State Fair of Texas Announces 1905 Plans and Funding
Dallas citizens donate 1500 to build a fire-proof auditorium and $90,000 for premiums and attractions for the 1905 fair. No officer or director will be paid. all earnings for twenty years go to improving successive fairs. Gates open September 30 with sixteen days of livestock displays, racing for purses totaling $30,000, and a state and regional resource showcase. For details, address State Fair of Texas, Dallas.
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Dallas
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Urses
Yellow fever fight advances with sanitation survey
In New Orleans during August 25 reports show federal officers conducting a complete sanitary survey to locate every fever focus. Surgeon White urged disinfecting and screening all houses to stop yellow fever by October while authorities pursue unknown foci and coordinate with rail lines and local boards. Several outbreaks and civic measures prompted talks with priests, Italians in Good Hope, and Bayou Beauregard cases, with nine new cases and three deaths by noon Friday.
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Charles Saignac
Bayou Boeuf
Robert Boyce
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Russo
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Chalmette Crew Members Put in Quarantine on Island Observation
Two Chalmette crew members from New Orleans were removed from the steamer at quarantine due to high temperatures and were transferred to Hoffman Island for observation.
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New York
Chalmette
New Orleans
Hoffman Island
Carpenters Win Wage Increase For Boston Union
Six thousand Boston union carpenters win higher pay after Judge George T. Wentworth acts as special arbitrator. The agreement raises the hourly rate from 37 1/2 cents to 41 cents and the eight hour day from $3 to $3.28, with double time for overtime and an eight hour day instead of nine for shop and mill hands.
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Boston
George T. Wentworth
Wapanucka Shooting Leaves Bailey Wounded Near Town
Sam Bailey was shot and probably fatally wounded by Drewey Hackworth six miles north of Wapanucka Oklahoma. Both are young men from prominent families who were said to be closely united. The quarrel stemmed from a dispute over a horse trade.
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Wapanucka
I. T
Sam Bailey
Drewey Hackworth
Slick simple scheme tied to missing baggage ring
Chicago police arrest Roy Aldrich alias Roy Espey and a woman named Patsy Death in a baggage theft ring. They confessed a plan where an agentchecks an almost empty trunk for a shirt then exchanges it for a high value trunk, liquidating the dummy trunk at destination. Detectives pursue missing items across rail lines. the Dean woman says much is in stores but withholds locations.
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Inter Ocean
St Louis
Denver
Roy Aldrich
Roy Espey
Ifornia
Miss Dean
Aldriah
Dean
Japanese peace delegation tours Amoskeag mills in Manchester
A train from Portsmouth carrying a special car with Japanese peace delegation members arrived in Manchester at 10 15 AM. The visitors did not exit at the station and rode to the Amoskeag Manufacturing yard where they promptly began a tour of the company’s large mills.
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Portsmouth
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
Baron Komura Leaves Portsmouth for Manchester Factory Visit
Baron Komura and four members of the Japanese peace mission departed Portsmouth for Manchester to tour the city’s cotton mills. Mr. Takahira did not accompany the party.
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Baron Komura
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Takahira
Anxiety in Paris as Portsmouth talks face discouraging news
Anxiety runs high in official circles in Paris over the Portsmouth conference outcome after discouraging advices. Private reports indicate Grand Duke Vladimir, uncle of the emperor, is using his influence to push for peace.
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Portsmouth
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Jump of Death on Eads Bridge Claimed Laura Oxford
In St Louis on August 25 Laura Oxford thirty two escaped from her uncle during a return trip to Texas and jumped from a Burlington train stopped on the Eads bridge. She drowned in the Mississippi River as she had been reportedly troubled by nervous distress. In Washington a cable from Yokohama says the ship Australia owned by the Sprekels was seized but gives no reasons or details about the seizure.
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Ilinois
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Condensed Happenings From Across States
Two soldiers died of cholera at Manila. Galveston will be fumigated every Wednesday. Creek nation warrants payments begin on the 28th. Ardmore hosts a newly organized asphalt company. Warsaw is under martial law. The Old Arkansas Club building at Shawnee burned. A railroad bridge near Radom was blown up. Rev. C. I. Rankin gored by a bull at Guthrie. Cheyenne and Arapahoe seek guardianship investigations. American Bar Association opposes bankruptcy law repeal. Muskogee Gun Club, with over sixty-five members, organized. Guthrie area Negro Baptists hold annual convention. National Irrigation Congress urges extending reclamation act to Texas. Lamar Avenue Baptist Church in Paris to build a $15,000 structure.
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Galveston
Radom
Poland
C. I. Rankin
Guthrie
Okla
Arapahoe
New York Cure Claim From Raw Vegetable Juice
Physicians report at New York Post Graduate Hospital announce a cure for pulmonary tuberculosis using raw vegetable juice from potatoes beets carrots onions celery and similar vegetables. They claim eleven patients are cured and fifty more progress well while noting experiments started small and later scaled with machinery.
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New York
New York Post- Graduate Hospital
Railroad suit urged against Houston and Texas Central
Austin Aug. 25 The railroad commission orders the attorney general to sue Houston and Texas Central for charter forfeiture claiming it runs parallel to Southern Pacific, owned by the same company. The comptroller notes many county judges are slow in sending Confederate pension applications approved at the August term. over 600 remain on file and timely forwarding is needed for the October 1 apportionment.
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Houston and
Texas Central Railway
Southern Pacific Railway
Austin
Survey Finishes on Waterfront Lines Patents Sought
Beaumont reports Charles Rogan completed a subvect survey to set waterfront boundaries. W. P. H. McFadden seeks patents claiming interruption by Noah Tevis league lands. survey confirms current owners and weakens McFadden claim. Local unions cancel Labor Day celebration due to quarantine demoralization.
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H. McFadden
McFadden
Peaumont
Shooting at Hossin leaves George Brown critical
In Comanche Texas on August 25 George Brown was shot twice at Hossin and is in critical condition. His brother in law James Nunly was jailed in connection with the incident.
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Hossin
Here
George Brown
James Nunly
Found Dead in Oak Cliff Man Identified as J. F. Baldwin
Dallas August 25 a young man named J. F. Baldwin was found dead in Oak Cliff with heart disease suspected as the cause.
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Dallas
Cof J. F. Baldwin
Oak Cliff
Roads Hold Back As City Passes Reopen Train Service
In Shreveport on Aug 25 only one road, the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Co., had used the Thursday permission to attach passenger cars to freight trains and run to the parish boundary. The detainment camp now detains travelers lacking health certificates as citizens return to the city amid economic strain.
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Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company
Couple welcome twenty three children claims largest family
Mr and Mrs Allen C Depp of Hickory Run claim the largest family in America after the birth of twins and their 23rd child. The pair, aged about forty, have been married eighteen years and already count six pairs of twins among their children. Depp works as a railroad section foreman.
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Allentown
Allen C. Depp
Hickory Run
America
Depp
Fourteen Perished in Tabasco Flood Near Trinidad
Hastings reports possibly fourteen persons drowned in a Tabasco flood sixteen miles north of Trinidad, Colorado. Local authorities and responders await confirmation and details from Hastings.
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Colo
Hastings
Tabasco
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