McCormick conspiracy case ends in not guilty verdict
In Phoenix the McCormick conspiracy trial related to Greenwood county election riot ends with a not guilty verdict. The jury, all white men from Greenville county, was out about fifteen minutes with verdict announced at 1.25 pm. Prosecutor Tolbert criticized as witness.
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Guacexvine
McCormick
Phenix
Greenwood County
Greenville County
James W.volbert
Dean
Brawley
Tolbert
Wood's Sarsaparilla Blood Purifier Ad Excerpt
Do not be fooled by druggist promises of purifying blood with Wood's Sarsaparilla. The ad claims it is prepared under pharmacist supervision and can cure blood diseases when other medicines fail. It cites a Georgia exchange blurb about a man named Jones and a stray incident with a window.
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Halls
Toledo
FJ. Cheney & Co
Hall
Drowning at Cayce's pond shocks Columbia area
A young white man from Columbia named Alonzo Fuller drowned Wednesday afternoon in Cayce's pond Lexington county during a fishing outing with five or six others including John and Leo Medlin and Othello Fuller. Accounts vary with Medlin claiming an attempt to save. the elder Fuller alleging deliberate assault before Fuller disappeared. Medlin surrendered to the sheriff and was jailed.
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Alonzo Fuller
Columbia
Cayce
Muller
Medlin
Fuller
Tuller
Othello Fuller
Reward Offered for Capture of Greenville Rape Suspect
The Governor posts a $150 reward for the capture and conviction of the black man accused of raping Mrs. Williama in Greenville. A mob once pursued the suspect, who fled and is now believed to be in Georgia. The man is tall, about six feet nine, with wide apart upper teeth and wearing a soldiers uniform.
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Williama
Greenville
Georgia
Ilo
Parable of a Scotsman’s rise through advertising
A Scotsman from Lancaster, 8. C., started with $1,000 capital by borrowing $500 and investing $300 annually in ads. Twenty years later he is worth about $100,000 and continues advertising to grow. The piece suggests similar towns could yield the same results.
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Scotchman Ganson
Lancaster
8. C
Moore
Lynching after alleged entry into white woman's room in Georgia
In Linxsaura Georgia April 27 a negro believed to be Mitchell Daniel Jr was found dead nine miles from town his body riddled with bullets fired by unknown assailants. The incident follows a February lynching after a group of negroes allegedly tried to force entry into Mrs Will Laramore s room. A coroner report cites inflammatory remarks by Daniel Jr linking him to the earlier lynching, while locals recalled other attempts to breach Laramore properties. The case underscores racial violence in the area with no clear perpetrators identified.
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Linxsaura
Mitchell Daniel, Jr
Mitchell Daniel
Daniel
Laramoros
Will Laramore
Tobe Laramore
Road quality and growth hinge on good highways
A Bay City Tribune excerpt highlights how road conditions drive farm commerce and regional development. A Saginaw county farmer cites transportation limits hindering grain, sugar factory access, and land rental values. The piece argues for sustained road improvement to spur social and economic progress.
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Bay City
Mich
Tribune
Saginaw County
Saginaw
Tie
Bay County
Heaviest single engine haul on Baltimore & Ohio
Superintendent Fitzgerald reports the heaviest train ever hauled by one engine on the B&O ran from Cumberland to Brunswick Md. A 60 car load carried 2 370 tons of coal with 168 790 pound locomotive and 34 000 pound steel cars. Train grossed 8 229 tons, marking a 40 percent rise in division output over five years. A remark closes with patent medicine and historical yields in Columbia and Marlboro counties.
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Fitzgerald
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Cumberland
Brunswick
Consolidated
Finch
Error adapting speech in historic notices and ads
A fragmented text shows a clergyman and an eager speaker with mispronounced phrases, illustrating how language adapts to error. The passage also notes the Carolina Grocery Company of Charleston contributing 10,000 Moro Bella cigars to a Confederate Reunion and lists cigar prices and quality observations for market readers.
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Ifo
Lena
Carolina Grocery Company
Charleston
Chow Cigara
Tornadoes devastate Kirksville and Iowa farms
A Kirksville Missouri cyclone leveled four hundred buildings and left up to sixty dead with nearly a thousand injured. Rescue efforts followed amid fires and darkness as schools escaped, while additional tornadoes near Newtown and Ute caused further fatalities and extensive property damage. Authorities warn daylight will be needed for a full loss assessment.
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Louris
Globe-Democrat
Kirkeville
Anya
Kirksville
The
American
School of Osteopathy
State Normal School
McWard’s Seminary
Patterson
Kirkaville
Public roads gain ground as key reform discussed
The piece argues for better roads as a public reform aided by bicycles. It highlights Columbia University creating a practical road making department, with input from the League of American Wheelmen, and notes Harvard’s similar efforts. It stresses durable, well funded roads as economical in the long run.
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Gunton’s
Columbia University
Narvard
Columbia
League of American Wheelmen
Race Trouble in Alabama Claims Man Overseer Slain
In Perry county Alabama three black road workers killed white overseer Will Mullen who fought back and killed one assailant. The mob and dogs head to the scene amid heightened tension as water dispute sparks unrest. Fire department chaplains compared to military clergy, with calls for spiritual consolation.
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Manorcommny
Ata
Perry County
Will Mullen
Mullen
New York
Che
Braving Negro Bishop sparks fiery era clash in North
A fiery sermon at the New Jersey annual conference of the African Methodist Masonic Zion church denounces Georgia lynchings after the Palmetto Georgia killing of Samuel Hose. Bishop Walters urges white Americans to confront racial prejudice or face blood price, urging unity among white ministers and Christians to protect black rights and end mob violence.
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N. J
Jerney
Monicopal Zion Church
Alexander Watters
D. D
J. W. Hood
LL. D
C. Petty
Wattora i
Samuel Hose
Palmetto
Alfred Crawford
Crawford
Cranford
Hose
Walters
Arkansas
Texas
North Carolina
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Georgia
America
Wollt
Thomas Jefferson
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