Attorney General Rules Reelection Not Voided by Notice Timing
Assistant Attorney General Crawford informed Senator Perkins that re election in the district is not void for posting delays since the law treats notices as directory rather than mandatory. If later it appears many voters were not notified, the validity could be questioned, but current status stands.
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Austin
Attorney General’s Department
Crawford
Perkins
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Thomas
Governor appoints Swayne to Seventeenth Judicial District
Austin reports Governor names James W. Swayne of Tarrant County as Judge in the Seventeenth Judicial District to fill the Fort Worth vacancy caused by Judge Mike B. Smith's resignation. Also named is Thom as E. Durham of Gregg as assistant superintendent of tiary at Rusk after anti nepotism law adjustments. Senate confirmed these moves along with library and historical commission actions.
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Austin
James W. Swayne
Tarrant County
Seventeenth Judicial District
Mike B. Smith
Fort Worth
Thomas E. Durham
Gregg
Rusk
Durham
Senate
Library and Historical Commission
House
Same and Fisheries
Supreme Court Reverses In Dallas Sanatorium Will Case
The Supreme Court reversed and rendered the case St. Pauls sanitarium et al vs Freeman from Dallas. It held Freeman entitled to fee simple in the devised property, and that death without lawful issue triggers over to St Vincent de Paul institution regardless of Freeman’s death timing. The decision affirms prior lower court rulings.
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Freeman
Court of Civil Anneas
Supreme Court
Testator
Jude Ment
St Vincent de Paul
Endurance Test Bragging About Car Makes
In Louisville a Courier-Journal item notes two men bragging about their respective automobile makes. The brief item highlights a friendly exchange on endurance tests as a social curiosity rather than a technical challenge.
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Loisvill
Courier-Journal
A Study In Anatomy And Humorous Fragments From Cornhill
An eclectic mix of humorous musings on the brain as a nervous system hub and a mock telephony metaphor, then a cheeky comparison of hair types in men and women, plus a long tale about the pipefish father and marsupial pouches. It closes with a Cornhill Magazine anecdote about William Wills and Edmund Kean triggering nausea in a theater audience.
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Anatomica Phone Company
Central
Lippincott's
Papa
Irving
Wills
Charles I
Willis
Edmund Kean
Fleet Street
H. W. Lucey
Cornhill Magazine
Doctor Praised For Cure That Ended长期 Cough
A grateful patient compliments a doctor for a medicine sent home by his wife. The patient had longtime ailment and multiple doctors without relief before reporting success with the doctor’s remedy. The exchange touches on use as a liniment for rheumatism and a poker-playing husband anecdote.
Leper Colony Bill Advances In Texas Senate
In Austin on March 24 Senator Masterson introduced a 40000 dollar appropriation bill to establish a leper colony in Texas. The proposal follows an earlier measure by County Health Officer Cox of Galveston County and Senator Hudpeth to isolate indigent consumptives in the state. Additional bills cover civil and criminal jurisdiction, experiment stations, and horticultural feeding stations under state auspices.
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Senate
Austin
Masterson
Texas
Cox
Galveston County
Hudpeth
Adams
Concho County
Peeler
Senatorial District
Alexander
Veale
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Harper
Harper Bradfield
Bryan
Mosley
House
Lively, Cox and Crawford
Corporation Court
Dallas County
McCallum
Oden
Birth of Waldorf Astor's Daughter at Cliveden
London report notes Mrs Waldorf Astor formerly Miss Nannie Langhorne Shaw of Virginia gave birth to a daughter at Cliveden on March 24. The announcement highlights the high society connection of the Langhorne family and the Astor lineage.
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London
Washington Reaches Row of Names in Liberia Commission
A terse Washington dispatch notes Geor Finch of the District of Co being selected secretary to the Liberia commission by Secretary Knox. The item includes a corrected line about Miss Kitty and a playful dialogue involving Mrs. Blunt, reflecting a mix of formal appointment and light curiosity from the era.
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Washington
Geor Finch
District of Co
Secrete Alumbia
Knox Ag Tary
Liberia Commission
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Bryan Thur
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H.& T.arack
Defra
E. Rohmde
R. L. Brogdon
J. W. Batts
Taliaferro Building
Court House
Phage
Brazos County
J. G. Minkert
Veyor
Miller’s
R. H. Harrison
Algie Benbow
Haswell
J.B. Hines
City Hall
W. C. Fountain
Oa Ryvct
Er Sudte
Seventeenth Judicial District Court
Dallas Institution
the Father Pipefish
Wills and
Producer
Astor
Fink
Miss Kitty
Mrs. Blunt
William James
MQUOR
Iarwill
CASH
Jas
Willow Grove
Marwill
S. H. Franklin's Meat Markets
Just
W. T. Jares
Manhattan
New
York
Boatwright
Joe B. Reed
Senag Henefit
Joe
Lige” Insurance CO
Dallas
B. Reed
Columbus
Moon Bros
John Deere
Regal
Buchanan-Moore
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