Roads conference in Charlotte charts NC road progress
About three hundred delegates from many counties gathered at Charlotte City Hall on Sept 12 to discuss road improvement. Speakers described Mecklenburg road gains, convicts used for construction, and costs with new machinery. Resolutions urged convict labor for public roads and engineering supervision, with Raleigh to host next meeting during October’s state fair.
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Good Roads
Charlotte
North Carolina
Progressive Farmer
R. J. Brevard
North Carolina Road Improvement Association
Charlotte Vn
Jas. C. Stevenson
Wilmington
Patton
Asheville
Brevard
J. A. Holmes
J. C. Tipton
Salisbury
City Railway Company
Raleigh
B. Alexander
Congress
W. E. Ardrey
Mecklenburg County
S. H. Hilton
Mecklenburg
B. RB
Butler
Holmes
Europe
Cental
City Hall
W. C. McMackin
Wake County
Jac.k Brooks
Monroe
Jno. A. Preston
Alexander Graham
Col
John Robinson
T. K. Bruner
Board of Agriculture
Wm. Cain
University
Western
Virginia
J. W. Gore
Oldest woman in the state aged 105 in Burke
The oldest woman is Mrs. Sarah Carswell of Burke county aged 105. Her father is said to have fought at Kings Mountain. The report lists various local incidents including farm woes, court cases, accidents, and crime notes from multiple North Carolina towns, with details on a 14 month old infant in Shelby, a tobacco yield and cabbage weight in Maxwell’s county, and a fatal shooting near Greenville.
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Littleton
Stonewall
Craven
Union
Robeson
Wayne
Colta State Normal School
Elizabeth City
Robeson County
New Deruce
Jai Reidsville Review
Baptist Church
Ashe Pioneer
Rachel Michael
Randlemam
Phil Williams
Warrenton
Morganton
Durham Globe
Lee Lockhart
Lillie Grogan
Danbury
Boone Democrat
Tom
J. A. Kimmon
Concord Standard
Sarah Carswell
Burke County
Kings Mountain
A. D. Howell
Anson
Beaver Dam
Loan & Savings Bank
Charlotte News
Columbus News
G. W. Weeks
Maxwell's
Shelby
Aurora
Vance Cabaniss
Coach Weather
Goldsboro
Wm. Roberts
Greensboro
Isham Cox
Society of Friends
Duke's
Turner
Durham Sun
Black Gold Mine
Vance Township
Monroe Enquirer
Winston Sentinel
Dominisha Waggoner
Davidson County
D. F. Caldwell
West Market Street
Monroe Journal
D. C. Montgomery
Beauford
Curley Stokes
Darlington
Laurinburg
Ead’s Grove
J. O. Guthrie
J. H. Mills
Chicod Township
Vin Mills
Beaufort
J.C. Dixon
Greenville
Brown Jackson
Anson County
Charlotte Observer
Robt. T. Redferon
Georgia
Central Methodist Church
Lottie Boyd
Concord
Miss Boyd
North Main Street
Hiccoughs
Greenville Reflector
Turner Smith
John Page
Warren
Smith
Page
Chinese Defeated at Ping Yang With Heavy Losses
London and Washington dispatches report the Chinese army of about 20,000 engaged at Ping Yang, with 16,000 killed or captured and hundreds of colors taken. Japanese losses are 30 killed and 270 wounded. The battle near Yang and Ping Yang signals crushing Chinese defeat and a Japanese pursuit as officials await fuller details.
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London
Central ‘News
Shanghai
Ping Yan
Washington
Jay
Yang
Corea
Seoul
Ping Yang
Pong San
China
Loxpon
Chi i
Pingang
Japan
Hisperma
Count Yamagata
Mountain Asia
Tokio
Shanghai Mercury
Fatal Fire Destroys Stump Brothers Mattress Plant
A Washington fire today at a massachusetts avenue and K street factory destroyed the Stump Brothers mattress and bedding works with losses near fifty thousand dollars, most buildings on the block also burning. Six workers are missing and two bodies believed in the ruins, including a boy named Willie Ash.
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Washington, D. C
Stump & Brothers
Massachusetts Avenue
K Street
G. L. Benner
Hall and Cammack
John Offenstein
Palmer
Woodruff
United States
Stumph
Mittres
Fac
Ed Poeterars Oo Bosen
Willie Ash
Democratic bolters join National Republicans in Louisiana
The Sugar Planters Convention in New Orleans voted to align with the National Republican party. Prominent planters and New Orleans figures backed resolutions endorsing protectionist policy, fair elections, and appointing a 35 member State Committee to lead the National Republican effort across Louisiana.
The Disgruntled Democrats Spark Sugar Planter Resolutions
New Orleans September 19 The resolutions decry foreign and pauper labor while demanding protection for American industries. They condemn Hawaii treaty bounty allocations and urge Louisiana organizing clubs to back a pro‑Republican platform aimed at fair elections and state board representation. Leaders’ integrity is cited as guarantee of faithful governance.
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New Orleans
National Republican Party
Louisiana
E. N. Pugh
Kernochan
Behan
Congress
State Committee
Convention of Sugar Planters
Europe
United States
Hawaii
Congress of
National
Republican Party
House of Representatives
Tate
Ofc
Ben Wn
Beattie Nominated in Sugar Issue Era
The Third district Judge Taylor Beattie, a sugar planter and district judge who has been a Republican since 1878 and ran for Governor in 1884, was formally nominated that evening. The Second district also notes H Dudley Coleman, a machinery manufacturer who joined the Republican Party over the sugar issue in 1864 and was elected to Congress in 1888.
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Dudley Coleman
Blican Party
Taylor Beattie
Odd Fellows Grand Lodge Opens 70th Session in Tennessee
The 70th annual session of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows met in Chattanooga on Lookout Mountain with welcome speeches by Governor Turney and Mayor Ochs. Grand Sire Campbell of Canada spoke, a secret session followed with reports and a death announced, and plans for dues, benefits, and aged members were discussed. Forecasts of membership growth and financial relief highlighted the agenda as ceremonies continued with parades and reunions planned for the weekend.
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Cuattanooga
Tenn
Lookout Mountain
Iksinetra
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Odd Fellowshi
Peter Turney
George Ochs
Von
Charles 4
Grand Sire CO
L. T. Campbell
Canada
Odd Fellows
Grand Lodge
Grand Sire
Walter B. Dye
Minneapolis
Wm. T. Frost
Maryland
Dilkee
New York
Cartin
Illinois
Del
Chicamagua National Park
South
Atlanta
United States
Order
Kansas
Patriarchs Militante
Sisterhood of
Rebekah
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State News
James E Vaughn
Albert J. Hoske
Wil
Henry Fowler
Phil. Ackerman
Robt, Reitzel
Wm. Tennyson
Willie Ashe
Democratic
Fellows Convention
Sovereign Grand Lodge
Session
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