Elegant New Smith Drug Company Store Opens in Bryan
The Smith Drug Company opens a model new drugstore in the Parker building in Bryan with elegant quarter sawn oak furnishings, plate glass showcases, a large 72 by 120 inch prescription mirror, and top line stock. The firm adheres to the motto Nothing But the Best and features Squibb chemicals for prescriptions, a full line of sundries, perfumes, cosmetics, and ladies manicure items.
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Smith Drug Company
Parker
Bryan
Stork
New Firm Forms To Run Havana Cigar and Cafidies Store
Complete stock of musical dst mente Havana and domestic cigars and Jacot's cafidies in a Word. The new firm Merera, George W. Smith and J. A. M. Queen will manage and handle stock and fixtures with personal attention. Dr W H Oliver joins and will office in the Smith building.
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Havana
Jacot
Merera
George W. Smith
J. A. M.queen
W. H. Oliver
Smith Building
Local society notes and events in Brazos County
Miss Jessie Phillips travels to Mart and guests from Kurten and Austin are reported. The Convict's Daughter is tonight's opera house attraction. Licenses issued for Stan Kolodzencek and Julia Dominek, Sam Conlee and Lucy Jones, Tom Green and Willie Gary. A pistol conviction leads to a $100 fine. The Beggar Prince Opera Company may return for two performances in February. The Baptist Church revival reports fourteen public professions. Professor Conradi speaks at the American Scientists Convention. Coach Backman returns with new wife and roses interest on campus. Burt Hull and Josephine Weaver announce a Beaumont marriage surprise.
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Stan Kolodzencek
Julia Dominek
Sam Conlee
Lucy Jones
Tom Green
Willie Gary
Burt E. Hull
Josephine Weaver
Heaumont
Burt
Otasa
Texas
Beaumont
Music Store Burns in Kingfisher Fire
A fire in Kingfisher Oklahoma destroyed William Gilbert's music store and stock, gutting the building and burning several expensive pianos. Total loss estimated at 3500 dollars with 1700 dollars insured. Other nearby business buildings were saved with effort.
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Kingfisher, Okla
William Gilbert
Harris Lynched After Polk Killing at Bering's Mill
A Black man named Ben Harris, accused of fatally shooting Ozro Polk at Bering's Mill Monday, was captured near Livingston and lynched near Moscow on Wednesday morning. A mob of about fifty to seventy men seized deputies and Harris after a 40 mile ride, then hanged him from a telephone pole in front of Moscow's railroad station.
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Ore Polk
Bering’s Mill
Lavelle
Mos
Hunter
Livingston
Harris
Ozro Polk
Polk
Shephard
Moscow
White Identified as Escapee From Texas Penitentiary
Austin officials confirm Will White, identified as an escaped convict from twelve years ago. He admitted his identity after being linked to a burglary conviction in Ennis. Secretary Shannon reports December fees totaling $8,412, deposited in the treasury, nearly double last year’s for the same month. The penitentiary board meeting was postponed due to the absence of General Oppenheimer and Colonel Fry, with plans for a later session this month.
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Austin
Penitentiary
Will White
Lary
Ennis
Shannon
Treasury Department
State Penitentiary Board
General Oppenheimer
Washington
Fry
Lunches with President Discuss Texas Postmasters
Washington report states Ceccil Lyon dined with the president at noon Wednesday to discuss Texas appointments including postmasters at San Antonio Fort Worth Bastrop Stephenville Burnett Brownwood and Elgin with talks also covering commissions of the U S marshal and U S district attorney set to expire soon.
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Washington
Ceccil Lyon
Texas
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Bastrop
Stephenville
Burnett
Brownwood
Elgin
United States Marshal
United States District Attorney
Franklin journeys to find eloping wife across miles
Denison Jan 10. George H. Franklin of Pierre South Dakota has been seeking his wife who eloped a year ago. He followed her for thousands of miles and lost track in San Antonio en route to Mexico. She fled with a dentist named Bisbes.
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Denison
George H. Franklin
Pierre, S. Cp
Franklin
San Antonio
Mexico
Bisbes
United Benevolent association holds tenth Texas Convention
On January 10 in Fort Worth the United Benevolent association opened its tenth annual convention with about one hundred delegates present from a 3000- member Texas body. Colonel E. W. Taylor of Fort Worth serves as supreme president.
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Fort Worth
United Benevolent Association
Order
Texas
E. W. Taylor
San Antonio Traction company assessment raised
San Antonio January 10 the city board of equalization increased the assessment of the San Antonio Traction company from 287 150 to 388 475 an uptick of 101 326 in value the board announced today across the city and its utilities.
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San Antonio
City Board of Equalization
San Antonio Traction Company
Freight rate mass convention forms push for rate control
Wichita Kansas January 10. A 600 delegate convention of commercial and farmers groups from across Kansas completed permanent organization to back railway rate legislation. Resolutions urged Congress to empower a railway rate commission to set railroad rates. Speeches by Chairman Bristow S R Vansant former Minnesota governor and others were delivered.
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Wichita, Kans
Kansas
Congress
Railway Rate Commission
Bristow
S. R. Vansant
Minnesota
Suspension of Denison Prior & Co on Cleveland Stock Exchange
Formal announcement of the suspension of the investment banking and brokerage firm Denison, Prior & Co, made on the Cleveland Stock Exchange floor. Banks have rejected many of the firm's checks since the death of Lt Prior, asserting the checks cannot pass the clearing house though banks reportedly have funds and securities to cover claims.
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Cleveland
Denison, Prior & Co
Cleveland Stock Exchange
Prior
Postmasters Appointed in Indian Territory and Texas
Washington January 19 The President appointed postmasters Absolom B Allen Oke mah Alva A Taylor Wapanucka L W Smith Wewoka Texas Marshall Smith Brownwood J A Bowerman Mansfield in a series of federal staffing moves reflecting routine government appointments at January's start.
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Washington
Indian Territory
Absolom B. Allen
Okemah
Alva A Taylor
Wapanucka
L. W. Smith
Wewoka
Texas
Marshall Smith
Brownwood
J. A. Bowerman
Mansfield
Beall Proposes Cotton Fund Return Bill in Congress
Congressman Beall introduces a bill to return to southern people money in the treasury from cotton confiscated during the Civil War.
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Washington
Beall
Briefs From Texas And Nearby States
Colorado, Tex. to have a 15000 dollar high school. Detroit, Tex. lumber yard fire burned about 8000 feet of timber. Reeves hotel in Mexia, Tex. burned. inmates escaped. Dallas poultry show hosts about 1000 birds. Dr. A. G. Sisson dies at Wills Point. Mexico ships half a million silver dollars to China. Josiah Strowdy, a black man, convicted at Kaufman, Tex., of criminal assault on a girl of his race. sentenced to eight years.
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Dallas
A. G. Sisson
Texas
Wills Point
Mexico
China
Josiah Strowdy
Kaufman, Tex
Socialists Kill Officials in Warsaw and Novominsk
Socialists shot and killed the superintendent of the street car shops in Warsaw and the chief of the district police at Novominsk in separate incidents. Government authorities report the attach occurred as sectarian violence spread across the region.
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Warsaw
Novmoinsk
Brokerage Firm Partner Ends Life in Cleveland Hotel
L W Prior of Denison Prior Co a Cleveland broker and NYSE member shot himself at the Hollenden hotel reporting a personal crisis. He is described as a prominent figure in local and national financial circles.
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Cleveland
L. W. Prior
Denison, Prior & Co
Hollenden Hotel
New York Stock Exchange
Large Sum Sued For
Shreveport notes a lawsuit filed by Columbia Compress and Warehouse Company against Vaughn Grocery Company Limited to recover 10 750 on a lease and rent claimed due. This legal action seeks payment and may affect the parties’ business obligations in the lease agreement.
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Shreveport
Columbia Compress and Warehouse Company
Vaughn Grocery Company, Limited
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McRaine
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Connelly & Carnes
Bryan, Texas
the Smith Drug Company
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Mart
A. W
Will Cloud
Kurten
Opera House
Hoyle
Little Son
Mrs. Hoyle
A. G. Beard
T. J. Rhodes
John M. Caldwell
Mrs. Kall
T. A. Taylor
J. R. Smith
J. E Mathis
Harriet Smith
Reliance
Georgia
Junkin of
Hunteville
Junkin
H. ©. Robinson
the Eagle
Mr. Robinson
Professors
Battalion
Brazos County
D. B. Ballard
Chm
Brazos Co
B. C. Roberts
Beggar Prince Opera Company
First Baptist Church
Conradi
New Orleans
C. E Sanborn
College
Backman
Houston
Ben Harris
White
Cecil Lyon
Ses
Sion
Wichita
the City National Bank Edemiet G
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S Saloon
MO. M. Lawrence
Colorado, Tex
Detroit
Tex
Reeves Hotel
Mexia
H. C. Robinson
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