Bible sales as altruism in world spread and war notes
A Christian Observer column questions declining religion while noting the Bible's vast global reach in 1907. It cites 16 million copies in print, calls the spread altruistic, and cites a San Mateo battle praise for General Lawton’s aide as an aside. The box also mentions a forthcoming book The Campaign of Santiago de Cuba by A. C. McClurg & Co. and a Monthly Bulletin of New Books.
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San Mateo
Lawton
Otis
Sargent
Santiago de Cuba
A. C. McClurg & Co
The Santiago Campaign Strategic Study by Col Herbert H Sargent
Colonel Herbert Howland Sargent author of Napoleon campaigns books writes The Campaign of Santiago de Cuba. A veteran of the Spanish American War he led a volunteer regiment and served as lieutenant colonel of the Twenty ninth Volunteer Infantry in the Philippines.
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Herbert Howland Sargent
Santiago de Cuba
Sargent
Philippines
Twentyninth Regiment
Twentyninth Regiment of Volunteer Infantry
Manila
Islands
Navasota Defeats Bryan 5 to 2 in Baseball
Navasota beat Bryan 5 to 2 in a recent afternoon game. The matchup took place at Bryan as the two teams played a full nine innings. Navasota pushed ahead with early scoring and held on for the win.
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Navasota
Bryan
House for sale near 221 with 13 percent interest offer
For sale notice offers a newly finished house priced at 650 dollars. Calls for contact with W. A. Dodson at 221 for details.
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W. A. Dodson
Insurance Notice by J B Hines in Smith Building
Representing all lines of insurance in 1907 J B Hines invites liberal business and promises prompt attention. Office upstairs in Smith Building phone 116. urges complete coverage to avoid loss and offers Texas inducements. Contact today for insurance needs. 139 tf
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Smith Building
Jno. B. Hines
Texas
J. B. Hines
Cannon Reduces Smoking During Rustication
Plattsburg New York August 23 Speaker Cannon who has been rusticating here says he is nearly up smoking. He reveals that after forty years of smoking twelve to fifteen cigars daily he now smokes three or four.
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Plattsburg
N. Y
Speaker Cannon
Boarding House Burns in Birmingham Fire
Fire at Mrs. Merritt’s boarding house destroys the Merritt residence and nearby homes of Mrs. Glenn and O. P. Green. Boarder H. S. Stern leaped from a window to escape the flames and suffered serious injuries.
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Birmingham
Dothan
Merritt
Glenn
O. P. Green
Stern
Velasco to Become Gulf Coast Seaport With New Rail Line
A Dallas era claim notes construction of a forty mile extension from Velasco to Houston, creating the Houston and Brazos Valley line. It envisions Velasco as a future Gulf coast gateway with dockage, sugar lands, and potential immigration boosts tied to Rock Island Fusco interests and expanded terminals.
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Chicago Post
Houston
Texas
Velasco
Brazos River
Gulf Coast
Great Plains
Galveston
Brazos
Northern
Rock Island- Fusco
Houston and
Brazos Valley
Plateau
Tidewater
Rock Island
Europe
Middle
Southwest
Colorado
Louisiana
Mrs Ryan Awarded Countess Title by Pope
Rome bestowed the title of countess on Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan in recognition of her Catholic Church and charity work. The honor, said to have been decided last December, was publicly announced now. Her gifts to church and charitable causes reportedly run into millions.
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New York
Rome
Pope Pius
Thomas F. Ryan
Brother of slain man hires attorney in Kennedy case
The brother of Jim Kennedy, alleged to have been beaten to death by guards on a county road in July, engages attorney W. L. Love to aid in the prosecution.
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Kennedy
Jim Kennedy
W. L. Love
Gun Fight Near Kentucky Fair Grounds Leaves Several Wounded
News from Barboursville near the Knox county fair grounds reports two men killed and three men and one woman badly wounded in a free for all gunfight. Coon stable Campbell and Edward Smith died, John Warren and Ralph Tuggle are seriously hurt. Warren's mother was shot and had her arm amputated. One arrest made.
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London
Knox County Fair
Barboursville
Coonstable Campbell
Edward Smith
John Warren
Ralph Tuggle
Warren
Borax Barred Emission Sparks Buenos Aires Advisory
Enrique Fynd head of the chemical lab recommends prohibition of any consumable containing borax. Foreign trade report shows six months imports total 1.3 billion pesos gold, up 13 million, with United States imports at 70 million pesos.
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Buenos Ayres
Enrique Fynd
Chemical Laboratory
Ministry of Agriculture
United States
Funds shortage halts Panama canal and rail work
Panama reports lack of funds delaying canal construction. Four thousand workers laid off on the Panama railroad project, with 1,000 more to be cut by municipal engineering. Clerical cuts expected and August excavation shows a large rise over July. Dublin Texas to get a chemical fire engine. An unidentified man was found dead near Carnegie Oklahoma.
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Panama
Department of Municipal Engineering
Robber Slain as Police End Chicago Hold Up
In Chicago on August 23 police killed a holdup man after he robbed a citizen and captured accomplice Thomas Kelly. The body of wealthy contractor Evender Melver was found in a basement stairwell with signs of violence and robbed of money and valuables.
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Chicago
Thomas Kelly
Fee
Kelly
Michael O'Neill
Thomas Roach
Evender Melver
McIver
Government orders suppress Katipunan flag in the Philippines
Manila reports the government orders suppression of the Katipunan flag and bans sale of emblems used by Nacionalist politicians who display the secret society insignia. Final election returns are not in, but cities show little change in the assembly's political makeup. Total vote tallied 97,803 about 14 percent of the population.
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Manilla
Philippines
Fire at Eagle White Lead works burns five hours
Wind shifts aided firefighters as a blaze at the Eagle White Lead works was brought under control five hours after discovery. Property worth about 750000 was destroyed, hundreds of tenement residents were displaced, and several acres of ground were burned. One person was seriously injured.
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Cincinnati
Eagle White Lead
Beaumont man B. F. Moran Dies Suddenly
Brief obituary notes the sudden death of B. F. Moran of Beaumont. Recent census data lists Ardmore population at 8 749.
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B. F. Moran
Beaumont
Ardmore
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