Base Ball Team Organized in Bryan
About twenty five young men gathered at Tyler Haswell's store to form a Bryan baseball club. Officers elected were J. T. Maloney manager, E. M. Dodson secretary, J. W. Hamilton treasurer, Mit Parker captain. Trial game set for Friday at West Side park. Trial members named include Jack Jordan Joe Howard Joe Hearne Roy Nunn Johnnie Collins Bob Mawhinney W. A. Baker B. Clayton Willis Hawes Linville Houston Dol Dawson Jr Marshall Spell Jeff Tabor Pete Bittle Roger Astin. A finance committee of Hamilton Maloney and Dodson to raise funds. Also elected at W. T. Austin Chapter No. 87 Royal Arch Masons: W. F. Gibbs high priest B. Kaczer excellent king Malcolm Carnes excellent scribe Joe B. Reed secretary KK. W. Howell treasurer. Official visit by Col J. L. Miller of Wortham and installation to follow.
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Bryan
Tyler Haswell
Joe Howard
J. T. Maloney
E. M. Dodson
J. W. Hamilton
Mit Parker
West Side Park
Jack Jordan
Joe Hearne
Roy Nunn
Johnnie Collins
Bob Mawhinney
W. A. Baker
B. Clayton
Willis Hawes
Linville Houston
Dol. D. Dawson Jr
Marshall Spell
Jeff Tabor
Pete Bittle
Roger Astin
Hamilton
Maloney
Dodson
Eagle
W. T
Sam R. Henderson
T. A. Searcy
Malcolm Carnes
West Side Park Opening Delayed to Friday Night
The Eagle reports Mr. C. G. Parsons postpones the formal West Side Park opening due to delays in installing electric lights. He expects full preparations and a large crowd on Friday night.
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C. G. Parsons
West Side Park
Norwegian Colonists Headed for Colorado River Settlement
Ten wagonloads carrying fifty-one people including families crossed the Brazos on Sunday en route to land near the Colorado River. The Norwegian settlers plan to live in their covered wagons while houses are built.
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Colorado River
Waco
Brazos River
Youth shoots woman in Chattanooga restaurant
Police search for John Rodgers sixteen after he shot Mrs. Alice Baker mother of three in a restaurant. The left breast wound extended to the bowels and Rodgers fled. authorities pursue him as relatives link him to a noted criminal cousin.
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Chattanooga
John Rodgers
Alice Baker
The
Times
Knoxville
Rodgers
John McPherson
Donations drive to Miss Helen Gould tops two million weekly
New York reports reveal requests for gifts to Miss Helen Gould total nearly 2,000,000 dollars a week. Franz Kaltenborn's supporters seek funding to establish his orchestra as a permanent New York fixture and attract wealthy subscribers. Gould shared an itemized list showing 231 cash requests, with 199 left to her discretion. Demand includes church aid, education, libraries, charitable institutions, and personal needs such as dentures, pianos, and travel tickets.
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Helen Gould
New York
Cuba
Gould
Franz Kaltenbourn
Kaltenborn
Miss Gould
Mrs Kaltenborn
Idaho
Trousseaut
Eligibility question looms over Speaker Love’s appointment
Uproar in Austin centers on Speaker Love potential conflict as state insurance commissioner. Law bars legislators from holding enrollment posts, even if resigning. Critics argue Love aided the general appropriation bill funding the insurance department.
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Austin
Speaker Love
Love
State cuts inspection and disinfection fees in Texas
Governor issues proclamation effective July 1 reducing quarantine fees by about one percent. The cut applies to all vessels and all ports in Texas.
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Austin
State Quarantine Department
Texas
Texans Entertained on Sixth Annual Bankers Tour
The Texas Bankers Association with 175 members visited Boston on June 17 for a breakfast at American House hosted by First National Bank and a luncheon at Marblehead's Eastern Yacht Clubhouse after a steamer trip.
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American House
Boston
Texas Bankers’ Association
Association
First National Bank
Marblehead
Eastern Yacht
Sweetheart’s Death Leads Farm Youth to Suicide
In Cedar Hill, Texas, Robert Wilson aged 23, a noted farmer, shot himself Monday after his sweetheart Miss Mabel Bryan died Sunday night. She had been brought home from Mineral Wells.
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Robert Wilson
Dallas
Mabel Bryan
Cedar Hill
Brewery Suit Over 60000 Bottles In Houston Case
Schlitz Brewery sues Houston beer entities in federal court seeking accounting and property recovery. The case alleges 60000 bottles of beer were sold under Schlitz label under U S patent laws.
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Houston
Schlitz Brewery Company
Houston Lee and Brewery Association
Houston Turnver
Schlitz Brewing Company
Woman dispute leads to stabbing near Abbott
In Hillsboro Texas on June 17 a clash between black men near Abbott left one stabbed in the bowels and possibly dying. Will Mathews, brought to town, was cut in the back and left shoulder. The fight is said to have arisen over a woman.
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Hillsboro
Tex
Abbott
Will Mathews
Fight Over Hog Conflicts Ends With Wounded Near Meridian
In Chunkey Newton county Mississippi a gunfight left Walter and Tom Vaughn and a boy named Robert Mabry wounded. Bill and Hubert Jones escaped. The dispute started after Jones hogs entered Vaughn property. neighbors fear further trouble. In Washington a cablegram reports Ito and Japanese officials agreed to recall Viscount Aoki after a long feud with Ito.
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Meridian
Miss
Chunkey
Newton County
Walter
Tom Vaughn
Maywood
Robert Mabry
Bill
Hubert Jones
Jones Brothers
Jones
Vaughns
Jones’ Field
Washington
Marquis Ito
Japan
Hayshi of
Tokio
Viscount Aoki
Midnight Holdun: Dallas Robbery by Masked Pair
Two Dallas men, Robert Ross and James Cunningham, reported being held up at midnight Sunday by three masked men at the Cedar Springs bridge near Greenville. Suspects used a revolver and stole purses, though Ross kept only $1. The victims live at 504 Cedar Springs avenue.
Webster Passes Away After Prolonged Feigned Sleep
Thomas Webster, sixty, of Horseshoe Bend Idaho, who began sleeping on a train from Kansas City to Denver April 1 and did not wake for seventy seven days, died at the general hospital. A physicians' committee said the sleep was feigned. he suffered from acute melancholia. Webster was a well to do farmer en route to visit his brother at Cainesville Georgia.
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Farmer
Kansas City
Thomas
Webster
Horseshoe Bend
Ida
Denver
General Hospital
Cainesville
No Combination Found Questioned in Fertilizer Probe
Montgomery Alabama June 17 The fertilizer and cottonseed oil investigation committee will recommend an anti trust bill and law prohibiting filler in guano that has no plant food It reports a possible understanding among fertilizer makers to control prices but finds no actual combination of cottonseed oil men beyond a disputed argument over parceling seed territory
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Montgomery
Ala
Fire Rests in Savannah Woman and Daughter Die
In Savannah on June 17 Mrs. Thomas Cook and her daughter Estelle Fountaine were burned to death as a fire swept the home of N A Fountaine, son of Mrs Cook.
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Savannah
Thomas Cook
Estelle Fountaine
N. A. Fountaine
Cook
Rail fare paid by Texas railroad workers after July 12
A compilation of disparate items notes several violent and legal incidents across Texas and nearby areas. Victims include a mangled man found on the Santa Fe at Conroe and a death from a collapsing moving house in San Marcos. Other reports cover a Wisconsin senatorial cost, cattle yardings, a courthouse project, robberies, and deaths in Oklahoma and Italy.
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Red
Santa Fe
Conroe
Tex
I. Gonzales
San Marcos
Isaac Stephenson
United States
Wisconsin
March EK. Thornton
San Angelo
George Hagelstein
Court House
Houston
Happy Hollow
Fort Worth
John Prewett
Talihina
I. T
Frisco Hospital
Springfield
Rome
Italy
Wharton
Will Forshay
Jim Hargrove
Bokchito
I.T
Paris
Mickie Peckham
Oklahoma
Fort Sill
Bureau of American Republics
Washington
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Richelieu
Ge. J. Fountain
DOE
Haswell
Royal Arch Masons
Companion N. B. Cole
National Baseball Commission
Zena Clayton
St Louis
Middleton Smith
Fulton Building
Surgical Instrument Manufacturers’ Association
Canada
W. Lentz
Philadelphia
Rufus Williams
San Antonio
Sallie Gibson
Columbia
S. C
Emmel & Maloney Druggists
Emmel’s Pink
Henry Hutchings
Citizens’ Encampment Committee
Sterling Price
R. BE. Lee
Attorney General's Department
Hawkins
SUES
Job Lot
Hunter & Chatham
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