City and rural property sale listing by J. W. Batts
A detailed sale listing describes multiple properties including 105 acres near the courthouse with 25 acres cultivated, 400 acres of post oak land at 2.50 an acre, and several town lots with prices from 100 to 1500 dollars. Also noted are a six room house with a brick cistern, a cottage with well, and a 4 room house with outbuildings priced at 1000 dollars.
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Court House
Ms. Street
Allen Acaemy
Allen Academy
South Ie
For Sale Lamar Bethea 92 Acres Near A M College
Land sale notice lists 92 acres near A M College suitable for dairy and hog farming at 1000 dollars. Includes seven room house, barn, outbuildings, fine water well, 31g courthouse lot, north western city lots, priced 25 dollars to 335 dollars, plus 69 acres on Wixon Creek known as Pearson place with 49 cultivated acres. Also 30 acres with 6 room house and two underground brick cisterns one mile west of city near I N R R on offer at 1500 dollars or trade. Lacks complete details and some figures unclear.
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A. & M. College
City
Wixon Creek
Pearson Place
Laredo Mexico Border International Washington Birthday Fest
Citizens of Laredo Texas and New Laredo Mexico plan an annual George Washington Birthday celebration on February 22 and 23 featuring Spanish bull fights cattle roping torchlight parades naval fireworks military drills pageants and a flower carnival with extended excursion options to Monterey Mexico and stopovers in Laredo for the event. D J Price G P. & T. A. J. & G. N. BR. RB Palestine Texas invites ticket agents to supply details.
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Laredo
Texas
New Laredo
Mexico
George Washington
Monterey
Just Like Mother An Early Morning Wedding Button Letter
A wedding day tale from a New York paper describes a best man awoken at six by a special delivery note sewn onto a sheet with thread. The note, signed Mother, tells him a coat button is missing and must be sewn on from his waistcoat pocket. Bridesmaids later repair it. telegram sent to mother.
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New York Mail and Express
Post Office
Mother
Button
Logbook Letters Explain Weather Notation for Mariners
Sailors use a coded logbook system where letters denote sky conditions from blue sky to q for squally, Dots show intensity, and numerals rate wind force from calm to hurricane. The method, common on merchant ships, translates observations into concise entries.
Quicksand Gold Lures Prospectors in New Zealand
A New Zealand quicksand incident near a stream mouth endangers two prospectors. One man escapes while the other sinks, and when divers recover the body they find the sand unusually rich in gold, yielding about £300 per ton. The report cites Pearson's as the source.
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New Zealand
North Island
Pearson’s
Recital Draws Spare Crowd on Rainy Afternoon
In a Boston Transcript excerpt a musician recalls a recital with two men, three women, and four boys in attendance. The boy worked at the venue while the men sought shelter from rain. the three women attended to hear the pianist, whom the narrator had personally issued passes for.
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Boston Transcript
Relief Granted for Brazoria County Flood Victims
The Texas House passed Perry's relief measure providing two years tax relief to Brazoria County residents after flood damage. The body also debated Stewart's agricultural department plan and considered a 50000 reward for eradicating boll weevil. Also filed were two car sale contracts by I and GN Railroad for sixty cars and engines totaling 421,500 with bonds issued to pay.
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Austin
Perry
Brazoria County
Stewart
State Department
International and Great Northern Railroad Company
American Car and Foundry Company
Texas
International and Great Northern
Supreme Court Denies Mandamus Request in Smith Judge Case
The Texas Supreme Court refused to allow Matlock Miller and Dycts to file a mandamus petition against M F Smith judge of the Seventeenth district court. The petition sought to compel a change of a judgment, but mandamus was found not to be the proper remedy.
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Austin
Supreme Court
Matlock, Miller and Dycts
M. F. Smith
Seventeenth District Court
Fishback, Former Arkansas Governor, Dies at 72
Ex Governor William J. Fishback died at his Fort Smith home after paralysis. He served as Arkansas governor from 1893 to 1895 and ran for U S Senate in 1894, losing to James H. Berry. He authored the Fishback amendment barring payment of alleged fraudulent Reconstruction bonds.
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Little Rock
Ark
W. J. Fishback
Fort Smith
James H. Berry
United States Senate
Fishback
Arkansas
Clyde Flood Destroys Areas Near Glasgow and Dover Polls
The Clyde rises over Glasgow flooding Ruthglein district and southern settlements with several feet of water. Roads and homes washed out, rail traffic stopped, bridges swept away, but no fatalities reported. In Dover Delaware the seventeenth Senate ballot ends without an election with party caucus backing Handy for long term and Tunnell for short term.
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Glasgow
Clyde
Ruthglein
Scotland
Dover
Del
United States
Addicks
Tunnell
T. C. Dupont
H. A. Dupont
H. A. Richardson
Congressman Ball
Irving Handy
E. B. Tunnell
Defense Outline in Dr. Alexander Grave Robbery Trial
In Indianapolis on February 9 the defense for Dr. J. C. Alexander outlined its case. Lead attorney Mr. Spaan said the defense would show Dr. Alexander had good moral character while the black witnesses against him were disreputable and unworthy of belief.
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Indianapolis
J. C. Alexander
Spaan
Alexander
Act of a Scoundrel in Wolston Station Incident
Unknown assailant forced entry at Wolston telegraph tower on the Pittsburg Virginia and Charleston railroad. He attacked Mrs. Wilson, shot and beat her, and tried to burn her head in a stove. An arriving freight train frightened him away. Mrs. Wilson, wife of former Mayor Wilson, lies in critical condition.
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Monongahela
Wolston
Pittsburg
Virginia
Charleston
Wilson
Paralysis of the spine after Brooklyn fight at armory
In New York on February 9 a scrimmage between the Third battalion of Brooklyn and Jamaica, L I Athletic Club, left quarterback Thomas J. Howlett in a grave condition with paralysis of the spine after the altercation.
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New York
Third
Battling Battery
Brooklyn
Jamaica, L. I. Athletic Club
Thomas J. Howlett
Aged Woman Run Over by Train in Huntington
Mrs. Benjamin Brown, eighty years old, was killed when struck by a train in Huntington Indiana on February 9. Authorities report the accident as a fatality with no further details available at this time.
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Huntington
Ind
Benjamin Brown
Prominent New Orleans Liquor Dealer M A Xiques Dies
New Orleans on February 9 reports the death of M. A. Xiques a leading wholesale liquor dealer. He was a prominent figure in southern liquor trade and a well known businessman.
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New Orleans
M. A. Xiques
South
News Confirms Bu Hamada Held by Kabyle Tribe
A Tangier dispatch reports Bu Hamada, the pretender, captured by the Riata branch of the Kabyle tribe and ready to be delivered to the sultan for ransom.
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Madrid
Tangier
Imperial
Bu Hamada
Riata
Former Governor Stanley Joins Dawes Commission
Medicine Lodge Kan Feb 9 Former Governor W B Stanley accepts a position as a member of the Dawes Commission offered by President Roosevelt.
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Medicine Lodge
Kan
W. B. Stanley
The
Dawes,Commission
Roosevelt
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