Monroe Edge Bryan Property Deals in City and Surrounds
Real estate listing details 14 000 acres of farm and ranch lands plus numerous city parcels for sale. Properties include 40 acres with 25 in city limits 15 outside, multiple houses stables sheds cisterns wells and improvements. Also vacant lots near depots parks and College Road with prices from 500 to 1200. Owner offers bargains and exchange options, plus 184 lots near Jeff Franklin and a boarding house renting for 700 a year.
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Bryan
City
A.B. Ballard
Free Baptist Church
College Road
Oures
Beabins
G. N
City Park
Bon Ton
Washington House Considers Permanent Census Bureau Bill
In Washington on January 11 the House debated Hopkins bill to create a permanent census bureau. Opinions split over the bill as drafted, with calls to place the bureau’s current employer under civil service and the measure re committed to report a detailed permanent organization. A separate bill granting Mrs McKinley free postal privileges for life passed unanimously before adjournment until Monday.
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Washington
House
Hopkins
Census Bureau
Civil Service Law
Orive
Raising Fine Tobacco and Pacific Cable Plans
Secretary Wilson reported experiments show domestic wrapper tobacco can meet all needs with top quality. Filler tobacco also high grade, with expansion planned in Ohio Texas North Carolina and California. Imports valued at 6 million for wrapper and 8 million for filler. House Commerce Committee discussed government vs private cable build with Commercial Pacific Cable outlining Honolulu and Manila plans. Manufacturing progresses at 240 miles monthly, soon 630, with projected cost of 10 to 12 million dollars.
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Wabington
Wilson
Cuba
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Texas
North Carolina
California
United States
Washington
House Committee On Commerce
George C. Ward
Commercial Pacific Cable Company
Honolulu
Manila
Dallas Postoffice Appropriation Favorably Reported
Senate public buildings committee approves the Dallas Texas postoffice appropriation bill of 150000 dollars. In Washington Representative Lovering of Massachusetts introduces a bill to pay ex presidents 25000 dollars annually from retirement, applying to any living ex president when enacted.
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Dallas
Washington
Lovering
Massachusetts
United States
National Editorial Association Plans Two-Week Stay in Hot Springs
The executive committee of the National Editorial Association met in Hot Springs Arkansas on January 11 in a special session. They completed arrangements for the next convention to be held in Hot Springs in April and decided to extend the stay to two weeks with an elaborate plan for member entertainment.
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Hot Springs
Ark
National Editorial Association
Deputy marshals rush to Springer after bridge attack report
Ardmore Oklahoma January 11 four deputy marshals armed with Winchesters sped from Ardmore Friday night in response to a telephone message to U S Marshal Hammond reporting that two women and a man were waylaid and killed near Caddo bridge on the Springer road no further details available
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Ardmore
I. T
Springer
United States
Hammond
Caddo Bridge
Springer Road
Heavy cotton buyer shoots clerk in drug store
Oklahoma City Oklahoma Territory January 11 W T Peoples a 45 year old prominent cotton buyer shot Eugene F McLaughlin a drug store clerk twice through the heart Peoples offered no statement beyond saying McLaughlin had ruined his life The incident occurred in Oklahoma City Oklahoma Territory
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Oklahoma City
O. T
W. T. Peoples
Eugene F. McLaughlin
Peoples
Mclaughlin
Washington Descendant Colonel dies in Philadelphia
Colonel William Lewis Washington, descendant of George Washington, died at his Philadelphia home. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he served as a soldier in the Confederate army and will be buried there.
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Philadelphia
Willam Lewis Washington
George Washington
Nashville
Tenn
Diversified farming reshapes Brazos County 1909 dream
In Bryan Brazos County Texas a grocer laments credit trade as cotton dominates cash flow. A reader recalls 1900 1909 shift toward truck farming canneries and home preservation, with farmers building barns cellars and orchards to store and sell produce. The dream ends with a wakeful bow to possible awakening through diversified farming.
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Adray
Bryan
Brazos County
Texas
Philippines
Tortured to Death of Yuma Medicine Man Padre
Phenix Arizona reports Padre a Yuma medicine man was sacrificed under tribal customs to atone for the tribe's smallpox epidemic. He fled to the mountains then returned emaciated and begged mercy before being bound and taken to Mexico where he was tied to a tree and killed.
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Phenix
Ariz
Yuma
Mexico
Sacrifice Requited as Tradition Guides Tribesmen
A tribal custom dictated a heavy sacrifice despite the warmth of kinship. The community honors a ritual obligation that underscores their enduring cultural obligations beyond personal ties.
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Raare
Naa
Road Building Interest Surges Nationally in 1901
In Washington on January 11, the Dodge report from the Office of Public Road Inquiries notes unprecedented interest in road construction for 1901 and that actual work exceeded 1900. It recommends forming two to three road machinery outfits including rock crushers screens rollers and graders to aid locations ready to begin building.
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Washington
Martin Dodge
Agricultural Department
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Cally
G. B. Abercrombie
Monroe Edge
Jeff ‘Franklin
City Market
Messrs. Smith & Adams
John W. Hicks
James
W. A. Watkins
J. R. Astin
Astin & Bethea
Astin
Main Street
G. G. Green
Wilson-Jenkins Drug Co
Green
Nent Census Bureau
Pacific Cable Bill
Hawaii
The
Pacific Cable
BY Willepee
Wabors Brothers
J. F. Parks
Nabors Bros
John Wiitman
Eoo
Paul Jones
J. E. Ponder
Louisville
GSE
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos. W
Qld
Liza
Dray Line
F. A. Lee
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