J. W. Batts Real Estate Offers City and Suburban Lots
Real estate listing by J. W. Batts advertising 40 acres of pasture land partly within city limits at 15 per acre, a 1 1 4 acre parcel near a southeast schoolhouse, a small cottage with a price, a four square block house four blocks from M street with brick cistern at a set price, a quarter block east front near Allen Academy at 250, 76 feet front on Railroad, Otto Boehme property, selling part or all, and other city property including schoolhouse lots at 100 each.
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Wall
M Street
Allen Acady
Otto Boehme
Will Gell
Land sale notices around A and M College area in 19th century listings
Land parcels by Lamar Bethea offer 92 acres near A and M College suitable for dairy and hog farming at 1000 dollars. Additional properties include 31 acres on courthouse road, 69 acres on Wixon Creek with 49 cultivated acres, and 29 acres with a six room house. Several city lots and tracts are for sale or trade, with creek-bottom land and underground cisterns noted.
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A. & . College
Wixon Creek
Pearson Place
City
Digestive Aid Promises Quick Relief From Indigestion
An eminent authority warns against overeating and notes greater harm from excessive alcohol use. The ad touts Kodol as a digestant that aids digestion without stomach effort, offering rest and tonics to restore health. It claims fast relief from fullness and bloating and positions Kodol as a cure for indigestion.
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E. C. DeWitt & Co
Seven Men Freeze to Death Across Three States
A World dispatch reports seven men frozen to death in Pennsylvania and New York within 24 hours. Victims include Mathew Zinnett of Sharpsburg James H Coates of Pittsburg Philip Sohn of Harmarsville Richard McCann of Lygan Station Lecius Fuller of Allentown James Hannigan of York and Thomas Monaghan of Lancaster.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Mathew Zinnett
Sharpsburg
James H. Coates
Pittsburg
Philip Sohn
Harmarsville
Richard McCann
Lygan Station
Lecius Fuller
Allentown
Fee
Lehigh River
James H. Hannigan
York
Thomas Monaghan
Lancaster
Frigid Florida freeze threatens orange trees and damage
Jacksonville reports a 24 degree low marking the coldest night of the season with fears that young orange trees are killed or injured as sap remains in upper limbs. Tampa hit 33. New Orleans logged 28 above zero with ice in gutters. Constantinople and nearby areas suffered heavy blizzard damage including collapsed roofs and sunken vessels.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Tampa
New Orleans
Constantinople
Bosphorus
Black Sea
Record Cold Sweeps Atlanta and Savannah This Winter
A cold spell sets in with record lows as Atlanta reports fourteen degrees and Savannah records twenty four. The unseasonable chill persists through Saturday with temperatures dipping across Georgia.
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Atlanta
Savannah
Witness John Wax Found Dead on Lehigh Valley Tracks
The decapitated body of John Wax of Pitts ton was found on Lehigh Valley rails near Wilkesbarre, sparking murder suspicions. Wax, a coal strike witness, had received threats and his house had been dynamited. He testified before the strike commission.
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New York
John Wax
Pittston
Lehigh Valley
Wilkesbarre
Wax
Geologist P H Vandiest Dies in Colorado
San Luis Colorado December 27 Professor P H Vandiest renowned geologist died suddenly at his home in San Luis He had served as chief of mines of Java during Dutch mining expansion and later as chief of the land department in the surveyor general's office in Colorado from 1872 onward.
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Vandiest
Colorado
San Luis
Colo
P. H. Vandiest
Java
Holland
Land Department
Surveyor General's Office
Fitzsimmons Knocks Out Ranke in Seconds of Round Two
A Bozeman special reports Robert Fitzsimmons defeated Mike Ranke of eastern Montana in fifteen seconds of the second round. Ranke weighing 190 pounds succumbed to a heavy jab to the jaw. In New Mexico Dr. Nikolosek, Chicago city physician, was found dead in bed at Belen, the result of heart failure amidst tuberculosis complications.
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Butte
Mont
Bozeman
Robert Fitzsimmons
Mike Ranke
Montana
Ranke
Albuquerque
N. M
Nokolosek
Chicago
Belen
Multiple Texas incidents dominate brief news items
Bremond Texas reports an eight thousand dollar fire. A Colorado blizzard leaves thousands of cattle snowbound. John Pharr falls from a Cor rigan trestle in Texas with fatal result. Houston fire claims Tom Thomas colored man. Denton cornerstone for girls industrial school set for January 10. Vinita Indian Territory railroad official Liddell dies. Mary Smith a young colored woman shot dead near Kerens. J A Edson named manager of Denver and Rio Grande systems. Ozark and Cherokee Central trains into Muskogee on Christmas Day. Fort Worth shooting leaves no injuries. P J Stiger dies after hold up in Wagoner. Light-skinned men under arrest. Oklahoma Sheriffs’ convention held at Florence. Woods county elects president.
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John Pharr
Corrigan
Tex
Houston
Tom Thomas
Girls’ Industrial School
Denton
Liddell
Vinita
I. T
Mary Smith
Kerens
J. A. Edson
J. M. Herbert
Denver
Wagoner
Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association
Ference
Oats
Woods County
Escape of the Ida from La Rochelle in 1814
A vivid account of Captain Mantor and the brig Ida breaking through the blockading British fleet at La Rochelle during April 1814. Mantor orders ballast lightening as the Ida luffs and darts across the bows of a thirty two gun frigate, triggering gunfire and a daring exit from the French port.
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Ida
la Rochelle
France
George P. Mathes
Pittsburg
Maffit and
Mantor
Rattlesnake
Brown
Decatur
Isle de Re
Captain Mantor
Manto
Mmn Perkins
Fach
Leutenant
Yankee Brig Outsmarts Warship in Narrow Sea Chase
The flagship engages a Yankee brig in a tense pursuit as the brig dodges a frigate and guns off the enemy. Mantor orders rapid fire and ballast discarded to speed away while English ships close in. By dawn the brig remains ahead, sailing beyond range and hull down.
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Mantor
Captain Mantor
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J. W. Batts
Abstran
Brazos County
Lamar Bethea
Monroe Edge
Garrizo Springs Mineral . Water Company
San Antonio
Texas
Copyvrients &c
Uandbo
Munn * Co
Scientific American
Wiin & Co
New York Ice
F St
Washington
Florida
Fitzsimmons
Bremond
Allphin
FORD
Bryan
W. T. Ford
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co Cole Bros
Thos
Wei
Eco
The
Jewel Laundry
John Wittman
The_ Tailor
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