Brenham News Highlights Fire Fest Plans and Local Changes
Farmers stay by crops dulling city life as Mai-fest prep features a prize tournament with $50 in prizes. Fire department tours and drills show readiness. Bank merger expected early May unites First National with Heber Stone, increasing capital to 150000 and surplus to 22500 with Stone as president. Flora McGregor dies at Terrell Insane Asylum.
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First National Bank
Heber Stone
First National
Stone
C. A. Engelke
E. Reichardt
Permanent encampment plan discussed at citizens meeting
A large audience at the Board of Trade rooms heard the committee report on suitable grounds for a permanent militia encampment. The group added city officials to the grounds committee, named ten sites, and planned to obtain options. A press of action followed, with finance inquiries and a brief trip by Captain Byrnes to Austin for guidance.
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Board of Trade Rooms
W. A. Wood
James A. Wilkins
E. G. Langhammer
T. B. Botts
Haynes
Mabry
Brenham
Giddings
Byrnes
Austin
Travelers Protection Association Train En Route to Austin
Post CG of the Travelers Protective Association from Houston with about seventy five aged men in a gayly decorated train passing through to Austin at 1 45 o clock. A brass band struck up Dixie and the Knights of the grip joined the depot crowd in loud cheers. The T P A members meet in Austin then plan an excursion to Monterey Mexico leaving Sunday morning. The train was decorated with bunting evergreens and flowers.
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South
Brenham
Austin
Monterey
Mex
Hall's Catarrh Cure Offered For Deafness Claims
An advertisement claims deafness from catarrh can be cured by constitutional remedies. It explains that deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and offers a $100 reward for any case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, with circulars and price 75 cents. Debar has disappeared. rumors link her to a football incident on the Appian Way in Rome.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
O. P
Dis Debar
The
Appia
Rome
Troy
Ninth National Bank of New York
President Hill
England
Gold discovered in Gillespie county state news item
State briefs report gold discovery in Gillespie, colts shown at Hempstead, editor Johnson to launch San Diego paper, crops thriving near Cisco, and various local incidents from Marshal to Dallas. Also notes about court cases in Paris and Waco, and the Wichita roller mills plan shutdown before May to prepare for the 1591 wheat crop.
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Gillespie County
A. Baltor
Marshal
Tom Martin
Paris
Dallas
Hempstead
Johnson
Yoakum Graphic
San Diego
Cisco
A. H. Culby
H. F. Hynes
Waco
Wichita Roller Mills Company
Pullman dividend, rail financing and curious miscellany
A collection of short items notes that the Pullman dividend will be paid in May, the Pullman works employ 1000 in St. Louis, and Russia borrows for railways. Other lines cover beets, bequests to Salvation Army, wedding cake trends, telecommunication experiments, and varied odds and ends on economy, aviation, and social commentary.
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Glasgow
Gen. Booth
Salvation Army
Purposes, food, money and happiness in daily life
The text urges filling the head with good aims, stomach with good food, pockets with honest money, and happiness will follow. It cites Oklahoma’s size and population, notes a Hazlehurst Ga freak baby, complains of John L Sullivan’s Cincinnati appearance, and criticizes Wellesley recitation rooms and a McKinley bill rumor in Elizabeth town Kentucky.
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Oklahoma
Ohio
Wyoming
Nevada
Hazlehurst
John L. Sullivan
Cincinnati
Free AMERICAN Farmer subscription for arrears payoff
FSSC TEETER E A offers subscribers a free 16 page AMERICAN Farmer trial by paying all arrears and one year in advance. New subscribers pay one year in advance to receive the national agricultural journal mailed to their address at no cost, a value claim to thrice the price.
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Fort, Wayne
Ind
Multiple Texas notices from early county events and accidents
Galveston begins surf bathing as reports note John Conners killed by a handcar in Corsicana. Crowell is chosen county seat of Foard. The 23rd State Medical Association met in Waco. Manley dies after wreck near El Paso. Cameron council acts to rebuild a burned school. George C. Wellington dies from injuries after being struck between cars in El Paso.
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The
State Medical Association
Waco
Manley
el Paso
Cameron
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Max Expen
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Houston
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Sherwood Canning Factory
Addie Lyle
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Kansas City Sun
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George W. Howard
Montague County
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Montague
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Galveston
Chicago
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Lize Hayes
Indian Territory
Wm. Jackson
State Orphan Asylum
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W. A. Wortham
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Pullman Company
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Corsicanas
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Soule College
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