City Officials and Churches Listed in Local Directory
City officers include Mayor J 8 Mooring and Marshal T P Boyett. Clerks and boards named. numerous clergy and church schedules with service times and Sunday schools noted for Baptist Methodist Christian Episcopal Presbyterian Free Communion Baptist Catholic Italian Catholic. Corporate officers for Bryan Cotton Seed Oil Mull and Bryan Compress listed with officers and managers.
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Baptist
Methodist
E L Shettles
Epworth League
Christian—Jewell Howard
Christian Endeavor
St. Andrew's Episcopal
Herbert E Bowers
D Dlld
Joseph's Catholic
St Kolin
San Antonio
Father Guidice
Bryan Cotton Seed Oil
J O Chance
M D Cole
A D McConnico
E J Fountain
Bryan
J W Howell
W E Saunders
The Fat Mascot’s Ill Starred Slide Ended United Lightfoot Defeat
A humorous reminiscence from Jones County recounts Willie the Lightfoot Lilies mascot and his 412 pound frame. During a crucial ninth inning push for home, a mis-slide left him unable to touch the plate as Bull Thompson and Hankins pressured him, resulting in the Roarers’ victory.
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Jones County
Jotman
Slugger Burrows
Lightfoots
Roarers
Boarers
Thompson
Sammie Salmon
Foote Twins
Ringtail Roarers
Lightfoot Lilies
Yours
Hankins
Hawkins
Willie
Bull Thompson
New York Sun
Fraternal Lodges Meet on Monthly Fridays and Mondays
Listing of fraternal organizations in Brazos area with meeting days. Brazos Camp 104 meets on second and fourth Fridays. Bryan Tent 16 KK OTM meets first and third Mondays. Bryan Lodge 980 Home Forum on second and fourth Wednesdays. Bryan Lodge 409 National Aid on first Tuesdays. Ivanhoe Commandery No 8 Knight Templars on second Tuesdays. Fraternal Union of America on second and fourth Mondays. Austin Chapter No 87 R A M on third Mondays.
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Brazos
J E Ettle
Joe B Reed
Bryan
Aes Mawhiney
Bryan Lodge
W T James
Joe B. Reed
National Aid
W W Griffin
C C Dulaney
Ivanhoe
Knight Templars
Jack Garrett
H G Rhodes
Fraternal Union of America
W H Walker
W L Houston
T Austin
R A M
W E Saunders
H P
No Interference Burglar Confronted by Policeman
A burglar is suddenly confronted by a policeman who says he is not on duty tonight and has dropped in to see the cook. The exchange appears in the Boston Transcript with a wry note on honesty and reputation as earned by living well.
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Cardus
Mitchell
Willie Mitchell
Chattanooga Medicine Company
Chae Teon
Boston Transcript
Words as forces shaping life and fate
An excerpt reflecting on how language molds reality. Words about hate poverty sickness invite those woes, while talk of love health happiness and plenty invites and invites them home. The author urges persistent hopeful speech as a life law.
A Match for a Million By A Lumber Camp Partner
A Washington Star reminiscence recounts a man who, after decades apart, recounts entering a show in a Wisconsin town where he bet a giant wrestler ten dollars and won. The crowd urged him, he hip locked the challenger, earned ten dollars, and soon ran lumber camps becoming a partner and affluent through a businessman mentor.
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Wisconsin
Washington Star
How He Earned Breakfast by a Richmond Harvester
Booker T. Washington recounts a night of hunger in Richmond. He slept beneath a raised sidewalk and later helped unload a ship loaded with pig iron to earn money for food, describing breakfast as perhaps the best he ever ate.
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Richmond
Booker T. Washington
Little Harry's Diplomacy and the Pudding Plot
A tale where Harry prefers pudding over meat and potatoes. He schemes to eat the pudding first, distracting from the rest of the meal with a brag about saving the best for last, revealing a child’s cheeky take on self control.
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Harry
Mark Twain Autograph Letter and Dead Morals
A typewritten note to an applicant for Twain’s autograph contrasts polite requests with asking for works. It notes a doctor or builder might sign but not supply specimens of work. The piece cites quotes urging kindness to the dead and thoughtful words for the living from Atchison Globe and Chicago News.
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Mark Twain
Chicago News
Pan American Exposition to Feature Large Live Stock Display
Buffalo hosts a six month Pan American Exposition with space for 25 000 animals including a major dairy and horse show. The Dairy Building will showcase milk products and apparatus with a Model Dairy and selective exhibits led by F A Converse.
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Buffalo
United States
Canada
Exposition
Maine
California
Manitoba
Texas
North America
Central
South America
Race Development Exhibit Showcases Ancient American Treasures
The Pan-American Exposition's Department of Ethnology will mount a vast archeological museum tracing race development in America. Rich Amerindian artifacts from mound builders Aztecs and Incas will illustrate early human labor and invention for modern audiences.
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America
Americas
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City Directory
Mooring
T P Boyett
J D Conlee
H H Jones
C L Baker
G Tabor
Howell
M Parker
Walter Wipprecht
A J Buchanan
AG Board
G W McMichael
M Nagle
J J Adams
R M Nall
T C Nunn
Jno M Lawrence
J W Batts
RJ Deens
Lee Edge
Dennis Ballard
P H Arrington
Schools Board
J Allen Myers
A M Rhodes
G M Bandon
J B Mike
Rob
Inson
Lightfoot Littles
Quir Kent
ST. Louis
Memphis
Shreveport
New Orleans
Hearne
Dallas
FT. Worth
Kansas City
Milano
Santa Fe
Somdidhe Insurance Task
W. & B. V. Railroad
L. Price
D. J. Price
G. N. Railroad
Palestine
Qld
Liza
Dray Line
F. A. Lee
M. Fs. James
Tyler Haswell
Landreth
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Atchison Globe
Pan-American AT Buffalo
F. A. Converse
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