Local society notes and travel plans from Austin
Miss Nere Estes left Tuesday for an extended visit to Houston. Ms. Juuius Kotrmey celebrates a new baby at home. Mr. Ep Horrwaxs goes to New York to buy clothing stock. Jous L. Rosrnts and daughter visit Mobile Alabama for weeks. A 2nd Regiment band member lost a bank roll at encampment. a Negro's arrest recovered it. Santa Fe freight delay due to broken trucks near the city. Miss Hannah Simon stays with Mrs Rubenstien at Millett Mansion. Dr T O Hyxes goes to Velasco for ten days afloat. Miss Madge Williams visits Miss Emma Davis. Prominent citizen comments on Renard Williams's craps sermon. learns game is chance, less known in Texas.
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Renard Williams
Mississippi
Texas
City construction advances on new compress grounds plan
Progress on the new compress grounds shows houses moved to rear lots and ground graded. A side track survey runs west of the Central track from the pees Wai, requiring high-end removal. Mary Lee Miller, eleven months, daughter of Mr and Mrs J H Miller, died Wednesday morning. funeral at 5 p m Wednesday from Sandy Street residence. Ms E Nosworthy leaves for Houston to work with Lecy Co in cotton business. Annie Reese and Richard Thompkins married at Hempstead Episcopal church Tuesday afternoon. they left for Galveston at 4 p m with many friends sending best wishes.
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Our City
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J. H. Miller
Sandy Street
Tur Baxter
Annie Reese
Richard Thompkins
Episcopal Church
Hempstead
Galveston
Yellow fever cases on Nigretta prompt quarantine shift
The British steamship Nigretta arriving from Vera Cruz near Pensacola has developed four yellow fever cases and was ordered to the Chandeleur Islands after seven days at the quarantine station. Bar Harbor false health reports about Blaine muddle public understanding of his condition. The New Orleans Mint now coins 100000 dimes daily due to new dime savings banks. An Order of Railway Telegraphs debate centers on absorbtion of the union and eliminating strike prohibitions. Tar State encampment described as highly successful.
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Pensacola
Vera Graz
Chandeleur Islands
Bar Harbor
Blaine
New Orleans
Death by Electricity Worse Than Any Other Death
Mrn Murphy of St Louis, a linesman, recounts receiving 1400 volts and a near fatal shock. He describes tormenting pain and a sense of hellish torture, then recovery after ambulance transport and a later 3000 volt incident. He argues electricity is a brutal death and questions its humanity.
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Mrn Murphy
St Louis
Sing Sing
Hell
Frightful Clay City murder linked to family tragedy
The James family of five were found dead in their burned Clay City home. Officials say the killings preceded the fire and a relative, possibly the father or son, may have killed the family before taking his own life. The case mirrors two prior tragedies in Jefferson Texas and Sprinill Tennessee.
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Clay City
James
Jefferson
Texas
Chicago council votes to deny prolonging removal deadline
The Chicago city council rejected extending the removal time for Lake Front buildings by forty two to forty. once the court injunction ends the old exposition building must be removed. A. T. McKissey of Huntsville chairs the receivership inquiry and calls the Austin meeting for Monday July 27. The item notes a large deficit in Russia and peasant starvation.
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Chicago
Lake Front
Hos
State News Highlights From Texas Counties and Cities
The State bar association met in Galveston. Law enforcement tight in Austin. Tom Green County welcomes German farmers. Cherokee hosts grand barbecue on the 24th. Tyler ships 500 to 800 fruit boxes daily. J. C. Carlin residence in Fort Worth burned. loss 23,5000. Loncemo Rodriguez killed at Austin dam by Celeste Bertradia. Smith County fruit and melon crop large with good prices. Henry Fuller near Llano raises over 6000 bushels oats from 100 acres. Watermelons praised in Kaufman County. note on cotton. Lewis Barlow store burned. incendiary suspected. Lone Star salt works at Colorado adds machines and improvements. A white man and a negro drown crossing Rio Grande near Alpine. Dexter Cooke, Eastland, Albany, and Shackelford counties report good rains and crops. Grandbury News: 213 bushels wheat per acre. Hood County corn promising. cotton fine. Sulphur Springs Gazette reports finest fruit crop in years. rain noted. Dickens County receives seasonal rains. Johnson grass stalks up to seven feet. heavy yield expected. Memphis Hall County barn accident injures child. jaw fracture. Eastland hosts successful ex-Confederate reunion. crowd around 4000, meals ample, speeches moving. Judge J. H. Calhoun lauds rebel soldier hardships then recollects favorable moments. veterans visibly affected. Other speeches and entertainments noted.
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Austin
Tom Green
Tyler
J. C. Carlin
Ft. Worth
Loncemo Rodriguez
Celeste Bertradia
Smith County
Henry Fuller
Llano
Terrell Register
Kaufman County
Grandbury News
John Summers
Memphis
Hall County
Eastland
Peril in Cave Near Dolores River Claims Promising Tourist
A Coonspo pleasure party explored a cave by the Dolores River where poisonous gas filled the floor in a foot of carbonic acid. A beautiful young lady was overcome and fell about 100 feet from the entrance. The party did not miss her until leaving the cave. A rescuer returned but she could not be revived.
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Dolores River
Ohio grape per acre yields higher value than California
Ohio reports its grape crop per acre valued at 15 dollars, about three times California’s per acre value. This indicates Ohio leads in per acre revenue for grapes, highlighting regional price disparities in the industry.
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Ohio
California
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