Young editor pleads guilty to criminal libel in Kentucky
Alvin Seekamp, 19, editor of Louisville weekly the Criterion, pleaded guilty to criminal libel in Frankfort. A $1000 fine, paid, accompanies the admission that he reprinted a St. Louis story about former Governor J. C. W. Beckham, who Seekamp says was falsely charged and unnamed in the article he published. He states he learned the story from a Louisville reporter and found the charges untrue.
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Courier-Journal
Frankfort
Alvin Seekamp
Louisville
The
Criterion
Seekamp
Criteron
St. Louis
J. C. W. Beckham
I Kentucky
Beckham
Farmers Busy With Planting As Weather Permits
Sparrows notes busy farms as weather allows for lana, corn planting, and crops show mixed health with fruit suffering some losses. Community items report sales by Grayson Searcy and others, sermons by Rev. Olmstead, and a black market scare from night riders warning tobacco growers in 1908.
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Lana
Messrs. Simpson and
Stevens
Geo. A. Williams
W. R. Moore
Grayson Searcy
Palestine
Texas
Mack Sparrow
W. T. Mitchell
E. V. Martin
H. L. Olmstead
Old Fairmount
A. J. Moore
Antiloch
Fairmount
W.C. Cammack
Aliie Barnett
J. A. Harding
Bowling Green
J. O. Webb
Washington
Ancient City Found Near Dos Cabezas Reveals Ancient Links
Archaeologist Prof A H Blackiston returns to El Paso from a Mexico discovery he calls the most important find yet. The site 30 miles west of Dos Cabezas on a cliff above the Bavispe river yielded hundreds of adobe houses, superior pottery, and relics linking northern mound builders with southern Mayas and Toltecs. The Casas Grandes symbols echo across civilizations, with sun worship and eagle motifs.
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el Paso
Tex
A. H. Blackiston
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Mexico
America
Blackiston
New Found
Continental Divide
Cascas Grandian
Dos Cabezas
Rio Grande Valley
Hemisphere
Casas Grandians
Night Riders threaten Tobin over tenant house
Harrodsburg Herald reports a notice pinned to J L Tobin’s gate warning him to replace a tenant with a white man after a colored tenant’s fire damaged a house. Tobin rebuilt and rented to Cleveland Kurtz, while the warning signed Night Riders condemns the action as outrage.
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Harrodsburg Herald
J. L. Tobin
Braxton
Mr.Tobin
George Jones
Tobin
Jones
Cleveland Kurtz
Night Riders
Hog Fattening Claim From Cholera Remedy Teller
J. T. Estes of No. 4 ae way says he fed his hogs cholera remedy and kept them in a lot with diseased hogs. He reports a thriftier, faster fattening result than before. The claim appears as an advertisement sold by all druggists.
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J. T. Estes
R. No. 4
aewAy
His Decision
A quoted Atlanta Constitution passage notes a speaker renouncing missionary work with a focus on returning home. The text contrasts prior plans to go to the heathen mission with the realization that home is the rightful place, mentioning an earlier missionary being killed and eaten and that Taln't is not yet prepared to proceed.
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Atlanta Constitution
Frost and Freeze Hit Lexington Gardens Hard
May 1 Lexington reports heavy frost and cold weather causing damage beyond yesterday’s snow. Nurs eryman H F Hillenmeyer notes grapes damaged and strawberries blighted though expected to be plentiful. peaches apples cherries safe. Garden truck especially hurt with potatoes frozen to the ground and beans tomatoes harmed. some across the Woodford line report killing frost. Gardeners protected plants by covering them, sparing many from serious injury.
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Lexington
H. F. Hillenmeyer
Woodford Line
Here
Versailles
Gardners
Wise Boy Visits Republican Convention in Lawrenceburg
The Wise Boy toured the Lawrenceburg Republican convention at the opera house last Saturday and heard talk that Old Anderson might join the Republican column. Our Boy Solomon warned that if Republicans treat each other that way in a convention, Democrats would face worse from them. He doubted the GOP would carry Anderson county for several moons.
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Anderson
Lawrenceburg
Opera House
Solomon
Anderson County
Matrimonial Repartee Feisty Exchange Cites Old Proposal
A witty exchange from Le Frou Frou recalls a sharp moment in romance with one party recalling a proposal as foolish and the other admitting shameful behavior. The banter underscores enduring humor in relationship memories.
Farm products in 17 western states worth $1 091000000
A Omaha statistical bureau states that the farm product value in 17 western states west of the Mississippi for 1907 totaled 1.091 billion dollars. Corn leads with nearly 500 million, winter wheat about 200 million, domestic hay just under 100 million less. The report shows a 16 percent rise from the prior year, attributed to irrigation.
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Omaha
Neb
Dogs Sing Quartet Delights Bethlehem Church Social
In Malden Massachusetts a dog quartet led by Rev. R A Sheridan performed a rendition of Way Down on the Suwanee River at a Bethlehem Methodist church social. The group features a bulldog as bass a terrier as soprano and two hounds as tenor and contralto with training claimed by the pastor as light work. The act was a qualified success and drew attention for its musical novelty.
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Malden
Mass
Suwanee
Bethlehem Methodist Church
R. A. Sheridan
Dr Miles Heart Cure Ad Claims Nerve Support for Heart
An old advertisement promotes Dr Miles Heart Cure as a tonic for weak heart action and nervous distress. It asserts relief from shortness of breath chest pain palpitations and choking sensations and claims a testimonial of personal recovery. The copy invites readers to ask local druggists in Covington Kentucky for the first bottle and credits Miles Medical Co. of Elkhart Indiana.
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Miles
Main St
Covington
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Ind
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Mark Twain
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Springfield
W. K. Edelen
Blincoe
J. E. Harmon
Mackville
G. W. Peterson
Mehemed Ali Bey
Democratic
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Riehm Music Co
Fourth Avenue
Mississippi
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Night Hawk
Jay Bird
George Wilkes
Katie White
Paladine
2Dam
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Taylor's Men
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Lewis & Chambers
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