Real estate offerings by J W Batts agent in Byazos County
Batts advertises 105 acres one mile from court house with 25 acres cultivated and rest pasture priced 1500. A southeast town lot with cottage and well priced 760. Four block brick property near Main Street priced 1250. East front lot near Allen academy priced 250 and half block near Allen academy priced 500. Schoolhouse lots at 100 each. 13 acres south side town with 4 room house and well priced 1000. 4 room house with features near courthouse rents 9 a month priced 650."}
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Court House
oJf
Main Street
Allen Academy
Emory Cole wedding linen shower draws praise
Social and Crus Matters notes a linen shower for Miss Cole at Mrs. Tyler Haswell’s home with gifts from Miss Cole and Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Taliaferro and Mrs. Pryor. Guests enjoyed a simple reception, with a light menu and drawn work linen keepsakes.
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Miss Cole
Tyler Haswell
G. 8. Parker
W. G. Taliaferro
Fred Pryor
Ava Haswell
Anti Cigarette League Meeting Reports Youth Pledge
The Bryan Anti Cigarette League held a May 31 1903 session at the Baptist church with song prayer and minutes. Mr H O Boatwright spoke entertainingly to the boys, Pluck the league paper was distributed, and 203 boys pledged to abstain from tobacco, with Homer Wallace as secretary.
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Bryan Anti-Cigarette League
The
Baptist Church
Hunter
H. O. Boatwright
Boatwright
Homer Wallace
Central Round House Rumor in Bryan Raises Interest
About twenty years ago the H and T C railway had shops in Bryan near Winters ice factory with a reliable water supply from a local well. Rumor says Hearne’s round house could move to Bryan, sparked by a brake man, with Bryan potentially becoming a division headquarters given its location between Ennis and Galveston.
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H. & T. C. Railway
Bryan
Winters
Hearne
Ennis
Galveston
Privileges for Sale at Central Texas Fair Sealed Bids
Sealed bids are invited for exclusive fair privileges including restaurant ice cream fruit tobacco and shooting gallery. Bids due July 8 with bid openings May 17 at the directors meeting. Payment terms require half on signing and rest August 18. Address bids to Paul Bradley Privilege Committee. June 2s8
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Paul Bradley
Coulter's Offers Dress Accessories and Suits
Black and colored lace hose and embroidered Swiss handkerchiefs are showcased alongside grey and black tailor made skirts. Trunks and dress suit cases are advertised with satin lined options. Prices listed as 156 at Coulter's for dress suit cases.
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Coulter's
Seventy Eight Dead In Topeka Flood Confirmed
Topeka Kan June 6 the flood death toll rises to seventy eight with thirty believed dead. A boatman found seven bodies near Harrison street including Mrs Jessie Shaw and four children and a man named Skunkweiler from Shorey. Other recoveries include Edwards Watson Prayer and McDonald as flood wards fear more drownings await as waters recede and many remain missing.
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Topeka
Kan
Harrison Street
Jessie Shaw
Skunkweiler
Shorey
Edwards
Soldier Creek
Nellie Watson
Minnie Prayer
George McDonald
Relief committee votes funds for Kansas flood victims
In Indianapolis the board of trade relief committee approved 500 for Kansas flood sufferers and may authorize 560 more if needed after wiring Kansas governor to confirm payee. An additional 300 has been raised. In St Louis a track failure near the Grand Avenue pumping station sent a switch engine into the river. the engineer and three others escaped drowning.
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Indianapolis
Relief Committee of the Board of Trade
Kansas
Smith
St. Louis
Grand Avenue
North St. Louis
Keokuk and
Northwestern Road
Planter Assassinated in Mississippi Ambush
News from Forest Mississippi reports planter Hames Boyles was shot from ambush by three African American attackers in the southern part of Forrest County. Local authorities pursue leads as the community reacts to the killing.
Robbins and Parker wed in Austin in Texas
Miss Jennie Bell Robbins daughter of the state treasurer married W I Parker a commercial traveler at Austin. After seven years Charles Stern returns to New York to face any charges that may be wrought against him. R G TABOR Agent
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Jennie Bell Robbins
Texas
W. I. Parker
Austin
Charles Stern
New York
Missouri River Flood Outlook Washington June 6
Missouri river at Kansas City falls to 28.9 feet, down 2.1 feet since Friday. St Louis gauge rises to 44.7 feet with further flood risk. Memphis and Cairo expected to exceed danger levels by week’s end as full flood effects reach St. Louis.
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Washington
Missouri
Kansas City
St. Louis
Mississippi
Hannibal
Cairo
Memphis
Men At Work. Kansas City Rail Rebuilding After Flood
The Kaw continues to recede as hundreds of flat cars carry sand and construction material westward to rebuild miles of washed out tracks from Kansas City to Armourdale and Argentine. Railroads plan to employ thousands. stockyards and livestock exchange waters remain high. Three shifts pump to restore water supply and health conditions improve with fewer sickness cases.
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Kansas City, Mo
Kaw
Armourdale
Argentine
Livestock Exchange
River Flood Dims Traffic as Water Rises in St Louis
The Mississippi riverfront in St Louis is under rising flood waters. Water covers first floors in stores and homes, ferries struggle with loading, and freight may halt once the river reaches thirty six feet. The Madison county levee breach widens, flooding 20 000 acres and three villages while about 600 people evacuate.
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St. Louis
Madison County
Oldensburg
Mitchell and
West Granite
Topeka Flood Recedes as River Rises Overnight
The Kaw river fell two inches per hour Friday night and the south side of Kansas avenue was exposed to the river to near the bridge. North Topeka remained waterlogged in eddies with three foot depths in cross streets while pedestrians and wagons could still travel five blocks north to Gordon street.
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Topeka
Kaw
Kansas Avenue
Gordon Street
North Topeka
Crosl
Kansas City Cleanups Sweep West Bottoms After Floods
Thousands of men and women armed with shovels and brooms move into the west bottoms to restore activity in wholesale and stock yards districts as the Missouri River drains about two feet in a day.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Last Contract Let for Exposition Buildings in St Louis
The contract to erect the final exhibit building for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis was let at 171000 dollars. The exposition plans prize money of 250000 dollars for livestock, larger than all prior international expos for livestock prizes. The livestock department will cover about thirty acres with fifty buildings plus a grand amphitheater and arena.
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St. Louis
Livestock Department
Passenger killed in Stillwell wreck on way to visit father
Plainfield N J June 6 William F Neumiller who perished in the Stillwell Hon wreck while en route to see his father. His father is dying from paralysis and his death had not yet been conveyed to him.
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Plainfield
N. J
William Ft. Neumiller
Stillwell
Hon
Deputies Fight Duel Over Violent Altercation
Paris report says M. Bertegux Guyot de Villeneuve of the chamber of deputies dueled after a heated exchange in the assembly. In the sixth encounter Villeneuve sustained a slight forearm wound.
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Paris
M. Bertegux Guyot de Villeneuve
Chamber of Deputies
Villenveuve
Bulgarians Condemned in Salonica Trials
Bulgarian suspects convicted of involvement in dynamite outrages in Salonica have been sentenced to death. The court proceeding took place here and resulted in the execution of the condemned.
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Salonica
Bul
Conde
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