Extra Session Called to Reform Texas Tax System
Governor Sayers issues proclamation for a special session of the Twenty sixth Texas legislature in Austin on January 23 1900. The agenda includes creating a new tax system for 1901, reducing ad valorem taxes for 1900, funding the permanent school fund, increasing lunatic asylum superintendent salaries, and considering additional executive matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Ittia
General Revenue Fund
Joseph D. Sayers
State of
Texas
City of
Senate
D. H. Harpy
Steamer State of Kansas Destroyed by Fire at New Madrid
The steamer State of Kansas of the Tennessee River Packet company burned to the water’s edge at Main street. All passengers escaped. Several hundred bales of cotton and freight were destroyed alongside baggage, with total losses around 50 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Madrid
State of Kansas
Tennessee River Packet Company
For Sale and Lost Hound in Bryan Texas Item
For Sale by Hudson and Nall Thomas Rowan place near the graded school in Bryan offers 5 1-10 acres a good house and improvements at 350 dollars on easy terms Col Hill near graded school also in Bryan. Lost hound named Drummer large black and white with curled ear reward for return to Kelly Knowles Bryan.
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Thomas Rowan
City of
Bryan
H.C. L. Hill
Hudson & Nall
Navasota
Kelly Knowles
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
Florida
Tennessee
Kentucky
North and
South Carolina
New Orleans
W.S. Wilson
Houston and Bryan Christmas Excursions and Fares
H. and T. C. Excursions announce train departures from Bryan and Houston with round trips and return limits. Fares listed at 1.00 for earlier legs and 3.00 for a broader December sale window. Tickets on sale December 10 to 14 with final return by December 16 1899.
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Bryan
Hiyan
Houston
W.S. Wilson
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Texas Legislature
Michigan
Legislature
Lansing
Pingree
Chicago
Great Britain
E. Benjamin Andrews
Cullerton
Committee On Schools
Shafter
Washington
General Shafter
San Francisco
War Department
Major Logan
Secretary of War
Koppitz
England
Florsheim
Florsheim Velour
Bao Eic
John B. Stetson
Will R. Thomas
Franklin Bros
John B. Mike
Paul M. Baylor
Bryan, Texas
Jamest Drug Store
Reedence
Brogdon's
Trant
R.L. Brogdon
China
CIA
PFE
Forks
F. F
V. F
Ical Inventions
Vriees Law
Taliaferro Building
Court House
G. Minkert
Att’y-at-Law and Loan Agt
E'Or
John M. Caldwell
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