Candy for the Holiday Trade at Popular Prices
261 pounds of Blanke's choicest fancy candy offered for the holiday trade at 35 50 and 75 cents per pound.
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1899
Page
1
261 pounds of Blanke's choicest fancy candy offered for the holiday trade at 35 50 and 75 cents per pound.
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Washington tributes mark the death of Colonel Milli gan age 87 known for involvement in Civil War treason case. He was arrested in 1864, initially sentenced to hang, later commuted to life imprisonment, and after appeals including James A. Garfield's argument, he was released.
Last week 30 contract laborers from the steamship Manchen were sent back to Germany. The Hannover arrived with 100 men bound for Pennsylvania, lacking funds, suspected as contract laborers and detained at Locust Point immigrant house awaiting inquiry.
Dallas report says F. M. Etheridge was shot and killed by E. Harrell in the rotunda of the North Texas Bank building over a brewing lawsuit dispute. Police investigate the fatal shooting and motive tied to legal contention.
In a fatal city incident Harrell and Etheridge, both lawyers, were involved as Harrell reportedly drew a pistol that failed to fire before Etheridge shot him three times. Harrell died shortly after being carried home. Washington dispatch notes the American Political League calls a national convention for July 4, 1900, at Boston with state councils directing two delegates each. A separate report from Lanyonville Kansas details a fire at the Lanyon Zinc Works killing two workers and destroying $250,000 in property, with an insurance-covered loss and a 200-foot stack collapse.
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