Real estate listings in J W Batts county area
About 105 acres near court house with 25 acres cultivated and rest pasture priced at 1500.00. Northeast county postoak land at 2.50 per acre. Southeast town near schoolhouse with small cottage tenant house and well priced. Six room house on two lots four blocks from street with brick cistern 1250. Quarter block near Allen Academy 250. Half block near Allen academy 500. Schoolhouse lots 100 each. 18 acres on south leaf town with 4 room house well cistern and outbuildings priced 1000.00.
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Court House
Allen Academy
South Leaf Town
For SALE Lamar Bethea 92 acres near A M College
92 acres of first class land near A M college suitable for dairy and hog farm priced at 1000 dollars. 314 lots on courthouse share plus a seven room house and barn with outbuildings. fine water well priced at 2200 dollars. Pochila two story house cheap. north western city lots inside 25 dollars corner 35 dollars. 69 acres on Wixon creek Pearson place 49 acres cultivated creek bottom land 5 acres. Good place for a small farm one mile west of city I and G N R R passes through property willing to sell 1600 dollars or trade for city property. Other lands too numerous to mention.
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A. & M. College
Pochila
Wixon Creek
Pearson Place
City
Washington Birthday Mexican American Festival at Laredo
Laredo Texas and Nuevo Laredo Mexico launch a grand annual event on February 22 and 23 with bull fights cattle roping parades torchlight displays naval fireworks and military drills. Excursion tickets to Monterey Mexico with a ten day limit allow stopovers in Laredo for the international celebration. For details contact D J Price G P and T A J and GN RR Palestine Texas.
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Laredo
Texas
New Laredo
Mexico
George Washington
Monterey
D. J. Price
G. P
T. A
Palestine
Athletics in England Offer Great Hospitality and Prizes
Arthur F. Duffey notes that English athletics draw large crowds and intense interest with 15 000 to 20 000 spectators and frequent meets. He says foreign champions face strong reception, hospitality from cities, and lavish prizes including sewing machines or bed orders, with many athletes receiving valued, practical rewards.
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England
America
Arthur F. Duffey
London Express account of a roof worker’s laziness
A war office clerk and a British workman complain about a roofer across the street. The clerk mocks the man as lazy while the mate voices disgust at the hour long inaction and cites tax-funded labor. The exchange highlights public frustration with perceived idle labor.
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Fitznoodle
War Office
London Express
Hin
Fitz
Bill
Training of East Indian Children Shapes Strong Faces
Anthropological note describes strict maternal discipline from infancy with nursing stopped early and infants strapped to boards to keep mouths closed. Teeth form with teeth meeting and aligning, producing what the author calls a healthful, pleasing regularity.
Noah as a Showman Skeptical Boy Critiques the Ark
A Brooklyn Eagle cartoonish quip has a showman’s boy mock Noah by listing impossible creatures and insisting Noah would struggle to tour with such an ark. He suggests Noah only kept animals that actually exist, ridiculing the biblical menagerie.
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Noah
Ark
Brooklyn Eagle
Shelley’s sudden vanish and plum gift in London
The poet Shelley walked with a solicitor when he disappeared briefly and reappeared soon after. He entered a grocer’s shop and bought plums, offering them to the attorney with evident delight. The lawyer was astonished by the gift and Shelley’s cheerful refusal.
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Shelley
London
Razor Dullness Stuns Father in Morning Misadventure
A man complains his razor dulled after careful sharpening. His son Johnnie recalls he had used the blade to craft a wooden boat that same morning, leaving the father puzzled by the sudden change in performance.
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Johnnie
Senate investigates drawing for long and short terms
In Austin on February 7 the senate spent most of Friday probing complaints about the January 28 drawing for senatorial terms. A resolution urging investigation was moved, witnesses heard, and after deliberation Senator Stafford reported no fraud or irregularities. The session also approved purchases of AX Tell's Annotated Constitution of Texas and scheduled lawmakers to visit Beeville experimental station.
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Austin
Senate
Hicks
Stafford
Bridges
Axtell
Texas
Standifer
Farmers’ Congress of Texas
Hall of Representatives
York
Beaumont Woman Killed. Husband Arrested for Slaying
Mrs. R W Wilkerson was shot and killed at the family residence on the oil field in Beaumont Texas. Her husband is in custody charged with the murder. Both had prior marriages and children from former unions were in the room and escaped. Wilkerson had worked for Sun Oil Company and on the oil field for some time.
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Beaumont
Tex
R. W Wilkerson
Wilkerson
Sun Oil Company
German American baker Otto Boehme commits suicide in Bryan
Otto Boehme, 45, a prominent German American resident of Bryan for 15 years, killed himself Friday morning in the rear of his bakery salesrooms. He sat on a cot and fired a buckshot loaded shotgun held by a long handled stove poker, the shot passing through his body.
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Bryan
Tex
Otto Boehme
Mexican border missions hold twelfth annual conference
Methodist Missions San Antonio reports the twelfth annual conference of the Mexican border missions meeting with Bishop W A Candler presiding. The jurisdiction spans from Austin to Saltillo and Corpus Christi to Del Rio, encompassing twenty five churches.
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San Antonio
The
Pastor Dies of Heart Failure in Frost Texas
Rev J W Jennings former Baptist pastor of Frost died suddenly while his wife packed belongings after accepting a call to Blossom. The incident occurred February 7 in Frost Texas. Mrs West Beaumont of Hillsboro Texas is the woman who shot herself in Ennis, not Mrs Henry Beaumont of Waco. she is gradually sinking.
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Frost, Tex
J. W. Jennings
Baptist Church
Ennis, Tex
West Beaumont
Hillsboro
Henry Beaumont
Waco
Whisky spill at Ardmore express office leads to arrests
A deputy marshal visited the express office in Ardmore I T February 7 and spilled several gallons of whisky. Two men were arrested and jailed on a charge of introducing alcohol. One suspect carried quarts in a sack when apprehended.
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Ardmore, I. T
Express
No Opposition to Oklahoma World’s Fair Funds
Guthrie Oklahoma February 7 There will be no fight on the additional appropriation of 30000 dollars for Oklahoma at the World’s fair in St Louis The passage of this measure introduced by Senator Winkler was recommended without a dissenting vote.
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Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
St. Louis
Winkler
Steamer El Cid Collides With British Vessel Off Liberty Island
The El Cid, sailing to Galveston, collided with the anchored Himeria near Liberty Island. The Himeria sustained heavy damage, while the El Cid appeared uninjured and continued its voyage.
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New York
el Cid
Galveston
Liberty Island
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