Chaos if La Follette wins votes to throw election
Washington warns that if Senator La Follette and allies secure enough electoral votes to push the election into the House five states would be unable to vote. A House deadlock could produce no majority across the 48 states with a 266 needed in the Electoral College.
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Weather Oddities and Curious Gadgets Amuse Town
Sim Flinders avoids heat panic while Cricket Hicks plans a patent windshield from magnifying glass to enlarge visibility. A Tickville lyceum lecturer laments low crowd turnout and ponders renaming his talk. Sidney Hocks stirs public interest with a windless music box built from two bull frogs in a cheese box.
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Tickville
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Frdity Flinders and Local Happenings This Morning
A string of brief notes covers local residents and events. Frdity Flinders combs hair. Atlas Peck joins a mad dog scare at Bounding Bills. Columbus Allsop laments missed trains. Raz Barlow walks to Rye Straw with a tobacco chew. Jefferson Potlocks comments on women and children’s habits amid recent hot weather.
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Woman Loses Two Husbands on Gallows
Meridian Mississippi July 25 Frank Atkinson and Clyde Greer were hanged for the June murder of R H Bryant whose body was found bullet riddled near town after disappearance with the two men. It was the first legal hanging of a white man in Lauderdale County and the only case of two whites executed on the same scaffold in Mississippi. The condemned men maintained innocence as they walked to the gallows and left behind wives and children. Mrs Atkinson had previously lost a husband by hanging nine years earlier for her father and mother’s murder.
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Launderdale
Mississippi
Blue Star Remedy Sold For Skin Ailments In Whitewright
An ad offers Blue Star Remedy for skin conditions including itch eczema tetter ring worm poison oak or old sores with a clothing safe guarantee. Local dealer Dyer & Jones advertises the product and notes availability in Whitewright.
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Dyer & Jones
State Fair Premium List for 1924 Now Being Distributed
The State Fair of Texas at Dallas announces its 1924 premium list covering premiums and purses over 75000 dollars. The fair runs October 11 to 26 with thirteen racing days and expanded livestock and poultry shows. The Coliseum becomes an Agricultural Building at Fair Park and renovations feature Spanish styling and a new main exhibit hall. A musical revue and nightly fireworks featuring Tokyo will entertain guests before the new Gaston Park auditorium is completed. Copies are mailed to exhibitors and available from W H Stratton, State Fair secretary, Dallas.
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Democratic push to withdraw to defeat Walton in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City reports former Attorney General P Freeling proposes letters urging Gore Howard and Charles J Wrightsman to withdraw from the Democratic U S Senate race. The plan expects the State Central Committee to nominate a replacement to oppose Jack Walton. The announcement comes amid a party bid to block Walton.
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FE. B. Howard
Charles J. Wrightsman
Freeling
United States
State Central Committee
Jack Walton
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Deafness Cure
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh and deafness caused by Eustachian tube inflammation. Promotes relief by reducing inflammation and removing catarrh, claiming over 40 years of sales by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
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Toledo
Ohio
Governor Seeks Senate Nomination Amid Party Strife
Freeling faults all candidates as lacking true party stance. He notes Walton runs as Democrat with Ku Klux Klan issue and accuses Wrightsman of La Follette Wheeler tendencies. Freeling says post Wilson era not ready to send Gore back to the Senate.
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Summer Vacation Kit Ad Highlights Remed y
A summer time advertisement promotes Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential for sudden stomach cramps diarrhea and bowels pain. It claims the product costs little but its value is high in emergencies and notes its low price per dose.
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Chamberlain
Thoughtful of Her Cigar Choice Ends in a Pocket Break
A woman buys cigars for her laid up husband and asks for the strongest. The tobacconist warns and she replies with a humorous twist that the last ones broke in his pocket.
Stimulating Chamberlain's Tablets Ad
A fragrance of health claims promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a stimulant for stomach liver and bowels. The ad asserts they awaken the body and mind with no unpleasant after effect and are priced at 25 cents.
Public office appeals outpace factory jobs says editor
Quote from Shoe and Leather Reporter in Whitewright notes men work longer for politics than industry.
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