Richland sees brick bank and drug store plans take shape
In Richland on Oct 7 officials note foundations laid for a new brick bank on South Main, with a brick drug store planned opposite. New streets and lots mark a big sale as Miss Parle Ballenger and Ada Wyly attend the Ladies Missionary Union. Miss Mamye Cromer arrives to board with Mrs. S. H. Coe. The Richland school opens with prayers led by Rev Vaughan and remarks from J. K. Verner. Singly is superintendent and Miss Cramer assistant.
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Bank
South Main Street
Richland
Hey
B.D. Vaughan
Jon
J. K. Verner
W. GC. Hughs
Singly
Misa Cramer
Election officials announce third primary ballots ready
Managers of election in Ocones county are notified that ballots and essential papers for the third primary are prepared. The same officials who served in prior primaries will run the election at the Court House. Delivery is available before election day, Tuesday October 1st. County Chairman James M. Moss.
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Ocones County
Court House
Ames M. Moss
District ballot approves two mill levy for schools
In a Spurt House vote last Thursday, 22 ballots favored a two mill extra levy for the district’s schools, three opposed. The district lists four current taxes totaling 29 mills, with Midi School at 22 mills, Special School Tax four, Bonds nine, and total at 29 mills, as District No. 26 leads in special taxes while District No. 17 shows eight mills and neighboring districts range around six mills.
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Midi School
Weminster
State health drive targets hookworm in Oconee County
A specialist from the State Board of Health arrives in Oconee to lead an active campaign against hookworm disease. Five exam sites will offer free examinations and treatment, inviting residents with headaches indigestion or pale symptoms to seek care. The campaign reports large past treatment totals in the region and plans to cooperate with local physicians. An announcement with minute details will follow.
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Saito Board of Health
Bey
State Board of Health
Oconee County
South Carolina
South
State Board
Dynamite Ties of Iron Workers Exposed in Trial
Indianapolis Oct 5 extracts from a green check book show the executive board of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers keeping money for dynamiting jobs. District Attorney Miller testified the board approved payments by checks signed by President Frank M. Ryan. McManigal was paid $238 for an explosion at Clinton and Hockin described nitroglycerine as the strongest stuff for their conspiracy.
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Indianapolis
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
W. Miller
Frank M. Ryan
Clinton
Hockin
Muncie
Lynch Threat Follows Juvenile Assault Attempt in Americus
A 12 year old girl was attacked in Americus Georgia by Babe Yarbrough a railroad worker who was seized by armed locals and hanged from a bridge in Macon county near Oglethorpe. Sheriff Muller attempted to move Yarbrough for protection but was pursued and killed along with his prisoner. Crowds gathered at the courthouse as word spread of the assault plan and the resulting lynching. Governor Blease’s response to North Augusta unrest expected as trolley fights continue. A racial riot near Eastover leaves Murray dead and three others wounded.
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Americus
Sheri
Babe Yarbrough
Wagero
Muller
Macon County
Oglethorpe
Americas
Yarbrough
Macon
Ffteen Miles
Puller
Seaboard Streight
Jaih
Sherrif Puller
Geti
Augusta
Cole L. Blease
Aiken County
North Ausushi
Progressive Party Organizes in South Carolina
Members of the Bull Moose party convened at the Columbia Hotel to organize in South Carolina with pro tempore secretary W. S. Beard and permanent treasurer Blalock. Seven district chairmen were elected, pledging allegiance to Theodore Roosevelt and outlining a platform favoring direct primaries, referendum, recall, and anti-greed policies.
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South Carolina
Cochin
Columbia Hotel
B. Sherwood Dunn
Aiken
C. J. Watson
Washington Streel
Blease
Blalock
Mint
W. P. Utsey
St. George
Segond
Thomas Thompforth
Augusta
Tird
C. J. Gray
Westminster
R. A. Hanna
Spartanburg
I. H. Norris
Yorks Moose Party
Vompr
Ecdtase
Atatache Chios
Roosevelt
Human Rights
America
Theodore Roosevelt
Chicago
Chartey
Bull Moose Party
L. D. Melton
W. W. Brace
W. Boyd Evans
W. A. Reckling
S. A. Murphy
W. V. King
John McCreary
AL Simons
TH. Willinamaker
G. W. Mudd
A. D. Palmer
Westberry W
Beard
Columbia
A Molger
Seneca
AL My
May Accept Life Terms For Hillville Tragedy Suspects
Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards, named as alleged principal conspirators in the Hill ville Va court house tragedy, may accept life term sentences in lieu of trial. They are scheduled for trial October 28 at Wytheville Va. Miss Koler Edwards' sweetheart will not receive rewards. Detectives tracked her from Mount Airy NC to Des Moines where Allen and Edwards were captured. The girl's father, said to have aided detectives, is reported to have received $500 of the reward.
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Yonn
Sidna Allen
Wesley Hdwards
Hillville
Court House
Wytheville
Koler
Edwards
Mount Airy
N. G
Des Moines
Allen
McNamara and McManigal Plot to Panama Canal Locks
Indianapolis dispatch reports District Attorney Miller read pages from the careers of the McNamaras and Orville McManigal as leaders of the dynamiters. He described conversations about sending McManigal to Panama to blow Panama Canal locks, implicating the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. McManigal initially refused. later arrests followed as others connected to the case and the open shop contractor were noted. Edward Clark of Cincinnati, former local Iron Workers president, changed his plea to guilty and awaits sentence.
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Indianapolis
Ind
McNamnaras
Orvtlo McManigal
McManigal
Panama
Panama Canal
Miller
Los Angeles
Jim
John J
James B. McNamara
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Mr. Miller
McClintic-Marshall Construction Company
United States
Edward Clark
Cincinnati
Iron Workers
Experts Talk of Pellagra at National Meeting in Columbia
The National Society for the Study of Pellagra convened at the State Hospital for the Insane with morning and afternoon sessions. Experts from the Bureau of Plant Industry presented papers as committees on finance nomination resolutions and publication were formed. Surgeon General Rupert Blue urged congressional funding and described pellagra as a national and international problem.
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Columbia
National
Mhee
Fae
State Hospital For the Insane
C. L. Alsberg
O. I. Black
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
Washington
H. Marsh
L. Alsberg
Minance
Hayne
Niles
Niles and Nomination, Drs. Willams, Grimm and Searcy; Resolutions, Drs. Lavinder
Roberts
Siler
Wilson and Haverington
Igeon Blue
Rupert Ive
United States Public Health Voice
United States
Sambon
London
Deeks
Panama
State Hospital
National Society For the Study of
G. H. Lavinder
United States Public Health Service
J. Siler
Medical Corps
U.S. Ay
Mrs. W R Lawrence Dies After Mule Accident in Westminster
Mrs. W R Lawrence, 62, was instantly killed in Westminster when fleeing mules dragged by a broken line after an automobile startled them. She fell as her skirt tripped, striking her head on the road near Old Westminster Baptist Church. Funeral was at Mastview cemetery after services in the Brown home with Rev A P Marett. She leaves a husband, Ralph, nine siblings, and was daughter of Rev and Mrs J T Lewis.
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W. R. Lawrence
Westometer
A. P. Marett
Lawrence
J. T. Lewis
Pickens County
James Robertson
Shielda ¥ Martin
Lawrencesyas
Rabun County clash with Italian workers over dam project
At Clayton Georgia on Saturday night two hundred Italians employed at Math Shoals for Georgia Power attacked a young man named Grover Shirley after heavy drinking. He was not found, likely drowned. A Sunday confrontation left George Weatherly wounded and a posse pursuing foreign aggressors amid a hail of more than a hundred shots.
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Clayton
Math Shoals
Georgia Power Company
Tallulah River
Grover Shirley
Shirley
Rabun
George Weatherly
Iattle
Hartwell man convicted in fatal piggish quarrel with father
Robert Gray was found guilty in Hart Superior Court and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for killing his father on May 28 after a quarrel over chickens. The elder Gray’s deathbed statement likely saved Robert from a murder in the first degree verdict.
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Robert Gray
Hart Superior Court
Gray
Robert
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