Tax Delinquent Lands Notice In Brewster County Texas
State and County summonUnknown Owner in two tax suits filed January 18 192 with district court in Brewster County. Land descriptions Abstract 2274 640 acres and Abstract 2656 640 acres shown delinquent for 1900 taxes totaling $9.61 each. Notices require appearance at September term Alpine Texas to contest judgment foreclosure and sale. Public notice attested by M A Boyd clerk.
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Brewster County
L. N. Halbert
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Towit
G. Co
F. R.y. Co
Court House
Alpine
M. A. Boyd
O. J. N. Halbert
White resigns as U.S. Ambassador to Germany
United States Ambassador Andrew D. White resigns effective November 7 and departs to Hamburg for a continental sojourn. Berlin gossip points to a shift of posts including Tower to Berlin and Henry White to Spain, with Dr. David Jayne Hill and Bellamy Storer named as leading successors or candidates.
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United States
Germany
Ambassador White
Hamburg
Berlin
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Ambassador Tower
St. Petersburg
Storer
Spain
Russia
Henry White
London
Min
David Jayne Hillister
Tower
St. Petersberg
White
Washington
David Jayne Hill
Bellamy Storer
Death of Sea Serpent Sinks Bermuda Treasure at New York Aquarium
Science records the death of its famed Bermuda treasure Channomuraena Vitata at the New York Aquarium. Two men caught the monster in deep water by its head behind the eye. The creature resembled a boa and could breathe through body gills while jaws stayed distended. It is preserved in formaldehyde.
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New York Aquarium
Bermuda
Yiddish Writers and the Drive Behind Their Literature
A writer told American Hebrew that Yiddish literature arises from life and struggle not institutional complacency. The Yiddish writers’ constituency is industrially ambitious and intellectually alert, ready to exercise all faculties. Out of this turmoil and intellect will come power to establish the Jewish people.
Bret Harte as a Mystery
William Black’s 1880 letter to Sir Wemyss Reid depicts Bret Harte as a volatile, elusive figure. He mocks Harte’s unsettled habits, noting the writer’s failure to report to officials, to claim mail, or even settle in one place, while others send letters to a Brighton address.
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William Black
Wemyss Reid
Black
Escott
America
Brighton
Harper's Weekly
Express Messenger William Byl Battled Bandit on Train
William Byl, veteran Adams Express employee for twelve years, fought a bandit during a Chicago Burlington and Quincy train hold up. A Cincinnati native aged 45, he rose to night depot agent at Canal Street Chicago and later commanded the Chicago to Minneapolis run. Married in 1878, he later lived in Joliet where two daughters teach, and a son works for Adams Express in Chicago.
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William Byl
Chicago
Cincinnati
Humboldt
Coles County
Joliet
Famous Educator Beardshear Dies at Des Moines
Dr William M Beardshear longtime Iowa educator and president of the Iowa state college at Ames died in Des Moines after an attack of nervous prostration following a National Education association meeting in Minneapolis He was a Civil War veteran and a former member of the US Indian commission He led the Ames college for years and previously headed Western College in Tolomo Iowa.
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Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts
Ames
Iowa
Des Moines
National Educational Association
Minneapolis
Beardshear
Otterbein University
Ohio
Yale
Western College
Tolmio
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Army of the Cumberland
Portrait of Lady Arnold and portraits of empire notes
A new portrait of Lady Arnold, Tama Kurokawa of Sendai before her 1897 marriage to Sir Edwin Arnold, and a note on the author of The Light of Asia turning seventieth. The piece also recounts a Turkish lifeboat test by embassy staff and a Nigerian pay scandal link.
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Lady Arnold
Tama Kurokawa
Sendai
Japan
Sir Edwin
Asia
Franked stamps lax use shocks Australian Civil Service
Postmaster general uncovers broad misuse of rubber stamps that frank all government correspondence across Australia. Parliaments and departments allowed stamps for official letters, but the definition of official stretched to church fundraisers and club notices. Even messengers used stamps, including a telegraphic message about hiring a barmaid.
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Civil Service
Australia
Postmaster-General of
King Alexander's Lonely Reign Abroad
King Alexander continues to be ignored by fellow sovereigns on foreign trips. His presence in Vienna goes unremarked and offers to visit St. Petersburg and other courts are declined. No royal matchmaker will wed his mother’s discharged lady in waiting, leaving him without a suitable queen.
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Alexander
Vienna
St. Petersburg
Queen Draga
Guidi Named Apostolic Delegate to the Philippines
Rome appoints Mgr Guidi as apostolic delegate to the Philippines. The move signals the Pope’s intent to oversee church affairs in the islands more directly. Guidi, long the pontiff’s closest adviser, reportedly resides in Vatican Palace and has influenced major decisions in recent years.
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Guidi
Philippines
Rome
Mgr. Guidi
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Islands
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