Real estate listings by J. W. Batts Brazos county
Abstrac books of Brazos county land titles offered. 40 acres of first class pasture land with stock water near city limits priced at $16 per acre. Nearby one and one quarter acres with cottage and well. Six room house on two lots four blocks from Main Street with brick cistern at $1250. Quarter block near Allen Academy East front $250. Easy terms. 76 feet front on Railroad Street on Otto Boehme property. Part or all of lot inventory for sale near schoolhouses at $100 each and other city properties available.
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Schoo House
Snell
M. . Street
Allen Academy
Otto Boehme
Lands for Sale Near A and M College and City Areas
Property offers 92 acres near A and M college suitable for dairy or hog farming. Includes 814 lots on courthouse acreage plus seven room house, barn, outbuildings, and a fine water well. Also listed are parcels on Wixon creek Pearson place and cultivation land, with prices and terms, including trade options and multiple city lots.
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A. & M. College
Courthouse Agere
Pochila
Wixon Creek
Pearson Place
City
Aunt Sukie Blueskin and the Sandy Claws Prank
A slave narrative recounts Aunt Sukie Blueskin and a plan to dress as Sandy Claws for Crismus. Ike the contraries’ anger, the fake visit leads to a chaotic night with hoots of laughter, threats, and a final resolution by marse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sukie Blueskin
Black Caesar
Sukie
Sandy Claws
Ike
Wren Crismus
Crismus
Tom
Jack
Admiral Dewey welcomed with ovation in Ponce Puerto Rico
Admiral Dewey arrived from San Juan and was greeted by a committee of naval officers and citizens. A decorated city and a music procession marked the welcome as he departed aboard the Mayflower for Culebra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey
Ponce
P. R
Admiral Dewey
San Juan
Juana Diaz
Culebra
News In Brief From Across Regions
Senator Bailey spends holidays in Gainesville Texas at his home. Ed Jones loses a hand in Gainesville by a giant firecracker. Mr and Mrs John Singer accidentally ingest oxalic acid in Denver Colorado and die. Explosion at Little Redstone mine near Fayette City Pennsylvania kills four men. West Texas cattlemen report flocks drifting by sheep raisers damaging range grass. Fourteen loaded walnut log cars crash into an empty freight train at Anadarko Oklahoma. damage heavy. Guadalupe County Texas farmers institute organized at Seguin. A trainload of corn was subscribed for.
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Senator Bailey
Gainesville
Tex
Ed Jones
John Singer
Denver
Colo
Little Redstone
Fayette City
West Texas
Anadarko
Oklo
Farmers’ Institute
Guadalupe County
Texas
Seguin
Eight Die Violently in Greater New York Sunday
New York dispatch reports eight persons met violent deaths in Greater New York on Sunday. Causes included self-inflicted gas poisoning, carbolic acid, wood alcohol, and falls. Victims ranged from 18 to 46, with several cases of self destruction and others from accidents or hanging stopped in time.
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New York
Greater
Mary Clark
Beverly
George Simon
Jacob Schwarts
Mary Stack
Whitensville
Mass
Mary Serles
Henry Bunkey
Bryans in Mexico Visit Highlights and Silver Support
The Bryan party in Mexico meets President Diaz and Minister Limantour and visits Guadalupe shrine with Mrs Bryan receiving a costly crown. They tour Yale hacienda near Cordova, aided by Alfred Bishop Mason and W. J. Crittenden. Officials note Bryan's strong silver stance and conspicuous public interest follows him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montezuma’s
City of Mexico
Bryan
Diaz
Finance Limantour
United States
Mexico
Guadalupe
Mrs. Bryan
Cordova
Alfred Bishop Mason
Yale
W. J. Crittenden
Crittenden
Greer Dies Suddenly in Fort Worth Hotel
J. M. Greer a 28 year old cattleman and son of J. E. Greer of the Chicago livestock firm Greer Mills and Co died in his hotel room in Hotel Worth apparently from heart failure.
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Greer
Fort Worth
J. M. Greer
J. E. Greer
Livestock Commission
Greer, Mills & Co
Chicago
Hotel Worth
Killed Four Hundred Ducks in Texas Season
Terrell farmer W. T. Tram mell killed 400 wild ducks this season and gathered enough feathers for a forty pound feather bed eight pillows and more. Beaumont shooting death stems from card game misunderstanding as Jim Parker a negro was killed by Brooks Andrews another negro. Cuero residents Mrs Legalley and twin infants died in fire related deaths. Ennis two men Jim and Claude Shaw were shot dead four miles east of town and H. L. Willis is jailed without bail.
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Terrell
Tex
W. T. Trammell
Beaumont
Jim Parker
Brooks Andrews
Ennis
Jim
Claude Shaw
Here
H. L. Willis
Stabbing in Terrell leaves Henry Smith badly wounded
In Terrell Texas on December 29 Henry Smith a colored man suffered deep knife wounds to head face arms and body after a cutting scrape. Sank Fields a negro was arrested in connection with the assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terrell
Tex
Henry Smith
Fields
Killed by His Own Revolver in Texas
Arthur Hale of Mule Creek San Angelo Texas died instantly when a pistol fell from his pocket and the ball penetrated his heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Angelo
Tex
Arthur Hale
Mule Creek
Mrs Sayers Ill Shocks Governor’s Family
Mrs Sayers wife of Governor Sayers is confined to bed due to illness in Austin on December 29. In New Iberia Louisiana a sugar house on the Elma plantation burned with contents. The property owned by Laundry Lemannx & Co. was insured for twenty seven thousand dollars.
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Sayers
Austin
Sugar
New Iberia
Elma Plantation
Laundry Lemnanx & Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. W. Batts
Brazos County
Lamar Bethea
Monroe Edge
Carrizo Springs
Garrizo Springs Mineral Water Company
San Antonio
DeWitt
E. C. DeWitt & Co
Munn
Scientific American
York Munn & Co
Roadway
Mfica
F St
Washington
de Bigges
Marse
Mistis
Marster
Ole Marse
Ole Pusson
New York Evening Post
Bryans
Cuero
Allphin
FORD
Toj
W. T. Ford
Is Ecidion
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos
Joo
Parsons Bottling Works
C. G. Parsons
An Bryan, Texas
Crown Cork System
Hutchinson
John Wittman
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