Real Estate Listings In Brazos County By J W Batts
J W Batts offers Brazos County land and houses for sale including 195 acres near the courthouse with pasture and cultivation fenced with six wires priced 1500. A southeast town lot near the schoolhouse with a cottage, tenant house and well. A four room house and two lots four blocks from Main Street priced 1250. A quarter block near Allen Academy East front priced 250. A half block near Allen Academy priced 500. Lots near school at 100 each. 13 acres on the town south side with a four room house and outbuildings priced 1000. A four room house with pantry hall and two galleries rent 9 per month priced 650.
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Court House
Main Street
Allen Academy
Barwell
Wine of Cardui praised by Brooklyn woman in health cure
An advertisement extols Wine of Cardui as a cure for menstrual irregularities and general weakness. Miss Ida M. Snyder of Brooklyn credits the remedy with restoring health after three months, aided by Thedford’s Black Draught as a companion liver and bowel regulator.
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Ida M. Snyder
Beron Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
Jine
Snyder
Brooklyn End
McElree
Cardus
Thedford
Miss Snyder
Cardui
Maypearl Texas: new town on I and GN railroad
Maypearl is a new Ellis County town on the Fort Worth division of the International and Great Northern railroad twelve miles north of Italy between Italy and Fort Worth. The area lies in prime black land farming country and artesian water at 300 feet yields a flowing well for the railroad. There will be an
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Ellis County
Fort Worth
International & Great Northern Railroad
Italy
Ft Worth
Texas
Auction sale of town lots in Maypearl
Sale of town lots at Maypearl scheduled for Thursday May Fourteenth by the Smith Land and Improvement Company. Terms of sale one half cash balance one and two years at eight percent interest. Maypearl bids fair to become a fine town in the black land. Low excursion rates from I N G N system. Call ticket agents or write D J Price Palestine Texas.
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Smith Land & Improvement Company
Maypearl
Black Land
D. J. Price
Gen. Pass
Ticket Agt
Palestine
Texas
Remarkable Properties of Gold
Gold’s tenacity allows a 0.05 inch wire to support 500 pounds without breaking. Its malleability is astonishing, as one grain can be cut into 2,000,000 parts and a cubic inch into 9,523,809,529 parts, each visible to the naked eye.
The Fun of It Kiss Question
Quote from Brooklyn Eagle about engagement etiquette where a man asks if kissing an engaged woman is proper. The answer: it is improper, but that is half the fun.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Quite Opposites. Student and Philosopher Exchange
A brief exchange frames pessimism as the faith of cowards and optimism as the faith of fools in a New York Weekly snippet. The dialogue suggests contrasting viewpoints on attitude toward life.
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New York Weekly
Banquet customs in Japan emphasize talk and amusements
The article explains that dining is not a serious business in Japan. Banquets center on conversation and entertainment. Guests pass between rooms to converse, exchange cups in a ceremonial sake ritual, and geishas provide amusement through song and dance, with dancers noted for their striking movements.
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Japan
Europe
Beathitt election conflict escalates after fatal courthouse shooting
Woody Dunlap travels to Jackson Kentucky to represent fusionists in Beathitt county election cases. James B. Marcum was killed in Breathitt courthouse while filing papers. Feud between Cockrell and Hargis factions widens with threats and murders as Ewen, marked by killers, refuses to name suspects. Sheriff Callihan and County Judge Hargis are now drawn into the feud.
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Lexington
Woody Dunlap
Jackson
Beathitt County
James B. Marcum
Hargis
Winchester
Belvin Ewen
Marcum
Breathitt County
Ewen
Cockrell
Ed Callihan
Johnson
Hurst
Littles
King Lady Dying Horse Incident on Fifth Avenue
Mrs. John Q. Carlisle wife of the former secretary of the treasury was riding on Fifth Avenue when a horse slipped and burst a blood vessel. She sat on the pavement with the injured animal in her lap as a surgeon was summoned. A crowd watched the elderly woman comfort the horse while it was loaded into an ambulance.
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New York
John Q. Carlisle
Chinese Leper Escapes Quarantine Patient Dong Gong
Dong Gong, the Chinese leper confined for a year and a half at a quarantine hospital two miles below Jefferson Barracks, has escaped. Dr. Woodruff, superintendent, ordered a fee for the dangerous patient. His condition remains unchanged since ostracism from society.
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Ing
St. Louis
Italian Strikers Drive Diggers From Muscota Dam Work
Several hundred Italian workers demonstrated before the Muscota dam diggers in the Bronx Waterworks project on May 6. Stones were thrown, leaders shouted in Italian, and workers fled as police then moved strikers along subway routes. The strikers maintained 400 pickets along the work line.
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New York
Muscota
Bronx
Freight tariff dispute files with ICC against several railways
The wmer chants' freight bureau of Little Rock Arkansas files with the Interstate Commerce Commission a complaint against the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern St Louis Southwestern and Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf railways charging that new car load rates for machinery set to begin May 15 are unjust and unwarranted The commission is asked to prohibit the lines from applying the tariff and has given defendants twenty days to answer.
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Washington
Wmerchants’ Freight Bureau
Little Rock
Ark
Interstate Commerce Commission
St. Louis
Iron Mountain and Southern
Southewestern
Choctaw
Oklahoma
Gulf Railways
Prohibition Raid Seizes Whisky in Comanche Street Bust
In Comanche Oklahoma Territory on May 5 an operation by a deputy U.S. marshal and the city marshal raided an alleged joint and seized several gallons of whisky before pouring it out in the street. One arrest was made.
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Comanche, I. T
United States Marshal
Wit and Warnings From a Witty Schoolmaster
A musings piece offers homely maxims on politeness, family harmony, and self awareness. It contrasts genuine worth with outward show and warns against hidden motives in daily life. The voice champions inner integrity over ego and social posturing.
Sharks Devour Three Bathers Off Coatzacoalcos Beach
Three unknown men swimming 300 feet from shore near Coatzacoalcos Mexico were attacked and killed by sharks. Shore observers watched the tragedy but could not help.
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Coatzacoalaos
Mex
Liner Collision Near Norfolk Claims Several Drowned
A Norfolk dispatch reports the Old Dominion liner Hamilton colliding with the Clyde liner Saginaw. Several passengers are reported drowned in the incident.
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New York
Norfolk
Old Dominion
Hamilton
Clyde
Saginaw
Notable Local Bits From Across Regions
General wiles wa reside on Long Island. Stock shipping season at San Angelo Tex is about over. Fruit damaged by the late freeze around Wynnewood. George C. Rine fell off his wagon at San Antonio and was run over and killed. In a fracas over a dice game near Louisville, Kentucky, William Cundiff shot and killed his stepbrother Thomas Bishop and Cundiff's father seriously stabbed his nephew Luther Hart.
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San Angelo Tex
Wynnewood
George C. Rine
San Antonio
Louisville
William Cundiff
Thomas Bishop
Cundiff
Luther Hart
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Jeff D. Franklin
J. W. Batts
Brazos County
Will E
Geo. W. Smith
East City National Bank
Simmons & Geue
W. C. Fountain
Darwin & Drummond
Orse & Belmont
Star Mineral Wells
McDougald’s
R. H Harrison
Houston & Texas Central
RE. R
North and
South
Houston
Sunset Limited
Pacific Coast Express
el Los Angeles
San Francisco
New Orleans
East
S. F. B. Morse
M. L. Robbins
Pass
A. Houston
T. J. Anderson
A.g.pata
Brooklyn East End Art Club
Dunlap
Macron
Pat BO Bale
James & Hart
Bryan Steam Laundry
Lars
King Lady
Mrs. Carlisle
Dong Gong
Parsons Bottling Works
C. G. Parsons
An Bryan, Texas
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Crown Cork System
Hutchinson
Bryan
Soe
Joshn Wittman the Tailor
Trip
Wiles Wa
Long Island
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D. Garrett
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