Palestine Council Grants Street Railway and Gas Franchise
The Palestine city council approves franchises for a street railway and a gas plant. Rockdale lignite fields are praised as potentially more valuable than Beaumont’s oil. Col W B Woody aims to bring a plant within months. Southern Cotton Growers’ Assoc head Harvie Jordan urges Southern farmers to diversify away from cotton.
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Palestine City Council
Crawford
Rockdale
Beaumont
W. B. Woody
Harvie Jordan
Southern Cotton Growers’ Association
Horlock v Brigance contest over Grimes prohibition election
The most important district court case in Grimes County is R A Horlock and others versus A F Brigance and others. It concerns the late prohibition election with antis claiming victory despite canvassed returns, alleging irregularities in the results.
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Anderson
District Court
Grimes County
R.A. Horlock
A. F. Brigance
Marshall Ships Cattle to National Live Stock Show
Prof. F. R. Marshall of the A and M College ships cattle to Chicago for prizes at the National Live Stock show. Two A and M students Evans and Deddell accompany the stock. Marshall will travel December 16 with students Loving Church Ashton Rice and Yakey to compete in the stock judging contest.
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F. R. Marshall
M. College
Chicago
Messrs
Evans
Deddell
M. Stuents
Prof
Marshall
Loving
Church
Ashton
Rice
Yakey
Galveston and Houston Rivalry Prompts Distant Debate
In Rockdale researchers test lignite briquettes while a continental quarrel rages over a Houston Galveston differential. The Galveston News champions Galveston against the Houston Post, each arguing to bridge distance and unify the sister cities amid wartime sentiment.
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Russia
Japan
Galveston
Houston
Galveston News
The
Houston Post
News and Post
Evolution of Electricity At Agricultural College Meeting
The Scientific Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College held its monthly meeting in the chemical lecture room with lectures by Dr. N. H. Brown on The Commercial Application of Electric Power and Prof. Conradi on Insects Injurious to Health. Brown traced electrical power progress from 1876 to 1892 noting electric railways and locomotives surpassing steam in speed and power. Conradi outlined mosquito varieties and malaria spread with slides and issued a committee to study mosquito control for the campus.
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Scientific Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College
N. H. Brown
Department of Electrical Engineers
Conradi
Department of
Entomology
Brown
Philadelphia
Great Troi
New York
New Haven
Hartford
Teets
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Boatwright
J. W. Howell
Guy M. Bryan
F. M. Law
L. L. McInnis
Connelly
Carnes
Texas
Messrs. Crawford and Young
California
A. and
M. Scientific Association
I. R. Batte & Co
LIBPR
Gotton
A. McKenzie
Santa Claus
Ters
Haswell's
Glass
China
Tyler Haswell
Tex-r
DeWitt
C. Dewitt & CO
Emmet & Maloney
Natize
Bryan Steam Laundry
Dhae
Old States
Mexico
G.N
D. J. Price
Palestine, Texas
W. H. Lawrence
W. C
Over Haswell’s Book Store
Crown
Burt Norwid
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