Platte Canon district featured as scenic gateway to Colorado
The Platte Canon area along The Denver Road offers diverse scenery from Strontia Springs to Dome Rock. It promotes tourism via Colorado & Southern and connects Denver with Lewis and Clark Exposition, Yellowstone, and Cool Colorado routes, highlighting trouting, camps, and mineral springs for visitors and health seekers.
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Colorado
Platte Canon
Colorado & Southern Railway
Denver Road
Canon
Denver
Platte
Strontia Springs and Hotel
Strontia
South Platte
Deckers Mineral Springs
Yellowstone National Park
Fort Worth
Colorado & Southern
Denver & Rio Grande
Oregon
Satinola complexioned remedy promises freckles removal in 20 days
Advert shows Satinola advertised as a guaranteed skin treatment. Miss Alice Lirette of Thibodaux Louisiana testifies four years of freckles and pimples vanished after two Satinola packages. Product priced 50 cents and one dollar. available through druggists or by mail.
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Alice Lirette
Frank Majors Denies Crime in Golinda Assault Case
Frank Majors, the man accused of assaulting Ben Robert at Golinda in Menan county on July 12, is in Travis county jail after a capture near Lockhart by Sheriff J. J. Sanders and W. T. Jackmah. He admits identity but says he did not commit the crime and speaks of knowing Mrs. Robert before her marriage.
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Frank Majors
Austin
Ben Robert
Golinda
Menan County
Travis County
J. J. Sanders
Caldwell County
W. T. Jackmah
Hays County
Lockhart
Polk Majors
Great Northern
Majors
Robert
Clinnie Mackey
Sam Kone
San Marcos
Negro Sank Majors Captured Near Lockhart
A telegram from Caldwell County Sheriff J J Sanders reports Sank Majors, wanted for the assault on Mrs B R at Golin da, was captured near Lockhart by deputies Sanders and Jackman. Majors admits identity but denies the attack. he is held in Austin awaiting trial as mobs pursued him for twelve days. Governor Lanham has offered a $300 reward.
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Waco
George Tiley
J. J. Sanders
Caldwell County
Majors
B. Robert
Golinda
Sanders
Jackman
Hays County
Lockhart
Austin
Lanham
Two Band Instrument Sets Ordered for Texas Regiments
Adjutant General Hulen requisitioned two complete sets of band instruments from the national quartermaster for two Texas infantry regiments in the National Guard. One set goes to the Fourth infantry band at Dallas and the other to the Second infantry band at Brenham. Officials hope instruments arrive in time for the encampment.
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Austin
Hulen
National Quartermaster’s Department
Texas Infantry
National Guard
Fourth Infantry
Dallas
Second Infantry
Brenham
Attempted assault drives posse pursuit near Georgetown
Georgetown Texas July 22 posses pursue two African American suspects after they entered a rural home and partially stripped a young girl named Carlson before her screams drove them away. The incident occurred five miles south of the town as the girl was found alone.
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Georgetown
Tex
Carlson
Chicago Woman Attacks Man With Monkey Wrench
In Elkhart Indiana on July 22 George Siedel tried to talk with a Chicago woman who responded by striking him in the face. She then struck Siedel on the nose with a monkey wrench.
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Elkhart
Ind
George Siedel
Chicago
Siedel
Government defeated in Commons over Irish land commission
In London on July 21 the government lost in the house of commons by three votes on a motion to reduce the Irish land commission's membership. In South Bend Indiana on July 21 the young son of Nelson Jones drowned in a cistern.
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London
House of Commons
Irish Land Commission
Child
South Bend
Ind
Nelson Jones
Terrell to Open Elks Home as Elks in Texas Plan
News in brief notes Terrell Texas will host an Elks home. Also mentions protests near Stam ford and Osage police chief Warren Bennett’s death, and multiple other Texas Oklahoma items including a child death, a poison case, and a school bond approval.
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Terrell
Tex
Elks
Stamford
Eastern Bar Iron Association
San Saba
Sayers
Austin
Elehart
Oklahoma City
Panama Canal
W. C. Price
Lampasas
Ollie Bradford
Dow
Il.t
Indian Territory Pharmacy Board
Rucker
Robertson County
Texas
Franklin
T. C. Holton
Peculiar Method of Spite
Newcastle Pa July 21 To spite his wife George Maxwell chopped off a hand with a hatchet.
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Newcastle
George Maxwell
Quarantine on Panama Republic Parts Lifted Says Minister
Washington reports Minister Merry in San Jose Costa Rica says quarantine has been removed on parts of the Panama republic. The State Department was notified of the action.
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Washington
Merry
San Jose
Costa Rica
State Department
Panama Republic
Sensational shooting rocks Overton area
At John Russell home near Overton Wooley was shot in the eye and wounded in the mouth after allegedly assaulting Mrs. Russell. Russell shot Wooley who later fled to the Russell home where he fired at the family. Wooley remains jailed in Henderson County in dying condition with charges of criminal assault and assault to murder. Additional reports from Temple and Madisonville note four arrests in a separate alleged assault on a young colored girl near Bellfalls and the death of Tom DeFee after an ax attack in Midway.
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Overton
Tex
John Russell
Wooley
Russell
Russells
Henderson County
Temple
Bellfalls
Madisonville
Tom Defee
John Defee
Lightning Strikes Oil Tank In Cleveland Oklahoma
During an electrical storm lightning struck 55,000 barrels of crude oil in Cleveland Oklahoma. The blaze shot 100 feet high and rivers of burning oil flowed through the streets. Smoke darkened the sky as flames spread to a smaller 200 barrel tank. Loss estimated at 45000 dollars.
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Cleveland
Okla
Fatal Polecat Bite Claims Herman Seber
In Thomas Oklahoma on July 22 a boy named Herman Seber died of hydrophobia two weeks after a polecat bit him on the nose and clung to him until the animal was killed. The wound had seemed healed yet the boy suddenly grew violent and died in a few hours.
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Thomas
Okla
Herman Seber
Here
Relief funds used to build fifty cyclone homes in Snyder
Snyder Oklahoma July 22 The committees handling cyclone relief funds report progress with about fifty new homes completed and more under contract as relief work nears completion.
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Snyder
Okla
Yellow fever cases prompt Crescent City quarantine move
Doctors from Mobile and Louisiana boards confirm yellow fever symptoms in two Crescent City cases. Mobile board imposes passenger and household goods quarantine while merchandise shipments stay regulated. Dr White to lead detention camp at Avondale for five day traveler hold and infection certificate approval.
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Crescent City
New Orleans
Goldthwaite
Moore
Mobile Board of Health
Louisiana Board of Health
Conference of Southern Health Boards
Texas and
Mississippi Health Boards
White
Marine Hospital Service
Avondale
Texas Health Officer Imposes Quarantine After Fever Report
Dr. Tabor the Texas state health officer enacts an embargo on travelers entering Texas from New Orleans after yellow fever is reported there. Passengers bound for Texas may pass through with credentials. He will travel to New Orleans to investigate and has ordered railroads not to sell Texas-bound tickets.
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Texas
Galveston
Louisiana Board of Health
New Orleans
Tabor
Crescent City
Texas and Pacific
Southern Pacific
Thorne
Fay
Mississippi Entry Ban From New Orleans Rail Boats
Dr. J. F. Hunter secretary of the state board of health wired railroad superintendents and steam boat captains to prohibit entrance of New Orleans residents into Mississippi. The message, dated July 22, directs officials to bar entries across rail and river lines.
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Mississippi
Memphis
Jackson
Miss
J. F. Hunter
State Board of Health
New Orleans
Quarantine Visitation and Fatal Stabbing Reported
A July dispatch from Mobile notes quarantine measures applied to New Orleans travelers and an unrelated fatal stabbing in Red Oak. Victim Jovery was killed with a knife. the assailant fled the scene as authorities investigated.
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Mobile
New Orleans
McAlester
Jovery
Red Oak
Sea
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