and Tar kills cough germs, cures stubborn coughs, heals lungs, and prevents serious results. Mentions genuine product in yellow package and suppliers J. W. Bell Valhalla and Stonecypher Pharmacy Westminster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
J. W. Bell
Valhalla
Stonecypher Pharmacy
Westminster
Help for Aged Ministers and Navy Deserter Magness
Miss Shelor of the International Sunshine Society notes sunshiners like Mrs. E D Wells in Leeds engage in selling ecards to fund the aged ministers fund and aid shut-ins while Charles Joseph Magn ness, a navy musician aged 20 who recently wed Ada Gorman aged 40, faces desertion charges at Philadelphia Navy Yard with likely three year sentence at Charlestown naval prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Joseph Magness
Navy
Ada Gorman
Senator Gorman
Maryland
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Magness
Naval Prison
Charlestown
Mase
Tragedy in Wl antersville Ga leaves two men dead
Madison county citizen Charles Guten is found dead after a bitter quarrel over a business affair. His brother in law, Clifford Graham, shoots Graham in self defense and surrenders to the sheriff. Winter illness warns of pneumonia pleurisy and consumption.
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Antersville
Charles Guten
Madison County
Clifford Graham
Hun Kutshes
Wuld
Grisfith
Graham
Grifith
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Keowee
Steck, Shelor & Schrodir
Walhalla
Wedesday
Cortright
al Ag
Seneca
Chafin
Lydia Pinkham
Lillian Ross
East Mth Street
New York
Lydia
Dodie
Katharine Craig
Tatayette St
Dover
Col
Makham
Mantha
Mario Stoltsman
Laurel
Olne
Bryan
Castoria
Mitchell
Oliver Chilled Plows
Columbia Buggies
W. P. Nimmons, Seneca
S. C
P.S
C. I. Houehina
Ned
Louis A. King
Houchins & King
W. J. Carter, M. D
Bank
Carter's Pharmacy
8. C
Dr.w. FF
Austin
Seneca, South Carolina
J. W. Byrd & Co
D.P. Thomson
South Carolina
W. Pitchford Co
J.h.burghss
Witsell Bro
Charscales-Harper Building
H. C. Smathers
Westminster Bank
E.L. Herndon
P. Carey
J. W. Shelor
Pickens
C. Hughs
Carey, Shelor & Huges
R. T. Jaynes
Bell Phone No
King’s
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