Governor Sayers Pushes Sixteen Subjects to Special Session
Governor Sayers sent a second message to the Texas legislature listing sixteen topics for the upcoming special session. Items include tax and land redemption reforms, county and city debt relief, Gulf coast seawalls, oil tax, and school and health care provisions.
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Austin
Sayers
State of
Texas
House of Representatives
Attorney General
Comptroller of Public Accounts
United States
Greer County
City of
County of
Cass
Gulf of Mexico
Childress
Childress County
Demand for turnip seed in Missouri amid drought
The text notes strong demand for turnip seed in Missouri to salvage a crop where other vegetables failed due to drought. It also reports a Nebraska find of a decomposed roll of greenbacks in Fairbury, with a $1000 bill among the pieces, sent to Washington for identification and redemption.
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Etteville
Ozarkark
Missouri
Fairbury
Neb
Treasury Department
Washington
Wreck on the Alton near Jacksonville Illinois
The Chicago and Alton Hummer wrecked in Prentice yards at 12:20 am after a head end collision with a freight. Five killed, six injured including engineer Don Sheehan and fireman John Adams. Passengers escaped unharmed. Lights out, engines and tenders demolished. cause uncertain with theories of freight slipping onto main track. Rescue workers amputated engineer Sheehan's legs to save his body.
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Jacksonville
Ills
Chicago and Alton
Chicago
Prentice
Here
Don Sheehan
Passen
Robert Kiley
Hi. H. Howatt
Bloomington
Charles Marshall
St. Louis
Charles Simms
Longdale
William Maron
Stuttgart
Ark
A. L. Wood
Sheehan
Knox Replies On United States Steel Corporation Probes
Attorney General Knox informs H. B. Martin, chairman of the Anti trust league joint committee, that he has no knowledge of alleged agreements among United States Steel Corp officials. He notes past service as Carnegie Steel legal adviser and denies any official ties to the trust, saying access to such papers would raise issues not discussed.
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Washington
Knox
American Anti-trust League
District Assembly
Knights of Labor
United States Steel Corporation
H. B. Martin
The
Anti-trust League
United Steel Corporation
M. Schwab
United States Industrial Commission
Carnegie Company
Steel Trust
Carnegie Steel Company
Umpire Dies After Baseball Game Scuffle Near Terre Haute
Ora Jennings, 20 miles south at Farmersburg, suffered a fractured skull after Marcellus Forbes struck him with a bat in anger over a disputed call. Forbes, an ex convict, is jailed at Sullivan.
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Terre Haute
Ora Jennings
Farmersburg
Here
Marcellus Forbes
Jennings
Forbes
Sullivan
Bank Opens in Clarksville and Miscellaneous Local Notes
News in brief reports a bank with 50 000 dollars capital opening at Clarksville Arkansas a man from Imboden Arkansas finds a pearl sold for 550 dollars a Chicago dog carries a jewel bag of diamonds found by a child near an Arkansas town Marshal Vernon of Bogue Chitto Mississippi captures a bootlegger with 113 beer bottles and 5 whisky bottles section hands near Harrison Nebraska kill 26 rattlesnakes in one day the sugar beet crop around Grand Island Nebraska is not seriously affected and Ozark and Cherokee Central tracklaying progresses between Fay.
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Clarksville
Ark
Chicago
Marshal Vernon
Bogue Chitto
Miss
B. Bixler
Harrison
Neb
Grand Island
Ozark
Cherokee Central
Fay
Boston Swordfish Breaks Market Weight Record
The Carrie F. Roberts returned from offshore with the largest swordfish seen in Boston market. Nearly half a ton before dressing the fish weighed 680 pounds at 11 feet long. It carried a three foot rapier and was harpooned southeast of the Isle of Snoals after a two hour battle.
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Boston
Carrie F. Roberts
Isle of Snoals
Baltimore Shipyard to Rise With Structural Iron Works
Aug 21 report says capitalists tied to the United Fruit Company of Boston have bought a controlling stake in the Structural Iron and Steel Company of Baltimore. A shipyard will be established in connection with the iron works. William Stillwell serves as president.
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Baltimore
Structural Iron and Steel Company of
United Fruit Company of
Boston
William ¥. Stillwell
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Batavia
Sue
California
East Texas
Nuwel Drocers
BAUS
Just
Tyler Haswell
Franklin Brothers
Alton
Ger
John Adams
Patally
Vinita
I. T
Misa Eleanor Goodin
Chelsea
Miss Gooding
Holden
Kansas City
Bryan Grocery CO
Wil
J. £. Ponder
Mneeda
Bryan
Worley
Battle Ax
Dee Mike, JR
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