Mexico-Arizona Statehood Bill Passes in House
The joint resolution admitting Arizona and New Mexico to immediate statehood passed the House by voice vote. It withholds final constitutional approval until voters decide on amendments to each constitution. Arizona must vote on removing recall of judges. New Mexico on making its constitution more easily amended.
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Washington Dispatch
Arizona
New Mexico
House of Representatives
Mann
Congress
Committee On Territories
Ask Aid of the Militia to Cap ture Lone Blind Tiger
Raleigh May 25 A report notes a Civil War era camp near Tarsney and the legend of the Lawrence gold. A man named St Clair, aided by a negro conjurer, uncovered $8 in silver and revived interest in a distant treasure. The item includes local notices about residents and farming activity in Mt Airy Route 4 and ends with a sensational elephant fight vignette.
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Lone Blind Tiger
Law&nee
Quantrell
Tarsney
Guerrila
Varsi Ex
van Buren
Lawrence
St. Clair
Welsh
Mr. St. Clair
17 Year Locusts Arrive. Massive Cicada Invasion Seen
The New York World reports entomologists from the American Museum of Natural History warn of a large cicada emergence this season. Biologists say 17 year locusts lay in wait across New Jersey New York and Pennsylvania with centers of activity in New Jersey and Staten Island. Larvae have been found from Nyack to the Battery signaling widespread devastation to foliage likely to begin mid month. Virginia may see earlier emergence pending weather.
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New York World
American Museum of Natural History
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Staten Island
Nyack
Battery
Virginia
Pistol Duel In Alleghany Wilkesboro May 27
News of a fatal close range confrontation in Alleghany mountains reports Deputy Sheriffs Woodruff and Brown went to arrest Charles Young at his blockade distillery. Young and his wife were killed or fatally wounded after a volley from Young’s house.
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Wilkesboro
Charles Young
Alleghany County
Young
Alleghany
Woodruff
Brown
Crowell Promotes Bag Stringing Machine Patent
Mr Crowell and several associates including prominent tobacco manufacturers back a bag stringing machine patent. The device weighs about 1400 pounds and is designed to improve the current stringing method. Crowell has spent years refining the design and is related to attorney J Lee Crowell who helped in bringing the machine to market.
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Crowell
J. Lee Crowell
Oliver Typewriter
Oliver Typewriter CO
Chicago
Birthday Dinner for Mr Zack Payne at Aaron Virginia
Friends gathered at the Payne home near Aaron Virginia on May 23 1911 to celebrate his 66th birthday. Attendees came from Galax Lanbshore Cana and other areas. He is father to ten children seventeen grandchildren and three great grandchildren and served three and a half years in the war. A Friend.
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Maretha Venable
Bessie Hutchens
Mattie Holyfield
Rockford
Vance Snow
Mary Cox
John A. Park
Elkin
T. J. Park
E. W. Allred
John Parker
John A. Cox
Hickory
N. C
Selena Venable
Little
Virginia
Mrs
T. E. Snow
Route 1
Cirene Igent
United States
Pora
Dora
Alexander
Tueadey
Aiadian
Zack Payne
Aaron
Galax
Lanbshore
Cana
Payne
Negro Kills Judge and Wounds Constable
In Nashville on May 23 Judge David J. Barry intervened in a quarrel at the Barry home near Gallata. Sweat killed the cook then shot the judge, was captured in a barn, and a constable was hit by a shot from a window. A mob lynched Sweat later that afternoon.
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Nashville
David J. Barry
Summer County Bench
Sweat
Barry
Gallata
Barnes
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Adaption
A testimonial from Mrs Herman Sierny of Pound Wis credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing years of female troubles after failing to improve with three doctors. The ad promotes the remedy for displacement, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, pain, backache, and digestive issues and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Mass.
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Herman Sierny
Pound
Wis
Lycia EF. Dinkham
Lydia J. Pickham
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Mexico
Raleigh
State Guard Headquart
Mt. Airy Route 4
Negro
Judge
Constable
Lydia E. Pinkhazi
Doc
Oliver
Siedum Company
Care
F. L. Smith Hardware Co
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