My Guide and a Courageous Rescue Story
A Cornell graduate, an electrical engineer, left a personal manuscript titled My Guide detailing a life of integrity, duty, and self-improvement. The piece urges honesty, hard work, and Christian gentility as the path to success and service. In a Galveston News item, Gen. Grant's son Chaffee Grant rescued Miss Ellen Deely from an assault near his San Diego home, firing at the attacker as the assailant fled. Deely suffered Bruises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Woods
Cornell
U. S.A
Galveston
Livingston Undertaking o GW bi ANestON Youxs Alpine Tex
A fragment from an Alpine Texas area notice mentions Livingston Undertaking and persons abbreviated as GW bi ANestON Youxs in connection with local services. Details are unreadable and uncertain due to damaged OCR.
Reward for arrest and conviction of cattle thief
A $500 reward is offered for the arrest and conviction of any person illegally handling cattle owned by the signer. The text also contains garbled lines showing efforts to spell names and actions, but the central promise is a monetary reward for capturing those responsible.
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Anne Keaying
Wransinson
Breach of Promise Award Amid Jilting Controversy
London jurors award $625 to Miss Katy Jones after a driving accident cost her arm and led to her fiancé Pugh abandoning her. He argued a one armed wife could not be a working man’s spouse, while the verdict rests on breach of promise grounds and costs.
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London
Eng
Mold
Flintshire
Hévard
Balloon flight aims for Lahm cup record in Texas
Balloon from San Antonio and San Iantono Texas named Million Population 2. Wm. N. Assman of St. O'Reilly started the journey to win the Lahm cup, the long distance flight trophy. The craft headed northwest under clear skies. J Allen Hawley of New Yor holds the cup with a 1,172 mile record.
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San Iantono
Texas
Wm. N. Assman
St. O'Reilly
San Antonio
J. Allen Hawley
New Yor
Man in Handcuffs Swims Fourteen Miles Near Coney Island
New Yorker Henry Lyon, bound at wrists and ankles in a chained swim, swam from the Battery to within half a mile of Coney Island in New London, Conn, completing fourteen miles despite the restraints.
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New Yorke
Henry
Lyonsky
New London, Conn
the Battery
Coney Island
Office Tower reforms spark public health backed by Wilson order
A 1913 notice details an executive order by President Wilson abolishing government roller towers in public buildings to protect health, with a plan to replace them across hundreds of thousands of towers, followed by a separate Brewster County alias execution announcing a mortgage sale on W. O. Moore property in Alpine, Texas.
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H. Ragin
Brewster County
Alpine
Texas
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Tuk State of
County Court of
Brewster Councy
John Young
J. L. Crawford
W. O. Moore
Sal
Kenclad
W. E. Pusurs
Constable
Trespass Notice on Tasos Wanes Property
Notice forbids hunting fishing camping or any trespass on Tasos Wanes property under penalty of law. Public notice appears in the Avalanche.
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W. F. McGaughy
Lackey Bldg
Pecos
Rio Grande Teleph Company
Ft. Stockton
Pecos & Rio Grande Telephone CO
Trans-Pecos Abstract Co
Alpine, Texas
J. M. Sanford, Manager Abstracts
Fetwork
M. M. Whisler
Ambassador
Statesman
Guy Crawford & Co
Holland Hotel
Alpine Steam Laundry
R.A. Wade
J. L. Wade
Reg
A. Hardy
M.D
MIDE
Lackey
J. L. Gilbert
Darling
Aum
NJ. C
Brooke
Ofice
A. M. Turney Attorney-at-Law
Aurine
Wigfall van Sickle
Livingston Undertaking
Bi Aneston
W.G. Youxs
Tex
Marfa, Texas
Cloudcroft
Academy Not Millionaire's Club
Rotary Daniels
Howard
Georgia
Anapolis
Constable's Sale
Aliso
Alamo Lumber Company
Ray Turner
Paul J. Vogt
McCormick
West Texas Grocery Company
Marfa
Alpine Hou
John Weyerts
Menry Bosch
G. Kurt Lange
Slight’s Drug Store
E. B. Chandler
San Antonio, Texas
Orient Railway
Colonist
California
F. W. Ater
F. A. Nelson
San Angelo
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