What Happened to Jones at Clarke’s Saturday Show
Advance notice for December 30 features Harry Carson Clarke in the farce What Happened to Jones at The Daily Eagle theater. Clarke plays a breezy drummer who dons Bishop’s clothes to avoid arrest in a refined comedy full of continuous laughter. Also notes coffee tins and a rental ad for Clarence Pearson in Bryan Texas.
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Jones
Harry Carson Clarke
Clarke
Spurr
Clarence Pearson
Bryan
Texas
Brazos County Teachers Association Meeting Agenda 1900
The Brazos County Teachers Association schedules a January 13 1900 session at the courthouse Superior Court room. Morning topics include state promises to public school children and teacher sources of strength with discussions led by Professors McGee Hickman and McDonald. Afternoon covers A and M College relations to public schools and teacher self improvement with Puryear Connel Bullock Dunlap and Moore. All teachers and the public are invited.
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Brazos County
Teachers’ Association
Superior Court Room
J. T. McGee
H. Hickman
Chas. Puryear
J. H. Connell
C. KE. Bullock
Ss. H. Dunlap
John A. Moore
For Sale Historic Farmstock and Land Fronting Residence
Three acres in front of the seller’s residence described as the town’s most desirable building site. Twenty high grade Jersey cows and heifers with calf by a registered male. Seven bred Essex sows and two Essex males. One pony for a boy and four unbroke buggy mares, two of which are fast trotters. Listing contact 23 W. R. Cavitt.
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W. R. Cavitt
Irish and American backers plot Boer aid from the U S
Buffalo electrician J R Rowan and J C Sellers of New Orleans plan to form a 48 man corps to travel to the Transvaal and aid the Boers. They report 12 enlistees and say funds of up to 1 million dollars will be raised via the Ancient Order of Hibernians to support this movement. The project centers in St Louis with headquarters and roving letters. Other notes mention a Boer agent in El Paso seeking volunteers and a Montreal bank pledging 10000 to British troops relief.
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Little Rock
J. R. Rowan
Buffalo
N. Y
J C. Sellers
New Orleans
South Africa
Rowan
Transvaal
Sellers
Louisiana
Louisiana Street
P. R. Fitzgibbons
Ancient
Order of Hibernians of America
St. Louis
el Paso
Tex
Great Britain
San Francisco
Mexico
Turney & Burgess
Adam Dieter
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Chicago
John T. Keating
National Order of Ancient Hibernians
Canada
Order of Hibernians
Late war pensions and statehood tour in Arizona
Washington reports continuing Spanish war pension filings from Seventy first regiment with 316 claims. Commissioner Evans doubts many will be granted due to temporary disabilities. Average pension around 109 dollars per year. potential total impact if all granted could reach 2.7 million annually. An Arizona statehood tour by Senators Shoup and Clark, GLO Commissioner Binger Herman, and General Aysworth with Governor Murphy visits Phoenix and Tucson en route to Los Angeles.
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Washington
Seventy-first
Evans
Seventy-first Regiment
Seventy-first New York
Statehood
Prescott
A. T
Shoup
Idaho
Clark
Montana
Comminesioner Binger Herman
General Land Office
F. C. Aysworth
United States Army
Murphy
Arizona
New Mexico
Phoenix
Tucson
Los Angeles
President commutes soldier’s death in Philippines case
William B. Scarborough of Oshkosh Wisconsin, a private in Company B Third United States Infantry, was tried by a military court in the Philippines on a grave charge and condemned to death. President McKinley commuted the sentence to dishonorable discharge and 20 years imprisonment.
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Oshkosh, Wis
William 8
Scarborough
Third
United States Infantry
Philippines
McKinley
Moody funeral in Northfield honors Dwight Moody
The Northfield crowd bids farewell at Congregational church with relatives and 40 Northfield Institute students bearing Moody’s casket. Rev Scofield and Rev Torrey deliver eulogies, a choir of 150 sings, and a Round Top burial follows sermons and prayers.
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Mr. Torrey
Northfield Institute
Ira D. Lan
Brooklyn
R. McWilliams
New York
Herman
Rev. George
Philadelphia
M. Torrey
Scofield
Round Top
Jesus
Northfield
George C. Stebbins
C. Morse
D. W
W. J. Co. Needham
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Daily Eagle
Connelly
Palmer &Arnes
Brazos County Teachers
Tillie Cavitt
D. J. McDonald
Wee
Emmet
Poers
Montreal
Bank of Montreal
Ottawa
United States
Militia Department
Moody’s
Knights of Labor
Workman
Lindholm
National Assembly
Boston
Carbondale, Ills
John W. Custer
Custer
Central West
New Albany
Ind
Andrew Ford
John Cooper
Cooper
Mr. Ford
Commissioners of Agriculture
Stevens
Georgia
Atlanta
West Virginia
West Liberty
James Patton
Harlan Cisco
White Oak
County
Patton
Cisco
Bryan, Texa
Geo. W. Hiccs
City Bakery
Griesser
Webb Bros
Geo. W. Higgs
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