Real estate and insurance brokers list varied Texas properties
T R Batte & Co advertise sale of three brick Main Street buildings, three family homes near courthouse, building lots near graded school, and Brazos bottom lands. They offer rural and urban farms, ranches in Burleson and Texas, and on time payment. Also advertise life and fire insurance with multiple companies, stressing the value of life insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cavitt
B. Reed
B. Hudson
Kesstler
Burnaing
Brazos
Burleson
Texas
Mexico
Secretary Hay Aids Sufferer After Nervous Collapse
Secretary Hay relapsed with a nervous breakdown while at Lake Sunapee. Boston capitalist Dr. Charles Scudder arrived by special train to assist, after which Hay showed improvement. Dr. Cain treated him for a severe cold worsened by Washington’s climate and cooler New England air.
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Newport
Charles Scudder
Boston
Hay
Lake Sunapee
Scudder
Beaton
Cain
Washington
Disaster at Copenhagen as Georgestage sinks with cadets
A Danish cadet training schooner Georgestage sank in one and a half minutes near Copenhagen after a collision. Twenty-two cadets drowned and fifty-seven were rescued while the Ancona suffered damage along her water line and was embargoed pending inquiry. The Georgestage, 206 tons and 10% feet long, trained maritime cadets for private ownership in Copenhagen.
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Ancona
Considera
Georgestage
Mercantile Marine
Copenhagen
Switchman Hurled to Death On Scenic Railway
Chicago June 26. Charles Worthmiller a switchman was thrown from a rapidly moving scenic railway car at a South Side resort in view of hundreds. He died soon after at the resort hospital from a fractured skull after losing his balance while the car rode a steep incline and curved.
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Chicago
Charles Worthmiller
South Side
Worthmiller
Tragic End in Lewiston Prison Cell
Lewiston Pa June 26 Elwood Garmon convicted of murder in the first degree was found dead in his cell Monday by drinking carbolic acid. The case ends his life by his own action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Elwood Garmon
William Mur
Wats
Correction on Carrie Bragg Graver death report
A New York item claiming Carrie Bragg Graver as General Bragg’s daughter is incorrect. A local family member says General Bragg never had a daughter, his Louisiana plantation is mislocated in North Carolina, and his descendants here know nothing of Mrs. Graver.
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Mobile
New York
Carrie Bragg Graver
General Bragg
Louisiana
North Carolina
Warsaw locksmith's court martial cuts death sentence to twenty years
London dispatch reports Stephen Okrjeia, the locksmith who threw a bomb at Praga police station on March 6 injuring six policemen, had his death sentence reduced to twenty years of hard labor by a court martial.
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London
Warsaw
the Standard
Stephen Okrjeia
Praga
Death of Tennessee’s oldest person Aunt July at 107
Memphis reports Aunt July, said to be Tennessee’s oldest resident, died in Tipton county at age 107. Two doctors who predicted a year’s life for her long since died. On her death bed she prayed for a new lease on life.
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Memphis
July
Tennessee
Tipton County
Rebel Marengo defeats German force at Amos in Kars mountains
Cape Town reports rebel leader Marengo attacking a German unit commanded by Captain Sebert at Amos in the Kars mountains German Southwest Africa. Rebels seize all German ammunition and the losses are described as heavy.
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Cape Town
Marengo
Sebert
Amos
Kars
Africa
Fire losses in Nashville hit 597540 with insurance 575510
The June 26 Nashville fire that destroyed the Palace and Manix dry goods stores and damaged additional buildings caused total losses estimated at 597540 dollars with insured coverage of 575510 dollars.
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Nashville
Widow Hattie Sawyer Married to Carl W. Thorn
Marshalltown Iowa June 26 Mrs Hattie Sawyer a widow forty one and mother of nine children was married to Carl W Thorn twenty years old.
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Marshalltown
Hattie Sawyer
Carl W. Thorn
Resting Governor Lubbock Laid To Rest In State Cemetery
In drizzle thousands attended the funeral of Governor Lubbock after lying in state in the Senate chamber. Remains were moved from the residence to a late afternoon service with a military guard, a select choir, and Knights Templars officiating. Rev Dr Vinson led the residence service and a bugle played taps at the grave. Confederate camp attended in force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Lubbock
Senate
Dr. Vinson
Knights Templars
Paris Banker George Rodriques Takes His Own Life
Paris reports financier George Rodriques, a prominent banker, committed suicide amid heavy losses from the recent fall in rentes. The bank’s facilities are stated at about $2,000,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
George
Rodrigues
Hungary may break from Austria in news in brief
The brief items note varied events across the region including moves toward political separation, infrastructure plans, crimes, and local developments from Texas to Oklahoma, New Mexico, and beyond. Notable points include a proposed $10,000 opera house in Marlin, Texas, and a range of civic, economic, and legal items with several named places and people.
Japanese Army Reports Two-Front Advance in Manchuria
From Manchuria headquarters comes word that near Manchantou the enemy was dislodged from hills to the northwest on June 22. A second force bolstered by air taken as hills to the west. A pursuit forced the enemy to abandon the area, leaving fifty corpses on the field. Our losses are described as insignificant with enemy casualties around two hundred.
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Tokio
Manchuria
Manchantou
Efenorthean
Lodz Strife Reports Cossack Attacks Fear and Exodus
In Lodz the fighting between the military and strikers eases but sporadic attacks continue. Cossacks shoot five in a Jewish family’s cab bound for the railway. a Pajuanize strike kills one policeman and wounds another. Twelve thousand flee as mobs wreck thirty five liquor stores and seize cash and whisky.
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Lodz
Baluty
Pajuanize
Pro baseball called off amid city edict at Washington park
Brooklyn crowds gathered as New York and Brooklyn NL clubs did not play after Police Commissioner McAdoo's edict. Other scores across Texas leagues include Waco over Dallas in ten innings and Texarkana routing Greenville. Chicago beat Cincinnati 18 to 2 with 11,500 in attendance.
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Brooklyn
New York
Washington Park
McAdoo
Pittsburg
St. Louis
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cubs Rout Indians as AL action heats up
In Chicago the White Sox defeated Cleveland 8 to 2 while Detroit fell 8 to 1 in St. Louis. Attendance reached 23,269 for the Chicago game.
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St. Louis
Detroit
Chicago
Cleveland
Package valued at twenty thousand dollars disappears
Registered mail matter valued at $20,000 looted between the mail car on the Iron Mountain railway and the Memphis post office Friday night. The missing mail, from Texas, Oklahoma and the west, was intact until taken from the postal car safe to be placed in bags for transfer in Memphis.
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Memphis
Iron Mountain Railway
Texas
Oklahoma
West
Also Mentioned on This Page
R. Batte
L. Fountan
Mar
Real Estate Dept
T. R. Batte & CO
W. H. Lawrence
Over Haswell’s Book Store
Bryan, Texas
W. _C. FOUNTAIN
Burt Norwid
Tom Bond
Hortman Old Stand
Bryan
Alice Lirette
Ma'l. National Toilet Company
E. O. Dewitt & CO
M. H. James
Hay III
Switchman
Bragg
Hungary
Austria
Marlin, Tex
Alanreed
Tex
Frisco
Vinita
Belen
N. M
Dallas
Oklahoma City
Houston
Nuevo Laredo
Mex
Rio Grande
John Finnel
Justin
Vinehouse
Denison
Pauls Valley
I. T
San Antonio
John Pratt
Brownson
Atlantic
St. Davis Society of Texas
Ole Olson
Chandler
Okla
Guthrie
Connellsville
Wagoner
J. A. Walters
Standard and
Waters-Pierce Oil Companies
Osage
Forney
T. J. Duke
R. L. Turner
Ludwig Sinclair
May Reese
B. G. Slates
Indian Territory
H. W. Wade
Quinlan
D. T. Flynn
Quanah Parker
Lawton
Felsenthal
Ark
W. J. Carroll
Eagle
Henderson
Masters Henry
Jesse Ward
Milford
Bradshaw
Bastrop
Thomas H. Hasting
Kansas City
Jefferson Davis
Sarah Day
Roswell
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
WYUAN
Ukaen
Odigari One
Shanghai
Morning Post
Odigari
Roosevelt
Mr. Meyer
St. Petersburg
Genoa
Texas League
Waco
Fort Worth
Temple
Clarksville
Texarkana
Greenville
Beaumont
Galveston
Shreveport
Little Rock
New Orleans
National League
Som
B. Johnson Parker
Montreal
Rohde
Iron Mountain System
Union Station
Monterey
Torreon
Durango
L. Trice
John Wittman
FT. Worth
Denver
F. W
D. C
Denver Road
Colo. & So
M. L. Robbins
G. P A
Houston, Texas
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