When Billy Sunday Came to Town
Citizens of Bronson prepare for a grand Independence Day parade led by Edgar Prince and George Edwards as Allan Rutledge plans a park ovation after the monster parade. The Courier faces declining circulation and a hostile plot by Reginald Nelson’s opponents to oust him and collect on notes. In a private office, Rutledge and Reginald discuss a list of illegal resorts and property holders connected to the conspirators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronson
Michigan City
Edgar Prince
George Edwards
Mr. Marchmount
Allan Rutledge
Reginald
Courier
Reginald Nelson
England
Mr. Graham
Roland Gregory
Ned Rowland
Bud McCrea
McCrea
Ned Rowlands
Nelson
Graham
the Courier
Bronson Park
Bronson Editor Exposed Sins as Independence Day Turmoil
Reginald Nelson publishes a revealing Courier edition listing property owners involved in vice resorts in Bronson. Editor ousted as criminal elements threaten his credit while Allan Rutledge delivers a park speech linking reform to national liberty and praising Nelson.
Tenedos Island as Allied Base for Dardanelles Assault
The National Geographical Society describes Tenedos as a key Allied base controlling the Dardanelles. It sits eight miles from the strait mouth, five miles from Asia Minor, with deep-water anchorage and supply links to Greece. The island, population about 4,000, is famed for wine and historic Justinian storehouses now arsenals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tenedos
Aegean
Dardanelles
National Geographic Society
Asia Minor
Greece
Tendos
Persia
Athens
Rome
Byzantium
Venice
Geno
Constantinople
France
Great Britain
Archipelago Vilayet
Justinian
Frozen pointer Dan perished on Foster Butte with quail nearby
Joe Wendling of Thorne Lake mourns Dan a prized pointer found frozen upright in a quail flush on Foster Butte. The dog stood rigid waiting as a bevy of quail exploded and flew off. Local range workers brought the stiff quarrying pet to Silver Lake for display. Wendling notes Dan’s habit of holding points for hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Wendling
Thorne Lake
Foster Butte
Hawthorne
Mr. Wendling
Dan
The Homes of the Schools in York County
A photo from The Enquirer shows a handsome York county school building amid ongoing improvements, illustrating the broader enhancements along a school line in York county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York County
the Enquirer
Model rural school building and wartime notes from Darby letter
The article describes a 1911 rural school in Oak Ridge district four miles west of Rock Hill with a two teacher capacity, district trustees and two teachers, and a citation as a model by the federal education department. It also reports Civil War era siege updates, prisoner movements, Battery Gregg activity, yellow fever, and a closing sign‑off from Darby discussing Sherman’s rout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Ridge
Rock Hill
Clemson
Federal Department of Education
United States
Messrs
John H. Steele
H. J. Zinker
S. L. Patterson
Julia Plexico
Florence Steele
Footsteps of the Fathers notes on Civil War memories
A historically framed column recalls events from 1864 with notes from Sullivan's Island and Battery Marshall. It mentions Gen. Hardee's assignment to the military district, anticipated inspection tours, and local resolve to defend the city against siege while citing Southern chivalry and eventual triumph amid continued war updates from Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardee
Palmetto
Atlanta
Shelling Shifts as Monitors Withdraw at Charleston Harbor
From Sullivan's Island dated October 6 1864 reports heavy cannon fire on the city then easing by night. The harbor exchange of prisoners at the usual place near Fort Moultrie occupied much of Monday. Elections for soldiers in Charleston district and upper districts drew votes, with showers and warm weather noted.
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Sumter
Battery Gregg
Mount Pleasant
Calhoun Street
Nassau
Black Island
Fort Moultrie
Charleston
York
Judge Cochran Seen as Father to Moonshiners in Breathitt
An excerpt from the April American Magazine profiles Judge A. M. J. Cochran, a federal judge in Breathitt County Kentucky, praising his patient, paternal approach to moonshiners who appear before him. The piece contrasts his gentle sternness with harsher courtrooms and recalls ten thousand youths who faced him.
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Interesting People
American
A. M. J. Cochran
Breathitt County
Kentucky
Judge Cochran
Cochran
Henry
Joe
Jim
Jackson County
Breathitt
Local Exchanges Happenings Across Nearby Towns
Gastonia notes include the closing of I R McFadden grocery after 19 years and a mistaken fatality report. Other items report a county fair plan, bond issues in Gastonia, and regional marriages, reunions, and deaths across Lancaster Chapel Chester Fort Mill Rock Hill and Gaffney in early June 1914 news roundup.
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Cherokee
Cleveland
Gaston
Lancaster
Chester
Gastonia
I. R. McFadden
J. Bun Bridges
Conover
E. C. Bridges
Boiling Springs
J. W. Bridges
Lumberton
Gaston County
Chamber of Commerce
City of
F. P. Anderson
Greenville
8. C
J. H. Henderlite
First Presbyterian Church
Anderson
Union Theological Seminary
Lancaster News
Alla Orewe Swancey
J. R. Swancey
Columbia
Fred Ferguson
G. F. Ferguson
Green Street Methodist Parsonage
D. W. Keller
Lancaster Graded School
Joe McIlwaine
Richmond
J. M. Riddle
J. M. Hough
W. J. Cunningham
E. C. Secrest
J. M. Madra
R. E. Wylie
Claud N. Sapp
L. C. Lazenby
Emmie Reid
Pearl
J. W. Phillips
Erskine College
Kingman
Kansas
Sarah Sanders
Richburg
Margaret Lillian
Dolphus Preston Poole
Perry
Aiken County
W. B. Jones
Greer
Spencer
Wyllie
Grateate
Mary Thomson
Rock Hill
Odds and Ends Some Facts and Figures
A collection of quick facts on demographics, technology, and science. It notes Denmark's cattle per capita, early submarine origins in France, a Jewish calendar offset for 1915, air inhalation rates, and U.S. telephone growth. It also covers welding gas mixtures, spark plugs, and safety tests on water jets near live wires.
Bats Cut Mosquitoes Change San Antonio Health
The June Popular Mechanics Magazine notes San Antonio has banned killing bats and is establishing roosts near Mitchell Lake to curb malaria carrying mosquitoes. The area was once plagued by chills and fever, but bat colonies transformed it into a healthy spot in Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
Popular Mechanics
Mitchell Lake
Spider Thread Weighs One Grain Across Four Miles
A historical note states that a length of ordinary spider silk spanning about four miles would weigh roughly one grain. The fact reflects early observations on the remarkable lightness of spider silk.
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Billy Sunday
The
H. K. Fly Co
Mr. Nelson
Tenedos Island
Dog
Oak Ridge School
Darby
Sherman
Yorkville Enquirer
Sullivan's Island
Battery Marshall
Long Island
J. D. McCants
Ogden
J. R. Miller
Board of Health
Beeler
Winthrop Faculty
Fort Mill
James W. Erwin
W. A. Hafner
Presbyterian Church
New Unity Cemetery
J. W. Ardery
White Street
W. H. Faulkner
Birmingham
Ala
T. D. Faulkner
Faulkner
J. H. Faulkner
J. B. Elliott
Chatham
Elliott
Little James Boyce
Southern Railway
Asheville
N. C
Leroy McMurray
Fernandina
Fla
J. H. McMurray
Fort Mill Presbyterian Church
Confederate Park
King's Mountain
P. R. Hay
Barnwell
Emma Hay
Linwood College
C. L. Bragaw
King’s Mountain
Bessemer City
Long Creek Presbyterian
Cliff
New Mexico
Geo. D. Bragaw
Frank Fisher
Geo. W. Gibson
A. A. Gibson
Odus Mull
Shelby
W. P. Grier
Clover
Gaffney Ledger
Gaffney
United Confederate Veterans
Messrs. I. M. Peeler
L. M. Ross
J. B. Gladden
R. A. Jones
J. H. Buice
G. C. Cartwright
J. M. Sutton
J. F. Fincken
G. W. Speer
Hendrick
Edith L. Parrott
E. 8. McKeown
South Carolina
W. D. Metts
J. W. Norwood
Minnie Buchanan
Jacksonville
Kingstree
Williamsburg County
H. H. Brown
Robert Houston
T. Frank Hunt
Greenville. C. 8
Webb
J. F. McGill
Bath
James D. Cleckley
Cope
Dibert Jackson
Second Regiment
Governors Guards of Columbia
H. B. Springs
J. D. E. Myer
A. C. Doyle
William Charleston
E. C. Cox
Easley
Capt. Cox
Georgia
Central of Georgia Railway
J. W. Washington
Belton
Interstate Oil Superintendent's Association
Frederick Strickland
W.S. Glenn
Security Trust Company of
Spartanburg
C. M. Efird
Court of Common Pleas
Glenn
T. E. Screven
Colonial Trust Company of
of Common Pleas
Council
Supreme Court
Larry Gant
Jones County News
Ellisville
Miss
Robert J. Gant
Joe Powers
E. A. Powers
Charleston Southern Railway
Hutchinson's Island
Seaboard Air Line Railway
G. E. Dragan
Bright Williamson
Darlington
J. E. Evans
Florence
H. A. M. Smith
Columbia Mills
Continental Trust Company
Trustee
Mount Vernon-Woodberry Cotton Duck Mill Company
John Gary Evans
H. E. DePass
C. P. Sanders
DePass
Evans
Odds and Ends
Denmark
Western Australia
Ugo Tartaglini
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