Spectacular Flight Nets Cross-Country Air Race Victory
JiacoaN Molsant pilots a machine bought ten minutes before and flies from Belmont Park to Liberty and back totaling thirty three miles, with extra turns bringing thirty five miles. He defeats Claude Grahame-White by five seconds in a daring cross-country feat through Brooklyn streets and factories.
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York
John B. Molsant
Paris
London
Belmont Park
Liberty
New York
Belmont
Crow
Coon de Lenseps
Claude Grahame-White
Molsant
Broklyn
Prisoner Writes Music in Tombs and a Wife Slaying Attempt
Alfred R., a Tombs inmate, pursued artistic work by composing music in his cell after an earlier incident in which he reportedly shot at his wife and then tried to kill himself. The case links to prior figures like John Bun and Teddy Hudson, noted for literary or dramatic acts while confined.
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York
Oliver Goldsmith
Wakefield
John Bun
John Car
West Penitentiary
Alfred R
Teddy Hudson
Particu
Frost Than Expected Raises Former Cotton Estimates
The Picayune reports Louisiana and Mississippi cotton growers face early frost with the first freeze, allowing early estimates. The crop is larger than expected though still below normal, and will exceed last year in some areas.
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Ely
Alleged Extortion Claim Ties Damages to Malpractice
Dr. Frank Shemwell sues Jas. R. Chandler and T. for $10,000 in Livingston court claiming a knife point extorted a $75 check for damages tied to malpractice. Chandler counters that Shemwell admitted malpractice and voluntarily accepted the small payment. The torn text omits full details of the dispute and parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil
Frank Shemwell
Livingston
Jas. R. Chandler
Jew Chandler
Shem
Wadavay Revival Sets World Record Amid Converts
The revival attracted crowds with thousands converted, claiming a new world record. Officials note 6,383 broken, 6,283 persons re asserted as part of the dramatic appeal and 1,050 persons were confirmed as converts on that day.
Be Sent Abroad as Naval Attache for Peary
Capt Robert E Peary famed Arctic explorer is proposed as naval attache to a European embassy. Officials cautious noting prior statements about assignment and potential contradictions in orders. A separate note reports a temperance bequest forcing an heir to abstain or lose the will’s consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atche Fe
Robert E. Peary
Bose
Europe
Peary
Illinois Supreme Court Rules 7 Percent Charier Tax On Railroads
Illinois Central Railroad must pay seven percent of gross earnings to the state under its 1851 charter, covering interstate commerce and related income. The ruling reduces a prior claim of about 15.4 million to roughly one thousand dollars, with expected annual revenue near two million dollars. The decision ends decades of alleged “milking” through accounting for gross earnings.
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Springfield
Weelding
Ilinois
Imfinois Central
Rates barred on interstate freight under ICC ruling
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that carriers may not advance rates during transit. Southern Cotton Oil sued Atlantic Coast Line and Central of Georgia Railway in Washington. The decision joined two cases, holding that legal rates are those in effect at origin, not during inbound or outbound reshipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Cotton of Co
Atlantic Coast Line
Central of Georgia Railway
Savannah
Georgia
Alabama
Cottom
Posse Slays Two as Fitzsimmons and Vigilantes Pursue Killers
A posse hunted and killed two suspects after learning Miss Ellen Smith was murdered along with two others. Watson claimed to have captured Cox and produced evidence, but Cox survived and together with a jailhouse suspect were killed in a later clash at Fort Meyers. The slain were linked to a murder plot and a debt dispute involving Watson.
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Meyers
E. J. Watson
Wesley
Chatham Bend
Ellen Smith
Waller
Detcy” Renolds
Nga
Watson
Cox
Negro
Victia
Miss Smith
Everclades
South’s Wonderful Growth In Census Figures
Washington reports a strong census growth for Southern cities outpacing the West. In 1910 New Orleans Louisville and Memphis topped 1 000 inhabitants. Atlanta Birmingham Nashville and Richmond rose to two or more. Among cities with the highest increase are Oklahoma City Muskogee Birmingham Fort Worth Tampa Dallas Jacksonville and Portsmouth.
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New Orleans
Louisville
Memphis
Atlanta
Birmingham
Nashville
Richmond
Oklahoma City
Muskogee
Okla
Fort Worth
Tex
Tampa
Fis
Dallas
Jacksonville
Fla
Portsmouth
Will Try Mrs Krauss Bail Set For Pending Trial
Daisy Torney Krauss, ex wife of Wi Krauss, must post bail to stay free before her superior court trial. The district attorney plans a sensational case with 900 letters from Mrs Krauss to various men, allocating a week for their reading, six days planned, readers worry time may be insufficient.
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Los Angeles
Daisy Torney Krauss
Wi Krauss
Memphis
Superior Court
Williams
Crippen to Appeal Death Sentence After Conference
Dr Howie Crippen at Pentonville prison plans to appeal his death verdict for the murder of his wife. He expressed satisfaction that Mrs Ethel Le Neve was acquitted as an accessory after the fact.
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London
Howie Crippes
Crippen
Arthur Newton
Pentonville
Ethel Leneve
Cotton Prices Rise Sharply on Tuesday Market Activity
A $3.00 rise in cotton prices capped a day of activity as prices advanced $2.75 to $2 per bale amid bullish reports. Analysts noted earlier declines and cautious bears, with the Census Bureau showing 5,419,000 bales ginned to October 14. Strong Atlantic state reports and favorable weather supported gains while Southern spot markets weakened and holders hesitated to sell.
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Memphis
Tenn
Eclion
Atlantic
U S Steel Reports Third Quarter Earnings
United States Steel Corp reported net earnings for the third quarter of the calendar year totaling 2 565 18 9 after depreciation and extraordinary funds. The results compare with 70 174 960 in the preceding quarter and 55 590 755 in the third quarter of 1949, with nine month totals reaching 115 132 0 7 against 119 L L S for the prior year.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Steel Corporation
Southern Rice Growers Association Formed in Texas
A committee of rice producers from Texas Louisiana Mississippi and Arkansas spent today and tonight shaping a marketing control plan. They agreed the organization will be named the Southern Rice Growers' Association, chartered in Texas with about $10,000 capital and head offices to be in Beaumont.
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Beaumont, Teas
Texas
Louisiana
Missisippi
Arkansas
Southern Rice Growers’ Asociathom
Beaumont
Remarkable Benton County Year for Strawberries and Apples
In Rogers Arkansas residents note a productive year with a second strawberry crop and apple trees blooming twice yielding young apples on many trees. The report highlights unusual fruiting and overall farm prosperity across Benton County.
Cotton Yield Under Government Demonstration Effort Noted
Conway Arkansas farmer E Lawrence of Greenbrier reported producing five bales of cotton on four acres of upland a crop that would have been below average years ago. The effort reflects work under Government Demonstration Agent J E Rogers who has supervised part of the farm.
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Conway
Ark
E. Lawrence
Greenbrier
J. E. Rogers
Death from dog fight shocks Paducah stock farmer
Paducah Kentucky reports the death of F. L. Church aged about sixty after a brutal dog fight. He and a neighbor struggled to separate the fighting dogs at his Church stock farm, a major property in Western Kentucky. Church collapsed as he carried one dog into his home, with heart failure blamed on the excitement.
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Paducah
F. L. Church
Church
Church Stock Farm
Kentucky
Railroads Appeal Liquor Transport Injunction in Oklahoma
Guthrie Oklahoma reports a five party joint case where railroads and express companies appeal to the state supreme court from an injunction granted by the Oklahoma County Superior Court. The dispute centers on prohibiting railroad transportation of liquor within Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
Okla
Railroads and Express Companies
Oklahoma
State Supreme Court
Superior Court
Sting Railoads
American loan to Chinese government set at fifty million
New York reports a completed loan of 50 million dollars to the Chinese government. The agreement, confirmed by 68s, marks a significant financial gesture amid ongoing international diplomacy.
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New York
Secretary of War Dickson Flies Over Mourmelon Field
American Secretary of War Jacob M. Dick inson flew as a passenger with Ensign Lafon at the Mourmelon military aerodome in France. He described the trip as delightful after landing, with other officials noted aboard during the excursion.
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Mourmelon
France
Jacob M. Dickinson
Lafon
M Gobe
Pacon
Oth
Cold snapes regional frost sweep through South West
Louisville weather notes a broad frost and low temperature across a large portion of the South and Southwest. The report emphasizes frigid conditions affecting agriculture and daily life in the region.
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Louisville
Powers Bankrupt and Cadet Clay Court Martial
E. J. Powers of Marietta, former VP of Georgia Manufacturing and Public Service Co, files voluntary bankruptcy with liabilities of 295 496.77 and assets largely depleted. Cadet Frank H Clay at the United States Military Academy faces court martial for absence. sentence to dismissal without pay was commuted to barracks confinement until May 31 1911.
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Atlanta
E. J. Powers
Georgia Manufacturing and Public Service Company
Marietta
Marietta Company
Washington
Frank H Clay
United States Military Academy
Senator Clay
Georgia
Taft
Clay
Schram Confesses Black Hand Letter Stabbed Self for Protection
In Chicago Otto Schram a picture frame maker reputed wealthy confessed to police that he wrote a Black Hand letter to himself and then stabbed himself to stress his need for protection. He reported receiving three letters demanding 5000 or death on September 29 before injuring himself.
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Chicago
Otto Schram
Schram
Nein
Pension Apportionment For Confederate Veterans Publicized
Jackson reports the auditor's office nearly completes pension fund proration. Six classes on state rolls determine allocations with survivors’ pensions set at 400000, plus 115 for totally disabled, 75 for partially blind, and 27.55 for three private classes. Beauvoir home remains available for retirees not drawing pensions.
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Jackson
Auditor's Ofce
Beauvoir
Raise values and decrease levy in Mississippi counties
Mississippi supervisors group backs uniform assessment values across counties to equalize taxation. Secretary Wilces of De Soto proposes a system where land is valued near its true worth while personal property and banks are taxed at full value. The aim is to make counties self supporting and attract capital, with a shift from high tax rates to fairer valuations. Also notes Governor Noel's action on Jesse Scott's death sentence and potential hanging on November 2 if commutation is not granted.
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Jackson
Mississippi Supervisors’ Association
Wilces
de Soto
Wilson
South
Mississippi
Delta
Scott
Indianola
Noel
Jesse Scott
W. L. Embry
Proof of Mississippi's Opportunity Two Carloads of Hogs
Macon reports H B Gunner formerly of DeKalb shipped two carloads of hogs to St Louis at nine and a quarter dollars per hundred, possibly the county s first breeder ship. He proves corn and hogs can be profitably raised in Mississippi as in Illinois. May Get Big Lumber Plant in Jackson Chicago capitalists eye another large plant as two state planing mills exist and more are expected soon. Promoters have visited the city to assess location.
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Mississippi
Macon
H. B. Gunner
DeKalb, I
St. Louis
Jurler
Illinois
Jackson
Chicago
Will Plant Peanuts For Next Year in The South
Jackson reports plans to plant peanuts as a major agricultural shift in Mississippi to bolster boll weevil resistance. Local cotton oil mills from Hartshorne, Natchez, and Port Gibson pledge mill capacity and peanut product use if acreage ramps up. Government and private experiments show peanut oil yields exceeding cottonseed by up to 25 percent per ton. Farmers across the southwest buy seed at 1.25 per ton and prepare for large plantings next year.
Portrait Presented For James George Birthday
The J Z George Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy unveiled a portrait of Senator James George at Jefferson Davis Public School on his eighty fourth birthday. Principal Saunders, faculty, and 50 pupils presided over a program with poems and essays. Mrs Lteate George Henderson, the senator's daughter and chapter president, joined family and friends on the rostrum along with Judge Dolton and other chancery court members who adjourned to attend. Ex Attorney General Monroe McClarg delivered the address.
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Roo Trum
Dolton
Chancery Court
Monroe McClarg
Suffrage leader demands railroads enforce sanitary laws
Mrs. Nellie N. Somerville of Greenville, president of the Mixed Woman's Suffrage Association, asks President Webb of the Mississippi railroad commissions to require trains to meet state health rules. She notes many cars lack required placards and spitting is common in several cars. The letter will be referred to the state health secretary for action.
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Jackson
Nellie N_. Somerville
Greenville
Mixes Step’ Woman's Suffrage Association
John A. Webb
Mississippi Railroad
Somerville
State Board of Health
Webb
Hf. Mclean
Mississippi Citizens Oppose Sicilian Immigrant Influx
South Mississippi residents express alarm over Sicilian immigration, citing Louisiana’s experience. Governor Noel responds that only a desirable, assimilable class from within the United States and Northern Europe is being sought to aid state development.
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Jackson
Mississippi
Louisiana
Noel Ex
Europe
Mississippi Prison Population Smashes Records Amid Oct Rise
The MS penitentiary reports October convicts approaching 1400 after August 1720 and September 1773 totals. Discharges escapes deaths and pardons should bring October’s final figure near 40, with a net rise over 70 new inmates. In community news Maziehurst Hazlehurst and Crystal Springs plan flower shows with prizes and events at the State Fair.
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Jackson
Mississippi
Maziehurst
Hazlehurst
Crystal Springs
Leclureg
Governor appoints three new trustees to state boards
Governor Noel announces three appointments to boards. Prof. T. C. C. Kimbrough, Holmes county superintendent of education, is named a trustee. John Hart of this city becomes a trustee of the Blind Institute replacing the late B. T. Hobbs. former Lt. Gen. J. P. Carter is named Director of the Beauvoir Soldiers' Home succeeding Capt. B. V. Waite of Meridian.
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Noel
Anno Weed
T. CC. Kimbrough
Holmes County
John Hart
The
Blind Institute
B. T. Hobbs
J. P. Carter
Beauvoir Soldiers' Home
B. V. Waite
Meridian
Strange twins man and tree start life together in Missouri
In New Garden near Ray County Missouri a man Samuel Hightower and a sapling sugar maple were born the same day March 16 1847 a boy and a tree growing side by side for 63 years. The tale centers on the boy's early life near the farm with the maple sprouting outside the house becoming part of his world as he learned to walk climb and observe the world from its sturdy limbs.
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Man
Tree
St. Louis
New Garden
Ray County
Miscouri
Samuel Hightower
Elias
Thomas
Pian
Hightower
Sam
Sugar Tree Shelter of a Lifetime at Hightower Home
The narrative recalls a sugar tree shaping family life for 63 years at the Hightower residence. A shaded parlor beneath its boughs hosted bridal parties, babies in cradles, and family gatherings. The tree remained a constant beloved landmark through house changes and a life tied to home and roots.
Anonymous donor praised at convention note
New York and Brooker T. Washington speakers at a National Business League convention praised anonymous giving. Deacon Brown of Loachapoka, near Tuskegee, read a missionary fund list including Rev Calhoun Travers and Stephen Paget with substantial gifts and a private anonymous donor.
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New York
Brooker T. Washington
National Business League
Deacon Brown
Loachapoka
Tuskegee
Missionary Fund
Calhoun Travers
Stephen Paget
Phoebe Rice
New York Tests Wireless Telephony for Music
A trial transmission of wireless telephony carried music from a transmitter at Park Avenue and Fortieth Street, New York. Several selections were sung and heard by newspaper men at the Metropolitan Tower, with occasional clear sound and periods of blurred interference.
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New Y York
Park Avenue
Fortieth Street
New York
Metropolitan Tower
Reading as Rest: Light Fiction for Busy Housewives
A writer advocates that a short escape into light fiction can rest the nerves of overworked women who manage households and large families. She argues that reading trash novels provides mental rest and renewal, and encourages busy housekeepers to try it for relief from daily strains.
Milwaukee Soldier Named by Kaiser Echoes German Ties
Cape Charles King, a Milwaukee club guest, praised the German element in Milwaukee’s population. He quotes a soldier who claimed to have met the Kaiser and discussed knowledge of German customs, with the Kaiser asking about cities and the soldier replying Milwaukee as a preferred place.
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Cape Charles King
Milwaukee
Capt King
Herlin
Not Easy Pat Given Bigamy Conviction in Court
A narrative fragment recounts a man named Pat tried for bigamy and found guilty. The judge questions his repeated marriages while Pat admits his aim was to find a good wife, adding a bleak exchange about desperation and crime. The scene shifts to a threaten revenge plot involving a revolver and a poodle.
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Pat
Lippincott's Magazine
Learned to Drink Coffee When a Baby
A personal reminiscence describes early coffee drinking by a child and the later nervousness and insomnia it caused. The speaker credits Postum with stabilizing sleep and energy, noting a preference for Postum over coffee and endorsing it to other coffee drinkers.
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Postum
Wellville
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