Infanticide Suspected Near Smithville Involving Miss Mollie Wilson
A 17 year old girl near Smithville gave birth to a dead baby girl Sunday. She was found at a well in a tub of cold water, the infant hidden under sand with oak leaves. The skull was crushed. the case will be presented to the grand jury. The mother survived and refuses to name a suspect.
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Waxahatchie
Luther Glascow
St. Joe
Jessis Jameson
Houston
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Texas
Supreme Lodge of Knights of Honor of
United States
Egloff
Grandbury Graphic
Marshall
Midland
Manuel Cerales
Hilario Abriego
Milam Park
San Antonio
Hilario
Cerales
Joe F. O'Brien
Denison Mondsy
Margaret Albertson
Brownsville
Rio Grande Railroad
City of
Fort Worth
Will Yarber
Waco
Goldstein & Migill
Shackleford County
Albany
Eliasville
Mount Vernon
D. B. Culberson
John W. Crawford
Vernon
A. Thresher
Easterling
The
del Rio Record
Jacksboro
Post Oak
Ovid
Roberts Praiirie
New Brunfels
Jose Gonzales
Benita Garcia
Gonzales
Supt
A. J. Hill
San Antonio Gas and Electric Light and Power Company
New Orleans
Forney
Kaufman County
Pilot Point
Denton County
Claude
Armstrong County
Waelder
Gonzales County
Floyd
Hunt County
Santo
Palo Pinto County
Athens
Henderson County
Duffau
Erath County
Goldthwaite
Mills County
New Boston
Bowie County
Denman
Lufkin
Harrington
Terrell
Denison
Ida Hatfield
Paris
Elks Club
Smithville
Mollie Wilson
Burrell Mason
Mason
Alex. Jennings
Powell
Salvation Oil Endorsed By Suffering Baltimore Reader
A Baltimore reader touts Salvation Oil as curative for rheumatism after a single bottle. The notice cites Jos. Fox, a cattle dealer, at 117 North Broadway, Baltimore, as endorsing the remedy. Also mentions the comptroller paying out $4527 on scalp warrants across Nueces to Runne counties with Lean Cine funding exhausted in ten days.
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Mouser
General Wayne Stables
Balto
Paca Sta
Jos
Fox
North Broadway
Baltimore
Nueces
Scurry
Knox
Live Oak
McMullen
Uvalde
Wilson
Bosque
Runnel
Lean Cine
The Greatest Strike Dr Miles New Heart Cure Claims
The text touts Dr Miles New Heart Cure as highly effective and in demand, claims of heart relief and cures, mentions Dr Miles book on Heart and Nervous Diseases, free, and lists Tristram as agent along with Restorative Morning for various ailments. It also notes large peach shipments from Corpus Christi by express.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amonoes
Miles
Local notices and ads mix in creole cures and crops
A jumble of items reports creole remedies, crops in McLennan and Wise counties, and upcoming races in Cleburne. Notes mention cattle, drugs and patent medicines, a request for a drug store in Lubbock, and Gatesville seeking street lights. The Cotton Belt to ballast its road with sand stone.
Palestine Woman Dies Suddenly for Third Time
Caroline Hassell of Palestine died suddenly on Monday, marking the third death in the town in recent days. The report notes a spate of unexpected fatalities and ongoing concerns in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline Hassell
Palestine
World’s Fair and Fort Worth Artesian Water Feats
The item mentions the World's Fair and a line about the Indies of the South with a tonic for female ailments. It notes Fort Worth striking a new artesian water flow at 950 feet deep. A question about Brenham’s status is included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Brenham
Local Advertiser Praises Billeberry Cordial and Odd Claims
John H. Jone of Tuttle Kentucky touts Dr Billeberry Cordial as the best medicine he ever sold claiming it brings joy to every mother. A court acquits men charged with public disturbance during Sam Jones lectures. Odd health claims mention P P P as a blood purifier and a Sherman death of Lottie Perry, alleged to be 114 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Jone
Tuttle, Ky
Billeberry Cordial
Lottie Perry
Sherman
Miles Pills Claim New Principle for Liver and Nerves
Dr Miles' Pills speedily cure biliousness liver stomach and bowels with a new discovery. Advertises relief from biliousness bad taste liver piles and constipation for men women and children. 60 doses 25 cents. Samples free at Jos Tristram's drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Jos
Tristram
Obituary Notice for 108-Year-Old Cordelia in San Antonio
Joseph BD. Cordelia died in San Antonio on Monday at age 108. From Father De Smet, the Great Indian missionary. A dubious line of garbled text follows about remedies and bad men, suggesting a quack remedy ad. The readable portion centers on the death and age of Cordelia and a historical figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph BD. Cordelia
San Antonio
Father de Smet
Female Functions Stoppage Remedy Promoted Locally
A historic notice touts a female functions remedy as the safeguard against wreck and ruin from derangements. It claims relief for stoppage and mediates relief, advising the product be sold by all druggists.
Peach Growers Blues On Fierce Opponent Yellows
A brief bookmaker style line notes that opponents are fierce and the yellows affect peach growers, highlighting a tense commercial or competitive scene without specific names or places.
Unclear passage cites medical claims and names many places
Fragmentary text references doctors, medicines, and nerve disorders with scattered names such as Wentworth Gor Fort Snow Syracuse Mich Huntington and a claim about universal relief from certain pills. The fragment mentions opiates and free bottles at a drug store but lacks coherent narrative.
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Mike Maid
Soap Tenn
Draags Ry Co
Wentworth & Gor
Fort
Snow & Ooi
Syracuse
Welk
Mich
Jos
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P. Curry
F. Siumor
Curry & Simmons
Heber Stone’s Bank
G. C
Cole
Man and Runnels Counties
Ballinger
Nels County
Nels, Concho
Coleman
And
Coryell Counties
Schleicher
Sutton Counties
Savannah
PAP. P
PSE
Aniwinw
Lippman Ree
Larruay's Bioce
J. Tristram
ABE
Lao
Soren
Cary
John W. Teague
Crockery
Sean Sware
F. F. Hille
Hamburg Hallow
Knoop
Shane
J. H. Meyer
Shackey Building
Nat'l Bank
Vipaniont
Lindemann
Lone Star Brewing Company
C. Halenza
J L. Ammons Merchant Tailor
Northeast Corner
Public Senate
Brenhaw
Call and Soc
L. Zeiss
State News
Will Medlin
Wilbarger County
Orangeville
Bonham
Mack Hawkins
Dallas Lane
Whitehall
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Galveston
Floyd County
Quintana Times
Brazos and Northern Railroad
Dreyer
Chicago
S. Westheimer
Chi
TW. H. Ellis
Mexico
Ellis
Vera Cruz
Querecao
San Luis
Potosi
Oraxaca
F. BR. Osgood
New York
Derk Pisce
N.Y
Corpus Christi
Express
Colorado Springs
Cleburne
McLennan and
Wise Counties
Chase
Grassmuck
Lubbock City
Jos. D. Rogers
P. PB. P
Bosque County
Abbott
Watts
Gatesville
Sam Jones
P. P.P
P.P
Diessius Fagen
Winslow
Huntington
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