The Death Of The Industrial News
Greensboro sees the bankruptcy of the Daily Industrial News after Judge Boyd suspends publication and orders its sale. The case traces back to 1905 with Spencer Blackburn and Marion Butler backing rival factions, editor changes, and a contentious Republican power struggle ending in attempted sale and uncertain future.
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Greensboro
N. C
Boyd
U.S
Industrial Publishing Company
Industrial Nws
North Carolina
Spencer Blackburn
Tar Heel
Blackburn
Republican Party
Kown
Bega
Wagegun
Marion Butler
Spencer B. Adams
Thomas S. Rollins
Ean
The
Mighty
Robert D. Douglas
Douglas
Poli
Industrial News
Ice
Ths
Rollins
Adams
How Sitting Bull Came to Be Given His Name
The article explains how Sitting Bull, a Dakota Indian born near the Missouri and Mississippi rivers in what became North Dakota, earned his name. It recounts his early life, his father naming him Jumping Bull and later Sitting Bull as he drew a buffalo crest and showed a solitary, calculating nature.
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Sitting Bull
Dakota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Great Platte River
Missouri
Mississippi
Jumping Bull
St. Nicholas
R. J. Cloar
Merchant and Farmers’ Bank
Elkin
Chatham Mills
Winston
Elkin Bank
Australian Leaf Promises Relief for Women’s Ailments
Advertises Mother Key’s Australian Leaf as a safe, pleasant herbal cure for women’s urinary, bladder, or kidney troubles. Claims to be effective for pars in the back and general feminine health.
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Mother Key
Cover My Defenseless Head Hymn Tale From Civil War Memory
Two sailors aboard a steamer exchange wartime memories sparked by a hymn. A Confederate sentinel recalls singing that line to steady fear and homesickness, and a Union scout recalls ordering his men to lower rifles after hearing the same hymn. The Pittsburgh Gazette reports the anecdote.
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Engers
Pittsburg
Cure Catarrh in Woman by Rexall Mucu-Tone Claim
An advertiser promoting Rexall Muc-Tone markets a catarrh cure for women, asserting diseases are catarrhal and bloodborne. The copy claims a 98 percent cure rate under a physician’s guidance, with a money back guarantee and two sizes priced at 1.00 and 1.50 through The Ashcraft Drug Co. in Airy, North Carolina.
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Rexall Mac-Tone
Ashcraft
T. Airy
N.C
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Taft
Walter A. Hilderbrand
Asheville
PS Ear
Hilderbrand
J. Elwood Cox
Cox
U. S
A. E. Holton
Republican State Organization
Holton
E. C. Duncan
Duncan
Statesville
Robt
Cleer
Catawba County
Inman
Deaton
Virginia
Knox, Poston & Co
Lee Albertson
Merchants & Farmers’ Bank of
Mooresville
Statesville Loan & Trust Co
J. O. Gaither
Gaither
Cloer
Merchants & Farmers’ Bank
Newton
Setzer
Moores
Dives
Ward
Washington
Stone Gap
Jo. Cloer
Robert
Catawba
Ledell
Winston Journal
Kansas City Journal
John A. Young
Greensboro, N. C
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