Tennessee Troops Crack Night Rider Ring In West Tennessee
Governor Patterson reports strong evidence against the Night Riders after Frank Ferriner confessed and named ten or more suspects. Prisoners. Major Horton leads a military sweep at Camp Nemo near Reelfoot Lake with eighty five arrests to date. An editor, James M Brice, was mistakenly detained and released, highlighting tensions in western Tennessee.
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Camp Nemo
Reelfoot Lake
Tenn
Tennessee
M. R. Patterson
Night Rider
Quentin Rankin
Frank Ferriner
Ferriner
Tatum
Patterson
Fom Johnson
Horn Beak
R. L. Knight
R. E. Martin
Union City
Burton
Hains
J. Bright Horton
James M. Brice
Troy
Brice
Lengthy Sermons Through History Compared
Westminster Gazette notes critics on sermon length with historical examples. Dean Lefroy favors ten minutes, while Thomas Hooker once preached about three hours. Cranmer Baxter Knox Bunyan and Calvin are cited for long homilies, with George Herbert warning against briefs.
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Dean Lefroy
Thomas Hooker
Cranmer
Baxter
Knox
Bunyan
Calvin
George Herbert
Halloween Party at Mrs Ashcrafts Home
A Hallowe en party gathered masked guests from the Graded School faculty at the Rockford Street residence of Mrs H C Ashcraft last Saturday. Ghosts greeted entrants, followed by witches and a fortune teller. Ghost stories raised thrills as unmasking and treats concluded the evening.
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H.C. Ashcraft
Rockford Street
Hallowe'en
Snell
Peace
Hawes
Corrie
Stoneham
Graded School
A Schoolteacher Marries Wealthy Widower in Quiet Union
A schoolteacher marries a wealthy widower who has lived with his servants since his first wife's death. The bride, unused to cooking, asks how beef should be prepared. She then offers the cook permission to try her way after he cooks it his way today.
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Mary
Vinol Proclamation Promises Guarantee and Refund
A city proclamation promotes Vinol as a reliable cod liver and iron medicine with a positive money back guarantee if it does not help. It praises Vinol as a body builder tonic for the frail and ill and urges neighbors to trust the genuine remedy.
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Vinci
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Westminster Gazette
Tutt’s
Ashcraft Drug CO
Airy
Motice
A. A. Bates
Julia Bates
North Carolina
Surry County
Dobson
W. W. Hampton
Superior Court
W. L. Steele
Bank OF
Mount Airy
Jesse H. Prather
W. J. Byerly
Ales M. c. A . Sparger Asst Cashier
The
Putnam Organs
W. W. Putnam & Co
R. J. Bowen & Bro. Winston
N.C
Piedmont
Mt. Airy, N. C
Hall & Inman
Zeb InMan
Christian Brothers, Proprietors
Planters Warehouse
Mt. Airy
Haynes & Brown
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