Turxe monument funds and national exhibit notes
The Weekly Banner surveys assorted historical and economic items. It notes Turxe raised in New Orleans for Davis monument with 896.36 dollars, reports on exhibits planned by the Sultan of Zanzibar in Chicago, and Massachusetts educational funding for Chicago displays. It covers tariffs, politics, and western rail expansion, including remarks on Cleveland, the Alliance, and farm issues.
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Turxe
New Orleans
Taz
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Farmers’ Alliance
Kansas
Iowa
Brownwood seeks new hotel and other city updates
State notes report Brownwood seeks a hotel while Bonham plans another public house and Sonora wants a physician. Other items include burglaries in Houston and a major block fire in Hillsboro, plus a German language post in Houston and a burned Clawson mill.
Brief items from the era span rail plans to local incidents
Snapshots cover rail road support for millions, canning and farming notes, fires and crimes in Texas towns, church meetings, weather, oysters and pears shipments, and legal notices. Names include Carrie Prince, Sam Houston, and Lewis Miller with incidents in Dallas, San Angelo, Lufkin, Corsicana, Sonora, Madisonville, and Galveston Bay.
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Carrie Prince
Gail
Midland
Ethridge
Marshal
Will Bayley
Lewis Miller
Dallas
San Angelo
Justice Court
West Texas
San Antonio
Moscow
Livingston
Clawson Lumber Company
Lufkin
John Dawson
Sonora
Tom Green County
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Texas
Axport
Washington
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New York
Christopher Columbus
Moro
London
Charles F. Gunther
Custom House
Tae Ft. Worth Gazette
Guhio
Tae
Consiorane Fuss
Pace
Ashington
Ohio
Campbell
Boss
Lone Star
Kansas City
America
State News
Brownwood
Bonham
Sutton County
Houston
Ozona
Iron County
Richmond
Tom Williams
I Sherman
Jas. Smith
Rio Grande
Pittsburg
Switzerland
North Carolina
Temperance Society
Cardinal Manning
Australia
Sidney Turner
Madisonville
Corsicana
R. Freedman & Co
Mitchell County
Sam Houston
Ned White
Martinique
Uncle Sam
Ben Tucker
San Augustine
W. E. Pinkerton
Bowie
Dan Campbell
Fort Worth
A. D. Airborne
R. H. Holly
Quannah
First National Bank
Purdy, Mo
Theodore de Graffenried
Sherman
Mattie Atterberry
van Alstyne
Moody Courier
Sioux City
Malone Grant
Paris
Ben Burrough
Bigmy
Arkansas
Fanny Foster
Galveston Bay
Kentucky
Japan
Asu
Robert Goelet
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney & Go
C. W. Hess
Dial
Ladonia
Otp McBryar
Old Forester
O. EK
Sarah White
Santone
Lara
J. 5
Norton
Lee County Court House
Giddings
Hearne
Cleburne
Swift
Prentiss
Atlanta
W. O. Atwater
Chemical
Wesleyan University
Middletown
Conn
Fairbark
N. K. Fairbank & CO
St. Louis, Mo
Harrison
Perent
Washington County
Harrison Dey Goods Company
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