Bryan Texas City Enacts Smallpox Health Ordinance
The Bryan city council approves an ordinance to restrict anyone with or recently recovering from smallpox from street exposure without a certificate from the City Health Officer. Violators face a fine between five and twenty five dollars. the measure targets residents of buildings with current or past cases. Mayor J S Mourtne. City Secretary C M Spreun attest.
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City of
Bryan
Texas
J.S. Mourtne
C. M. Spreun
For Sale City Property and Farm Listings
For sale items include south half block near Allen Academy with cottage tenant house and well priced at 550. A 1.25 acre plot near schoolhouse in southeast town with a six room house and brick cistern priced 1250. West town six room house on two lots four blocks from Main Street at 3600. Also two acres near Allen Academy with eight room residence barn servants' house dug well tub cistern plots and garden priced 1600. Terms reasonable. 800 acre Brazos Bottom farm priced 20 per acre sell in small tracts. 76 feet front on Railroad street out of Otto Boehme property selling part or all.
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Allen Academy
Ain Street
Brazos Bottom
Otto Boehme
Women and Jewels
An advertisement argues women prioritize jewels but health matters most to prevent illness from striving for wealth. It promotes Dr. Bosehee German Syrup as a timely remedy to arrest early consumption and heal lungs, claiming it fits bronchial trouble treatment and notes availability at Wilson Jenkins Drug Co in Bryan with Green’s Almanac.
To Cure Chills or Malaria in Four Days
Advertising copy offers Quinoria to cure chills fever or malaria in four days with a money back guarantee. Drugstores authorize refunds if it fails. Price 50e per package. M. H. James, leading druggist, Bryan.
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M. H. James
Bryan
Southern Educational Movement Gains Wide Backing
New York reports a campaign to organize large scale educational work in the United States with emphasis on the south. Wealthy sponsors including John D. Rockefeller and son are said to back the plan with several millions in pledges. The effort follows investigations by the Southern Educational conference and builds on previous funding boards linked to Peabody legacies.
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UN New York
United States
South
John D. Rockefeller
Southern Educational Conference
George Peabody
John Fox Peabody
Dominican leaders seek tariffs to aid sugar and tobacco
President Jimenez invites New York merchants to Puerto Plata to discuss remedies for Santo Domingo’s economic woes. Aiming to raise prices on Dominican goods, he backs reciprocity with the United States and Spain, proposes a property tax and a new loan, while seeking funds to cover a short budget. He tours Cibao to gauge conditions.
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New York
Jiminez
Puerto Plata
Santo Domingo
Herald
United States
Spain
Cibao
Brooklyn widow leaves nearly million to charities
Mrs. Julia Elme Brewster Brick dies at 80 in Brooklyn on February 3. Her will filed February 12 leaves most of her estate, valued near $1,000,000, to charities she served for 50 years. The bulk goes to Joseph K. Brick Agricultural Industrial and Normal School at Edgecombe North Carolina, with The American Missionary Association to oversee the bequest.
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New York
Julia Elme Brewster Brick
Brooklyn
Joseph K. Brick
Texas land sales by Capitol Land company across multiple buyers
The Capitol Land company known as the X I T ranch in the Texas Panhandle sold 18 000 acres to Reynolds Land and Cattle company 40 000 acres to L T Clark 50 000 acres to William J Todd 210 000 acres to Matador Land and Cattle company 70 000 acres to F D Wright and about 40000 acres in smaller parcels to assorted buyers all reported from Chicago dated February 12.
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Chicago
Capitol Land Company
X. I. T. Ranch
Panhandle
Texas
Farwells
Reynolds Land and Cattle Company
L. T. Clark
William J. Todd
Matador Land and Cattle Company
F. D. Wright
Noted New York Baker Frank C White Dies in New Jersey
Frank C White, longtime official baker of New York and public bread supplier to city institutions, has died at White House New Jersey from paralysis. A reputed millionaire, he was noted for charity during the Chicago fire and Pennsylvania miner strikes and for supplying bread to returning soldiers at Montauk Point.
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New York
Frank C. White
White House
Mr White
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Montauk Point
Drink blamed for downfall of Wisconsin man in burglary case
In Omaha on February 12, George Leonard a Porto Rican campaign veteran and second lieutenant from Wisconsin confessed to burglary after being found in the cellar of a sporting goods house. He cited a drink habit formed during army life as the cause of his downfall and was remanded to await sentence.
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Omaha
George Leonard
Wisconsin
Leonard
Landis will case ends as security not filed
In New Jersey, the court of errors and appeals dismissed the Landis will contest after the contestants failed to provide the required security. The estate began valued at 1,000,000 dollars and is now assessed at 150,000 dollars.
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New York
New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals
Landis
Post Offices Established in Soudan Region
Egyptian postal administration reports new post offices for registered mail at Khartoum Fashoda and 25 other locations in Soudan as of February 12.
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Washington
Egyptian Postal Administration
Khartoum
Fashoda
Soudan
Agreement Signed Preserving China and Corea Pact Between Britain and Japan
London reports a new alliance between Great Britain and Japan to defend China and Corea. The pact binds both nations to neutrality if the other is attacked, then to joint war and peace efforts if needed, effective Jan. 30 for five years with a one year mutual protection clause after denunciation.
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London
Great Britain
Japan
China
Corea
Lord Lansdowne
Tokio
Baron Hayshi
Russia
Wei Hai Wei
County Committee Forms to Fight Boll Worm
To Fight Boll Worm Bonham Texas February 12 Fannin county begins efforts to combat the boll worm this year. The county committee includes J M Terry chairman W A Spangler Dr R E L Kincaid J W Rainey and Zac Smith and will coordinate with Paris organization to keep farmers informed.
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Bonham
Tex
Fannin County
J. M. Terry
W. A. Spangler
R. E. L. Kincaid
J. W. Rainey
Zac Smith
Paris
Choctaw Train Crashes Into Little Rock and Hot Springs Train
A Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf passenger train collided with the rear of a Little Rock and Hot Springs train near Gulpha, seven miles east of Hot Springs. Conductor John Cox was badly crushed with internal injuries. The Choctaw engine buried in the sleeper, but no passengers were hurt.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Little Rock and
Gulpha
Here
John Cox
Oldest Native Texan Visits Dallas
Dallas February 12 Judge A Lawrence, likely the oldest native born Texan, visits relatives in the city. Born in Galveston county in 1824 he is seventy eight years old and is said to be the first white child born in Texas of American parents. His father came from Kentucky and settled in Galveston county circa 1823. He now resides in Alamogordo New Mexico.
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Dallas
A. Lawrence
Galveston County
Texas
Kentucky
Lawrence
Alamogordo
N. M
Trapeze Artist Eva Gilbert Dies After 85-Foot Fall
Eva Gilbert, a Powhatan theatre trapeze performer from New York, fell 85 feet during an aerial act on Tuesday night. Her foot slipped from a loop and she struck the floor headfirst, dying within ten minutes as shocked Newport News spectators watched.
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Newport News
Eva Gilbert
Powhatan Theatre
New York
Town of Alabama Shifts Two Miles Toward Frisco Line
Guthrie February twelfth. The town of Alabama, about 21 miles north of Holdenville in the Creek Nation, is being moved two miles to the new Frisco Fort Smith and Western railroad crossing. The line is under construction from Fort Smith Arkansas toward the city.
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Guthrie
O. T
Alabama
Holdenville
New Creek Nation
Frisco
Fort Smith and Western
Fort Smith
Ark
Oklahoma Cattlemen Open Three Day Session in Wichita
Oklahoma Cattlemen's association opened a three days' session in Wichita Kansas on Tuesday. Honorable Jerry Simpson delivered the welcoming address to attendees from Oklahoma and surrounding states.
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Wichita
Kas
Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association
Jerry Simpson
Painting of Senator Cutberson Acquired for Supreme Court Library
In Austin on February 12 the governor, under last legislature funding, bought from artist R J Onderdonk of San Antonio a portrait of Hon Charles A Cuther son for 300 dollars. The painting will hang in the supreme court library.
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Austin
R. J. Onderdonk
San Antonio
Charles A. Cutherson
Supreme Court
Playwright Clyde Fitch Ill in Atlantic City
Clyde Fitch the playwright is ill in Atlantic City with acute intestinal trouble. His condition is not thought to be serious.
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New York
Clyde Fitch
Atlantic City
Roosevelt Jr Still Improving Amid Pneumonia Crisis
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. remains ill with pneumonia at the Groton school infirmary. Reports say he improved by 8 pm Tuesday versus Monday night and Cor telyou indicated the fever fluctuated but showed signs of a favorable night, with a crisis anticipated today.
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Groton
Mass
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Groton School
Cortelyou
New Kansas City Southern project links to City of Mexico
Arthur E. Stillwell plans a 150 mile extension from San Angelo toward Brownsville and Tampico. The Orient railway and Hidalgo and Northeastern lines will form a short Kansas City to Mexico City route crossing the Rio Grande near Brownsville and continuing to a new Gulf port and Tampico.
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Kansas City
Arthur E. Stillwell
Kansas City Southern
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad
City of Mexico
Tampico
Gulf of Mexico
Brownsville
Tex
Hidalgo and Northeastern
Pachuaca Tortugas
Ireland
Orient Railway
San Anegro
San Angelo
Rio Grande
of the Republic
Insurance firms withdraw from Texas under anti trust act
Several large insurance companies, mostly European, inform the Texas secretary of state they will quit Texas citing the anti trust act requiring affidavits that they are not part of rate fixing bureaus. Eleven firms planned to leave last year, bringing total departures to eighteen since the act took effect. Suits in Young county against fire insurers for alleged violations are said to have triggered the exits.
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Austin
Texas
Secretary of State
Young County
Ten Years for Murder in Marlin Tex Case
Ed Logan, 21, found guilty of murder in Marlin district court for the fatal street shooting of Neal Sealy, a 30 year old man. The jury set punishment at 10 years in the penitentiary.
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Marlin
Tex
Ed Logan
Neal Sealy
Gilham Held Responsible for Empire Hotel Fire Deaths
In St. Louis prosecutors declare Empire hotel owner J W Gilham responsible for eleven deaths due to the blaze. The jury cites neglect to provide fire escapes and life lines as the cause of the fatalities. Police testimony asserts lives could have been saved with proper escapes.
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St. Louis
J. W. Gilham
Empire
Hall
Gould Buys Five-Block St Louis Property
George J. Gould, president of Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain, has acquired a five block property in St Louis for 325 000 dollars. Reported plans indicate construction of a large freight yard complex on the site.
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Gould
St. Louis
George J. Gould
Missouri Pacific and
Iron Mountain
Robbery at Hill in Indian Territory
Robbers halted A. F. Morris, Hill, I. T., store proprietor, and bystander A. E. Park with Winchesters. They were marched away, released, and the thieves took $50 and groceries.
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Denison, Tex
A. F. Morris
Hill, I. T
A. E. Park
First Woman Appointment in French Diplomatic Service
Paris reports Mme Jean d Ville nuve has been named secretary of the French consulate generale in New York marking a historic milestone as the first woman regarded to hold a diplomatic post.
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Paris
Mme
Jean 4 d’Villenuve
New York
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Stillwell
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Houston
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M. L."robbins
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Denison
Houston, Corsicana
Ting
John Wiitman
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J. E. Ponder
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Cole Bros
Thos
Liza
F. A. Lee
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