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Notable Restorations and Disturbances Across States
Round of brief items: Mrs. Sallie Southall Cotten dies in Massachusetts at 80. George Ransom found dead with gunshot wounds in Weldon, ruled suicide. Harry F. Sinclair surrenders to jail for contempt of the senate. Persia reports 2000 dead from Khorassan earthquakes. Texile plants in Elizabethton resume after strike. Virginia tornadoes kill 23 with Rye Cove schoolhouse destroyed. Southern Baptist convention meets in Memphis with debate over home mission board finances and restructuring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Ransom
Matt W. Ransom
United States
Mexico
Weldon Hotel
Ransom
Weldon
Dixie
Virginia
Rye Cove
Great Lakes
Lake Michigan
Lake Erie
North Atlantic
New York
Middle West
Michigan Fruit Belt
Missouri
Memphis
Tenn
Home Mission Board
Southern Baptist Convention
Clinton S. Carnes
Home Mission
Milledgeville
Foreign Missions Board
Statistical Secretary