City and County Poll Tax Receipts Reported
City Secretary Frank Clarke states 445 city poll tax receipts issued this year, down from 485 last year. Brazos County Tax Collector W Wipprecht reports about 1,675 county poll tax receipts, roughly on par with 1,469 last year. Totals reflect end of January 1906, with 2,032 previously. The share paid by colored men is lower this year than last.
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Frank Clarke
W. Wipprecht
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Brazos County
Texas to form state sugar industry to challenge sugar trust
Texas plans to acquire the Cunningham Sugarland plantation and the Riddick refinery in Fort Bend County to become the largest sugar producer in the Southwest. The state will directly manage convict labor, regulating it under legislature control, aiming to spur competition against the sugar trust with large, modern facilities and extensive acreage.
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San Antonio
Texas
Sugar Trust
Penitentiary Board
Cunningham
Sugarland
Riddick
Fort Bend
South
Brazos
Brownsville
Rio Grande
Bible Study Conference Opens at Marysville College
A Bible Study Conference opened at Marysville College under the Tennessee YMCA student department. Representatives from the University of Tennessee University of Chattanooga Lincoln Memorial University Washington College and other institutions attended the opening.
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Marysville
Tenn
The
Tennessee Y. M. C. A
Marysville College
University of Tennessee
University of Chattanooga
Lincoln Memorial University
Washington College
Revival Meetings Scheduled at Baptist Church
Bible School at 9 45 a m with no public worship at 11 a m Junior A A at 3 p m Sunbeam Band at 8 p m Senior B Y P A 6 30 p m The study in Baptist History grows in interest. Public worship at 7 30 p m The pastor will preach at 7 30 Revival meetings April 5 to 19.
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Sunbeam
Oriental Bank Closes Under State Supervision After Run
The Oriental bank in New York closed by order of the state superintendent of banks after a depositor run that began Thursday. It has a 76000 capital and reported debts to depositors of 7,576,811 and to banks 3,477,252, with a surplus fund of 912,000 and undivided profits of 303,947. Leonard, the state bank examiner, is in charge as depositors gathered outside the Broadway and John street main office Friday.
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New York
Oriental Bank
State Superintendent of Banks
Oriental State Bank
Leonard
State Bank Examiner
Broadway
John Street
New York Chinatown Prepares For Chinese New Year Celebration
Chinatown readies for the 4 605 Chinese year as Mott Dover and Pell streets glow tonight. The 12 000 strong Chinese colony will celebrate a week of feasting and music with bird’s nest soup, shark fins, and preserves. Firecrackers, gongs, cymbals, and drums fill the streets while theatres reopen for a matinee of Sixteen Mandarins Only Three Bad. Confucius worship and red prayer slips mark the rites.
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New York
Chinatown
Mott
Dover
Pell
Dover Street
Confucius
Mohammed
Buddha
Fifty Years at Throftle Throttle Ends
Lawrence Gagin, oldest engineer by service, retires from the Chicago and Northwestern after a half century at the throttle with no wrecks or serious incidents. The Oriental Bank crisis linked to Borough Bank of Brooklyn loan of 350000 and International Trust, with leadership changes and a failed rescue plan involving 1 million in cash from directors.
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Chicago
Lawrence Gagin
Chicago & WW Northwestern Railroad
Gagin
Oriental Bank
Borough Bank of Brooklyn and
International Trust Company
Oriental
Trust Company
W. M. Gow
Borough Bank
The
Richard W. Jones, Jr
Hugh Kelly
Commission
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Will S. Higgs
Stevenson Machine and Repair Works
Bryan
Northern
Stown
Texas Mutual
Smith Building
J. B. Hines
Will Buck Sugar Trust
Bible Study Conference
First Baptist Church
U. S
City National Bank
G. S. Parker
H. Astin
A. W. Wilkerson
E. W. Crenshaw
Ass’t. Cashier
S. H.dunlap
Crest
Dwineil Wright
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