Rockdale purchase by J C Gaither & Co
J C Gaither & Co have purchased the business of Mistral Bros & Co at Rockdale. The report notes the recent freeze will reduce the state's cane crop value by about 40000 to 50000 dollars. A Houston Post note says one Ohio resident in 400 has been adjudged insane. At the president's New Year reception Schley mirrored Sampson's Santiago role. Mrs A C McCoy of Victoria died suddenly after a rock was thrown through her window Thursday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.C. Gaither & Co
Mistral Bros. & Co
Rockdale
Ohio
Schley
Sampson
Santiago
Houston Post
A. C. McCoy
Victoria
Heroic act shields girl in Falls County
A white girl escaped assault in Falls County thanks to a Black man whose name is omitted in dispatches. He deserves thanks from both races for his brave intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falls County
Garden fair to brighten life and share with all
A poem urges planting a garden fair with old time flowers and daily care to create a shared bright space. It imagines roses May and winter pinks December and a spot where every passerby is welcomed. John P. Stolander credited as author in Farm and Ranch. A clipping from another paper adds a reader anecdote about a preacher and threats of legal action from local merchants if names were used in a sermon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John P. Stolander
Arkansas
Hell
Bryan Sees No Vacant Buildings as Growth Surges
In a strong start to the new year Bryan reports no vacant business houses or residences. New merchants are moving in from other places and new residents arrive faster than homes can be secured. Homes continue to rise as the town expands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Bryan
Rest room proposal for ladies in Huntsville debated
The Item states the paper will push practical town prosperity and reopens the topic of establishing a rest room for ladies and children who visit to shop, aiming to aid those who come to do their trading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
Navy Captain Dies Unaware of Rear Admiral Promotion
Capt. R. P. Leary of the United States Navy died without realizing he had been promoted to rear admiral, the promotion coming the day before his death. He had served as the first governor of Guam after the Spanish American War, with Mr. Lovick Pinkston, formerly of Bryan, serving as his official printer.
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R. P. Leary
United States Navy
Leary
Guam
Lovick Pinkston
Bryan
To Cure Chills or Malaria in 4 Days Quinoria
Advertises Quinoria as a remedy for chills fever or malaria with a 50 cent package and money-back guarantee. Sold by M. H. James, leading druggist in Bryan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. H. James
Bryan
James
Texas
Brazos Bridge Stockholders Meet in Bryan January 1902
Annual meeting of Brazos River Bridge stockholders set for 8 p.m. at the secretary's office in Bryan Texas on Monday January 13 1902. G S Parker secretary.
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The
Brazos River Bridge Company
Bryan
Texas
G.S. Parker
Four Judicial Districts Likely For Texas
Texas delegation met in Washington to discuss a court bill creating a fourth federal judicial district in Texas. The measure aims to better serve northern and eastern counties, with Houston favored to receive the new district as the bill is drafted to suit bar and litigant needs.
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Washington
Texas
House of Representatives
Capitol
Houston
United States Gains Permanent Coastal Zone Rights in Nicaragua
Washington reports outline a protocol giving the United States full American jurisdiction and courts over a six mile wide zone from ocean to ocean extending to Greytown and Briton plus U.S. policing. The arrangement is a perpetual lease with a yearly rent likely, while Nicaragua’s sovereignty remains intact. Final sums are未 disclosed but far below initial expectations, with Costa Rica talks similar in form and progress ongoing.
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United States
Nicaragua
Zelaya
Congress
Managua
Ocean
Greytown
Atlantic
Briton
Pacific
Six-Mile
Costa Rica
Dying From Fright After Rock Strikes Window
Victoria Texas January 4 Mrs A C McCoy about 20 dies of fright when a large rock crashes through a window while she talks with her mother and a neighbor. Medical aid arrives but fails. Her husband is absent. A negro man has been arrested.
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Victoria
Tex
A. C. McCoy
Polk elected vice president of Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe
Galveston Texas January 4 directors of the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe railway meet Polk L J general manager elected vice president succeeding the late Itlly Gilbough resigns as director accepted Sealy and Torbert elected directors to fill vacancies caused by the death of George Sealy and the resignation of Gilbough
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Galveston
Tex
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
L. J. Polk
George Itlly
F. M. Gilbough
John Sealy
A. C. Torbert
George Sealy
Gilbough
Pintech Gas Factory Planned for El Paso
Arrangements are completed for a Pintsch gas factory to be erected in El Paso Texas with work to start soon. The facility will be large enough to supply all roads centering at the city. It is undecided whether gas will be piped to depots or delivered to a central refilling point. The works will use Beaumont oil.
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el Paso
Tex
Beaumont Oil
Iowa Farmers Sail for Isle of Pines Colony
A large party of 23 Iowa farming families from Spirit Lake Fairfield and nearby areas sailed from New Orleans on January 4 to establish a tropical fruit growing colony on the Isle of Pines Cuba. In Oklahoma Territory a Frisco railway forest fire near Tuskahoma endangers settled farming lands and possibly lives.
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New Orleans
Isle of Pines
Cuba
Spirit Lake
Fairfield
Lowa
McAlester
I. T
Frisco
Tuskahoma
Brakeman Dies After Fall at Lytle Mine
Jesse E B Clair, 43, a brakeman for the International and Great Northern, fell from a coal car at the Brackenridge coal mine near Lytle as the train moved. His head was severed. he left a wife and five children in San Antonio.
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San Antonio
Jesse EB. Clair
International
Great Northern
Brackenridge
Lytle
Fire destroys most of Catoosa town
Guthrie Oklahoma January 4 Fire at Catoosa Indian Territory Thursday morning razed nearly every building in the town causing estimated losses of 80000 dollars The Bank of Catoosa building was among those destroyed
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Guthrie
O. T
Catoosa
I. T
Bank of Catoosa
Miscellany of scattered notices across states and nations
A collection of brief items reports fortune in Germany for a Montgomery Alabama woman an irrigation canal plan from Wallis to San Felipe Texas a nine mile project Jim Younger ill in St Paul General Seamons dies Goetz and Yaffee jewelers in Knoxville TN in receivership William V Cooper falls breaks neck near Smithland KY Will Morely shoots Ed Driscoll an eight year old boy a Democrat Big cotton seed oil mill planned for Stamford TX unknown fortune for William Jackson Morris town NJ Milton Cotton and wife die burned at Litchfield MN Southern Pacific creosote plant rebuild after Houston TX blaze William C Green found frozen at Cottonwood UT Ed Corrigan to leave English tracks Anson Lanholm shoots his father in Galesburg IN Texas cotton crop estimated at 2500000 bales.
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Wallis
San Felipe
Tex
Jim Younger
St. Paul
Minn
General Seamons
California
Goetz and Yaffee
Knoxville
Tenn
William V. Cooper
Hanibal
Smithland
Ed Driscoll
Stamford
William Jackson
Morristown
N. J
Milton Cotton
Litchfield
Southern Pacific Railroad
Houston
William C. Green
Salt Lake City
Cotonwood
Utah
Ed Corrigan
Chicago
Anson Lanholm
Galesburg
Texas
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Ufford
Dandruff
N. M. McDougald
Daily Eagle
Connelly & Carnes
R. E. Prince
Navarro County
Kansas City
Democratic
Brazos Bridge Stockholders
Wright’s
Rieger
Emmet’s Prescription Pharmacy
South Texas
Santa Fe
Pintech Gas Factory
Jno. W. Coulter
Ness
Pense
Walter J. Coulter
Lonnie Hanson
Montgomery, Ala
Germany
IODA
Roeceot
Tucker
DO. Tucker
HL &T
Tucker House
Mistrot
Wagner & Brandon
Hartman House
Central Hotel
Bryan, Texas
Cedar Creek
Ch Adams
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