Noel Shacklett Wins County Clerk Fight After Blue Ridge Backlash
In a county political drama set in Blue Ridge and Perry townships, Shacklett confronts backlash over church votes and a trading accusation. After a late-night count, Shacklett defeats rival Scott and shows the party unity by standing firm against bidding for support. Thompson concedes, crediting Methodist opposition for the defeat, while Shacklett earns vindication and plans to inform Mary Stoddard of his campaign hurdles.
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Central Committee
Shacklett
Blue Ridge Township
Clerk
Thompson
Aning
Tradin
Scott
Blue Ridge
Jackson
Jim Stevenson
Perry Township
St. John
Perry
Judge Thompson
County Central Committee
Shack
Noel Shacklett
College of Practical Politics
Noel
Mary Stoddard
Shacklett Seeks New Start as County Growth Brings School Change
Shacklett, now a county clerk, moves his mother to town and contemplates leaving farming. The county seat expands with schools and a new principal, prompting a textbook upgrade funded by a New York publisher, while a conservatism-backed Cincinnati firm opposes progress. Shacklett debates entering the school book trade amid board politics and publisher conflicts.
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Shacklett
New York
Cincinnati
Bribery Plot to Keep Old School Books in Use
Shacklett plots to influence school directors and a Methodist preacher to block New York publishers by bribery and bribing an agent. The plan centers on keeping Ray's Intellectual and Prince books in the local school, with talks of payments and an agent role to sway a director and the minister toward the old texts.
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Cincinnati
Shacklett
Mr. A
Pinero
New York
Central Christian Advocate
Ray
Prince
Shacklett Refutes A School Ledger With Sharp Bill Fix
In Cincinnati, Shacklett confronts a billing dispute over per diem rates for work in town and country. He rewrites an agent bill to reflect $3 daily for self, $1 for hotel, and $2 for livery, noting one day illness and demanding accuracy per agreement. The preacher Notwood is called out for honesty as the agent questions the county’s methods.
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Cincinnati
Avery
Shacklett
Pare, Ee & Co
N. C. Shacklett
Mutiny in Higginson fleet snubs Duchess reception
CHICAGO Sept 1 The Record Herald reports Captain Chadwick and other fleet officers refused to attend Rear Admiral Higginson’s social reception for Consuelo Duchess of Marlborough aboard the Kearsarge off Nemeska Bay. The command crew argued maneuvers required seriousness, but the admiral pressed ahead. The Duchess’s visit to New York follows her recent social triumphs in Newport and Europe.
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Record-Herald
Nemeska Bight
Higginson
United Services
French E. Chadwick
Naval War College
Kearsarge
Duchess of Marlborough
Duchess
Morris
Marlborough
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John Jacob Astor
Alise Blight
War
Sanger
Harry Lehr
Navy
New York
Consuelo
England
America
Vanderbilt
Newport
O. H. P. Belmont
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Waldorf-Astoria
Belcourt
Marble House
Hampstead
Tariff Reform Yet Again in Indianapolis Letter
John B. Glover of Indianapolis argues in a letter to the Journal that tariff reformers misstate who pays duties and challenges the claim that tariffs never benefit wage earners. He contends price effects and wage impacts conflict with free trader logic and asks tariff reformers to choose a consistent horn of the dilemma.
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Indianapolis Journal
Cleveland
John G. Carlisle
John B. Glover
Indianapolis
Pistols Fire On Crowd At New Dance Festival
Hopkinsville Kentucky report says two men Jerry Ware and Dangerfield Ware fired into a crowd after being denied entry by manager Frank Massie. Massie fatally wounded likely. John Tandy shot six times and killed. James Williams had jaw shot off. No arrests reported.
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Hopkinsville
Pembroke
Jerry
Dangerfield Ware
Frank Massie
Massie
John Tandy
James Williams
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