Oilfield buzz and local headlines
A jumble of short notes: fourteen gushers in Beaumont oilfield. a south Texas town sixties shirt waist ball. no arrests reported. The Eagle predicts farmers win against boll weevil. Foraker speech sparks Porto Rican tax regrets. Quay corruption unsettles Pennsylvania Republicans until next vote. Bank money frees checks. stamps unnecessary for swag. good roads drive state attention and early counties building prosperous roads.
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South Texas
Texas Ships To Front With Riches Of Its Grain And Ore
Texas offers cotton and corn along with wheat sugar rice and oil as key riches while sending troops to the front in a rapid mobilization. Cattle lumber iron and other products support the effort and the state projects economic strength amid wartime demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Platt and Roosevelt tied to power shifts after campaign
The text notes Platt of New York stepping back after Roosevelt reaches the vice presidency and Odell's election as governor, with Odell resisting authority and sparking talk of Platt's retirement.
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Platt
New York
Roosevelt
Odell
Ursuline Academy openings set for September 1901
The Ursuline Academy of Galveston prospectus is to be opened on the first Monday in September for the 1901 02 session. Villa Maria the new Ursuline Academy at Bryan also opens September 2. The Mother Superior will be in Bryan from August 15 to establish the work there.
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Ursuline Academy of
Galveston
Villa Maria
Ursuline Academy
Bryan
Get Off at Galveston for Summer Vacations
Advice on travel by rail to Galveston La Porte Seabrook and Port Lavaca with trains stopping in Houston and connections to Q H N Y T M and San Antonio and Aransas Pass railways for Rockport Corpus Christi and Aransas Pass. Modern hotels and sea bathing offer relaxation. Local Houston & Texas Central Railroad agents can quote rates.
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Galveston
la Porte
Seabrook
Port Lavaca
Houston
N.Y
H. and T. Excursions From Cincinnati and Other Towns
H. and T. excursions list Cincinnati and return for 31 75 with sale July 2 and 3 and limit July 14 Tickets extendable to Aug 31 if deposited by July 11 with a fee San Francisco and return 45 00 sale July 6 to 13 final limit Aug 31 Montegle Tennessee and return 22 75 sale June 30 July 1 and 2 final limit August W S Wilson Agent
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Cincinnati
San Francisco
Montegle
Tenn
Wilson
Rex Dyspepsia Tablets Offer From Bryan Drugstore
The advertisement promotes Rex Dyspepsia Tablets for dyspepsia indigestion sour stomach and heartburn. Drugstores refund money if the product fails to cure and the price is 50 cents per package. M H James, leading druggist, Bryan Texas.
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M. H. James
Bryan
Texas
Homeseekers Excursion to California
The H and T C R R offers round trip Homeseekers tickets to California from all stations on July 2 and 16, August 6 and 20, and September 3 and 17. Tickets are first class with a $2 surcharge, fifteen day transit, and twenty one day final limit. Sleepers and chair cars connect to the Southern Pacific Sunset Route. Through sleepers run Houston to Denver via Ft Worth and Denver Road. Houston agent ZAG.
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California
Houston
Southern Pacific
Denver
Ft. Worth
Denver Road
F. B. Morse
M. L. Robbins
Petr Pagel
Texas
Texas News Roundup From Multiple Cities July 1
Reports from Lewisville San Antonio Texarkana Brenham Galveston Henrietta Atlanta Tyler Terrell and Oklahoma Territory detail shootings drownings wrecks jail deaths and weather. Notable items include Monroe Champion shot by Wm Harwell and another shooting later. depot cost over 100000 for East Commerce Street site. a brakeman killed in Texarkana. oil burners installed at Brenham plant. Galveston dredge fire causing 20000 loss. Mexican tamale vendor Alonzo killed. new canning factory charter in Atlanta. various deaths in Tyler Terrell and Terrell injuries from a horse fall and a Cotton Belt train. no war revenue stamps on checks and rising heat. Oklahoma peach crop forecast at 1,000,000 bushels with 2000 bushels daily shipments.
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San Antonio
Isaacs
Cushing
Southern Pacific
East Commerce Street
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Gomez Visit Shapes Cuban Junta Ambitions in New York
General Maximo Gomez, in New York since arrival, holds talks at the Waldorf Astoria with Tomas Estrada Palma. The visit is linked to forming the Cuban junta and Gomez's presidential prospects. He plans to travel to Washington to meet President McKinley, with a possible public statement on Cuban affairs before departure.
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New York
Maximo Gomez
Tomas Estrada Palma
Waldorf-Astoria
Gomes
Cuba
Senor Palma
Senor Estrada Palma
Senor Gonzales
Gomez
Washington
United States
General Gomez
Central Valley
N. Y
McKinley
Government receipts exceed disbursements by about 76000
Washington reports a comparative statement for the fiscal year ending Saturday shows an excess of government receipts over expenditures of approximately 76000.
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Washington
Sham Naval Battle Near Newport Planned By North Atlantic Squadron
The North Atlantic Squadron will stage a sham battle and naval maneuvers at Vineyard and Newport scenes next Friday and Saturday. Assembled ships include the Kearsarge Alabama Massachusetts and Bailey under Rear Admiral Higginson and Captain Chadwick. The operation centers on Wood’s Hole with mines torpedo chutes and landing parties to simulate combat conditions.
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Washington
Vineyard
Newport
Francis Higginson
Chadwick
Naval War College
Wood's Hole
Kearsarge
Alabama
Massachusetts
Bailey
Naval Department
Wood’s Hole
GO. A. Boyen
Francis G. Higginson
Big Strike Hits Two Steel Plants as 35000 Join
Circulars from Amalgamated Association announce a nationwide strike after the American Sheet Steel and American Steel Hoop subsidiaries of United States Steel refuse to adopt the workers scale. The walkout affects at least 35,000 workers and may broaden in days. Separately in Boston, Hoosac Tunnel docks suffered about 200000 dollars in fire damage.
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Pittsburg
American Sheet Steel Company
American Steel Hoop Company
Great
United States Steel Corporation
Amalgamation Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
McKeesport
Amalgamated Association
Shaffer
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Blair
Wilson-Jenkins Drug Co
the Daily Eagle
Connelly & Carnes
Beaumont
Foraker
Pennsylvania
Quay
S. F. B. Morse
G. P
T. A. Houston
A. G. Newsum
Dallas
Homeseekers Excursion
EmMeL’s Prescription Pharmacy
Concord Grape
Emmmel’s Prescription Pharmacy
Texas News
Lewisville
Tex
Monroe Champion
Wm. Harwell
Herwell
Texarkana
Cotton Belt
Arthur F. Sweeney
Pythias
Brenham, Tex
Brenham Compress and Manufacturing Company
Galveston Wharf Company
Davis
Henrietta
Alonzo
Atlanta
Truck Stowers’ Committee
Tyler
N. R. Hobbs
Terrell, Tex
Taylor
C. F. Plager
International
Great Northern
Here
Terrell
Liz Goodnight
Wills Point
Rena Foster
Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Atchison
Aphilene
Mexico
Sedalia
Oklahoma
Guthrie
O. T
Sham
Iron and Steel
Boston
Hoosack Tunnel
Bryan, Ice, Storage and Coal Company
Houston & Texas Central
R. A
Sunset Central
Dension
New Orleans
Denison
ST. Louis
Austin
Elgin
Chicago
FI. Worth
Waco
Mgr
Further Informatii
M. L. Robbins, Gen. Pass
Tkt. Agt
Houston, Texas
A. G. Newsy
Anderson
Memphis
Shreveport
Hearne
Dallas, FT. Worth
North Texas
Milano
Santa Fe
Epworth League
Colorado
Salt Lake City
Rocky Mountains
W. F. Sterury
SOA
Hay
A. A
Glisson
G. A
P. D. Worth
Denver City
Ry. Fort Worth
N. B
Colorado Resorts
Colorado Chateau Ua
Charles L. Hull
Hall
Optician
Lizzie
Fred Lock
Cottonwood
Beckham Cemetery
J.T. McGee
Presbyterian Church
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