Legislature Passes Broad Set Of Bills In Sixteenth Session
The Galveston News reports on nearly three months of legislative work with senate and house bills covering railway relief, court admin, guardianships, corporations, school districts, asylums, juries, parole, taxes, and public lands. Special road laws and charters for several cities are noted, with two local measures vetoed.
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Supreme Court
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Twenty-First District
Colorado County
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Galveston Seawall
Austin
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Court of Civil Appeals
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Jefferson
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Comanche
Lamar
Titus
Paris
Houston
Marshall
Sherman
Texas & New Orleans
Galveston News
Harris School News From Harris April 4 1905
Harris School notes a lively Bryant Eagle item with a party at Walter Wilcox's home and remarks on rough night travel. Prof Leroy Gandy visits Saturday Sunday Miss Pearl Gallatin plans Edge visits Captain Hudspeth improves and may return home. Drummond residence entertainment Saturday. Charlie Presnal nearly drowns in high water after buggy shafts break. The Harris school closes next week with a creekside picnic on Saturday the 15th inviting public to bring baskets.
Disaster to Potatoes Crop hits county with poor germination
Reports show large potato plantings harmed by excessive rains. Farmers like A. W. Buchanan and Robert Buchanan report no stands and losses from seed rot and labor costs. Partial germination ranges ten to fifty percent, yielding no profitable cultivation.
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A. W. Buchanan
Robert Buchanan
A. L. Locke
J. H. White
J. J. Vandiver
Eagle
Bailey Praises Roosevelt Anti-Trust Policy In Texas
Senator Bailey delivered an address to the legislature praising the anti trust policy of President Roosevelt. He called it a Democratic plank and urged unified support to win four years hence. The speech praised Texas laws and suggested other states would adopt them. Governor Herrick of Ohio was invited to address the house. A special investigation into the Confederate home was proposed, and a franchise tax method for corporations was defined. The senate was not in session Monday. The governor signed a railroad lighting bill.
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Roosevelt
Austin
United States
Bailey
Texas
Herrick
Ohio
House
Senate
Dallas Attorney Bell Fatally Shot in District Clerk’s Office
Frank J. Bell prominent Dallas attorney and Knights of Pythias grand chancellor was shot in the district clerk’s office by Robert R. Parker, chief deputy, with the bullet entering the left breast and believed fatal. The report includes unrelated Russia village dance description.
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Dallas
Frank J. Bell
Robert R. Parker
Bell
Texas Knights of Pythiae
Uneasy About the Boy in College Debt
The Chicago Tribune notes a parent fears Alfred’s college life may lead to debt as he writes weekly updates. A fond father brags of affording his own carriage for his twins as they are wheeled along the pavement.
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Alfred
Chicago Tribune
Community Library Prize Drawn by Local Merchants
Merchants and others in Bryan and Brazos County offer a free library of valuable books to any college club society lodge or organization. Readily accessible from Burt Norwood's window display the plan awards one vote for every 10 cent purchase with the highest poll by June 24 at 12 noon winning the full collection. Voting tickets accompany purchases.
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Bryan
Brazos County
Burt Norwood
Bryan Eagle Announces Library Contest With Big Prizes
The Bryan Eagle offers a library contest to promote reading. Teachers students and others can win Ridpath history or World s Greatest Orators sets by June 24. Each dollar subscriptions earns votes toward both contests with ten times as many votes for weekly sub scription. Bryan societies or people are excluded.
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Bryan Eagle
Eagle
Bryan
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