Redistricting Priority Dominates Texas Legislature
From Austin to Dallas and Palestine, Aug 9 reports show Texas lawmakers prioritizing redistricting over appropriations. Senate finance and redistricting committees make little progress while the governor faces requests for new measures and a split chamber schedule unfolds.
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Austin
House
Senate
Finance Committee
First National Bank of Austin
Kennedy
Gulf Coast
Houston
Galveston
Brazos
Aransas Pass
Fire destroys Anthony Hordern & Sons in Sydney
Reports from the Moana describe the July 13 blaze that consumed the Anthony Hordern & Sons department stores, wiping out one of the world’s largest retailers. About 1600 workers served 80,000 daily customers, with losses over 5 million dollars and four employees killed by fire.
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Victoria
Moana
Anthony Hordern & Sons
Sydney
Australia
Monster
Shipbuilding Combine in Works Backed by Cramp and Others
New York reports a shipbuilding trust details set, with Cramp as backbone and Newport News aiding. Planned members include McVicar Bethlehem works Union Iron Works Bath Iron Works Hyde Windlass Crescent Ship Yard Samuel L. Morisons and Ganda Manufacturing. Capitalization around 265 million and Cramp stockholders may swap into 7 percent preferred stock. In Berlin, Dresdener Bank notes counterfeit checks linked to a Boston man in the American Express office robbery.
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Newport News Company
McVicar
Bethlehem
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
Bath Ironworks
Hyde Windlass Company
Bath
Crescent Ship Yard
Elizabethport
N. J
Samuel L. Moresons
Ganda Manufacturing Company
Carter, N. J
United States Ship- Landing Company
Cramp Company
Cramp
Berlin
Dresdener Bank
Associated Press
E. E
Bolles
Kaiserhof
Boston
American Express Company
Auction of a Negro Man in Taylorsville Court House Scene
In Taylorsville Kentucky a crowd witnessed Auctioneer Crabb sell Sy Lewis a Black man to Arch Hays for $9 after a vagrancy conviction. Lewis was sentenced to nine months servitude. In Denver a Mrs Hitchcock shot James W Roberta and his wife in a Sixteenth Street candy store. both are expected to recover. Jealousy reported as the motive.
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Taylorsville
Crabb
Sy Lewis
Vthenegro
Arch Hays
Lewis
Denver
Philip Hitchcock
James W. Roberta
Sixteenth Street
News in Briefs from Across the Nation
Obituary notes include David R. Searcy grand secretary of the Knights of Honor who died in New Orleans and ex Governor William A. Newell who died in Allentown. A list of accidents and fires reports injuries and fatalities from Illinois Kansas Missouri and Pennsylvania with losses and brief incidents.
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David R. Searcy
The
Knights of Honor
New Orleans
William A. Newell
Allentown
A. Jones
Mangan
O. T
Tena Corder
Wellington
Kas
Joseph Drexel
Bloomington
Illa
Cyrus Patterson
Macon
Webb Morris
Parsons
George BE. Gibb
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Denver
Weldon
Glenside
Sallie Crowther
Resort Cheer Promotes Falstad Bottle Beer
Readers are invited to cool off and enjoy life at their favorite resort while calling for Falstad bottle beer, a slogan emphasizing relaxation and refreshment.
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Falstad
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Irene
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Humbert
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Chicago
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M. L. Robbins
A. G. Newsum
T. J. Anderson
Waco
Liza
F. A. Lee
Otto Boehme’s
Otto Boehme
Standpipe
Harper
J. L. Hearne
W. B. Hudson
J. G. Minkert
Hudson & Minkert
Livan
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J. W. Batts
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