Appalachian forest reserve bill urged by Senate in 1907
The Appalachian and White Mountain forest reserve plan seeks to acquire lands in Maryland West Virginia Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Alabama and Tennessee and New Hampshire for a national forest system with a 3 million dollar appropriation excluding timber and mineral rights. The report argues this preserves water power and prevents floods while sustaining forests and the economy. notes earlier proposals and a Senate vote forthcoming. It also covers North Carolina politics including Speaker J. J. Justice and current legislative sessions urging public input and a mass meeting to discuss local laws.
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Appalachian Forest Reserve
Baltimore Sun
Committee On Forest Reservation
Senate
Appalachian Mountains
Maryland
West Virginia
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Appalachian
White Mountain
Piedmont
Secretary of Agriculture
Mississippi
Fedral
Far-sighted Speaker Cannon and land bill fate
The old House Speaker Joe Cannon is described as having the bill still in doubt and lingering in legislative limbo. The report hints the government might acquire the land at full value, hoping the measure becomes a thing of the distant past.
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Joe Cannon
Hepburn Dolliver liquor bill defeated by House committee
The judiciary committee voted 9 to 0 last week not to consider the Hepburn Dolliver bill which would subject interstate liquor shipments to state laws. Prohibitionists miss the measure’s aim to curb shipments into dry areas, as North Carolina law currently allows outward shipments while protecting interstate commerce. The Landmark.
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Committee On the Judiciary
House of Congress
Prohibition
North Carolina
For Sale Farm Property in Vilas North Carolina Acres
For sale a 210 acre home farm with dwelling barn outbuildings orchards 125 acres grass 57 acres in George's Gap and timber land. Land offered all together or in parts at low figure. Lewis Vilas NC.
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George's Gap
Lewis
Hood s Sarsaparilla advert and congressional leadership fight
An advertisement touts Hood s Sarsaparilla with claims of curing a wide range of ailments and boosting strength. Washington dispatch notes Champ Clark's likely selection as Democratic minority leader over John Sharp Williams after intra party maneuvering and a hot contest over leadership style.
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Washington
Champ Clark
Missouri
House
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
Williams
Lamar
Florida
Clark
Congress
Jenip
Panama canal instruction bid tops others at 6.75 percent
W J Olliver of Knoxville and Anson N Bangs of New York bid 6.75 percent of the estimated 140 million dollar Panama Canal contract, about 9.45 million. Only two other bids were submitted with one at ~12 percent and the other at 28 percent. Olliver heads a well known contracting firm active in Southern railway work.
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W J. Olliver
Knoxville
Tenn
Anson N. Bangs
N. Y
Panama Canal
Olliver
Econ
Southern Railway
Earl Pegram Named Cashier at First National Bank
Earl 8. Pegram of Charlotte has been elected cashier of the First National Bank of States ville. He succeeds Geo. Brown who left to enter the revenue service.
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Earl
Pegram
Charlotte
First National Bank of
Statesville
Geo. Brown
Revenue Service
Miss Rose Montgomery Treated in State Hospital
Miss Rose Montgomery was taken to Morganton on Monday of last week for treatment at the State Hospital. She spent the summer of 1905 in Boone as a student in the A. T. 8.
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Rose Montgomery
Morganton
State Hospital
Lenoir News
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Tacrapay Dun
Raleigh
J. Justice
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Caldwell
Lovill
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Watauga
Court House
Hood
Mary F. Raydon
Chicago
Rengie County
Tex
Texas
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J. €. Horton
Smira HaGasan
Castoria
Beare
Ilfred W
Dula
Levotr
N.C
R. Ross Donnelly
Undertaker
Embaimer
Shoun's
Raleigh Board of Health
Geneaal
W. F. Sherwoo
Amantha
Mountain City Clothing CO
Mountain City, Tenn
Evrything
The
Mountain City Furniture Co
Mountain City
London Stoffel Hardware Company
London
Stoffel Hardware
P.S
Markus
Watauga County
Abe
M. B. Blackburn
Cook Broa
Boone
H. C. Miller
Blowsing Rock
Taylor & Mast Valleracia
John Ward
Watauga Fall
A.J. Payne
Sugar Grove
L. W. Farthing
Sweet Water
Hagaman &Co
Reese
W F. Sherwood
N. L
Merchant and Trader’s Bank
J. Walter Walent
W. P. Dun Gan
Rampo
K. Wasi
Aes’t
J. Walter Wright
Rasbo
R. F. Wright
E. B. Butler
J. §. Donnelly, H. T. D Wills, R. E. Donnelly, J. N. Wills
W.T. Smythe
J.C. Baler
B. R. Brrown
Stork
J.G. P. Suther
McDade
Cole
J. B. D. Robinson
H. B Wills
M. E. Wien Wu
Wilson
Stomza
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