Brazos County Farmers Institute Plans Next Session
The Brazos County Farmers Institute schedules a meeting for Saturday February 28 1903 at the Bryan courthouse. Attendance has lagged due to bad weather and waning interest. organizers urge every reader to attend and support a flourishing institute through the summer and fall. The program features topics from alfalfa to rice by products with speakers A F Wilson Henry Scales Willman Newell S H White K J Kyle W L Edge H H Harrington McDuff Simpson and Rev J A Freeman. possible lectures by Bonner of Smith County and Prof Atwater of the Southern Pacific Railway Co with illustrated birds. local leaders worry about turnout but hint these speakers may be secured if attendance improves.
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Brazos
Brazos County
A. F. Wilson
U Henry Scales
Willman Newell
S. H. White
K. J. Kyle
W. L. Edge
H. H. Harrington
McDuff Simp
J. A. Freeman
Bonner
Smith County
Atwater
Southern Pacific Railway Co
Editor Hal tom assaulted in Nacogdoches Sentinel case
In Nacogdoches Texas editor Hal tom was struck on the head twice and faced a county sheriff with a drawn gun over a newspaper article accusing officers of failing to suppress crime. The note questions whether a newspaper can freely exercise its rights in this country.
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Texas
Haltom
Nacogdoches
Antis Win Dallas County Prohibition Vote
In Dallas County election, 5000 of 6500 votes opposed local option. City totals show 4967 votes with only 341 from prohibitionists, and the dispatch notes very few Black voters participated, citing business interests driving the outcome.
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Dallas County
Dallas
Resolution proposes $1000 annual salary for Texas legislators
Representative H. M. Nowlin introduces a House resolution in Austin to fix legislative salaries at $1000 per year and set a 150 day session. He argues higher pay would improve legislation and prevent hasty railroading of measures near adjournment.
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H. M. Nowlin
House
Austin
For Sale Six Room House and Three Lots
Six room house with outhouses underground cistern and three lots all in first class condition. Price one thousand five hundred dollars. Inquiries to A. W. Hollman 861m.
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A. W. Hollman
Boddeker and Phillips wed at Ursuline Convent
Mr O Boddeker and Miss Mabel Phillips were married Tuesday afternoon at the Ursuline Convent with Father Theon officiating. Miss Phillips is a Bryan resident well known for many friendships. The groom, chief boiler maker in the I G shops, has been popular locally. They will reside in Bryan in the western part of town.
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O. Boddeker
Mabel Phillips
Ursuline Convent
Theon
Miss Phillips
Bryan
Eliot urges voluntary work as path to success
The Galveston News quotes President Eliot of Harvard telling Boston newsboys that work builds joy and happiness. He says a near sure path to success in most labors is to volunteer for tasks beyond one’s duty, a principle shared as a secret of achievement.
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Eliot
Harvard
Boston
Galveston
Bayonne Health Board Fights Fashion With Skirt Rule
The Bayonne New Jersey board of health plans a resolution requiring women to wear skirts with hems at least six inches above the ground. Women vow retaliation by urging the city council to pass an ordinance forcing men to wear trousers not lower than three inches below the knees.
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Board of Health of
Bayonne
N.J
Denison Telephone Girls Strike Reverses Hello
In Denison the telephone girls have struck causing the customary hello greeting to be reversed with the o sound placed at the front, creating an unfamiliar salutation in the city.
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Denison
Mardi Gras Special Round Trip Tickets to New Orleans
H and T C offer Mardi Gras round trip passages to New Orleans with travel to depart no later than February 28. Fare is 13 dollars and 80 cents. Tickets deposited with Joseph Richardson at 204 Camp Street in New Orleans between February 18 and 28 and paid with 50 cent limit can be extended to reach origin by March 14, 1908.
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New Orleans
Jos. Richardson
Camp St. N. O
Amendment Lost in Texas Legislature on Incorporations and Railroads
In Austin on February 18 the amendment failing 54 to 49 allowed private corporations for multiple purposes including mills gins and public utilities. An amendment to restrict to one business place failed. Grinnan and Hicks debated senatorial term drawing. Grinnan’s speech and Hicks’ reply to be printed. A bill to allow Cotton Belt Railway to purchase and operate the Texas and Louisiana road, connecting at Lufkin, was introduced.
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Austin
Sayers
Lanham
Grinnan
Hicks
Cotton Belt Railway
Lufkin
St. Louis
Antis Win Big in City Precincts as Weather Suppresses Votes
In Dallas on February 18 the bad weather kept many voters home. Across twelve of thirteen city precincts the antis led with 625 to 16 in First ward and a total city vote near 7500 with the antis in the lead. County precincts show the pros ahead for the day.
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Dallas
Miss Roosevelt Debut Shines at Crescent City Ball
New Orleans February 18 Miss Roosevelt's debut in society was brilliant. The Atlanteans ball at the French opera house featured Miss Roosevelt in a decorated box. An escort led her to a throne beside the king who gave a handsome souvenir as grandees honored her with royal treatment.
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Miss Roosevelt
Crescent City
New Orleans
French Opera House
Cort
Mimic
Miss Alice Roosevelt Attends New Orleans Carnival
Miss Alice Roosevelt and Miss Root arrived in New Orleans on a late train six hours behind schedule. They were welcomed by Mr. John A. McKhenny, hosted by his mother. General Joseph Wheeler and his three daughters accompanied them to witness the carnival.
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New Orleans
Alice Roosevelt
Root
John A. McKhenny
Joseph Wheeler
Major fire destroys Rich Building in Houston
Fire swept the Rich building at Houston on February 18 damaging ground floor tenants James Bute painter merchant G A Gibbons Wade Cox Howard & Howard and others and Caledonian Hall on the second floor. James Bute faces about 30000 in losses.
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Houston
James Bute
G. A. Gibbons
Wade Cox
Howard & Howard
Dr. Glaze
Beebe
Elizabeth Uncopher
Dispatch Printing Company
H. P. Rudesill
Caledonian Hall
Oklahoma Legislature Postpones Statehood Resolution Indefinitely
In Guthrie Oklahoma Feb 18 the Democratic majority legislature votes strictly to postpone indefinitely action on a resolution requesting Congress grant the earliest possible statehood.
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Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
Congress
Rail line bonds approved for eastern Oklahoma subdiv
Wall Street reports the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe board authorized a $5,000,000 issue of eastern Oklahoma division first mortgage 4 percent, twenty five year gold bonds. The issue is at $20,000 per mile on the Pauls Valley cut off, secured by a first mortgage on the lines.
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New York
Wall Street
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Eastern Oklahoma Division
Eastern Oklahoma Railroad
Pauls Valley
Venezuelan blockade officially raised by navy
Washington February 18. The Navy department received a cable from Commander Diehl of the Marietta at Willemstad reporting raised blockade and withdrawal of war vessels from all blockaded ports.
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Washington
Navy Department
Diehl
Marietta
Willemstad
Stormbound South Sees Warmup After Cold Spell
Atlanta reports higher temperatures across the south as a cold wave breaks. The official 7 oclock reading shows 20 degrees, down from 15 on Tuesday night. Flooded roads hinder rail traffic while many streams rise. Mon day storm toll includes several cold deaths, and concerns grow for Georgia peach crops as Chattahoochee and Coosa rivers rise.
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Atlanta
Weather Bureau
Coosa River
Gadsden
Ala
Chattahoochie
Georgia
Florida
Record Cold Grips Chicago and Northwest
A new cold wave drives Chicago to ten degrees below zero with winds near gale force. Destitute suffer amid charity efforts as trains run hours late. In St Paul Minnesota the low reaches eighteen below as winds intensify. The northwest endures widespread freezing temperatures across weather stations.
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Chicago
St. Paul, Minn
T City
Clearing Skies After Tuesday Storm in New York
New York reports a Tuesday storm moving off, skies clearing, and a cold snap with temperatures dipping to six above zero marking the coldest of the winter.
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New York
Weather Outlook Amid Blizzard Aftermath
Boston reports extreme cold following Tuesday’s blizzard. Temperatures ranged from twelve above in Nantucket to four below zero at Eastport Maine, signaling a sharp cold front after the storm.
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Boston
Nantucket
Eastport
Texas Senate Passes Antelope Protection and Other Measures
In Austin on February 18 the Texas Senate approved a bill prohibiting antelope killing, another authorizing out-of-state civil appeals clerks to take depositions, and Moore’s bill raising salaries for meritorious convict guards. The chamber also set aside 10 percent of city funds to cover judgments against cities and accepted an oil painting of General Sam Houston presented by Judge A W Terrell.
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Austin
Senate
Court of Civil Appeals
Moore
General Sam Houston
A. W. Terrell
Bryan election notices announce multiple city offices
The Eagle lists candidates for Bryan city offices in April elections including A L Dunnica for City Secretary W R Johnston for City Secretary and W M Spell seeking re election for City Secretary W J Roberts for City Marshal and another candidate for alderman all subject to voter will in the upcoming April election.
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Bryan
W. J. Roberts
Eagle
City of
Blaze in East Gallery Feeds Brief Senatorial Smoke Alarm
In Washington on February 18 a small fire erupted in the flooring of the East reserved gallery due to a defective flue in the Democratic cloakroom. About fifteen feet of moulding burned before the blaze was put out, causing no disruption when the House convened.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Hundreds Gather Over Get Rich Turf Con At Chicago Police Station
Nearly a hundred people claiming they were victimized by the get rich turf schemes gathered at the Harrison street police station in Chicago to attend a meeting called by police. They were directed to see Inspector Stuart at the post office or the state’s attorney office as plans for prosecution were to be discussed.
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Chicago
Harrison Street
Stuart
Office of the States Attorney
Garfield Nominated for Commissioner of Corporations
Washington February 18 The president sent to the senate the nomination of James Rudolph Garfield of Ohio to be commissioner of corporations in the department of commerce and labor.
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Washington
Senate
James Rudolph Garfield
Ohio
Department of Commerce and Labor
Tracklayers Begin Steel Mexico Orient and Gulf Line
Tracklay ers in Guthrie Oklahoma report the start of laying steel for the Mexico Orient and Gulf railroad, extending south from Lone Wolf Oklahoma to the Denver and Fort Worth road in Texas.
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Guthrie
Okla
Mexico, Orient and Gulf Railroad
Lone Wolf
Denver and
Fort Worth Road
Texas
Deadly Compact Ends In Deaths In New Orleans
Ella Watkins and Folger Green posed as a married couple and agreed to kill themselves. The woman died after taking morphine while the man stabbed himself in the neck and then slashed his wrists and was taken to a hospital. Snow and sleet hit the south with rain in other states as a Santa Fe depot burned in Carlsbad New Mexico and property losses were reported.
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New Orleans
Ella Watkins
Folger Green
Indiana
Santa Fe
Carlsbad
N. M
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Jeff D. Franklin
Buchanan & Buchanan’s
Main
the Daily Eagle
Connelly & Carnes
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Brazos County Farmers
Bryan, Texas
Thelisa
Pinaud’s
Emmet’s Prescription Pharmacy
All Childrens Shoes
Allmens
Allmens Florsheim
Hunter
Or Chatham
Men’s Furnishers
Boddeker-Phillips
Teet
F. B. Johnston
Tee King
New England
Texas Senate
A. L. Dunnica
Law
W. R. Johnston
W. M. Spell
T. RP. Boyett
Shelburne
Roger T. Boyle
R. H Harrison
Gald’s Drug Store
Garfield
Deadly Compact
East City National Bank
Bryan Lee
Storage & Coal Co
W. C. Fountain
Gnanualte
Nner
C.b.francis
McGee's Feed Store
W. F. Taliaferro
Wilson & Jenkins Drug Store
W. H. Oliver
Gray Fox
J. B. Dunn
Beyar
Beanga
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