For Sale 40 Acres Pasture and Town Lots
Real estate agent J. W. Batt offers 40 acres of pasture partly within city limits with stock water at 16 dollars per acre. Also one and a quarter acres near a schoolhouse with a small cottage tenant house and well. Six room house and two lots four blocks from M Street priced at 1260 dollars. Quarter block near Allen Academy east front priced 250 dollars. 76 feet front on Railroad street part of Otto Boehme property. Lots near schoolhouse at 100 dollars each plus other city property with easy terms.
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Allen Academy
Otto Boehme
Lands and Lots for Sale Near A. and M. College
Property listing of 92 acres near A. and M. College suitable for dairy or hog farming with additional parcels: 314 lots on courthouse area with new paint, barn and outbuildings. northwestern city lots at 25 dollars and corner lots at 35. 69 acres on Wixon creek Pearson place. 49 acres cultivation land. creek bottom land. 29 acres with 6 room house and two underground cisterns. 94 acres cultivated one mile west of city with I and G N R R through it. Prices from 1000 to 15000 dollars. terms include trade for city property.
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A. & M. College
Courthouse
Pochila
City
Wixon Creek
Pearson Place
Digestive Aid Claims Fast Relief for Indigestion
An advertising pitch promotes Kodol as a digestant that relieves indigestion by digesting food without stomach effort. It claims the stomach rests while the body gains strength from wholesome food and promises universal digestion of any good food. The product is sold by E. C. De Witt & Co. Chicago.
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E. C. de Witt & Co
Chicago
Double Track Plan for Illinois Central to New Orleans
Vice President J T Harrahan announces completion of double tracking the Illinois Central main line from Memphis to Fulton and Memphis to New Orleans. A January depot union with Southern Pacific will route trains through New Orleans, with Frisco likely to enter via Arkansas and Louisiana and acquire Port Chalmette terminals.
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New Orleans
J. T. Harrahan
Illinois Central Railroad
Illinois Central
Memphis
Fulton
Harrahan
Chicago
Grenada
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Greenwood
Southern Pacific
Eastern Lines
San Francisco
Louisville and Nashville
Marshall
B. Y. Yoakum
B. F. Winchell
Frisco
B. D. Yoakum
Chicago and Alton
Arkansas
Louisiana
Alexandria
Port Chalmette
Fez in a fix as rebels threaten Moroccan water supply
Foreigners in interior Morocco advised to head for the coast as provisions run scarce and communication breaks down. The pretender is said to be within twenty miles of Fez, with rebels having cut Fez water viaduct, leaving the city nearly without water. Kalyleh tribesmen from the south are expected to relieve Fez within three days, while Madrid reports the sultan foiled in escaping Fez as rebels invest the city.
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Tangier
Morocco
Fez
Madrid
Moroco
British seeks General Viljoen to lead Boer force in Somaliland
London reports the British government aims to hire General Ben Viljoen now touring the United States to command Boer troops in Somaliland. Viljoen first proposed using Boers against the Somalis, but the government then declined his offer.
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London
Ben Viljoen
United States
Somaliland
Huntsville college offers help to Confederate soldiers home
Montgomery Alabama December 30 W H Concil president of the colored state normal college at Huntsville offers to send fifteen of his best student carpenters painters and to block the Confederate soldiers home and gives a dozen pairs of student made shoes each year to the inmates. His offers have been accepted.
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Montgomery
Ala
W. H. Concil
Colored State Normal College
Huntsville
Fire Devastates Star Theater on Decatur Street
The Star theater building on Decatur Street in Atlanta burned almost completely. All occupants escaped unharmed. The structure, valued around $30,000, had no insurance.
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Atlanta
Star Theater
Decatur Street
Superintendent Dickey Dies in Omaha Home
John J. Dickey, superintendent of the Western district of the Western Union Telegraph Company, died of pneumonia Monday night at his Omaha home. Only his family were present at his bedside.
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Dickey
Omaha
Neb
John J. Dickey
Western
Western Union Telegraph Company
Red River Texas and Southern Railway Plans Bond Issue
At a stockholders meeting in Fort Worth the Red River Texas and Southern Railway company decided to issue 1,000,000 in bonds and will seek authorization from the railroad commission.
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Fort Worth
Red River, Texas and Southern Railway Company
Frisco
Railroad Commission
Edson Named Manager for Rio Grande Lines
J A Edson will succeed J M Her bert as manager of the Denver and Rio Grande Rio Grande Southern and Rio Grande Western railroads. Cornerstone of the girls industrial school at Denton Texas will be laid January 10.
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J. A. Edson
J. M. Herbert
Denver and
Rio Grande
Girls’ Industrial School
Denton
Tex
Philadelphia Ghost House Tale Recalled by Bartlett Family
The Bartlett family once lived in Germantown Philadelphia in a house on Thorpe s Lane near Wistar Street. Shortly after moving in in spring 1879 they heard chilling screams from the hallway. Mr. Bartlett and Mr. Ellis investigated while the women endured terror in the home.
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Philadelphia
Bartlett
Philadelphia Press
Old Thorpe’s Lane
Wistar Street
Germantown
Joseph B. Bartlett
Mr. Bartlett
Mr. Ellis
Haunted House Visit Confirms Local Warnings
Mr and Mrs Bartlett report a spectral presence in their new home with a silhouette seen at a front window. Neighbors say the house was considered haunted before the couple moved in and a child woke to a hammering noise in the adjoining room one night.
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Mrs. Bartlett
Mrs Bartlett
Mr. Bartlett
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J. W. Batts
Brazos County
Lamar Bethea
Monroe Edge
Garrizo Springs Mineral Water Company
San Antonio
Texas
Munn & Co
Scientific American
PM & Co
Severocomy
New York
F St
Washington
Union Depot
Crescent City
Sultan
General Viljoen
Theater Burus
Rwee Sr
Mirs. Bartlett
Ida
Lawyer X
Recerivedj
S. H. Allphin
FORD
Bryan
W. T. Ford
Bao By
CBS
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos. W. Higgs
Geo. W. Higgs
D. C Zuber
H. Allphin
Jno. M. Lawrence & Co
W. E. Saunders
Dansby & Dansby
Howell Brothers
J. H. Mawhinney
Parsons Bostling Works
C. G. Parsons
An Bryan, Texas
Crown Cork System
Hutchinson
John Wittman
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