West Texas prairie lure draws Brazos seekers to Castro county
Dimmitt August 12 1907 reports Brazos county residents relocating to Castro county Texas. Dr Geo F Lee and family arrive, Dansbys visit, and land purchases total 1938 acres with 225 white faced cattle. Promotes July August relocations, beef clubs, farming yields, and cattle sales, noting Missourians and other eastern readers are invited to visit and relocate for land at Spring Lake Ranch and related holdings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazos County
Eagle
Geo. F. Lee
Dimmitt
Texas
D. M. Dansby
Sam Lee
Dr. Lee
Jim Lawless
Tobe Tobias
Brazos
Castro County
Castro
Plains
W. KE. Hassell
Vinita
I. T
Spring Lake Ranch
Geo. G. Wright Land Co
British firm awarded contract for battleships and cruisers
The Chronicle reports a British shipbuilding firm won a government contract for several warships including battleships cruisers and gunboats. Insurance records show about 35 million dollars covering building and launching risks for a two year period. Separately telegraphic orders from Colonel Nottingham sent fifteen more militiamen from the Seventy first Virginia to Onancock and Tasley to reinforce troops amid race troubles on Virginia's eastern shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Russia
Chronicle
Norfolk
Nottingham
Seventy-first Virginia Regiment
Onancock and
Tasley
Virginia
Garfield Busy Secretary of the Interior in Oklahoma
Secretary James A Garfield endured a strenuous day in Indian Territory riding to McKinney Rock and visiting the Choctaw council house where about 1000 people, mainly full blood Choctaws, heard his speech. He noted plans to sell surface coal lands to bona fide settlers and keep remaining lands until valued. Governor McCurtain acted as interpreter at the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ecretary of the Interior
Tuskahoma
I. T
Washington
Garfield
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
McKinney Rock
Jack Gordon
Paris
Tex
James KR. Garfield
Woman robbed on streetcar in Memphis
Mrs. W. A. Hartmere of Wynne Arkansas reports a purse with $15 in cash, a diamond brooch valued at 459, a pearl ring with ruby and six pearls, and visiting cards missing from a Main Street car. Officers will pursue leads as passengers recall the bag’s hijack on boarding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Memphis
W. A. Hartmere
Wynne, Ark
Union
Hartmere
Bones Unearthed as Streetcar Line Probed in Decatur
In Decatur Alabama August 22 workers digging for a streetcar track uncovered three skulls and bones from two skeletons near the old Methodist church site burned in a recent lightning strike. Coffins and buttons from Civil War uniforms were also found. Local Black laborers grew fearful and urged quitting work amid superstitions linking the church’s destruction to the graveyard excavation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Ala
United States
Mills Bros. Co. Failure Announced on Exchange Floor
The Stock Exchange floor announced the failure of Mills Bros. & Co. of New York. The firm is not described as prominent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mills Bros. & Co
Stock Exchange
Exchange
Yellow fever reports show new case in St Nicholas Cuba
Reports to the war department from Cuba indicate one new yellow fever case at St. Nicholas while Cienfuegos reports no new cases and overall conditions are favorable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Cuba
St. Nicholas
Cienfuegos
Origin of the Speaker's Mace in Congress
The Cleveland Plain Dealer recounts the Speaker's mace as a symbol of authority in the U S House. It traces its roots to Roman lictors and the fasces, then to English magistrates and the house of commons, with the US House adopting a mace modeled after the original. The first mace burned in 1814 and the current mace dates from 1842.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
House of Representatives
Washington
Britain
House of Commons
United States
House of Commonus
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Attitude Toward Forgiveness and Self Growth
A column from the Atchison Globe reflects on family influence and personal responsibility. It cautions against balancing forgiveness with punishment and notes that dignified effort does not guarantee respect. It suggests youths gain maturity by equal footing with older peers and warns against envy from comparing finances.
Germicidal tobacco smoke and a cat meat note
The article cites tobacco smoke and its germicidal components including nicotine, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and pyridine as powerful antiseptics. It also recounts a theater owner who trims costs, removing a line about cat meat used to protect props from rats, after a tramp’s inquiry about samples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Clever Girl from Berlin Journal dialogue
The Berlin Journal quotes a mother and daughter discussing a kiss at a railway station. The daughter explains she kissed Franz to preserve appearances and prevent scandal by making it seem like a relative kissed him too.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franz
Berlin Journal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mace
Shoop
Dr. Shoop
M. H. James
Biank J
Monroe Edge
Bryan, Texas
Slaoop
H. James
Taliaferro Buithing
Court House
Germany
Darmstadt
W.S. D
Atchison Globe
Catholic Standard and Times
Royde
JF. Mitchell
Higgs & Haygood
Mien
Sre Wittman
Lttreh
S.H. Franklin
Holmes & Parker
Stevenson Machine and Repair Works
Bryan
EK. J. Jenkins
Public Stenographer Office
W. B. Hudson
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!