North Carolina news items sweep from crops to crime
A broad North Carolina roundup reports Weeks writing a state history. a Dobson widow dies. three Salisbury stockade escapees. 47 new physicians licensed. a $125 suit with large costs. a Lenoir drowning. grain markets, crops and livestock notes. prohi tion elections in McDowell. mining and rail news. deaths, births, and local incidents across towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. B. Weeks
Trinity College
North Carolina
John R. Woltz
Dobson
Salisbury
State Medical Board
Raleigh
Asuit
Bertha Harper
Fifeen
Lenoir
Mount Airy
Dabury
Stokes Court
W. L. Ragland
Granville
Oxford Ledger
W. J. Barnett
Oak Hill
McDowell County
Maryland
Fayetteville
Pilot Mountain
Walters
Maxton
Jefferson Davis
Capitol
Watauga Democrat
Mall
Wayne Duplin Review
John Morgan
Grantham Township
Asheville
J. M. Currin
Jonesboro
King’s Mountain
Gaston County
Dickens
Electric Light Works
High Point
Rockingham
Spirit of
Dani
C. Stewart
Laurinburg
Roanoke Beacon
John Hopkins
Mack Butler
Elizabeth City
Benj. C. Barnes
Henderson
Addie B Callis
Vance County
Popar Creek Creek
Belo’s Pond
Winston Republican
Wall
Anson Co
Harris
Anson
Lumberton Robesonian
Durham
the Globe
Brassfield
Workouse
Diverse Early 1900s News Snippets Spark Towns and Trials
Wealthy Miss Lily King drowns in Alleghany County Virginia. Rev Sam Jones dedicates a new Methodist church in Portsmouth. President appoints Penfield as consul general in Cairo. Clevelands move to Woodley Lane. Pensions office ends completed files system. Kendall and Smith fail for 250000 across Missouri Kansas Nebraska. Roanoke mayor purges drinking officers. 3000 strawberry pickers near Norfolk. Kissimmee City Bank assigns assets 100000 liabilities 75000. Boiler explosion claims dozens in Sepan May 16. Old chairs of Mary Washington gifted to Fredericksburg Masonic Lodge. World’s Fair directory opens departments on Sunday. Melbourne Bank fails with capital 500000. Mississippi levees break near Baton Rouge. Lynching and executions amid May 16 reports. Titusville floods devastate town as 40 hours rain continues. Disturbing account of Mrs Harvey and others in religious frenzy with troubling testimonies and coercive rites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lily King
Alleghany County
Sam Jones
Portsmouth
Frederick C. Penfield
Connecticut
Cairo
Cleveland
Woodley Lane
Commissioner of Pensions
Trout
Roanoke
Norfolk
Kissimee City Bank
Florida
Mary Washington
Masonic Lodge
Fredericksburg
Curiaco
T l
Melbourne
City of
Frank Army
Christie Warden
Titusville
Pas
Thirteen Drown in Ohio and San Francisco Boat Collision
At Conneaut Ohio a dredge and tug capsized this morning causing eight deaths among the crew. In San Francisco a ferry boat collision claimed five lives when a boat was run down this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Conneaut
Northwestern Guarantee Loan Company
San Francisco
Devolved by Alligators In Swamp Death Mystery
In Port Eats aged ninety Mrs Angelo disappeared after alighting the steamboat Comet at the Old Jump. A search party found her body parts in a swamp pool with marks of animal destruction. The coroner concluded she was dragged into the water and slowly devoured by alligators after becoming exhausted and lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angelo
Port Eats
Study in Positivism in Baltimore Fraud Case
In Baltimore on May 16 under St Luke's Church shadow two sisters, Mrs Maggie Hooper and Miss Mamie Maxwell, are involved in a fraud case. Mary Harvey and her husband are arrested for fraudulently obtaining cash jewelry and clothing, aided by the sisters and by a young boy who prayed to the Harvey woman. The domestic Mary Moulton recounts how Harvey infiltrated the household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Harvey
Order of Bon Secours
Hooper
Miss Maxwell
Baltimore
St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal Church
Maggie Hooper
Mamie Maxwell
Mary Moulton
Mary Harvey
Collusion Charged In Bell Telephone Case
Formal charges filed in Washington May 17 against W. E. Simonds late commissioner of patents and Foster and Freeman attorneys for the Bell Telephone Company. Alleged inspection of secret Drawbaugh files and copying for private use. Involves chief clerk Bennett. land commissioner to issue rule to show cause for debarment before the patent office. Church & Church, patent lawyers, filed petition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interior Department
W. E. Simonds
Patents
Simonds
Foster & Freeman
Bell Telephone Company
Bennett
Patent Office
Foster
Freeman
Church & Church
Seymour
Banks Suspend Across Cities Hit By Financial Strain
Credit woes ripple through Queensland, Minnesota, South Carolina, Florida, and Indiana as banks including Royal Bank of Queensland Citizens Bank of Minneapolis Kissimmee City Bank and several others suspend payments or face receivership amid large liabilities and assignments In Iowa Washington and Nebraska lenders also falter with substantial debts and corporate collapses noted across multiple regional banks and firms.
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State News
John Rector
South Mountain
Newton
Hickory Press
J. O. Lackey
J. T. Cashion
Sharpe's Township
Alexander County
Scotland Neck
Roanoke River
Burlington Herald
Cedar Grove
P. C. Parton
John C. Winder
Railway Mail Service
Seaboard Air Line
Atlanta
Richmond
William Hall
Markham
Durham Sun
Carthage Blade
Charlotte News
Charlotte
Dunn Times
Cabarrus County
Standard
Paul Rhinehardt
No. 9
Charleston
Thomasville
Lexington Dispatch
Camden
Pamlico County
C. H. Hodges
Oriental
Bayboro
Winston
Cape Fear
David Webb
Giles T. Crowell
Enix Flour Mills
Crowell
Concord Standard
Caldwell and Northern
J. M. Barnhardt
Barnhardt
Windsor Ledger
Charles Keefer
Keefer
J. D. Autry
Fayetteville Gazette
Sanford Express
A. D. MeIver
Here
Willie Stegall
Jesse Hill
I. H. Blair
Monroe Enquirer
R.G. Cook
Beeson Hardware Co
Lexington
Barnes
Murdock Whitted
Cedar Creek Township
State Penitentiary
Cumberland Superior Court
Geo. Mills
Acme Mining and Corundum Company
J. F. Carlton
J. C. B. Morton
Main Street
W. P. Beall
Greensboro
Beall
J. Cox
Cox
Albert Murdoch
Will Allison
Statesville
Union County
Winston Sentinel
Jeff Nelson
Jamestown
Charlestown
W. Va
Nelson
Weldon
Weldon News
Wadesboro Messenger and Intelligencer
Coward
Webster
N. C
New Berne Journal
M. Hahn & Co
Benj. Hahn
Herbert Tisdale
Prophet Pierce
Olin
Pierce
Geo. W. Neal
Chalmers Sims
The
Gazette
Wentworth
David Knowles
Roach’s Creek
Smithfield Herald
Concord Times
Albemarle
Bennet Smith
Nancy Hanks
Durham Recorder
Messrs
J. H. Mills
Calvin Mills
Black Jack
Greenville
John Parker
James Blanton
W.S. Walton
Morganton
Shelby Aurora
Court House
Llewellyn
J. A D. Stephens
Gilbert
Sarum
Eliza Bone
Sharpesburg
T. W. Branch
Branch
Starnes Avenue
Sandley
Cherry Street
Mr. Sandley
A. W. Little
Telephone Exchange
GC. W. Wyne
United States Patent Office
Wyne
New Berne
F._D. Swindell
Morehead City
Swindell
Nashville
Board of Missions
M. KE Church
South
Memphis
Union Point
Mesars, Jones & Co
Whitty
Ellis
Soulston Township
Will Russell
O. L. Elkins
Tulley
Stanly County
Russel
Progressive Farmer
Tudy
Positivism
Queensland
Royal Bank of Queensland
Minneapolis
Minn
Citizens’ Bank
Florence
8. C
Bank of Carolinas
Joan P. Corrin
Jacksonville
Fla
Kissimmee
Times Union
Kissimmee City
Osceola County
Sydney
Australia
Commercial Banking Company
Lixcoun
Neb
Kendall & Smith
Wardener
Wash
Hillsdale
Michigan
MinnEapours
Northwestern Guaranty Company
Waterloo
Iowa
First National Bank
Sioux Falls
William M. Fields & Brother
Field
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