Train Excursions and Fares For Various Associations 1899
Listings detail excursion plans from Bates to Austin San Antonio Charleston Louisville New Orleans Richmond and San Francisco with event names such as Bankers Association U C V reunion Southern Baptist Convention Louisiana State Fair Presbyterian General Assembly and Baptist Anniversaries. Each entry notes travel dates limits and round trip fares including a $60 rate to San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
San Antonio
Account Bankers Association
Mexico
Charleston
S.C
Louisville
Southern Baptist Convention
New Orleans
Louisiana State Fair and Exposition
Richmond
General Assembly Presbyterian Church
San Francisco
Cal
Dawes Commission Report on Indian Territory Enrollment Policy
The Dawes Indian commission sent its report to the interior department outlining enrollment and citizenship for Creek Choctaw and Seminole lands. It warns of fraud by certain groups including freedmen and notes opposition from various forces aiming to defeat the policy while preparing to enroll the Creeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dawes Indian Commission
Interior Department
Pla
J. W. Dunn
Act of the Indian Council
Cizens
Painted the Town and the Fateful Royalty Tale
A quip about an author earning 60 cents in royalties for a year's sales ends with him buying wine and painting the town red, then paying a $10 fine plus costs to a literary recorder. The piece notes that early hatched chickens fetch best prices when money is tight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Stanton
Heartlesti UN Literary Recorder
Texas Legislature Focuses on Appropriation Bill in House
In Austin on April 29 the Texas House spent most of the session on the general appropriation bill. Tolbert took oath as Grayson county's new member. A move to set May 6 for sine die was tabled. The Tyler Southwestern purchase was approved with amendments about court rulings on line status and railroad rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
J.H. Tolbert
Grayson County
P. Evans
Powell
Bailey
House
Mercer
St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company
Tyler Southwestern Railroad
Bolin
Senate
Garner
Prince
St. Louis Southwestern
Railroad Commission
Derden
Yeas
Great Cheering Texas Chautauqua Opens July 4 1899
Colorado marks the Chautauqua start in Boulder with a forty day program of superb music and top entertainers. A complete summer school features a distinguished faculty and new electric railway links Boulder to the grounds. The Denver Road offers routes to the NEA and Chautauqua, with A A Glisson and Ceeler handling communications and traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
America
Boulder
Denver
A. A Glisson
Also Mentioned on This Page
R. M. Wilson
Pancy Grocery Line
Jno, M. Lawrence & Co
Texas Bakery
Otto Boehme
Texas
Bryan
Tyler Haswell
Medicine
Children
Hall’s
Hall’s Drug Store
Bryan, Texas
Paul M. Baylor
James Drug Store
Reedenee
Lake
Woodmen of the World
Home Forum
Hearne
W.B. Miers
G. N. Bates
D. J. Price
Palestine
Commission
Bryan Water, Ice, Light and Power Company
Exehan
Ile
Texas Legislature
Gulf
Kansas City
5. W. Fordyce
St. Louis
Cotton Belt Railroad
Webster Withers
Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad
Memphis
Hugh D. Greer
Forrest
Southern Railway
Buniyn Station
Here
South Dakota
Deadwood
Black Hills
GI Bakery
E. Griesser
Profins
Webb
Tork
Ag& Ad
Veuier
Suvetaré
John M. Caldwell
Willis & Coleman
Hartman
Wooten
M. F. Heenan
The
D. J. Price, G. P
T. A
Palestine, Texas
John Wittmann
W. J
Charles Cranlyau, Tex
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