Real estate spree in Monroe with 40 acres and city lots for sale
Advertisement lists 40 acres near a mill plus 25 city lots and 15 suburban acres for sale cheap. Includes 6 room houses, stables, sheds, cisterns, and many city blocks with trees, water, electric light, and garden space. Also Center 14,000 acres of farm and ranch lands. miscellaneous vacant blocks and houses offered at bargain prices.
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WA V. Depot
City
College Road
City Park
Bon Ton
Women and Jewels Health Ad Warns Against Coughs
An advertisement claims women prioritize jewels candy and flowers and urges fortifying health to avoid financial strain. It promotes Dr Rosee German Syrup as a prompt remedy for coughs colds and bronchial issues and mentions Wilson Jenkins Drug Store Bryan and Green's Almanac.
Two Men Arrested In Fire Torch Case In Buffalo
Buffalo on January 13 reports Henry Pearlstein his wife and five children aged 2 to 12 perished in a blaze that destroyed a two story frame building. Joseph Supowski and Karl Brackie were arrested as investigators probe the fire likely sparked by a lamp accident.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Henry Pearlstein
Bulding
Joseph Supowski
Karl Brackie
Supowski
Pearlsteins
Broadway
Pearlstein
Not Stop by Engineer Causes Severe Wreck on Southern
Rome Ga Jan 13 A collision between a passenger train and a freight train near Reeves Station 20 miles north of Rome injures Mme Lillian Nordica and accompanist E Romayne Simmons. Engineer Frank Tracy killed, three other railroad workers injured. Passenger car remained on track. Both engines wrecked, 12 cars burned.
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Rome
Southern Railway
Reeves Station
Mme
Lillian Nordica
E. Romayne Simmons
Frank Tracy
Mme. Nordica
Atlanta
Chatanooga
Reeves
Chattanooga
Tracy
Nordica
Nashville
St. Louis
Appeal for the Boers Petition to Roosevelt Neutrality Law
Chicago January petition by the American Transvaal league urges President Roosevelt to enforce the neutrality law. Signatories include judges and lawyers who argue the United States is neutral in the British and South African republics war. They claim halting Britain's New Orleans military supplies would end the conflict and define horses and mules for military use as military supplies under the Washington treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
American Transvaal League
Roosevelt
United States
Great Britain
New Orleans
Washington
Enthusiastic Pro-Boer Meeting at Broadway Theater
Denver crowd packed Broadway theater Sunday night for a pro Boer meeting with Webster Davis former assistant secretary of the interior as principal speaker. State and city officials attended along with many prominent citizens.
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Denver
Broadway Theater
Webster Davis
Navy Surgeon Takes Own Life at Newport Station
Newport R I January 13 Assistant Surgeon J B Buchanan United States Navy died by suicide at the United States naval hospital at the training station in Newport during a delirium from typhoid fever. He was recently appointed from Texas and had been at the station about a week.
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Newport
R. 1
J. B. Buchanan
United States Navy
United States Naval Hospital
United States Naval Training Station
Texas
Eight Hour Law Upheld by State Supreme Court
Kansas state supreme court sustains the eight hour law in a case from Topeka. Justice Smith writes the decision for W. W. Atkin of Kansas City who challenged a city street paying contract after employing workers beyond eight hours daily and was convicted in district court.
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Topeka
Jan
State Supreme Court
Smith
W. W. Atkin
Kansas City
Kas
District Court
Big Brinkley Fire Destroys Arlington Hotel
Fire at Brinkley Memphis area destroys multiple buildings including the Arlington hotel. Loss estimated between 50 000 and 75 000 dollars. Charles Starkey of Stuttgart Ark dies in the hotel.
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Memphis
Tenn
Brinkley
Ark
Arlington Hotel
Charles Starkey
Stuttgart
Seventeenth Victim Dies After Tunnel Accident
The death list from the New York Central tunnel disaster grows to seventeen with the death Sunday of Winfield Stulze after he had his leg amputated following the crash.
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New York
New York Central Tunnel
Winfield Stulze
Military Prisoner Eroaper
Frank Holt, a military prisoner on Alcatras Island, escaped while serving an 11 year desertion sentence.
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San Francisco
Frank Holt
Alcatras Island
Various Dallas and West Texan Crime Trials In Brief
Mrs. Mary Puttmann was sentenced to eight years in Astoria for counterfeiting. Samuel Garvin and R. E. Lee, cattlemen, received one year and $1000 fines at Helena for stealing cattle from Crow Indians. Mrs. Nancy Taylor died by fire in Muncie after an attempted suicide. John Rinkard faces hanging at Marion on January 17 for wife murder. The People’s Bank at Painesville closed. Two men arrested at Santa Fe for robbing 30 tramps. death is the state penalty.
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Mary Puttmann
Astoria
L. L
Samuel Garvin
R. E. Lee
Helena
Mont
Nancy Taylor
Muncie
Ind
John Rinkard
Marion
People’s Bank
Painesville, O
Santa Fe N. M
Frank Garrett
McGregor
Tex
Norman Beal
Houston
Hilcott Green
T. L. Hansard
Whitewright
Lucinda Gilbert
Robinson
Ill
Dale
G. F. McMahon
W. T. George
Wolfe City
Winkler
E. E. Rogers
Bonham
Denison
Charles Scott
Tom Conyers
Marshall
Oklahoma
Joaquin Ponca
el Paso
Ter
Texas and Pacific Railroad
S. C. Gilges
Enid
O. T
Corsicana
Roosevelt
Bolivia
Lahoma
Okla
Aaron Bibbs
George Lankford
Goldthwaite
Oliver Norris
Norris
Lankford
Attorney General Wins in Mandamus Case Over Fees
The Texas Supreme Court denied District Attorney Warren W Moor a mandamus to force Attorney General Bell to pay $586 75 in state against Texas and New Orleans Railway and Houston East and West Texas Railway penalties cases. It ruled railroad commission laws give penalty suits to the commission and not the attorney general. The court also rejected J M Sewright's bid to force Comptroller Love to sue International and Great Northern over gross passenger tax from 1879 to 1900.
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Austin
Supreme Court
Warren W. Moor
Mandamus
Bell
Torney General
Texas and New Orleans Railway
Railroad Commission
Houston, Eart and West Texas Railway
Moore
J. M. Sewright
Love
International
Great Northern
Gaines
Fire At Chicago Destroys Malting Elevator and Plant
A blaze at 1:45 a.m. gutted the J F Weil branch of the American Malting company on Fifty second street near the Panhandle tracks. The 150 foot elevator storing 300,000 bushels of barley burned, destroying the building and almost all contents valued near 500000 dollars. Freight cars in the Panhandle yards were partially saved but several were lost, and adjacent pickle factory property owned by J Weil suffered damage.
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Chicago
J. F. Weil
American Malting Company
Fifty-second Street
Panhandle
J. Weil
Carnegie Institute Endowment Funds Viewed as Private
Washington January 18 It is stated by incorporators and trustees of the Carnegie institute that no reason exists for congressional or government action on the educational scheme The institute is treated as a private corporation and may hold securities including United States Steel bonds or government bonds as the endowment basis It is believed Carnegie intends to place his bequest in United States Steel securities as originally planned
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Washington, Jan
Carnegie Institute
United States
Carnegie
Breach of Promise Suit Settled for 1000 Pounds
Portia Knight the American actress sued the duke of Manchester for breach of promise. The case was settled out of court with the duke paying 1000 pounds plus legal costs. Final papers to be signed Wednesday with payment to follow. Lawyers say trial would not have revealed grave scandal but would have drawn unwanted notoriety from letters.
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London
Portia Knight
Duke of Manchester
Pope Leo XIII Silver Jubilee Movements Begin Worldwide
A global drive forms for the pontiff’s silver jubilee in 1903 with England already mobilizing and plans soon starting in the United States. Copies of the English appeal have reached Archbishop Corrigan’s residence in New York.
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New York
Leo XIII
England
Corrigan
Bricklayers and Masons Union In Session In Pittsburg
Bricklayers and Masons International Union meets in Pittsburg on January 13. Key topics include proposed affiliation with the American Federation of Labor the eight hour day and biennial meetings instead of annual. President Gubbins likely to be re elected. the union counts over 70 000 members.
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Pittsburg
Bricklayers’ and Masons’ International Union
American Federation of Labor
Gubbins
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Bryan
Cally
G. B. Abercrombie
Monroe Edge
Jeff ‘Franklin
City Market
Messrs. Smith & Adams
John W. Hicks
NM H. James
W. A. Watkins
J. R. Astin
Astin & Bethea
Astin
Main Street
Eamily
Dio
Eroaper
Pardiney & Sons
Wallis
J. F. Ferguson
Fort Worth
William Stack
Greer College
Danville
Edward Morrison
Marion Mine
Continental Tract
Joplin
Nebraska City
Neb
Morton-Gregson Packing Company
Higgins Oil Company
Beaumont
Robert Franklin
Brenham
Hallway Commission
Nabors Brothers
J. F.f
Nabors Bros
John Wiitman
Pope
Paul Jones
J. E. Ponder
Louisville, Ky
Woossseoe
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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