30 Jul 1891
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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1891
Page
1
The Greenville mill will cost about 50 000 dollars and employ around fifty laborers, processing about forty tons of seed daily as work on the buildings proceeds.
C S Wintraus chairman of the 72nd Democratic District calls a convention comprising Burleson Lee and Washington counties to meet in Brenham on August 6 to nominate a Democratic candidate for representative to succeed Hon. H. G. King who resigned. County chairmen urged to act to ensure full county representation.
The Democratic chairman calls a Washington County convention in Brenham at 10 AM on Saturday August 1 to send delegates to the August 6 Brenham convention to nominate a Legislature candidate for Lee Burleson and Washington counties replacing H G King. Precinct chairmen will assemble and appoint delegates. Henes Stone July 23 91. Two hundred dollars raised at Rogers Bell county for a public fund, work progressing.
In the absence of the principal, Mr C F Herbst is empowered to transact all business in the Collector's office for Washington Go. Dated July 11 1891. The land commissioner reports digging up land grant records under irrigation and ditch laws and states the state will recover 2 000 000 acres of land alienated under these laws.
A new principle for regulating the liver stomach and bowels through nerves is announced with Dr Miles Pills said to speedily cure biliousness bad taste torpid liver piles and constipation. Marketed as unequaled for men women and children with small mild doses priced at 25 cents and samples available at Jos Tristram's drug store.
The Belcherville News notes bricks hauled for three new Main Street business houses and RK. E. Brown starting a 25 by 50 foot warehouse. The column also mentions Creole Female Tonic's listed roots and herbs.
In a rural record from the period a woman named Range receives her first bale of cotton weighing 690 pounds and classed middling, signaling a notable early harvest milestone amid hardship and health pain described in terse report.
The Orange Leader notes a watermelon raised near that place by Mr. Stredtstneider weighing 66 pounds. The item also mentions Winslow’s Soothing Syrup favored by mothers for teething and diarrhea relief, with a general sales claim. It adds a note on the Mc Gregor artesian well depth and a Campbell picnic and barbecue scheduled for August 6.
A wholesale grocer, T D Meador of Oglesby Meador, touts Dr Biggers Huckleberry Cordial as a cure for bowel troubles. The piece also notes 13 pipes at LaGrange waterworks and the Corsicana orphans home artesian well nearing completion at 75 feet.
City council passes ordinance restricting street car crews to under twelve hours per day with a potential five hundred dollar fine for violations. Abbott's product mention appears in unrelated ad copy about corn treatment.
An advertisement claims Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Botusium-P purge impurities from the blood. It asserts the tonic restores vigor, replacing worn health and nourishing the body. The copy urges readers to obtain P. P. P. immediately.
A Midland blaze caused about $60,000 in damage destroying the Gazette office and several adjacent business houses. Firefighters fought the flames through the night as investigators seek the cause.
The San Angelo Standard notes three figs were grown on the Bis mark farm near San Angelo and each weighed about two pounds.
A collage of medical ads and local notes reports on Restorative Nerv ing and Bradfield's Female Regulator for nervous ailments and pains. It also notes store construction in Iowa Park, a mild patent remedy claim, and a brief criminal update on J. W. Davis, the Evans slayer, suffering an epileptic seizure leading to renewed concern over his execution.
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