For Sale: Mixed Rural and City Properties Nearby
About 105 acres one mile from court house with 25 cultivated acres and rest pasture. Fenced six wires. Price 150 dollars per acre. Northeast county boasts 400 acres of post oak land at 2.50 an acre. Small cottage and tenant house with well on premises priced at 7500. Six room house with two lots four blocks from street, brick cistern and press, price 1250. Quarter block near Allen Academy East front price 250. Frontage 75 feet on Railroad near Otto Boehme’s property with partial sale option. Lots near school house at 100 each. About 13 acres on south town line with 4-room house, well, cistern, out-houses, price 1000.
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Court House
County
Schoo House
Allen Acaferns
Otto Boehme
For Sale by Lamar Bethea Real Estate Agent
92 acres near A and M college for dairy and hog farm at 1000 dollars. 314 courthouse share lots, seven room house with barn and outbuildings, new paint, fine water well at 2200 dollars. Pochila two story house cheap, north western city lots 25 dollars inner, corner 35 dollars. 69 acres on Wixon creek Pearson place, 49 acres cultivable, creek bottom land, good small farm, one mile west of city near I and G N R R. 1500 dollars or trade for city property.
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A. & M. College
Wixon Creek
Pearson Place
City
Menin
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Adverts Card
An advertisement asserts indigestion causes heart trouble and claims Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, prepared by E. O. DeWitt & Co., relieves stomach pressure and heart strain. It cites a Nevada Ohio user, D Kauble, who allegedly recovered after four months of use. Bottles priced at 1.00, trial size 50c, sold by Dr N M McDougald.
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D. Kauble
Nevada
E. O. Dewitt & CO
Chicago
Magnificent Annual International Washington Birthday Fiesta
Grande notes citizens of Laredo Texas and Nuevo Laredo Mexico celebrate George Washington's Birthday with an annual international fiesta. Two all night festivities February 22 and 28 feature bull fights cattle roping torchlight parades naval fireworks sham battles and pageants with music bands and displays. Special excursion rates and Monterey Mexico ticket options with ten day stops at Laredo are offered through J and GN RR agents in Palestine Texas.
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Laredo
Texas
New Laredo
Mexico
George Washington
Monterey
D. J. Pricer
Palestine
Former Congressman Becomes Texas Governor
A former congressman takes office as Texas governor marking a transition in state leadership. The new executive vows to pursue policy priorities and addresses the public from the governor’s mansion amid ceremony and inaugural events.
Lanham Inaugurated Texas Governor In 5000 Strong Ceremony
Samuel W. Lanham was inaugurated as governor of Texas at noon Tuesday before about 5000 spectators in the state capital. The event featured brief attire changes by officials and remarks endorsing progressive policies, a pure ballot, anti waste and agricultural advancement, echoing a plow-centered motto from Governor Roberts.
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Austin
Samuel W. Lanham
Texas
Sayers
Browning
George D. Neal
Lubbock
Hogg
Lanham
Roberts
Governor Lanham Inaugural Acknowledges Sayers Legacy
The ceremony opened with prayer as Governor Lanham took office and pledged equal justice and taxation reform. Retiring Governor Sayers praised his successor, urging wise, honest rule and peace, while Lanham honored his predecessor and called for ballot purity and lawful property renditions.
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Lanham
Sayers
Senate
House
Z. B. Lyles
Williamson County
F. A. Williams
Supreme Court
Commonwealth
Duncan Clinch Hayward Sworn In As Governor
In Columbia South Carolina on January 21 Duncan Clinch Hayward, a Democrat, was inaugurated governor. James T. Sloar also took oath as lieutenant governor to succeed James H. Tillman in a brief inaugural ceremony.
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Tillman
Columbia
S. C
Duncan Clinch Hayward
James T. Sloar
James H. Tillman
Sheppard Attacks Trusts in District Debate
In Washington on January 21 the House passed the District of Columbia appropriation bill and opened debate on the Philippines coinage bill. Texas Rep Sheppard branded the Roosevelt anti trust drive a mockery and attacked Rockefeller and Morgan while criticizing the administration's policies.
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Washington
House
District of Columbia
Philippines
Alaska Boundary Line
Cochran
State Department
Hepburn
Republic of Texas
Louke
Nash
Ohio
Wadsworth
N. Y
Committee On Agriculture
Sheppard
Tex
Roosevelt
Minneapolis
John D. Rockefeller
J. Pierpont Morgan
Gonzales Funeral Draws Record South Carolina Crowd
About 2 000 attended N G Gonzales funeral at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia on Tuesday afternoon, with 300 outside in cold rain. Leaders and officials from across the state attended, business closures marked the event, and the procession extended six blocks to the cemetery on a hill above the Congaree river. A rumor about Tillman’s resignation was unfounded.
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Columbia
S. C
N G. Gonzales
Trinity Episcopal Church
Wade Hampton
South Carolina
Miles B. McSweeney
John C. Sheppard
State Senate
Leutenant
General Assembly
Charleston
Greenville
Sumter
Newberry
Atreay
Second Corinthians
D. Smith
Latteree
Congaree
Tillman
Bible Used by Every Texas Governor
The Bible used to administer the oath to Governor Lanham rests in the supreme court library. A small, circa fifty years old bound volume bears the inscription Property of the Republic of Texas on its fly leaf. It is noted that this Bible has served every Texas governor sworn in.
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Austin
Lanham
Supreme Court Library
Republic of Texas
Texas
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Bryan
Nabors
ARRAS
Parsons Bottling Works
C. G. Parsons
Bryan, Texas
Crown
J. W. Batts
Brazos County
Monroe Edge
Rio
Yaqui
H. B. Dorsey
Parlor Bate
D. E. Suber
McGee’s
Neal
Lone Star
GOV
W. T Lanham
Morris Sheppard
Gonzale
Phon No
Foo
Use Ecpion
Eupion
Tas Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos. W. Higgs
Geo. W. Higgs
D.C Zuber
H. Allphin
Jno. M. Lawrence & Co
W. E. Saunders
Dansby & Dansby
Howell Brothers
John Wittman
FORD
W. Ft. Ford
L. J. Cox
J. W. Hamilton
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