Tragedy at Bethlehem Church Ends in Fatal Fainting
A funeral at Bethlehem church ends in tragedy as Mrs John Best faints during farewells, strikes her head on a seat and dies. Her husband Mr Geo Best survived by two children. The article notes a separate obituary for Geo Best, aged 28, who died Monday leaving a wife and two children. The piece also covers a Louisville talk by W A Robinson criticizing Kentucky taxation as ruinous, citing authorities from the Supreme Court to Harvard, and ends with a local note on a groundhog preparing for winter by Amos Decker with precise house layout and straw filling.
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John Best
United States
Bethlehem Church
MraGeo
Geo. Best
Mre
Kentucky
W. A. Robinson
Louisville
Robinson
United States Supreme Court
Prof. Seligman
Bullock
Harvard
Carmack
Ohio
Kentucky Tax Commission
Mr. Robinson
Ground Hog
Amos Deckard
Deckard
Decker
Elizabethtown News
Kentucky orphan farm project by Victor Lee Clark
A former Kentuckian Victor Lee Clark plans a thousand acre Kentucky farm to house and train orphans. With three partners, including a Louisville citizen, they aim to invest 150000 dollars and start with up to 100 children, expanding to 500 later. The farm would teach gardening, agriculture, dairying and crafts, later funding itself through operations.
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Kentucky
Victor Lee Clark
Louisville
Clark
Tus
Texas
New Mexico
South
Burley Tobacco Society Pushes County Pool Plan
The Burley Tobacco Society in Lexington endorses mass county meetings to discuss a county or conditional pool for the 1910 tobacco crop. Independent growers favor pooling with a pledged committee to manage signed pledges, culminating in a Lexington meeting on October 29 and a Springfield gathering for Washington County citizens to act.
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The
Burley Tobacco Society
Lexington
Burley
Bourbon County
Burtey Tobacco Society
Court House
Springfield
Washington County
Marry This Afternoon At Pleasant Grove Church
At three oclock in Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church Rev Overstreet officiated the ceremony uniting Ellen Farra Gregory and Edwin Dupuy Woodson. The rustic church was prettily decorated with a natural flower wedding bell as the couple exchanged vows. The bride wore white mohair with matching hat and bouquet of roses, escorted by her brother Henry Gregory. Groom attended by his brother Glanton Woodson. Ushers included John Polin Frank Willett Hugh Brown Gregory and Davison Reed. Flower girls Catherine Thompson and Mary Merritt. Music by Ligre Waters and Frances Martin. The bride is the daughter of J F Gregory. the groom a noted businessman of Middlesboro.
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Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church
Flenry Gregory
Glanton Woodson
John Polin
Frank Willett
Hugh Brown Gregory
Davison Reed
Catherine Thompson
Mary Merritt
Ligre Waters
Frances Martin
J. F. Gregory
Middlesboro
Three Convicted in Etherington Lynching Case
Newark Ohio Sept 29 three men held after the Etherington lynching appeared in court to change pleas to guilty. Judge Seward sentenced them: Tinel Buehler 21 rioting 20 dollar fine 30 days jail and assault battery 20 dollar fine 10 days. Charles Baker 24 rioting 200 dollar fine 30 days. Charles Clay moulder rioting 200 dollar fine 80 days. Two common pleas courts to begin trials for others. Chamberlains Liniment ad follows.
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Newark
Carl Etherington
Charles Clay
Moulder
Common Pleas
Improve the Roads Through Community Cooperation in Washington County
Southern Good Roads urges counties to build good roads with minimal cost via farmer cooperation. Ten farmers divide a ten mile dirt road into one mile sections, appoint a foreman, use split log drags, and drag after each rain. The effort shows how poor areas can create smooth, well-drained roads without large bonds or taxes. Washington county is urged to try this model on dirt roads.
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Sean
Office of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington County
Solid Metal Sarcophagus at Woolwich Arsenal
A workman in the Woolwich arsenal fell into a caldron of twelve tons of white hot molten steel and was instantly consumed. War Office officials decided not to reuse the metal for ordnance, and a clergyman conducted the burial rites over it. The report cites similar historic accidents and notes on medical remedies and advertisements for King’s New Discovery throat and lung medicine.
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Woolwich Arsenal
England
War Office
Church of England
Cambria Tron Works
Johnstown
Pennsylvania
Tate
Haydun & Roberton
Deadliest Poisons and U S Immigration Mix in History
An analysis compares poisons like tetanine and hyoscin, noting tetanine’s extreme lethality, and shifts to a census discussion showing the United States becoming a more mixed nation through immigration. It references 1820 to recent figures, listing country origins and decade totals.
First Electrocuted Man Likely in Kentucky History
The first man legally electrocuted in Kentucky is likely Shay Weltman a black man sentenced to death on Saturday Oct 1 by a Perry County jury for assaulting a 10 year old white girl near Stanford Judge Walker set Dec 16 for execution but an appeal is already filed delaying the process Weltman was moved to Lexington for safety and local guards returned home Jurors all resided in Perryville area and Hardin Commonwealth attorney delivered a highly praised speech in Lincoln county"}
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Kentucky
Shay Weltman
Stanford
Walker
Pellman
Lex- Fington
Somerset Company of
Perryville
Boyle County
Commonwealth
Hardin
Linevin County
Hugh Elder Dies at Seventeen in Preday Morning
Hugh Elder son of Mr and Mrs J M Elder died at his Cane Run street home on Preday morning from a complication of diseases He was seventeen and president of the Young Men’s Bible Class at the Baptist church His funeral at the Baptist church drew a large crowd with tributes from Rev Moore and Rev Purdom and he was laid to rest in the cemetery in Harrodsburg
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Hugh Elder
J. M. Elder
Cane Run Street
Hugh
The
Baptist Lord
Moore
Hughmascony
Purdom
Rexall Wormerlies Constipation Remedy Ad
An ad proclaims Rexall Wormerlies relieve chronic constipation by strengthening nerves and muscles of the large intestine. It promises no purging, tastes like candy, and targets children with neutral effects. Available at The Rexall Store, Loo Hay don Drug Co. Prices 1c 1c 25c.
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Rexall
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Home For the
Demon of the Air
Ellen Farra Gregory
Edwin Dupuy Woodson
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Stroy
Crippen
Pooul Coleatesy Laboratory
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Pearson’s Weekly
Bureau of Immigraton
Department of Commerce and Labor
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Shay Peltman
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