Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoxville, Tenn., a tall, greying man walking along a street suddenly forgot what his name last week had been, remembered that in 1911 it had been Edgar G. Allen of Ridgewood, N. J. From the past he remembered a brother, sister, two sons. A son and brother came, identified him. From the present in Madisonville, Tenn., his wife, Mrs. Ted Morris, whom he had married in 1912, and a daughter Dolores, 13, came, met his blank stare, his statement that he had no idea where he had been for 22 years. (He had been an automobile mechanic & salesman.) Weeping...
...long-ago concert. Wearing neat-looking vestments which Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller had given them, they appeared in Emery Auditorium, stirred a fashionable audience with their singing of difficult church music and of spirituals. Like the eleven Christians of long ago, they had come from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn.* The first Fisk Singers made $50 from their concert in the Vine Street Church. They turned it over to refugees from the Chicago fire which broke out next day, and set out on a tour which paved a glory-road for all Fisk Singers to come. Known as the Fisk...
Died. George Peters Lee, 57, last of the Mississippi steamboat Lees, packet designer & master; after a short illness; in Memphis, Tenn...
Died. Leonidas D'Entrecasteaux Smith, 65, Attorney General of Tennessee; in Nashville, Tenn. Born in Sparta (Tenn.), he was the son of William Gooch Smith, father of Mrs. Keilah Neece and the late Ucal Smith...
...what He don't like," carried on, founded a home for widows and orphans of drunkards at Kansas City, became president of the W. C. T. U., stumped the country for "that divine law," national Prohibition. In May, 1910, she was kicked out of a saloon in Waterville, Tenn., had her false teeth knocked out and damaged. Before fainting on the lecture platform that night, game little Carry Nation lisped that she "had set her teeth in the Devil this afternoon." Next year she died, aged...