Local Real Estate Notes and Community Notices
Edge promotes property sales while residents visit Bryan and nearby towns. Monroe Edge and other agents advertise lots for sale, rent and board. Various residents recover from illness, travel to Calvert Navasota and Houston, and attend church services. Tax reminders urge payment to avoid penalties.
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Edge
Julius Levy
Navasota
Rafe Connor
Houston
J.C. Allen
J.E. Player
Millican
W. M. Foster
Monroe Edge
C. L. Baker
Verna Sellers
Bryan
Eal
M. E. Harrie
J. G. Harrison
College
Friends
W. S. Adams
Hazel
Ennis
Bertha Boyett
Sherman
Wf? Webb
Theo
City Council Meets Amid Administrative Steps and Wreck Update
The city council met in regular adjourned session with Alderman Tabor presiding. It reviewed fiscal balances, fixed the tax rate at 1.05, discussed Main street improvements, street roller needs, and water pressure for fires, and deferred the C W B V spur franchise. Deputies and notices of land sales were decided, while a freight wreck on the H T C oil mill line caused track damage but limited delays.
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Mooring
Tabor
Ater
General Street Fund
Water Company
Luza
R. H. Smith
John D. Conlee
Minen
Rioting in Wichita Ends in Street Fight and Arrests
Riots in Wichita Kansas escalated into a street fight between three black men and three white men. Wiley Schnell was shot in the head, Cash Johnson wounded in the groin, serious. Hereford cut with a razor. a country youth injured. 17 arrests reported as mob chased a principal suspect and a trolley worker was seriously injured.
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Wichita
Kas
Wiley Schnell
Cash Johnson
Schnell
Johnson
Hereford
Beaumont Oil Well Attracts Thousands In City Visit
Beaumont Texas on January 14 reports thousands visited a superb oil well as the Sabine and West Texas railway ferried crowds every two hours. The 6 inch column rises a hundred feet and daily output is about five thousand barrels claimed the world’s largest.
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Beaumont
Tex
Sabine and West Texas Railway
Rose vs International and Great Northern verdict in personal injuries case
In Palestine Rose sued the International and Great Northern railway for injuries received in the company shops last year. The jury awarded Rose 3166.30 dollars in favor of her suit. Aransas Pass reports 2000 gallons of wine shipped in 60 days from a local vineyard. Mason sees 16 year old Samuel Rothman die after a yard accident during a funeral.
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Palestine
Tex
Jaf& 44
Rose
The
International and Great Northern Railway
Aransas Pass
Memory Bros
Mason, Tex
Samuel Rothman
Arkansas Legislature Opens in Little Rock at Noon
The thirty third biennial session of the Arkansas legislature convened in Little Rock at noon today. Jeff Davis will be inaugurated governor on Friday.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Jeff Davis
Cotton mill plan nears Paris Texas completion
From Paris Texas a push to establish a cotton mill with 10000 spindles at a total cost of 100000 has secured 85000 in subscriptions in two days. The report notes regional business optimism and rapid local financing.
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Paris
Tex
Jas. O. Kernale
Bryan
Samuel Lewis Dies, Noted Money Lender and Usurer
London obituary notes the death of Samuel Lewis, described as the greatest and meanest of modern Shylocks. Also reported is the Transport California bringing home 74 soldiers’ remains from China.
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London
Samuel Lewis
San Francisco
California
Taku
China
Infant of Walter Owens Found Dead in Roxton
Paris Texas January 14 The infant of Walter Owens of Roxton about five weeks old was found dead in bed in an apparent death at home.
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Chicago
Turner Hall
Tyler,Tex
J. D. McCollumb
Shelby County
Ennis, Tex
Garrie Coe
Lee Crawford
Paris
Tex
Walter Owens
Roxton
London Peer Lord Lionel Cecil Dies
London dated report states that Lord Lionel Cecil half brother of the Marquis of Salisbury has died.
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London
Lionel Cecil
Marquis of Salisbury
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Pcbees
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W. A. Banks
Eagle Office
Y.C. A. Rogers
Waco
J. J. Adams
C. P. Fountain
Baptist Church
Walker Johnson
F.S. Wilcox
Texas
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Ford & Ford
W. W. Griffin
W. H. Webb
Cole Bros
J. H. Thomas
Eagle
New Market
C.W
City Council
Methodist Ladies Home Mission Society
Court House
E. L. Shettles
Methodist Church
Rudolph Miller
Goodman & Miller
R. E. Cuthrell
Mr. Miller
38Rd Regiment
Mike Hall
Grice Blacksmith Shop
Bryan Street
Bob McCay
Business League
J.D. Irons
Tyler Haswell
McDougald
W.&b. V. Schedule
U. S
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Texas Wine
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New York
the Herald
Washington
Boise City
Hunt
Coller d’Alene
Stevenson
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
United States
Cleburne, Tex
Abner Colins
Young Alberts
Alvarado
Lord Cecil
Gospel
Jno. M. Lawrence & Co
Otto Boehmbe
Otto
Brogdon’s Livery Stable
J. V. Brogdon
Candy Kitchen
Berwick Bay
Lowney’s
Gunther’s
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