Roosevelt and Fairbanks Officially Elected President and VP
Washington convenes as Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Fairbanks are declared elected for the four year term beginning March 4, 1905. The joint session tallies electoral votes, with Alabama first and Texas reading its slate, amid cheers from supporters and a dense gallery crowd.
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Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Wairbanks
Congress
House
Mra
Roosevelt
Cowles
Frye
Messrs
Burrows
Michigan
Ami Bailey
Texas
Senate
Gaines
Wee
Virginia
Russell
Alabama
Alton B. Parker
New York
Henry G. Davin
West Virginia
Burrow
Allen” B. Parker
California
Cockrell
Bailey
Parker
Davis
C. W. Fairbanks
Henry G. Davis
United States
House of Representatives
Post seeks Platt expulsion over express company links
C W Post of Battle Creek Michigan asks Senate leader Frye to expel Senator Thomas C Platt claiming he is executive of United States Express Company and plotting to fix rates and oppose laws harming the firm. A Paris Texas delegation led by Representative Reid urged the president to visit Paris.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Washington
Paris
Tex
Reid
Arkansas
Treasury awards Ogden post office contract to Texan firm
Washington reports on February 9 that Toi Lovell of Denton Texas secured the construction contract for the United States post office and courthouse at Ogden Utah totaling 158 725 dollars.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Toi Lovell
Denton
Tex
United States Post Office
Ogden
Utah
Weather Improves as Telegraph Links With Memphis
Weather conditions show marked improvement in Natchez area and commercial telegraphic communication with Memphis resumes for the first time since last Friday. Wednesday temperature reached 32 degrees. remaining cotton in fields after sleet storm is reported lost.
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Natchez
Miss
Memphis
Saloon bill passes amid heated debates and tax measures
Feb 9. Senate approves Hanger saloon forfeiture bill for openings between midnight and 6 am or Sundays. Also passes telephone franks ban and district judge salary rise from 2500 to 3500. Love-Holmes high license bill debated. brewery workers and liquor dealers clash. Wheat defends purity while saloon framing stirs. House reports on principal tax bills. railroads face stock reduction proposal. June 3 declared Jefferson Davis birthday holiday. Blanton pure food bill advances to third reading.
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Senate
Austin
Hanger
Benite
House Committee On State Affairs
Blanton
J. Wheat
Dort Worth
Railroad Commission
House
Jefferson Davis
Houston Man Ends Life With Strychnine Poison
Houston on February 9 A M Moore killed himself with strychnine. His body was found in a rooming house bed beside a note reading For rash acts and misdeeds I pay the penalty of death My dear wife and children good bye DAD A small box with strychnine was discovered on the floor.
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Houston
Moore
Ryan to be acquitted in embezzlement case in St Louis
John J. Ryan faced a $900000 embezzlement indictment in a get rich quick scheme. A jury was selected and Justice Foster sustained the demurrer from Ryan’s counsel, signaling an acquittal.
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St. Louis
John J. Ryan
Foster
Ryan
Neuces Grounded Off San Louis Pass in Fog
The Mallory steamship Neuces ran aground about five miles below San Louis Pass in fog while en route from New York to Galveston with eighteen to twenty passengers aboard and a full merchandise cargo. Tugs proceeded to assist from Galveston. The vessel departed New York February 1 and was due in Galveston Wednesday morning.
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Galveston
Hicks
Mallory Fire
Brazos River
San Louis Pass
New York
Fices
Richardson Drug President Ends Life at Home
St Louis on February 9 James N Richard son fifty a McLean Drug Company president shot himself at his residence in an apparent suicide authorities reported.
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St. Louis
James N. Richardson
McLean Drug Company
Weather thaws leaves Arkansas highways passable
Temperature rose across the state on Wednesday and the thaw restored passable highways. The severe weather has ended and no damage occurred in the fruit belt.
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Tittle Rock
Fruit Belt
Prominent Fort Worth Citizen Shoots Self Dead
Fort Worth February 9 Jesse H Melton a leading Knights of Pythias member aged thirty nine killed himself with a revolver at his home 612 Pennsylvania avenue. He died after receiving a bullet wound just above the heart following a noonday meal as family rushed to aid him.
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Fort Worth
Jesse H. Melton
The
Knights of Pythias
Pennsylvania Avenue
Melton
T R BATTE Att y at Law Real estate and insurance sale notice
Attorney T R Batte advertises general law practice and a large sale of real estate including two brick buildings on Main street, ten acres near the railroad, 600 acres north of Bryan, and farms in Brazos county. Also offers insurance on various properties and life, with claims investigation and exchanges offered.
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Fire, Life, and Accident
Bryan
Thomas
Brazos County
Mangan
Mumford Road
Brazos Bottom
Rock burns rural shack after heated stone ignites bed
San Angelo Texas February 9 James Jackson a young ranch hand for James W John ston near San Angelo heated a rock and placed it in his bed clothes. The stone set fire to the bed clothes and the one room frame house burned. He suffered severe burns to his right arm and escaped death by a narrow margin.
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San Angelo
Tex
James Jackson
James W. Johnston
Boy’s accident injures mother and unborn child in Canton
Canton Texas February 9 Charley Smith a nearly grown lad fell while leaving home with a gun. The accidental discharge wounded his mother in the forearm and the head of her child. The mother’s arm was amputated and the child is in critical condition.
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Canton
Tex
Charley Smith
C. P. Smith
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Johnson & Baker
York State
Plymouth Rock
Curie
MO. A. Moore Jr
M. H. James’ Goods
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Oliver Typewriter
Geo. A. Adams
Parker Building
Bey
Platt
C. W. Post
Battle Creek, Mich
Grand Opera House
Hampton & Hopkins
Emily Erickson Greene
Lena Anderson
Ellis Island
Old Mill Wheatfields
North Dakota
Faultness Company
Mallory
T. R. Batte Att’y At Law
J. Fountan
Mgr. Real Estate Dept
T. R. Batte & CO
Country Property
Insurance
Valentines
E. J. Jenkins
Rock
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