Dallas Club drives move to locate government farm near city
A sprawling wire of items describes Dallas Commercial Club roving to locate a government experimental farm near Dallas. Other notes report gambling cases in Muskogee, fires at Picot Point, storms, drownings, a shooting in Pueblo, insane deaths, dynamite finds, a child's fatal illness, hunting accidents, an Athens reunion, irrigation at Fort McKavett, and regional harvest yields across Texas.
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Dallas Commercial Club
State Democratic convention ready in Houston auditorium
Houston August 1 The State Democratic convention prepared to open at Mg Auditorium tomorrow with arrivals of delegates. Supporters of Cooper seek chairmanship while Carlos Bee Imboden and Charlies Bell vie for temporary chair, and many candidates for attorney general attend the gathering. Ex-Gov Hoge and other leaders are among arrivals as the day closes.
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Edward Farria
Galveston
Lanham
Houston
Texas
Mg Auditorium
Coopers
Carlos Bee
San Antonio
Imboden
Cabell
Rodney
Andrews
Tucumari HoldUp Ends With Minor Loot
Northbound Rock Island No. 4 was held by three masked men at Logan New Mexico. They dynamited the express car but netted about 160 dollars. Passengers were terrified but not harmed as posses pursued the robbers toward the Colorado line.
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Webb
Dalhart
Logan
Artist Charles L Frank cites damaged Miss Gould paintings
Charles L Frank an artist and former World's Fair art department specialist says three paintings loaned by Miss Helen Gould to the Exposition were badly damaged from long packing after arrival in St Louis. The value cited is about 100000 dollars.
Fatal Row Incident Near Wilmer Texas Claims Bill Groff
A man named Bill Groff was killed Saturday night three miles east of Wilmer in Dallas County during a row involving another Black man. Authorities reported no arrests at this time.
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Dallas
Texas
Wilmer
Bill Groff
Kame
Guilty Conscience Ends In Self-Strangulation
In Chicago a man named Frank Benedetto who killed his wife in a jealousy fit died by hanging in his jail cell. After a week of mental disorder he fashioned a rope from his bed sheet and suspended himself from a high point in the corner, strangling to death.
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Chicago
Frank Benedetto
Weevils Reported Menacing Cotton Crops in Louisiana
East Baton Rouge parish reports reveal planters alarmed by a weevil-like insect harming cotton. J. W. Hillman of Hope Villa confirms damaged bolls and shows an affected specimen resembling a striped gray corn weevil.
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Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Baton Rouge Parish
J. W. Hillman
Hope Villa
Ominous Silence Reported From Ta Tche Kiao Retreat
The telegrams say the Russian rear guard retreating from Ta Tche Kiao is under attack at Nai Cheng and in great peril. News from Port Arthur is scarce with a Chinese report claiming the fortress is surrounded by besiegers.
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New York
Ta Tche Kiao
Nai Cheng
Port Arthur
Garrison’s Reply to Surrender Request From Port Arthur
London Times Tokyo correspondent reports Port Arthur garrison believes Oyama and staff were sunk with transports Hitachi and Sado. It also says Russians doubt General Kuropatkin has been defeated.
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London
Terra Cotta Works Burned in Philadelphia Fire Damage
A fire destroyed four buildings of the ornamental terra cotta works owned by Conkling Armstrong & Co at Wissahickon Avenue and Bristol Street in Philadelphia. Loss estimated at 150000 dollars, fully insured.
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Philadelphia
Conkling, Armstrong & Co
Wissahickon Agevenue
Bristol Street
Struck by Street Car in Memphis Claims Brown at 75
Ww N Brown a retired cotton factor was killed by a street car on Poplar boulevard Sunday night. He was 75 years old and had been prominent in Memphis business and political affairs and well known in Arkansas and Mississippi.
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Memphis
Tenn
N. Brown
Poplar Boulevard
Mr. Brown
Arkansas
Mississippi
Roosevelt's Chances Slim in Presidential Race
Dallas Texas Senator A Culberson returned from Atlantic City and other points where he has spent time since the democratic convention He said Roosevelt would be defeated and his chances for election are weaker than before the conventions were held He planned to attend the state convention in Houston.
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Roosevelt
Dallas
Texas
United States
A. Culberson
Atlantic City
N. J
Culberson
Houston
Convention Glances from Houston as Texas Democrats Assemble
Houston crowds flood into the city for the Democratic state convention with James B. Wells set to chair the meeting. Temporary and permanent chairmanship bids involve Carlos Bee Samuel Bronson Cooper and Imboden as factions jockey for power amid county contest rulings and a sprawling executive committee lineup.
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Houston
Texas
Jas. B. Wells
Carlos Bee
San Antonio
Samuel Bronson Cooper
Beaurgont
Wiley Mangum Imboden
Nacogdoches County
Bailey
St. Louis
Cooper
Shot by Officers in Texas Killing Near Robert Lee
A. P. Smith of Coke county living seventeen miles northeast of Robert Lee was shot and killed Sunday by Sheriff Green and a deputy after refusing road work and threatening violence. Smith met them with a shotgun during the arrest attempt. the second shot proved fatal. He was buried at Coleman.
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Robert Lee
Green
Smith
Nolan County
Coleman
Receivership Case Moved From Georgetown to Austin
Territorial Bank and Trust of Muskogee Oklahoma sues Commercial Telephone Co of San Antonio. District court sustains venue and sets trial in Austin next Saturday. Judge W L Brooks presiding.
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Georgetown
Texas
Territorial Bank and Trust
Brother of Calvert minister learns of Georgia murder
Rev. H. A. Hodges of Calvert Texas received word that his brother Henry Hodges his wife and two children were killed in a brutal crime near Statesboro Georgia their house burned and bodies found in the ruins Robbery is suspected and the community expresses deep sympathy for the Hodges family
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Calvert
Texas
H. A. Hodges
Henry Hodges
Statesboro
Hodges
Attorneys prepare facts on deaths of Way and Latimer
El Paso lawyers prepare a Statement of facts on the murders of Clarence Way and Edward Latimer who died in Sinaloa Mexico. The Latimer heirs including a St. Louis drug clerk plan a $100 000 claim to the state department in Washington against the Mexican government.
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el Paso
Texas
Clarence Way
Edward Latimer
Sinaloa
Mexico
Latimer
St. Louis
State Department
Washington
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