Brazos County Political Notes and Local Anecdotes
The Daily Eagle reports Brazos county politics amid renewed activity with T C Nunn and R H Kirk announced for sheriff and W G Mitchell seeking reelection as Justice of the Peace in Precinct No 4 Bryan. The piece notes signs of life, mentions Lyons as Republican State Chairman, a Wisconsin man eating fifty roasted ears, a Hunt County divorce suit, and local concerns on improvements to the Brazos river. It also references national events and a Palestine youth, Ford Nolan, who lost an ear in a runaway incident connected to a gun search.
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Office of Justice of the Peace
Brazos County
Bryan Precinct
Ford Nolan
Palestine
Poll tax refusal cuts Texas school funds, urges amendment
The Greenville Herald notes nearly 200 000 Texas men refused poll tax payments reducing public school funding by about 200 000 dollars. It argues for a poll tax amendment so all who vote contribute to government support as issues focus on Brazos improvements and boll weevil eradication.
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Greenville Herald
Texas
R K Kirk Seeks Brazos County Sheriff Office
Mr R K Kirk announces in the Eagle for Sheriff of Brazos County. A twenty four year resident he describes himself as sober industrious and qualified to enforce law without bias. He asks voters to consider his claims and vote for his candidacy.
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R. K. Kirk
Eagle
Brazos County
Kirk
Palestine Carnival Show in East Texas Sept 16 18
The East Texas Industrial and Fruit Show in Palestine runs September 16 to 18 with three days of entertainment. Spectacular parades Paine’s fireworks and military displays are planned. Railroads offer low rates and admission is free for all attendees.
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East Texas
Palestine
Texas
Carnival Association
Paine
U.S. Cavalry
Artillery
For Sale City Properties Near Allen Academy
South half of block near Allen Academy and four blocks from Main Street offer varied city properties. Prices range from 250 to 1250 dollars, with cottages, a six room house, two lots, a brick cistern, and railroad frontage. Terms easy and portions sold separately.
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Allen Academy
Main Street
East Front
Free eye care event offers stray crossed eyes treatment
Dr. Long, eye specialist, offers free eye straightening this week and half price glasses. Free eye tests available. Office located at Wilson Jenkins Drug Store, 231.
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Dr. Long
Wilson Jenkins Drug Store
Bargain on four room house with land and barn
A bargain listing the sale of a four room house with a dug well and a fine barn on 26 acres suitable for a truck farm. The property is valued at 1250 dollars but offered on easy terms for 700 dollars. Contact Cliff A. Adams at 244.
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Cliff A. Adams
Secretary Shaw Advises Banks to Prep Extra Currency if Need Arises
Secretary Shaw, while in New York, asks large national banks to reserve room for additional circulating notes. Banks may issue more notes up to 700 million in cap ital, though only 358 million now circulates. The move aims to be reactive, not inflationary, and to ease potential currency stringency without altering existing relief methods.
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Washington
Shaw
New York
Ailes
United States
Treasury Service
Miles Trip to the Philippines Sets Sail in September
General Nelson A. Miles travels from Washington with Mrs Miles and aides Colonel Whitney and Colonel Maus to the Philippines. They will stop twice en route in San Francisco and board the Transport Thomas bound for the Pacific on September 16. Mrs Miles may join beyond San Francisco.
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Miles
Philippine
Washington
Nelson A. Miles
Whitney
Maus
Philippines
San Francisco
Thomas
Pacific
Tragic Siblings and Wife Die in Little Rock Home
Kate Wagner killed her two children aged 6 and herself in north Little Rock on Sunday night by slashing throats with a razor. The bodies lay undiscovered until Thursday morning when they were found by Mrs. Wagner, wife of Rees J. Wagner, a machinist serving in El Paso for health. No motive is known.
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Little Rock
Ark
Kate Wagner
Rees J. Wagner
North Little Rock
Wagner
el Paso
Tex
Blacksmith Killed by Strikers in West Virginia
Bluefield West Virginia Aug 29 there is excitement on Crane creek and Simmons creek over the killing by strikers of John Ruble a blacksmith employed by Sagamore Coal and Iron company Arkansas Miners Strike Little Rock Aug 29 three hundred coal miners in the Spadra district have struck for a ten cent per ton wage increase and a settlement is expected
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Bluefield
W. Va
Crane Creek
Simmons Creek
John Ruble
Sagamore Coal and Iron Company
Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Spadra
Indian Police in Tishomingo Guard Inauguration Day
United States Indian Agent Shoenfelt arrives with a squad of Indian police to keep order during the Chickasaw government inauguration. Byrd partisans express support for Shoenfelt’s presence and deny intent to use violence or illegal means. In Huntington Tennessee a man is stabbed to death near Cedar Grove amid a disputed marriage controversy.
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Tishomingo
I. T
United States
Shoenfelt
Chickasaw
Byrd
Ter
Huntington
Tenn
F. E. Vinson
William Holmes
Cedar Grove
Here
Holmes
Woodward
Vinson
Bartender Fatally Shot in Accident at Beaumont
Louis Ball a Beaumont bartender was accidentally shot by friend Tom Fulton while a pistol was handed over. Ball died from complications after the bullet entered his stomach and traveled to the back. In Eagle Lake a man named Gus Jones was shot and killed in an affray. Henry Burschell was severely cut.
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Beaumont
Tex
Louis Ball
Tom Fulton
Ball
Fulton
Eagle Lake
Ramsey’s Point
Henry Burschell
Gus Jones
Burschell
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Daily Eagle
Gy Connelly & Carnes
T.C. Nunn
R. H Kirk
Justice OF the Peace
W. Gillie Mitchell
Lyon
Wisconsin
Hunt County
Bravos
East
Pennsylvania
Houston Post
Liwest
Emmel’s
Thelma
Emmel’s Prescription Pharmacy
Hunter
Chatham
J. W. Batts
Schoolluse
Otto Boehme
Oriental Prickly-Heat Powder Co
Houston
McDougald Drug Store
Plaws
Secretary of Treasury
Elite Restaurant
XN Oystar Parlor
Hinds
Bryan
Parsons Bottling Works
C. G. Parsons
Bryan, Texas
Crown Co
Peetle
Prin
John Wittman
Sas
Henry & Brogdon
Texas Central
S. F. B. Morse, Asa
Rat
Mgr
Dallas, Austin, Waco, FT. Worth
T. J. Anderson
M. L. Robbins
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