Peace Monument Proposal for Chattanooga Civil War Memorial
Robert Sharp, former chief post office inspector, urged a national peace monument in Chattanooga to honor the Civil War and reconciliation. The proposal links May 27 28 29 reunion events to a fund of about 2.5 million dollars, with a memorial committee seeking endorsement from the United Confederate Veterans. The suggested site is downtown near railroad facilities.
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Associated Press
Chattanooga
Robert Sharp
States
United Confederate Veterans
Sharp
Congress
Chatta
Mobile Y M C A Enters Six Day Membership Contest
The Mobile Y M C A will compete for the cup from the Y M C A of Charleston in a six day membership drive starting March 29. Directors named D P Bestor T McGowin and S P Gaillard to pick captains who will select ten teammates each for a new member campaign. The goal is to boost members from about 950 to 1250 to fund association improvements.
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Mobile Y. M. C. A
Charleston
D. C
Southern Association
Association
D. P. Bestor
T. McGowin
8S. P. Gaillard
Wilson Favors Budget System in Government Finances
The article reports President Wilson backing a budget system for federal finances, citing a January letter to Senator Tillman about aiming for budget reform after moving to Washington. It notes Holy Week observances at the White House and plans to host four hundred schoolgirls, plus urging New Jersey leaders on jury reform and direct senatorial election measures.
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Tillman
Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Trenton
White House
Redfield
Department of Commerce
Brooklyn
Framingham
Mass
Normal School
Newark
N. J
Jersey
New Jersey
Senate
United States
Davis
House
Evidence of disaster found on Norwegian coast
Fragments of wreckage spotted on the Norway coast confirm the German steamer Peruvian is lost in a prior storm. The ship carried twenty eight officers and crew.
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Associated Press
Stettin
Germany
Norway
Five Men Arrested for Robbing Railroad Train
Oklahoma reports five men linked to a Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad train robbery near Wirth Oklahoma last fall. Joe Davis was captured in Arkansas Wortham Tahlequah. three others held on Jack Davis ranch in the Kiamachi mountains near Hugo. Davis Worthman and Burdolf were initially released for lack of evidence amid a reported partial confession.
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Associated Press
Muskogee
Okla
Joe Davis
Robert Prescee Burdolf
Tom
Walter Spencer
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Wirth
Wortham
Tahlequah
Kiz
Jack Davis
Kiamachi Mountains
Hugo
Davis
Worthman
bBurdolf
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Endorsement by Barnegat Postmaster
R G Collins Barnegat N J says La Grippe coughs weaken the system and after taking a half bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound the coughing spells ceased. He declares it can't be beat and that imitators fail. Van Antwerp's Drug Corporation endorses the product.
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la Grippe
R. G. Collins
Barnegat
N. J
Foley
van Antwerp
Drug Corporation
Lovett Pledges New Plan To Dissolve Union Pacific
Robert Lovett said he and associates would devise a new dissolution plan for Union Pacific and Southern Pacific to meet the Supreme Court ruling. The initial plan was dropped after the California railroad commission opposed it.
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Associated Press
New York
Robert 8. Lovett
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Supreme Court
California Railroad Commission
Drains phial of poison in crowded Greensboro station
Grace Stilley of High Point drank poison in a waiting-room crowd at the Greensboro passenger station. Her cousin W. R. Sizemore, who brought her there from Danville, Va., was arrested. In her satchel were two $500 life insurance policies naming Sizemore as beneficiary. Police found two more phials and policies on Sizemore’s baggage. Sizemore said Stilley was married to William Hicks of High Point five years ago, separated, and used her maiden name. Hicks denied knowledge of the motive.
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Py Associated Press
Greensboro
N. C
Grace Stilley
High Point
N.C
W. R. Sizemore
Danville
Sizemore
William Hicks
Six Persons Injured as Dixie Flyer Derailed
Six people were slightly injured when three sleeper cars and one day coach of the Dixie flyer traveling from Chicago to Jacksonville were ditched twenty three miles south of Macon Georgia on the Georgia Southern and Florida line. A bout of illness is sweeping the town with Cold influenza and pneumonia reported among residents. An advertisement for Foley's Honey and Tar Compound urges readers to use it for coughs and colds and quotes A S Jones of Lee Pharmacy Chico California praising the product.
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Associated Press
Macon
Dixie Flyer
Chicago
Jacksonville
Georgia Southern
Foley
A. S. Jones
Lee Pharmacy
Chico
Calif
Boys say telephones robbed by others in Chicago court
Two boy thieves arrested for stealing coins from telephone boxes testified their honesty and claimed many coins were slugs. Prisoners, including Robert Earnhardt, were sent to a reform school after questioning public honesty.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Nicklesey
Robert Earnhardt
Tragedy Follows Night of Drinking at Virginia Camp
Knoxville report states Gifford Minor aged twenty was shot and killed after a night of drinking and card playing near Jasper Virginia in a Scott County station on the Virginia and Southwestern Railroad. James Johnson and F. J. Stagmore both about fifty were involved. Minor was captured after the early Monday morning incident.DATE OF EXECUTION CHANGED. ted Press.
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Associated Press
Knoxville
Tenn
Jasper
Scott County
Virginia and Southwestern
Gifford Minor
James Johnson
F. J. Stagmore
Minor
Estate of Harriman Tops Million Year Inheritance
Orange county inheritance tax set the E H Harriman estate at 68 004 348 60 with a transfer tax of 650 043 48. A 5 percent reduction is allowed for a preliminary transfer tax paid in March 1910. Real estate valued about 33 000 000 while the remainder, about 66 000 000, is personal property.
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Associated Press
Newsburgh
N. Y
Orange County
E. H. Harriman
Sweezey
Goshen
Sixty Mules Burned in Nashville Stables
Nashville Tenn March 18 Fire destroyed city stables but two exits left sixty mules trapped inside killed all sixty. Loss totaled about 15000 dollars with feedstuffs an automobile and seventy pairs of harness also ruined.
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Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
Great task on hand for I. C. C. chairman statement
Chairman Clark of the Commission outlined preliminary plans for the physical valuation of railroads authorized by Congress. He said no estimate could be given for the time needed to complete the work and that it would be prosecuted in a thorough and efficient way.
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Washington
Clark
Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy Promises Darker Grays
An old-time hair dye recipe returns in vogue via Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy sold in drug stores for about 50 cents a bottle. The product claims to darken faded gray hair, restore natural color, prevent dandruff, and reduce hair loss with a simple brush application.
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Wyeth
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