J. W. Batts Property For Sale In County Town
A historical listing details multiple properties for sale near a courthouse town. Includes 105 acres one mile from court house with 25 cultivated, 80 in pasture, fenced with six wires at 1500 dollars. North east county 400 acres post oak land at 2.50 per acre. Southeast town area house with small cottage tenant house and well. Six room house on two lots near Main Street with cistern. One quarter block near Allen Academy priced 250 dollars. 75 feet front on Railroad street Otto Boehme property. City lots near school at 100 dollars each. About 13 acres south side of town with new four room house price 1000 dollars.
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Court House
Schop
Snalls
Allen Academy
Otto Boehme
Local Farmland and City Lots For Sale Near A M College
Classified notes list 92 acres near A M College for dairy and hog farming at 1000 dollars. 31 cent lots on courthouse square with seven room house and outbuildings at 2200 dollars. Pochila two story house offered cheap. Western city lots 25 and 35 dollars. 69 acres on Wixon Creek Pearson place with 49 cultivated acres, creek bottom land, suitable for small farm, priced to move. One mile west of city 29 acres with 6 room house and two underground cisterns, 94 acres cultivated, I G N R R line passes through. 1500 dollars or trade for city property.
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A. & M. College
Courthouse Sqare
Pochila
Wixon Creek
Pearson Place
City
Kodol claims to heal and strengthen the body
An advertisement touts Kodol as a cure and tonic that makes the sick well and the weak strong by supplying all the nourishment from the food consumed. It is sold by Dr. N. M. McDougald.
Laredo Birthday Fiesta Shows Mexican American Pageant
Laredo Texas and Laredo Mexico plan a grand two day George Washington Birthday celebration February 22 and 23 with Spanish bull fights cattle roping torchlight parades naval fireworks and pageants. Excursion rates and a Monterey Mexico stopover ticket option are offered for those seeking to witness the international border event recommended by D J Price Palestine Texas.
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Laredo
Texas
Mexico
George Washington
Aest
Monterey
D. J. Price
Palestine
New Ambassador Baron Von Sternberg Receives Instructions
Baron Speck von Sternberg has been appointed ambassador to the United States and given his instructions by Emperor William. He criticizes the Washington embassy as out of touch with American spirit and calls for fairer German American press coverage to improve relations among Germany, America and England.
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Baron von Sternberg
New York
Baron Speck von Sternberg
Berlin
United States
William
Washington
van Holleben
Germany
America
England
South America
Lahn Aboard Steamer Runs Aground Near Gibraltar
The North German Lloyd steamer Lahn, with 300 salon passengers and 1200 emigrants aboard, ran ashore at Tamara near Gibraltar in heavy fog and rain. Attempts to refloat failed. passengers may be trans shipped as the ship remains wedged on the sand bank despite help from Energetic Hartford Newa Hercu les and Hermes.
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Lahn
Gibraltar
Lloyd's
Malchow
Mediterranean
New York
Tamara
Energetic
United States
Hartford
Newa
Herciades
Hercules
Crossing Collision Injures Dozens in Pittsburgh Area
Two people were seriously hurt and about ten others injured when a southbound Baltimore and Ohio street car collided with a Homestead and McKeesport line at Hazlewood. Passengers Gertrude Hanna, 24, and David Cruikshank were named among the injured. Authorities cited a possible miscommunication with the flagman’s warning.
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Pittsburg
Hazlewood
Versailles
Baltimore and Ohio Road
Homestead
McKeesport
Gertrude Hanna
David Cruikshank
Colorado senatorial fight centers on election committee report
Denver reports the elections committee findings on contests against 17 Democrats seating. Despite fraud evidence in Arapahoe County precincts, Democrats are seen winning by 2000 to 5000 votes. The federal panel faces a tough battle to overturn results. Washington notes 265 killed and 2613 injured in three months of rail accidents, with total casualties around 12000 including workers and passengers. Sycamore reports two killed and thirty injured in a train derailment after a broken rail near a bridge west of town. Engineer J D Healy among the dead.
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Denver
Colorado
House Elections Committee
Arapahoe County
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sycamore
Ill
DesaGinesville
Fla
P. A
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Here
J. D. Healy
Death of Noted Correspondent Opper de Blowitz in Paris
Paris reports the death of Henri George Stephen Adolphe Opper de Blowitz longtime London Times correspondent in Paris. He suffered an apoplexy attack a few days earlier and was born in 1832.
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Paris
Henri George Stephen Adolphe Opper de Blowitz
London Times
M. de Blowitz
Editor Gonzales Dies After Four Day Battle
Columbia hospital reports editor N G Gonzales died at 1 o clock after four days of illness following a shooting by Lieutenant Governor James H Tillman. A septic condition worsened, and formaldehyde was used as a drastic measure before death amid public sorrow in Columbia and across the state.
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Gonzales
Columbia
D. C
N. G. Gonzales
James H. Tillman
Columbia Hospital
Gongales
Tillmat
Military Honor Seven Die in Massachusetts Accident
A cable from Rear Admiral Higginson reports seven dead from the Massachusetts incident buried with military honors at San Juan. The ship’s seven victims are Robert Rule F H Loesser S F Malinowski K J Platt Andrew Hendrickson Albert Tacke Walter W Nett. Patterson is recovering and Dossett’s status is doubtful with Tacke dying Saturday.
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Massachusetts
San Juan
Washington
Navy Department
Higginson
Robert Rule
F. H. Loesser
S. F. Malinowski
K. J. Platt
Andrew Hendrickson
Albert Tacke
Walter W. Nett
Patterson
Dossett
Tacke
Blood Poisoning Treatise Shows Early Formaline Trial
New York January 19 physicians at St Vincent s hospital report the private patient treated for blood poisoning with a formaline injection is improving with Sunday s temperature 100 degrees after 104 degrees Saturday another patient treated with formaline Friday night at Hohenemann hospital is also progressing favorably
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New York
St. Vincent's Hospital
Hohenemann Hospital
Jelks Inaugurated in Elaborate Alabama Ceremony
Montgomery Alabama January 190 William Dorsey Jelks longtime governor after Samford death in June 1901 was formally inducted for a new four year term. The inauguration follows the most elaborate ceremonies since Jefferson Davis was inaugurated president of the Confederate States in Montgomery forty two years ago.
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Jefferson Davis
Montgomery
Ala
William Dorsey Jelkks
Samford
Alabama
Dolphin Arrives With Bowen and Wife in Charleston
The United States dispatch boat Dolphin arrived in Charleston harbor from Kingston Jamaica with Minister Bowen and Mrs Bowen aboard. Bowen left the ship at noon to travel to Washington by rail. He declined to discuss Venezuela conditions until reporting to the State Department.
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Bowen
Washington
Charleston
S. C
United States
Dolphin
Kingston
Jamaica
Venezuela
Mr. Bowen
State Department
Five Men Severely Injured by Duquesne Coal Crusher Blast
Five workers at the Carnegie works in Duquesne were badly burned and bruised when a throttle valve in a stationary engine driving the coal crusher blew out. Night foreman Joseph Carey suffered the worst injuries and five others are hospitalized with serious trauma. names of the remaining workers were not learned.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie Works
Duquesne
Joseph Carey
Junk man leaps to death to avoid jail at Spokane
Spokane report says John Lee fifty two a junk man killed himself by leaping from the cliffs into the Spokane river maelstrom below the falls after breaking from two policemen while under arrest for burglary of grain sacks from a freight car.
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Spokane
Wash
John Lee
Spokane River
Lee
Saved by a Dog in Ithaca Fire Escape
A dog barking alerted several students trapped in a rooming house fire in Ithaca New York January 19. The rooming house was gutted but all occupants escaped unharmed.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Fan-Tan Players Arrested in New York Raid
In a raid on a Chinese gambling den fifteen fan-tan players were captured. A mob of Celestials tried to prevent their being taken to the stationhouse and police reserves had to drive them away. William E. Mickle of Mobile was elected adjutant general and chief of the United Confederate Veterans to succeed the deceased General Moorman in New Orleans.
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New York
Mickle
New Orleans
William E. Mickle
Mobile
The
United Confederate Veterans
Moorman
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