Property listings for sale in Brazos County land titles
J W Batts offers the only set of Abstract Books of Brazos County Land Titles for sale. Properties include about 105 acres near the courthouse with 25 acres cultivated, pasture, and fencing. a year shhool house site with a cottage tenant house and well. six room house with two lots near Main Street. half block near Allen Academy. 13 acres by the town’s south side with a 4 room house and outbuildings. a 4 room house with barn and cistern four blocks from the courthouse. rents $9 monthly. Prices range from 500 to 1500 and up to 4250 for the Reed home place with 9 room two story frame dwelling.
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Court House
Main
Allen Academy
Joe B Reed
DC DeMaret
Pope Undergoes Second Operation and Minds Horace
Rome July 10 The pope, after a recent operation, rose at 6 am and requested fresh air for his room. Attendants opened windows briefly. doctors kept sick-room air, then closed most windows. He breakfasted, prayed, and showed clear memory and energy. A later operation used cocaine to drain vitiated matter. he felt relief, read Horace Ars Poetica, and rested well.
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Rome
Pio Centra
Vatican
Mer
Angeli
Camillo Pecci
Mgr
Pope Undergoes Second Operation For Blood Serum Extraction
Rome July 10 report on the pope states a second operation was performed after breathing difficulties and oppressive feeling. About 1900 grams of bloody serum were removed, with immediate improvement in respiration and heart function. Surgeons Mazzoni and Rossini assisted as the pontiff tolerated the procedure.
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Rome
Mazz
Lappont
Mazzont
Rossini
Apostolic Delegate Reports Water Extraction Operation
Washington July 10. Mer Falcone received a cable from Cardinal Rampolla saying the Holy Father underwent a new operation extracting water with a night of calm.
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Washington
Cardnials Summoned at Vatican Amid Heat Toll
Rome reports several cardinals including Satelli called at the Vatican. In New York up to 10 pm Friday five heat deaths in Brooklyn and two deaths with five prostrations in the city. The heat wave extends across the region with mounting casualties.
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Rome
Satelli
Vatican
New York
Brooklyn
London Luncheon Honors U S Navy Officers
Lord Mayor Samuel hosted a luncheon at the Mansion House in London in honor of Rear Admiral Cotton and officers of the United States European squadron now anchored at Portsmouth.
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London
Samuel
Mansion House
Cotton
Portsmouth
Berbor
Right of Exclusion Shapes Papal Succession Debate
Rome reports Premier Zamnedelli discussed with Justice Minister Coccuorta the right of exclusion used by Spain France and Austria to veto papal candidates. The practice, last effectively applied in 1838 against Cardinal Giustinian, faces constitutional and diplomatic questions amid Italy’s evolving role.
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Rome
Zamnedelli
Sig. Coccuorta
Italy
Spain
France
Austria
Two Sicilies
Portugal
Pius IX
Leo XIII
Gayruck
Ganglebiur
Cardinal Giustinian
Giustinian
Editors Edified at National Editorial Convention in Omaha
B B Herbert of the International Editorial association described England’s Institute of Journalists and The World’s Press Congress to be held in St. Louis. E C Raney urged state independence of party papers. Rosewater criticized doctors and lawyers for newspaper advertising. Sleicher’s paper defended the Aldrich bill. Petersread it for the Brooklyn Times.
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Omaha
Neb
B. B. Herbert
International Editorial Association
England
Institutive Journalists of
Out
St. Louis
Herbert
E. C. Raney
Fort Scott
Kan
Rosewater
John A. Sleicher
Thomas P. Peters
Brooklyn Times
Congress
Train strike at crossing kills five in wagon
A Columbus bound train struck a wagon carrying nine near Red Limb Junction, eight miles east of Cincinnati. Five occupants were killed and four were seriously injured, authorities reported on July 10.
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Cincinnati
Columbus
Red Limb Junction
Here
Wreck on Terminal Railroad Kills Girl Four Seriously Hurt
A rail wreck on the Terminal Railroad line between Granite City and Madison IN kills a girl and leaves four seriously injured, at least one expected to die. The dead and several lightly injured are left at Madison while the seriously hurt are brought to St. Louis. Spreading rails caused the crash.
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St. Louis
Terminal Railroad Association
Granite City
Madison
Morning Prayer Meetings Open BYPU Session in Atlanta
The second day of the International Baptist Young People's Union session in Atlanta opened with morning prayer meetings held in local churches. Visiting clergymen conducted the gatherings as part of the convention activities.
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Atlanta
International Baptist Young People’s Union
Eleven Prisoners Escape From Williamsburg Jail
Eleven inmates escaped from Williamsburg Kentucky jail last Thursday night by prying up an iron floor grate. Five are charged with murder and other offenses. Six prisoners remained in the cell and refused to leave.
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Williamsburg
Miles Visits Galveston Forts and Sea Wall
General Nelson A. Miles with Col Mays and ex Governor Hogg spent hours in Galveston on his final inspection tour before retirement. He toured Forts Crockett San Jacinto and Travis, saw bat teries reconstruction, and inspected the seawall and enjoyed a surf bath.
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Galveston
Nelson A. Miles
Mays
Hogg
Miles
Edgar Jadwin
United States
Forts Crockett
San Jacinto
Travis
Eighth Annual Session of Texas State Bar Ends in San Antonio
The Texas State Bar association closed its eighth annual session in San Antonio and adjourned to meet in Houston after the second Monday in July 1904. The committee on jurisprudence and law reform urged amendments to civil jury trial law to require trial judges and appellate judges to set aside verdicts deemed unjust or excessive.
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Alamo City
San Antonio
Texas State Bar Association
Houston
Sisters foil intruder in Thomaston scene
Two sisters Annie and Addie Ferguson discovered a negro in their bed room in Thomaston Texas on July 10. They screamed and the intruder fled. The father fired twice at him and he dropped his hat. A negro named Joe Taylor was arrested and hurried off to Cuero.
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Thomaston
Tex
Annie
Addie Ferguson
Joe Taylor
Cuero
Cotton acreage shifts in Texas districts reported
The News cotton crop report shows an 8.54 percent decrease in five Texas districts while north and central Texas record gains. Overall conditions are about the same as last year.
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Dallas
Texas
Brakeman Shot in Beaumont Locomotive Incident
A Southern Pacific brakeman named W. O. Thompson was fatally wounded by an unidentified Black man after Thompson ordered him from a box car in Beaumont Texas on July 10. The assault appears racially motivated with the assailant fleeing the scene.
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Beaumont
Tex
Southern Pacific
W. OD. Thompson
Undertakers Group Banqueted After Visit to Packing Houses
Members of the Texas Undertakers and Funeral Directors' association were banqueted after touring packing houses in Fort Worth. The visit featured an embalming demonstration by Dr. C. L. Barnes of Chicago.
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Fort Worth
Texas Undertakers and Funeral Directors’ Association
C. L. Barnes
Chicago
Riot at Sour Lake Drives Negroes From Quarters
A Sour Lake telegraph message reports 400 white men charged into negro quarters, shots exchanged, and the residents fled. No injuries confirmed in Beaumont area July 10.
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Sour Lake
Beaumont
Tex
Christian Endeavorers Open 21st Annual Session in Denver
The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor begins its twenty first annual meeting in Denver Colorado with old officers reelected including President Rev Francis B E Clark D D treasurer William Shaw clerk George B Graff and auditor Fred H Kidder. Delegates from state territorial and provincial societies are named for leadership roles.
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Christian Endeavorers
Colorado
Denver
Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor
Francis BE. Clark
D. D
William Shaw
George B. Graff
Fred H. Kidder
President Roosevelt to receive Ponca bead work gift
Five Ponca auctioneers who met at the Indian sun dance in the Ponca reservation northern Oklahoma will send a bead work saddle blanket to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. The Ponca squaw To Dance at Watonga Thomas Oklahoma crafted the piece. Fifteen hundred Arapaho and Washita Indians march to Watonga for the sun dance in sorrow for Howling Crane’s daughter and Yellow Bull’s daughter who died recently. Muskogee reports a strong natural gas flow in a local well promising abundant supply for lighting and manufacturing.
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Ponca City
Okla
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Ponca Reservation
Oklahoma
Watonga
Thomas
Oklo
Arapaho
Washita
Menry
Howling Crane
Yellow Bull
Muskogee
I. T
Dr Boyles Elected At Southern Railway Surgeons Meet
Newport News July 10 The Association of Surgeons of the Southern Railway System held its annual convention at Old Point Comfort electing Dr J S Boyles of Corinth Mississippi as first vice president.
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Newport News
Asociation of
Southern Railway System
Old Point Comfort
J.S. Boyles
Corinth
Miss
Local Tragedies Claim Three In Texas Rail Incidents
Jeff Walker a colored man killed by a train at Riverside Texas. An unidentified man crushed by a train near El Paso. Reverend P L Smith pastor of First Methodist Henrietta Texas dies.
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Jeff Walker
Riverside
Tex
el Paso
Rev
P. L. Smith
First Methodist Church
Henrietta
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