Local residents stop by and travel notices fill page
Names from Bethel Millican Hearne and Hempstead appear as visitors and travelers. Aegle Knight and others visit Hempstead Carrs Hardware and Alexandria Cemetery work is announced for Friday. Local ads note ride to deliver cotton seed hulls and a restaurant open day and night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aegle Knight
Hempstead
A. M. Carlton
Crocket
J.T. Leathers
Edge
Eagle Office
Alexandria
Alexandria Chapel
Bryan city council approves street labor ordinance and resignations
The Bryan city council met last night with all officers present. Mayor Adams announced the agenda and the council passed an ordinance requiring all able bodied male residents aged 21 to 45 to work on streets five days or pay a per day fine, with a substitute option. A new corporation court was established and mayor acts as ex-officio recorder. Clerk salary terms and fee structure were set, and a street commissioner was discussed but no action taken. Mayor Adams and Alderman Harris resigned, and an election for mayor and one alderman was ordered for Sept. 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
Bryan
City of
Corporation Court of
Corporation Court
Justice Courts
W. W. Harris
B. F. Leman
Orphanage Fire Kills Three In New York Convent
Fire at the Dominican sisters orphanage in Sparkville Rockland county morning blaze traps inmates. Three dead include Helen Brown Emma Mackay Teresa Murphy. Twenty injured among nurses and staff. asylum housed 850 children. damage about 100000 dollars.
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New York
Domican Sisters
Sparkville
Rockland County
Teresa Murphy
Helen Brown
Emma Mackay
Maria
Agnathius
Britain Faces Trade Decline in South America
Washington reports British Germany and Italy push to expand South American trade. Special commissioner T Worthington finds British goods losing ground to the United States Germany and other nations with price competition and quality gaps. American locomotives and skilled U S manufacturers gain footholds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Great Britain
Germany
Italy
South America
T. Worthington
Board of Trade
Mr. Worthington
United States
France
Worthington
Thorite is chosen high explosive for Philippine campaign
Washington reports thorite experiments satisfactory and recommended for use with high power guns in the Philippines. It explodes only with a detonator and when confined, with trials showing 10 inch shells failing to explode on a 5 inch plate. The report notes the moral effect of combined fire on Filipino opposition.
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Washington
Board of Ordnance and Fortifications
Manila
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Hearn
San Antonio
Hearne
HH. &T. OC
Pat Cole
Bethel Yester
S. C. Williams
Millican
J. F. Parks
Rick
Lang
Carr’s Hardware
Drf. Hood Boone
Navasota
W. L. Turner
J. Felton Lane
John H. Wilson
Prattville
Ala
Jno
B. Hines
N. Henderson
Austin
W. H. Kinney
Ennis
Chauncey Lowry
J. A. Palmer
Madisonville
Richard Knoblauch
Rigsby
Kennedy
W. J. Christian
Knox
Waco
Marlin
Gatesville
E. J. Fountain
Edinburg
Zennati
Straight Life
Joe B. Reed
D. Giles
Cypress
W. R. Hardy
R. R. Royall
College Station
M. David
Bremond
John B. Mike
W. A. Reed
Bernard Laski
Wellborn
C. G. Hempfling
A. Hill
Mary Campbell
Bell County
The
Navasota Examiner
Thad Williams
Eula Lewis
Alice Dunlap
Minnie Ferguson
Osborn Johnson
Robert Johnson
J. Howell
Sallie
Rowland
Mary and
Nellie Rehde
City
Chas
Blatherwick
Blair
Wilson-Jenkins Drug Co
Ory Council
Davis
Ponce
War Department
Mansfield
Ind
William W. Moran
Deadwood
Col
Golden Reward Company
Coney Island
Pittsburg
Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment
Philippines
Thorite
Rome
Father Kearney
Olympia
Harrison
Kokomo
William Henry Harrison
North Bend
Cincinnati
Tippecanoe” Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Enrico Malatesta
Paterson
N. J
Texarkana
Tex
Edward Costello
Keeley
F. Whyche
Cotton Belt
Dwinnell-Wright
White House
MO. M. Lawrence
P. & W. Quinine
Austin Nursery
F. T. Ramsey
Zuber & McDougald
Texas
Kandy Kitchen
Lowney’s and
Gunther
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