Property listings in Brazos County land titles ads
J. W. Batts offers in office the only set of Abstract Books of Brazos County Land Titles. Several parcels for sale include about 105 acres near the courthouse with 25 acres cultivated and rest pasture priced at 1500, another 1.25 acres near a school with a small cottage priced at 750. A 4 room brick house with lots four blocks from Main Street priced at 1250, and smaller blocks near Allen Academy ranging from 250 to 500. Additional 13 acres south side town with 4 room house priced at 1000.
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Brazos County
Court House
School House
Main Street
Allen Academy
Texas commission weighs San Antonio and Aransas Pass case
At Austin May 7 the commission deferred a decision in the San Antonio and Aransas Pass matter stating the case requires careful consideration to serve Texas and obey the law. Commissioner Mayfield and Auditor Askew left for Fort Worth and Dallas on a secret mission. The Kirby Lumber company agreed to buy 180 logging cars from American Car and Foundry for delivery April 1 1904 at a cost of 54 405 to be used in east Texas for lumber.
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Austin
Texas
Storey
San Antonio
Aransas Pass
Mayfield
Askew
Fort Worth
Dallas
State Department
Kirby Lumber Company
American Car and Foundry Company
Consul Egbert Dead in San Antonio
Charles H. Egbert United States consul at Durango Mexico died in San Antonio at age thirty four. He served in Mexican service departments and was noted for his diplomatic post in Durango. The report confirms his death and age with brief biographical mention.
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Egbert
San Antonio
Charles H. Egbert
United States
Durango
Mex
Twenty Fifth Annual WCTU Convention Held in Fort Worth
The Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union opened its twenty-fifth annual meeting in Fort Worth with President Helen M. Stoddard presiding. Recommendations urged state treasury funded travel for delegates, compilation of liquor gambling and vice laws, voter education for women, physiologies for public schools, and strengthened youth-focused departments. Treasurer Mrs. Curtis of Beaumont reported 129 unions, 2341 members, an increase of 100. Total receipts $1996, expenditures $1010, balance $995.
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Fort Worth
Helen M. Stoddard
Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Curtis
Beaumont
New town in Ellis County on I and G N railroad
A new town in Ellis County lies on the Fort Worth division of the International and Great Northern railroad twelve miles north of Italy and between Italy and Fort Worth. It sits in a premier farming area and boasts artesian water from a superior flowing well at 300 feet depth. The I and G N is developing the site with a notable well.
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Ellis County
Fort Worth
International & Great Northern Railroad
Italy
Ft Worth
Texas
Auction sale of town lots at Maypearl
Auction sale of town lots in Maypearl by the Smith Land and Improvement Company on Thursday May Fourteenth. Terms of sale half cash balance one and two years at 8 percent interest. Excursion rates from I and G N lines. For details contact D J Price Palestine Texas. Maypearl bids to become a prime black land town. Don’t miss the sale.
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Maypearl
Smith Land & Improvement Company
Black Land
D. J. Price
Gen. Pass
Ticket Agt
Palestine
Texas
Massacre report denied by Austrian officials
Vienna reports no foundation for a U S news agency claim that 9000 Christians were massacred in Novi Bazar Bosnia by Mussulmen. Austria says three garrisons remain in the district and conditions are quiet. May 7.
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Vienna
Foreign Office
United States
Novi-Bazar
Bosnia
Austria
Novi- Bazar
Rome
Vecco
Buffalo
Charles H. Colon
St. Stephen's Church
New York
Make Up Your Mind Before You Act Says Globe
A Boston Globe-voiced remark warns that indecision kills progress. It praises men who know a little and apply it over those whose extensive knowledge freezes action.
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Boston Globe
The Observant Youth And the Pompous New Resident
A Baltimore American excerpt shows a sharp exchange where a boastful newcomer mocks a local student caller. The youth fires back that being a legislator does not require clever thinking since others are always presenting bills to him.
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Baltimore American
No Cause For Alarm Insurance Snippet
Brief humor item notes an insurance agent urging a newlywed to take life policy, with the groom joking his wife is unlikely to pose danger. Chicago News style line. Also a stray fact on steel rusting seven times faster than iron.
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Chicago News
Notable Quotes Trigger Brief River Wordplay
A fragment from the Kansas City Independent quotes Johnson about women and servants, with a bizarre aside on Connecticut and a tidal river. The text blends snippets and dialect, presenting a dated, humorous yet puzzling snippet from a news page.
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Jones
Johnson
Kansas City
Sir Stealing a Dog and the Landseer Reward
An anecdote recounts Sir Edwin Landseer nearly finishing a dog portrait when the owner reports the canine stolen. Landseer offers a ten pound reward, enlists Jem Smith, and six weeks later the thief returns the dog for a £10, admitting the theft.
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Sir Edwin Landseer
Sir Edwin
Jem Smith
Smith
Rascal
Gov'ner
The Power of Thought and Character
A Woman's Home Companion essay warns that thoughts shape character as surely as actions. Hidden, vulgar, or hateful thoughts harm the whole being, and evil thoughts gradually erode virtue until they erupt in irreparable actions.
Death's Dignity and Signs Seen in Dying
The piece describes typical death signs observed in early stages and at the final moment. It lists a failing pulse, cold extremities, pale or clammy skin, glazed eyes, jaw drop, fluid in the windpipe causing the death rattle, and the cessation of breathing as death approaches.
Cowboy trial tale ends with hanging in Sierra Nevada
Clarence King recalls a Mexican charged with horse theft in a street jury trial. The crowd of a dozen men forced into a room demanded verdict. The foreman declared not guilty, then the mob reentered and proclaimed guilty. Half an hour later the advocate opened the door and announced the man had already been hanged an hour earlier.
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Sierra Nevada Mountains
Clarence King
Buddhist Prayer Wheels and Flags Dominate Durga City
In Durga Mongolian Buddhism’s sacred center, numerous prayer wheels inscribed with prayers are turned to gain merit. Devout worshippers use small wheels in the left hand while turning a large wheel with the right. Prayer flags flutter above town palisades, each flag a conduit for prayers.
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Durga
Insurance Swindle Linked to New York Arrests
In York on May 7 Mrs. Kate Condon a dressmaker was arrested for defying a subpoena as part of a broad insurance swindle probe involving several million dollars. Police and district attorneys had sought about twenty people since December with fugitives in New York New England the West and Atlanta. An additional Boston arrest was hinted at though officials offered no details.
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York
Kate Con- New
Don
An & Bench
New York
New England
Atlanta
Boston
Jerome
Rebels Defeat Imperial Forces Near Fez After Seven Hours
Melillia Morocco May 8 Rebels defeat imperial forces after seven hours of fighting near Fez and seize positions held by Sultan's troops. Both sides suffer heavy losses as rebels seek reinforcements but none are sent. In New York a three year old falls from a window on an elevated train and is saved by two bystanders with only a minor bruise.
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Melillia
Morocco
Fez
New York
Second Avenue
Trouble Brews in Wichita Mountains Dispute
Lawton Oklahoma May 7 reports say tension rises among rival mining factions in the Wichita mountains with serious clashes already erupting as armed men drive miners from their claims.
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Lawton
Okla
Wichita Mountains
Man with smallpox found on Cotton Belt train
Angro with a well developed smallpox case was found aboard a Cotton Belt train at Texarkana. He left the coach for the waiting room and was kept there by police. He will be sent to the railroad hospital at Tyler for treatment.
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Texarkana
Tex
Angro
Tyler
Two Large Dallas Boarding Houses Burn. Homes Suffer Scorching
Two large boarding houses at Dallas burned and a dozen residences scorched. Three firemen were overcome by heat while battling the blaze.
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Dallas
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