Abstract This broadside presents the results of a meeting held in Nashville on July 16, 1909, for the purpose of organizing several layers of committees to enforce the new temperance and election laws in Tennessee. It lists the twenty-four representative, well-known and working Democrats from the three divisions of the state, and provides the five resolutions they passed. It also reports that E.L. Bullock was elected chairman, and W.V. Barry secretary of a temporary committee charged to act until the...

Abstract The bulk of this collection houses correspondence written to and by W. T. Kennerly between 1891 and 1943. Among his correspondents are the nurses that he met while hospitalized in San Francisco during the Spanish-American War and such political figures as Senators Kenneth McKellar and Tom Stewart and Tennessee governor Prentice Cooper. Many of the letters document Kennerly's efforts to help friends and supporters secure employment with such agencies as the WPA and the TVA. The collection...