Fourth Annual Colorado Chautauqua Opens July Fourth 1901
The Colorado Chautauqua enters its fourth year with sessions from July 4 to August 10 1901 at Boulder. It promises health recreation entertainment and instruction amid unparalleled scenery climate and mountain excursions guided two days weekly. The Chautauqua Journal offers full details and sample copies on request.
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Boulder
Prince of Summer Assemblies
Chautauqua Journal
Cooper Building
Denver
Colo
Texas Tax Acts and Civic Provisions Passed in 1901
Legislative items include poll tax and occupation tax provisions for county funding, two year payment extensions for school land purchasers in six counties, support for Galveston flood prevention, a proposed constitutional amendment linking suffrage to poll tax payment by Feb 1, and designation of the bluebonnet Lupinus subcarnosus as the official state flower.
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Wharton
Brazoria
Waller
Fort Bend
Harris
Montagorda
Galveston
Texas
Effort to settle captured Civil War Louisiana bonds
Treasury officials and Louisiana authorities seek final settlement of old Louisiana state bonds seized by General Sheridan in 1866. About $4.5 million were confiscated, but the value remaining in the treasury is around $545,000. Missing bonds and misdocumented certificates complicate claims, with possible misappropriation by a state officer and destroyed records clouding the case. Louisiana to be fully advised as searches continue.
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Washington
Treasury Department
State of
Louisiana
P. H. Sheridan
Shreveport
Congress
National Treasury
Charity concert in New Orleans raises funds for Ursuline sisters
A New Orleans charity concert netted 1512 for the Ursuline sisters in Galveston. R B Blanton, deputy county clerk, was acquitted in Waco of forgery. Texas Bankers association to hold its seventeenth annual convention in Houston May 14 and 15. Parlee Parris, a Black woman, assassinated near Caldwell. her brother shot. Dock workers strike in Genoa. George Moses, a Black man, killed by officers in Columbus during arrest. The Sturtevant Blower works in Boston destroyed by fire, $350000 loss.
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New Orleans
Ursuline Sisters
Galveston
R. B. Blanton
Waco
Tex
Texas Bankers’ Association
Houston
Parlee Parris
Caldwell
Real estate listing from Brazos County dealer Monroe Edge
A long list of land and houses for sale or trade in Brazos County and nearby areas. Monroe Edge promotes diverse properties from a four room frame house to 326 acres near Edge, with prices from 400 to 10000 dollars and exchanges for city property. Office at Webb Bros.
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Brazos County
Monroe Edge
City
College Road
Theco R Omy
Jeff Franklin
Elt Park
Bon Ton
Wixon Creek
Madisonville Road
Grimes County
Pryan
Morgan's Gill
Madisonvike Road
Bryan
Kurten
Wellborn
Calvert
Ennis
Llano
Llano County
Texas
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Franklin Brothers
Bryan, Texas
Marke
Courthouse
Bryan Grocery Company
Candy Kitchen
Berwick Bay
Lowney’s
Gunther’s
John Wittmann
Qld
Liza
Dray Line
F. A. Lee
J. Warper
Cicago
Hearne
Colorado Chau
Taqua
Vv. B. Hudson
J. G. Minkert
Hudson & Minkert
Bryan, Temas
Vv. G. Taliaferro
Judicial Distric
Melrose Imperial
Jersey
Jno
M. Caldwell
Potts Baking Powder Co
Waco, Trexas
J. W. Batts
Allen Academy
J. Allen Myers
Shields
Henderson
Dallas
George W. Shields
Omaha
Neb
J. Roll Johnson
H. ©. Henderson
Young Cudahy
E. A. Cudahy
Mr. Cudahy
Mayer
Birmingham
Ala
M. Benjamin Mayer
Birmingham Age-Herald
Wilkesbarre
Lehigh Valley Railway
South Wilkesbarre
Buffalo Express
Amite City
Hattie C. Leroux
Tangipahoa
Genoa
Italy
George Moses
Columbus, Ga
Sturtevant Blower Works
Boston
Tyler Haswell
Landreth
A. D. MecConnico
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Philadelphia
Fidelity & Casualty
Maryland Casualty Accident Insurance Co
Otto Boehme’s
Otto Boehme
Standpipe
Monroe Edge Land & Rental Agent
Bryan Property
Oil Mill
Webb Bros
Finother
Red River Division
Denison and
Sherman Texas
Figuilory
S.W. Buchanan
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