From Bryan Postoffice to 1900s Headlines Chronicle
The item notes subscription prices, mentions Buller and Ladysmith in a Boer War context, cites crops and a census wage impact, references Brazos river improvement, a Chicago newspaper disease tale about linen on the lungs, and compares Gettysburg losses to Buller and Joubert forces. The tone mirrors a mixed wire-service snippet of the era.
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Brazos River
Chicago
St. Louis
Chicago Drainage Canal
South Africa
Galveston Tribune
Gettysburg
Buller
Joubert
Supreme Court strikes down school trustee act for independent districts
The court voids the March 30 1899 act affecting election of independent district public school trustees and their terms, finding it conflicts with article 16 section 30 of the constitution, nullifying that provision and erasing its effect.
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Supreme Court
Wilcox Farm Machinery Shop Promises Swift Quality Work
Mr. Ford 8 Wilcox displays a well fitted shop for repairing wagons buggies and farm machinery. He runs two forges and offers welding repairs to steel plow points guaranteed to outlast new. With fifteen to twenty years of experience he invites old Brazos Madison and Grimes friends to call for quick, well done, low priced work.
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Ford
Wilcox
Brazos
Madison
Grimes
Texas Legislature Tackles Bowling Alley Tax Bill
In Austin the house first tackled Shropshire’s substitute for subdivision 19 raising bowling alley tax to 250 dollars. A 15 cent ad valorem rate on 1900 valuations would cut state revenue by 28 000. Bills on occupation taxes and asylum superintendent salaries drew lengthy debate as adjournment slipped to Monday.
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Austin
Shropshire
House
Senate
Senate debate on finance bill and Puerto Rico tariff changes
Washington news reports Senate debate resumes on the finance measure with Allen accusing Republicans of bimetallic policy failures. The Ways and Means bill on tariffs between Puerto Rico and the U S is set for next week amid minority and dissenting views. Other items include ship safety reports and a proposed Constitution era voyage adjustments. In Rensberg and Corsicana brief items, Boer shelling continues near Colesberg, and cotton sales reach high prices in Fredonia.
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Washington
Senate
Allen
Nebraska
Republican Party
Ways and Means Committee
Puerto Rico
United States
Payne
Richardson
Tennessee
McCall
Massachusetts
Child badly burned after falling near open fireplace
In Corsicana Texas on February 9 a six month old child of C Gray in the western section of the city rolled from a chair near an open fireplace and sustained serious facial and hand burns.
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Corsicana
Tex
C. Gray
Uncle Johnny Cranfield Receives News From Philippines
Mineral Wells Texas February 9. Uncle Johnny Cranfield an old-timer in the county has a letter from his son Eugene a soldier in the Philippines saying one of his eyes was shot out recently by an insurgent.
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Mineral Wells
Tex
Johnny Cranfield
This County
Eugene
Philippines
Train hits unknown man near Orange Texas
A westbound passenger train north of Orange Texas ran over an unidentified man, cutting his body in two and crushing his head and limbs. Separately in New Orleans a British steamer Magician cleared for Cape Town with 1000 mules for the British government and foodstuffs.
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Orange,Tex
New Orleans
Cape Town
Africa
Train wreck in Michigan leaves many dead and injured
A whiteout snowstorm set the stage as the Chicago and Northwestern Felch Mountain train collided with a fast freight at Ford switch near Beranaba Michigan. Nine people were killed with several missing and many others seriously injured as the wreck and ensuing fire trapped victims.
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Beranaba
Mich
Chicago and Northwestern
Felch Mountain
Metropolitan
Ford Switch
W. L. Hill
William Dillon
Escanaba
Misa Seymour
Delta County
Michi
Green Bay
Ishpeming
Narenta Ford River Switch
Fords
Green
Frick to Sue Carnegie Over Carnegie Steel Shares
The Herald reporting from Pittsburg says H C Frick will file suit against Andrew Carnegie to recover his 21 million share of Carnegie Steel stock. The suit is expected to involve about 200 million dollars.
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New York
the Herald
Pittsburg
H. C. Frick
Carnegie
Carnegie Steel Company
Farmer Robbed Returning Home Near Millsap
Weatherford report: W A Daniels a farmer stockman from Millsap was held up by three armed men as he returned home. They pistol whipped and robbed him of $25 in cash in clear daylight near Millsap, Texas.
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Victoria
B. C
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Siam
Weatherford
Tex
W. A. Daniels
Millsap
Smallpox Reported At Hotel Howard In Lake Charles
Lake Charles La Feb 9 Smallpox breaks out at Hotel Howard with one confirmed case. The infected traveler is a man from Texas believed to have brought the disease into the city.
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Lake Charles
Howard
Texas
Oba Roberts Dies at Home Near Terrell
Terrell Texas February 9 Oba Roberts son of ex Governor Roberts died at his home four miles west of the city last Tuesday in a sudden death at age.
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Terrell, Tex
Oba Roberts
Roberts
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Gilmore
the Daily Eagle
Bryan
Connelly
Palmer & Carnes
Ladysmith
Mr. Neill
Trust
Bryan Enterprise
F.S. Wilcox
Texas Legislature
Emmel’s
Lieve
Pharmacy
Washington News
The
House of
Secretary of the Navy
Constitution
Boston
McEnery
Rensberg
Slingerfontein
Coleskop
Colesberg
Fredonia
Kas
Frank Harvey
Walter Huff
Altoona
Iola
Will Ransome
Hogg
Society of Tammany Hall
Zona
Jim McDonald
Hereford Cattle Company
Lowell
Prince Henry
San Antonio
First Artillery
William Whitehouse
FAIRY
Webb
Frick
Coun
Friends and the
Lishing
John Wittman
Bryan, Texas
Burt Norwood
John B. Mike
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