For Sale Land and Houses Around MWtown and Boehme Property
For sale list includes 40 acres of pasture partly in city limits with stock water at $15 per acre. one and a quarter acres near a schoolhouse in southeast MWtown with a shallow cottage and tenant house. brick cistern on site with price $1250. one quarter block near Allen Academy east front at $250. terms easy. additional city property near railroad and Boehme's property.
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Schos
Mwtown
Allen Academy
East Front
Villato Boehme
Courageous Captain Bohn to Meet President Over Rescue
Captain Bohn, master of the German steamship Barcelona, who saved fifteen seamen near New York harbor during a gale, sails to Washington for a White House audience with President Roosevelt. He risked his own ship and crew to rescue the lifeboat crews amid rough seas and breakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News
Bohn
Barcelona
Hamburg
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
New York Harbor
Long Island
Purdy Passes Away Former Chicago Public Works Commissioner
William H. Purdy of Chicago died at his home on December 4. He arrived from Baltimore in 1857 and served as assistant superintendent of machinery for the Illinois Central Railroad before being named commissioner of public works under the Harrison and Cregier administrations. He is survived by his widow and two daughters Mrs. Frank W. Baker of Benton Harbor Michigan and Mrs. Philip E. Harroun of Berkeley California.
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Chicago
William H. Purdy
City of
Purdy
Baltimore
Illinois Central Railroad
Carter H. Harrison
DeWitt Cregier
DeWitt Cregier. Mr. Purdy
Frank W. Baker
Benton Harbor, Mich
Philip E. Harroun
Berkeley, Cal
Texas Cattle Wins Big At Chicago Livestock Show
A Texas car of yearling cattle fed by T. S. Chapman of Jerseyville Illinois won first in its class at the Chicago livestock exhibit. J C ONeill of Illinois won second in Chapman's class with grain fed Texans. Swanson Bros range calves, all Texans, took first prize. Texas A and M College earned first in the college fed class. Attendance reached 30,000 and a Texas razorback hog drew curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lone Star State
Chicago
T. S. Chapman
Jerseyville
Ill
J. C. O'Neill
Illinois
Chapman
Swanson Bros
Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
Texas
Snow General Reaches North Texas and Territories
North Texas Oklahoma and Indian Territory report snow on Wednesday night with Purcell showing two inches and Guthrie’s temperature dropping thirty degrees. Brownwood reports a blizzard and tensions rise as Great Britain and Germany begin punitive moves toward Venezuela. Six witnesses testified in Scranton in a wage dispute case involving a 20 percent wage rise and coal prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Texas
Territories
Dallas
Texas
Oklahoma
Purcell
I. T
Guthrie
Brownwood
Scranton
Mitchell
Texarkana Man Held Without Bail For Wife’s Murder
Lee Wieg el waived preliminary trial through his attorney and was held for the grand jury without bail in the Cosmopolitan hotel murder case in Texarkana Arkansas. In Dallas the Austin conference of the Methodist Episcopal church met with Bishop Mallalieu presiding and graduate exams and a conference reception noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texarkana
Ark
Lee Weigel
Cosmopolitan
Austin
Dallas
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mallalieu
Additions to Confederate Home Sought by Daughters
Daughters of the Confederacy adopt a unanimous resolution urging Governor elect Lanham to press the legislature to enact measures adding to the Confederate home in Austin. Fort Worth.
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Fort Worth
Dec
The
Daughters of the Confederacy
Elect Lanham
Austin
House OKs 50000 to cover anthracite strike commission costs
The House approved a bill authorizing 50000 dollars to defray expenses of the anthracite coal strike commission and adjourned to Friday. Debate praised the president for creating the body, with some opposition over authority and salary provisions. Speaker named Sheppard as a committee member. an amendment to pay John Mitchell was defeated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gray
Washington
House
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Burton
Sheppard
Dem
Cochran
Feely
Daines
Tenn
Congress
Cannon
Griffith
Ind
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Mitchell
Illinois
John
Sanitary Conference Reports Health Conditions
Washington December 4. The sanitary conference of the American republics heard delegate reports on conditions and offered numerous suggestions. Dr Juan Guiteras Cuba noted no yellow fever cases in Cuba for fourteen months. Dr Moore Chile invited a meeting in Santiago de Chile and Mexico City echoed the call. Dr Ulloa Costa Rica protested New Orleans port restrictions on Costa Rican goods as unjust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sanitary Conference
Juan Guiteras
Havana
Cuba
Moore
Chili
Santiago de Chili
Mexico
Ulloa
Costa Rica
New Orleans
Farewell Lunch for Vienna Surgeon Lorenz in Chicago
Dr. Lorenz and his assistant Dr. Friederich Mueller were honored at a farewell lunch at the Chicago Athletic Association. Hosted by Prof. Lorenz' former Vienna student Dr. Felipe Kreisel, they depart for the east to conduct orthopedic clinics in Baltimore Philadelphia New York and Boston before sailing from New York later this month.
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Chicago
Lorenz
Vienna
Friederich Mueller
Chicago Athletic Association
Felipe Kreisel
East
Mueller
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Break in the Levee Near Shreveport Warns Settlers
A Shreveport Times telegraph from Belcher La reports a levee break ten miles above Shreveport at 8 30 with warners sent to lowland settlers. The break widened from 60 feet to 100 feet by 10 00, caving Thompson place.
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Shreveport
Shreveport Times
Belcher
Thompson Place
Roosevelt Message Draws Favorable Comment In Mexico
President Roosevelt's message elicits strong praise in City of Mexico with the Mexican Herald predicting much of it will be quoted in years to come. Observers compare its virile prose to the German emperor's style and note the American tone as unusually forceful and well crafted. Geo. D. Cook, a Chicago and New York baker, meets government officials and discusses Greater New York bankers supporting a gold basis for Mexico.
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City of Mexico
Roosevelt
Mexican Herald
Geo. D. Cook
Chicago
New York
Mexico
Texas News In Brief Highlights Accidents and Events
Denison anti cigarette ban listed. suicides near Nacogdoches and Sabine bodies found. wrecks on Dallas rail line. Castleberry murder suicide. Missing $30,000 in Danville stamps. Smithville cooperative store formed. Beaumont oil shipments near 12 million barrels. Apple tree bloomed four times near McKinney. Duck hunts near Corpus Christi. Atlanta editor Evan Howell elected mayor of Atlanta. Sabine man sues neighbors in Indiana court. Grandson shoots grandfather near Rock Hill. Houston romance ties union. Pemberton Gatewood dies at Ennis. Muddy Granbury fields hinder rabbits. Brewery workers dispute settled. Fort Worth couple wed. Cuban tobacco soil found in eastern Texas. Spanish War Nurses convene in Washington. Peanut yield in Lamar County. Constabulary inspector Hendrix killed. Travelers' Protective Association organized in South McAles ter. Lake Charles carpenters dispute resolved. Navy secretary urges more coaling stations and ships. Mrs. Olin Denman burned in Smith County. Sherman visit injuries. Texas battleship guns explode near Old Point. Denison school elected president. Red River horses suffer blind staggers epidemic.
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Denison
Tex
Newt
Pike
Nacogdoches
D. Co
Kelp
Wichita Falls
Central Railway
Dallas
Castleberry
Ala
J. A. Stubbs
Internal Revenue Office
Danville
Smithville
Beaumont Oil
C. I. Talkington
McKinney
Brad Johnson
Sabine
Durbin
Indiana
Texas
Corpus Christi
Evan P. Howell
Atlanta
8. C. Red
Houston and Texas Central Railway
Houston
Georgia Plunkett
Waco
Pemberton Gatewood
Ellis County
Ennis
Virginia
Granbury
Hood County
Cincinnati
Covington
Newport
United Brewery Workers
A. L. Matlock
Fort Worth
Susan Polk Hyman
Stephenville
Secretary of Agriculture
Spanish War Nurses’ Association
Washington
Charles W. Fairbanks
Daughters of the American Revolution
S. B. Blankenship
Blossom
Lamar County
Paris
Hendrix
Lamar Island
Travelers’ Protective Association
Indian Territory
South McAles
Lake Charles
Secretary of the Navy
Olin Denman
Carroll
Smith County
Sherman, Tex
Julia Whetmarsh
Minden
Old Point
Co. T. Work of
San Francisco
Girls’ Industrial School
Denton
Red River
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J. W. Batts
Brazos County
L&g.n
Memphis
ST. Louis
Janary
D. J. Price
G.P
T.A. T
Moe Scor
Munn ¢ Co
Scientific American
York Vnn & Co
Eugene Field
Field
E. C. DeWitr & Co
H. B. Dorsey
Brave Bohn
Texas Cattle First
Snow General
Germany
London
Great Britain
Venezuela
Jeff D. Feild
Norman
Oklo
Corsicana
Nathan S. Jarrell
Baldwin
Wilhelm
Tows
Marquette, Mich
Terrell
Commission
Laredo
Limantour
United States
Commercial Club
Morgan
Alabama
Senate
Spanish Claims Commission
Maine
Chi
Texas Central
Importange
Dallas, Austin, Waco, FT. Worth
B. Morse
T. J. Anderson
Houston, Corsicana
M. L. Robbins
Gen
Pass & Tkt, Agt
Allphin
S$. H. Allphin
Bryan
James & Hart
Ugs
Franklin Brothers
GSE
Equpion
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos
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