Real Estate Listings by J. W. Batts
J. W. Batts advertises multiple properties for sale in the county including 105 acres near the courthouse with 25 acres cultivated and the rest pasture priced at 1500 dollars. Also 400 acres of Post Oak land at 2.50 per acre, a 1.25 acre site near a schoolhouse, a six room house with two lots four blocks from Main Street at 1250, and other city parcels including 75 feet on Railroad Street. Details show various tract sizes, prices, and terms offered.
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Court House
Lund
Allen Academy
Otto Boehme
Lamar Bethea land listings near Monroe Edge
Real estate brief lists 92 acres near A and M college suitable for dairy and hog farming at 1000 dollars. Includes 31 cent lots on courthouse street, a seven room house with barn and outbuildings, and a fine well. Also offers western city lots, 69 acres on Wixon creek named Pearson place with 49 acres under cultivation and creek bottom land. One mile west of city with I and G N R R running through. priced at 1500 or trade for city property.
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A. & M. College
Wixon Creek
Pearson Place
City
Menon
Laredo hosts grand Yaqui George Washington celebration
Citizens of Laredo Texas and Nuevo Laredo Mexico stage a two day international birthday festival for George Washington. The event features bull fights cattle roping torchlit parades naval fireworks and historical pageants with special excursions to Monterey Mexico and stopovers in Laredo offered. D J Price G P T A J G N RB RK Palestine Texas handles arrangements.
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Laredo
Texas
New Laredo
Mexico
George Washington
Monterey
D. J. Price
G. P
T. A
Palestine
Denounced Republicans Condemned for Anti Wolcott Alliance
Colorado Republicans denounced Phillip P. Stewart and Frank C. Goudy and other anti Wolcott leaders for conspiring with Democrats to defeat the party in the Colorado legislature. The Arapahoe county central committee adopted resolutions by 106 to 19 criticizing their role against Wolcott and Roosevelt era policies. Stewart was a leading anti Wolcott figure and spokesman for the administration in Colorado.
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Formany
Denver
Colorado
United States
Henry M Teller
Republican Central Committee
Arapahoe
Phillip P. Stewart
Frank C. Goudy
United States Senate
Theodore Roosevelt
Senate
Stewart
Wolcott
Goudy
Four Men Rob Bank in Waterloo and Steelville Heists
Four men robbed Citizens' Bank of Waterloo Nebraska on January 27 taking 3500 dollars after a volley of shots from pursuing citizens. The bank vault was wrecked and two robbers inside faced guards outside before fleeing in a stolen wagon. In Steelville Illinois on January 27, robbers blew open a bank vault with nitroglycerin and took 3000 dollars, escaping in a carriage with one worker inside and another on the sidewalk.
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Citizens’ Bank of Waterloo
Waterloo
Neb
Steelville
Ill
Steelville Bank
No Ground Lost in Venezuelan Negotiations as Talks Continue
Washington reports no progress setback in Venezuelan settlement talks. Allies show tacit agreement on general principles while Berlin notes Castro offers 30 percent customs receipts with La Guayra and Porto Cabello as guarantees. Officials question sufficiency of 30 percent for all foreign claims.
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Washington
Berlin
Castro
la Guayra
Porto Cabello
Warships to Visit Galveston February Eighteenth
A telegram from Representative Burgess says the battleships Kearsarge Indiana Iowa and Scorpion will arrive in Galveston February 18 with either the Texas or Illinois, prompting elaborate preparations to handle expected Texas crowds. The same dispatch notes a larger pork-packing plant near San Lazaro was closed by the federal government amid allegations of inflated hog slaughter figures and daily tax losses.
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Galveston
Representative Burgess
Kearsarge
Indiana
Iowa
Scorpion
Texas
Illinois
City of Mexico
San Lazaro
Americans Die Fighting in Bolinao Ladrones Clash
Report from Manila says a Bolinao volunteer force in Zambales was defeated by ladrones. Three Americans, including teacher Mr. Osborne, were killed after being surrounded. Ada Indian Territory report notes Chickasaw and Choctaw meetings to resist allotment of lands.
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Manila
Bolinao
Zambales
Osborne
Ada
I. T
Indian Territory
Young Johnson Found by Detectives in South Africa
A cable from Princess Salm Salm of Prussia reports Frederick C. Johnson, son of Colonel and Mrs. Edmond Johnson of Vineland New Jersey, found in South Africa after vanishing in Belgium four months earlier. He had baggage in Antwerp and several hundred dollars. detectives searched Europe before locating him and bringing him to the princess for return home.
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South Africa
Vineland
N. J
Salm Salm
Prussia
Frederick C. Johnson
Antwerp
Johnson
Edmond Johnson
Belgium
Europe
Dormant Dora Wakes After 120 Days Mesmer Sleep
Chicago reports 17 year old Dora Meek slept for 120 days in Centralia Illinois where she woke in a somnolent state after ten days without food. She expressed a wish to visit Kate Fisher's house and later appeared in good health.
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Chicago
Kate Fisher
Dora Meek
Record-Herald
Centralia
Ill
Bellevue Hospital to Inaugurate Nurse Training System
An official inquiry will probe charges by John Santa Rosa former male nurse at Bellevue Hospital alleging male nurses give strong injections of strychnine to prolong life to avoid duties of body disposal. Nurses deny the claims citing heavy workloads with as many as twenty five patients per night.
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Bellevue Hospital
New York
John Santa Rosa
Rosa
Thomas Slain as Mob Burns Murder Suspect in New Orleans
John Thomas, a Black man who killed Sheriff Benjamin E. Ory of St. Charles parish, was shot by a posse after fleeing. His body was found in a drainage ditch, riddled with bullets, then burned in his cabin by a mob.
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New Orleans
John Thomas
Benjamin E. Ory
St. Charles Parish
Thomas
Sheriff Ory
Ashton
Robbers Foiled in Mocksville Bank Gang Drives Off
In Mocksville North Carolina January 27 an attempted bank robbery failed after explosions alerted the cashier and an officer who returned fire. Several shots were exchanged with no injuries reported. The robbers fled with a small sum of money.
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Charlotte
N. C
Mocksville
Chicago Rock Island Choctaw seek Amarillo to Tucumcari rail
Papers filed in Santa Fe show the Chicago Rock Island and Choctaw railroad intends to build a line from Amarillo Texas to Tucumcari in Guadaloupe county linking systems and offering a short route from Memphis and Little Rock to El Paso. Capital stock is 1 500 000 dollars. Headquarters planned for Chicago and Alamo Cordo. Nellie Kniseley twelve adopted daughter of Kniseley admits poisoning her foster parents to secure their property in Corning New York.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Chicago Rock Island and Choctaw Railroad
Amarillo
Tex
Tucumcari
Guadaloupe County
Rock Island
Memphis
Little Rock
el Paso
Chicago
Alamo Cordo
Corning
N. Y
Nellie Kniseley
Knisseley
Binghampton
Indian Epidemic Report From Fort Rae and Providence
News from Fort Resolution reports a deadly epidemic among Indians with many deaths. At Fort Rae forty eight Indians died and at Providence twelve schoolchildren and thirty six Indians were buried in weeks.
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Edmonton
Fort Resolution
Fort Rae
Providence
Bubonic Plague Spreading in Durban Panic Among Natives
Bubonic plague spreads in Durban Natal causing panic as servants and laborers abandon homes in large numbers amid fear and disruption.
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Durban
Natal
Former Secretary of the Navy John D Long at infirmary
Boston January 27 Former Secretary of the Navy John D Long has been confined at St Margaret s infirmary for three weeks under physician observation for a long standing ailment.
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Long
Boston
John D. Long
St. Margaret's Infirmary
Nash who financed Mackay dies in Missouri
Lawrence Nash died in Boone County Missouri at age unknown after loaning John W Mackay $10 000 used to buy and develop the Comstock lode Nash financial ties to Mackay and the nineteenth century mining venture are noted in the report.
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Oaned Mackay
Columbia
Lawrence Nash
John W. Mackay
Comstock Lode
Boone County
Missouri
Fay Boone, Daniel Boone Descendant, Dies at 89
Fay Boone of New Cambria Missouri aged eighty nine former Mississippi River captain and descendant of Daniel Boone died January 27.
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Daniel Boone
New Cambria
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