FOR CONGRESS SCOTT FIELD CANDIDACY ANNOUNCED IN TEXAS
The Robertson county grand jury has returned twenty one felony bills. Attention is called to the candidacy of Hon Scott Field of Robertson county for congress from this district. A more extended notice will appear later. In Brenham the city council debates an electric light plant. The Daily Eagle notes editorials on child intellect and early mathematical precocity with examples.
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Congress
Scott Field
Robertson County
Brenham
Robertson County Grand Juy
Cornell
Harvard
Yale
Claridge
Texas Stock Farmer
The Truck Growers Agree on Secretary and Agent
The Brazos County Truck Growers Association held a Saturday meeting at the courthouse to elect a secretary and business agent and to arrange seed orders. McDuff Simpson proposed as agent with 10 percent commissions on seed orders and mixed product sales, with 5 percent on full car shipments. He pledged to find markets and buyers and to secure fair prices for produce.
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Brazos County
McDuff Simpson
Simpson
Onion Growers Association Discusses Cannery Stock and Plans
Members of the Bryan onion growers association discussed appointing a secretary, contracting terms with a dedicated agent, and arranging packing. Most onions were lost to a December freeze, reducing expected acreage to 15 20 acres. Members considered stock in a cannery with several pledging about five dollars each and one at twenty five. The meeting adjourned to February 1 with J A D Robinson as president and W P Connelly as secretary.
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Bryan
W. P. Connelly
Business League of Bryan
J. A. D. Robinson
Sec’y
Girls Industrial school site proposals reviewed by commissioners
The Girls' industrial school commissioners near the end of their work and considered options from multiple cities. Austin offered sites from 18 to 21 acres with 5000 cash. San Antonio proposed 20 acres with three site choices and 10000 cash. Taylor 150 acres with 5000 cash. Bryan would join the Agricultural and Mechanical College. Hillsboro offered two 20 acre sites and one 50 acre site. Amarillo 100 acres with 10000. Walnut Springs four sites with 3500. Dublin 100 acres with three site choices and 25000. Waco near city 20 acres plus a 10 acre tract near Proctor Springs. Denton and Jefferson, Greenville, Terrell, and Huntsville await later consideration.
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Austin
San Antonio
West End
Laurel Heights
Taylor
Washington Heights
Bryan
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Hillsboro
Amarillo
Walnut Springs
Dublin
Waco
City
Proctor Springs
Denton
Hawkins Collects Funds From Local Manager Incident
A notice offering a time frame of sixteen years and eight months to settle a debt is published under the Local Manager MRS M Hawkins, located next door to the Methodist parsonage.
Fighting in Panama Harbor as insurgent fleet battles government ships
In Panama Harbor the revolutionary steamers Padilla Darien and Gaitan clash with government vessels Lautaro Chicuito and Boyaca near Sacana. Three shots fly over Chicuito as Padilla retires. Las Bovedas guns also fire. US cruiser Philadelphia watches. Consul Gudger reports fighting and a killed governor. Capt Mead confirms Padilla attack on Lautaro, crew fled, Padilla on fire and sinking.
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Colon
Colombia
Panama
Padilla
Darien
Gaitan
Sacana
Challan Line
Lautaro
Pacific Steam Navigation Company
Chicuito
Panama Calan Company
Boyaca
Alban
Las Bovedas
United States
Philadelphia
Washington
State Department
Gudger
Bay
Secretary of the Navy
Mead
Reward Offered for Arrest in Buckshot Fire Incident
Austin, Jan 20. The governor offers a reward of 250 dollars in each of two cases for the arrest and conviction of unknown parties who fired a load of buckshot into the residence of Co. and John Palmer at Lytton Springs, twenty miles from here. The affair stirred great excitement as the railroad commission scheduled a Feb 18 hearing to review exceptions to a classification on carload shipments of ripe bananas and the related stops and charges. The commission has been flooded with letters from railroads urging reconsideration of a delayed passenger order, with a rehearing set for tomorrow.
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Austin
John Palmer
Lytton Springs
Railroad Commission
Texas
Fire at United Brethren Church Funeral
In Hartford City Indiana on January 20 flames burst from the floor beneath a casket as Rev J M Hobbs preached a funeral. Mourners escaped through windows while male worshipers formed a bucket brigade. The fire started from an overheated basement stove but the church was saved and the funeral continued at the cemetery.
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Hartford City
Ind
United Brethren Church
Humbolt
J. M. Hobbs
Miners Convention Opens in Indianapolis With 1000 Delegates
Nearly 1000 United Mine Workers of America gather in Tomlinson hall for the thirteenth annual convention. Delegates come from 24 states to press for a ten percent wage advance as officials predict the largest union gathering to date. The event runs through January 30 with a joint conference with operators to follow.
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Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
Tomlinson Hall
Mitchell
Wilson
United States
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Indiana
First Coal Dealer of Chicago Dies at 84
Charles A. Reno, reputed Chicago’s first retail coal dealer who once served the domestic trade with a one-horse wagon, died at 84 in Chicago. Arriving in 1848, he built a leading firm and later became police commissioner in 1862 until the office was abolished by the city charter.
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Chicago
Ill
Charles A. Reno
Reno
Belfast Flax Mill Wall Collapse Buries Operatives
A wall at the Belfast flax mills collapsed trapping workers including many women. Ten bodies were recovered from the rubble.
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Belfast
Yarn Mill Fire Damages New England Yarn Plant
Fire at the Globe yarn mills in Fall River Massachusetts caused about 200000 in damage to the plant. The blaze at the New England Yarn Company facility erupted on January 20 and disrupted operations.
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Fall River
Mass
Globe Yarn Mills
New England Yarn Company
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the Truck Growers
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U. S
Emmet’s Prescription Pharmacy
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Miners Convention
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Tucker
Ogeo
D. Tucker
Propristora
Hi &T. C
Adil & G N
Tucker House
Mistrat
Wagner & Brandon
Hartman House
Central Hotel
GRO
D. Tuckahr
Bryan, Texas
Great Northern Railroad
Lewis
Longview
Laredo
ST. Louis
Memphis
Objective
D. C. Demaret
L. Frice
D. J. Price
Mark
Daly
Baki
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