Brazos County land sales offered by J W Batts office
J W Batts advertises numerous parcels: abstract books for Brazos County, N B Cole block, quarter block at 225 cash, 262 acres Caldwell pasture, 15 000 for 262 acres, 7 room house with two lots and brick cistern at 75, 450 acres timber land in Kurten area, 300 to 400 per acre, Mistrat place eight acres two story eight room house bath water works, outbuildings, priced at 3500 with easy terms.
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N. B. Cole
Hall
Caldwell
Kurten
Mistrat
Almost Normal in St Petersburg as City Calms
St Petersburg shows calmer conditions after a night of unrest with newsprint restored. Authorities are quieting public alarm and withdrawing troops from streets. Patrols protect industrial sites while shops remove boards to reassure shoppers. Governor General Trepoff pledges protection against pillage.
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Trepoff
Japanese Proverbs On Bitter Taste And Lifetime Sorrow
A brief proverb note reflects on the idea that a single minute's error can bring lifelong regret and that tasting bitterness leads to lasting change. It echoes the sentiment that early pains shape enduring character.
Plan for 25 percent cotton and fertilizer reduction endorsed
The Southern Interstate Cotton convention approved a 25 percent reduction in cotton acreage and a 25 percent cut in fertilizer use. A detailed plan directs county and precinct meetings on February 18 to recruit pledges and track acreage and fertilizer totals across states, with officials reporting progress to the national leadership.
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New Orleans
Jester
Texas
Commission
C. H. Jenkins
Committee On
Whch
Tax Increase Bill Introduced and Court Bill Passed
In Austin on January 26 Representative Cranke of Laredo introduced a bill to levy an ad valorem tax of 25 cents per $100 in 1905 and 20 cents thereafter. Senate deferred anti free pass action a week. The judiciary committee favored Beaty’s bill to cap attorney fees at $10 in railroad claim cases ruled unconstitutional by the U S Supreme Court. House passed several measures including a sixth civil appeals court at Waco with a long county list.
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Austin
Cranke
Laredo
Senate
Beaty
Supreme Court of the United States
House
Stone
Court of Civil Appeals
Waco
Navarro
Freestone
Hill
Limestone
Sesque
McYennan
Falls
Robertson
Miam
Bell
Coryell
Hamilton
Erath
Comanche
Eastland
Palo Pinto
Stephens
Throckmorton
Shackelford
Callahan
Taylor
Jones
Haskell
Stonewall
Fisher
Nolan
Johnson
Webb
Blanton
Low
Jefferson Davis
Dimmit
Archer County
McCleland
Legislature hosts old fashioned dance in senate chamber
Austin reports that on Wednesday night members of the legislature were entertained by citizens with an old fashioned dance in the senate chamber. Caves of state were laid aside as grave senators and thoughtful representatives danced the Virginia reel and other old time figures with pretty maidens.
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Austin
Senate
Virginia
Harvester pricing talks at Texas hardware association
The Retail Dealers' Hardware and Implement Association of Texas met in Dallas on Wednesday to discuss the harvester question. An 83 13 percent commission on sales was agreed to. Canvassers were done away with. The reduction proposal was considered with Mr Spangler proposing $10 on binders and $2.50 on mowers, and the motion was adopted.
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Dallas
Fatally Burned Child in Paris Tex Yard Incident
In Paris Texas on Polk Street the nine year old daughter of W L Mayo and her little sister played with a bucket of coals. long skirts ignited burning the child severely and burning her arms and legs. Neighbor G P D Nelson was badly burned attempting rescue.
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Paris
Tex
W. L. Mayo
Polk Street
G. PD. Nelson
Prophets and Clergy Open Air Meetings Arrive
Beaumont reports August Schrae der of the Divine Catholic Church of America arrives with Bishop Henry Hughes of Dallas and Father George Betterly of Nashville to hold a series of open air meetings after engaging quarters.
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Beaumont
August Schraeder
The
Divine Catholic Church of America
Henry Hughes
Dallas
George Betterly
Nashville, Tenn
Indian funds to be paid individually from tribal trust
The Indian commissioners propose a bill to allot about 30 million dollars of tribal trust funds to individual Indians. The funds would be converted to individual holdings and possibly paid out later with credited interest. The body also backed Senator Gallinger’s amendment to the Indian Territory statehood bill restricting liquor for twenty-one years.
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Washington
Board of Indian Commissioners
Congress
Gallinger
Indian Territory
Representative Hughes Proposes Inquiry into Judge Goodnow
In Washington on January 26 Representative Hughes of New Jersey introduced a resolution directing the judiciary committee to inquire and report on the conduct of John Goodnow, judge of the United States consular court at Shanghai. The measure asks whether he has engaged in corrupt conduct and whether his administration damaged litigants, accompanied by seventeen specifications.
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Washington
Hughes
New Jersey
House
Committee On Judiciary
John Goodnow
United States
Shanghai
China
Anti Cold Storage Bill In Senate Focuses On Prohibition
Austin reports the Senate debate over an anti cold storage measure making liquor drinking on storage premises a misdemeanor in local option districts. A Daughters of the Confederacy memorial asks June 8 be a legal holiday for Jefferson Davis' birthday while Kansas House proposals create licensure for railway telegraphers and a five member codification commission.
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Austin
Senate
Daughters of the Confederacy of
Jefferson Davis
Victory for Central in grade reducing case remand
The Texas Supreme Court reversed and remanded the Houston and Texas Central Railway versus the city of Dallas ruling. Dallas city council had required lowering grade crossings, which the railroad disputed as unreliable. The decision calls the ordinance unworkable and grants a rehearing on the evidence.
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Austin
Supreme Court
Houston and Texas Central Railway
City of
Dallas
Williams
British Uneasy Over Telegram Accusations In St Petersburg
In St Petersburg on January 26 British unease grew over a telegram alleging British funds support for strikers aiding Japan. A Paris-based Latin-Celtic-Slav league founded agency is blamed for the claim and for accusing British papers of provoking a German coal strike to hinder Russian Second Pacific squadron ships. Most mills kept workers home with resumption planned for Monday, including the Russian Westinghouse company.
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Japan
Paris
Russian Westinghouse Company
Strike spreads through Libau telegraph and wire works
Telegraph lines and telephone wires were damaged as a strike began at the wire works. Workers were called out by singing men and trumpets as they moved from factory to factory, forcing many to leave. Some mills remain in operation.
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Libau
Print ers strike spreads in Russia and rail workers join
Sratoff Russia January 26 printers have struck. Employees of the Riazon Ural railroad have joined the movement.
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Sratoff
Russia
Riazon- Ural Railroad
Lumbermen cheer Roosevelt call for ICC expansion
The Southwestern Lumbermen's Association in Kansas City cheered when President Roosevelt’s name was mentioned regarding increasing the Interstate Commerce Commission’s power. A resolution urged members to influence Congress to enact the legislation in this session.
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Kansas City
Southwestern Lumbermen’s Association
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
House expands presidential succession to include four secretaries
Washington notes the house passed a bill extending presidential succession to include the secretaries of agriculture commerce and labor in the order named. Another bill made Texas City a sub port of entry in the customs collection district of Galveston.
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Washington
House
Bandits demand ransom for governor’s family captivity
Manila reports that leaders of the Ladrones band who attacked San Francisco de Malabon and carried off the wife and two children of ex-Governor Trias now demand a ransom for their release.
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Manila
San Francisco de Malabon
Trias
Battle in Cavite Leaves Ten Tadrones Dead, Seven Captured
Ten Tadrones were killed and seven captured after a Thursday morning clash in a river bed near Si Lang between a scout detachment and 100 armed Tadrones led by the outlaw Felizar, who had confronted San Francisco de Melabon in Cavite province last Tuesday night.
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Manila
Silang
Felizar
San Francisco de Melabon
Cavite
Speed Trial Postponed by Blizzard in Boston
The speed trial of the cruiser Maryland scheduled on the Thatcher Island course is postponed due to the blizzard in Boston on January 26.
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Boston
Maryland
Thatcher Island
Minor Matters And Tragic Incidents Across Cities
Czar's infant son contracts pneumonia. A fresh Galveston gambling crusade unfolds. Sterrett citizens in Indian Territory plan prospecting. Peter Quarternick's baby in Galveston dies in a burn fire. Ab發 Shulze of Denison dies after paralysis. Queen Christina of Spain injured in an auto accident. Valley oil mills in Memphis burn valued at $150000. a black employer likely perished.
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Czar
Galveston
Peter Quarternick
F. A. Shulze
Denison
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W. H. Lawrence
Overjhaswell's Book Store
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T. R. Batte Att
J.L. Fountan
Mgr. Real Estate Dept
T. R. Batte & CO
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Thomas
Mangan‘ec
Mumford Road
Brazos Bottom
J. W. Batts
Taliaferro
Court House
Brazos County
St. Petersburg
C.H. Jenkins
Indian Affairs
Bil
Goodnow
Central
James & Nunn
Haswell’s Book Store
J. B. Green
Texas Seed & Floral Co
Jackson
Ford’s
John Wittman
A. D. Scott
Doremus & Butler
Gary
Shaving
J. F. Ransome
J. H. Brewin
Hone
J. G. Minkert
East Side
Con . Bryan
Constabulary
Ladrones
Sterrett
I. T
Christina
Spain
Memphis
DeWitt
E. C. Dewitt & CO
Chicago
M. H. James
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