Eskimo Boy Brought by Peary Undergoes First Operation
Mene Peary Wallace adopted the thirteen year old Eskimo boy from Greenland four years ago and had him treated at Fordham hospital for enlarged neck glands. Surgeons report a successful operation with the boy expected to be discharged cured. Three of four Eskimos brought to the United States by Peary died of consumption shortly after arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peary
New York
Mene Peary Wallace
Greenland
Fordham Hospital
B. B. Wallace
Museum of Natural History
Connelly and Carnes Mail Notice at Post Office
A brief notice states it was entered at the post office as second class mail matter by Connelly and Carnes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connelly & Carnes
Williamson County Reports Cattle Ying of Black Tongue
Huntsville pursues the Trinity and Brazos railroad route to be built via Mexia as Williamson County reports cattle disease concerns and regional transportation plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamson County
Huntsville
Trinity &Brazos
Mexia
Madisonville Poised for Growth with Rail, Opera House, Hotel
Madisonville braces for new railroad line, a metric light plant, and an opera house along with a church, a large hotel, and several brick business houses. The town may seem dull now, but a railroad whistle will reshape the area as surely as Gabriel's trumpet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madisonville
Gabriel
Smallpox Strikes Grimes Nearby Bedias Resident
Arch White of near Bedias contracts mild smallpox and attended the late John Shannon during his illness. Mrs. John Shannon is reported to be afflicted with smallpox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arch White
Bedias
John Shannon
Truck farming lessons from Mr. Parker reveal mixed results
The article notes one man, J. T. Parker, failing at first but persisting in truck farming. He shifted to direct sales, produced early tomatoes, hot bed cucumbers, beans, Irish potatoes, and watermelons, and shows net gains of 32 and 33 dollars from cucumbers and tomatoes respectively, suggesting the venture’s potential despite prior losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. Parker
Thievish Commission
Truck Association
Parker
Deduction No 4: Poor Man Gains from Track Industry
The narrator lists deductions about trial and error in business. Deduction No 2 suggests retrying after failure to locate fault. Deduction No 3 warns that ten years of no cotton profits prompt continuing crops. Deduction No 4 notes that even a poor man can profit from the track trade as Mr Parker, not wealthy, rented land and borrowed to buy crates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
Germany Sees Turko Bulgar Situation as Grave
Berlin reports a grave Turko Bulgarian crisis with officials hopeful summer cooling leads to wiser policies in winter. They say Turkey cannot want war due to cost and opposition by powers. Bulgaria’s weak stance toward revolutionists noted. Powers insist on preserving status quo while pressing Macedonia reforms.
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Berlin
Bulgaria
Sofia
Macedonia
Greece
Servia
Salonica
Austria
Hungary
Russia
Subscriptions to Transvaal loan close in London
Subscriptions to the Transvaal loan have closed in London. It is reported that Frisco will soon award the contract to build into Coalgate Oklahoma City.
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London
Transvaal Loan
Frisco
Coalgate
Oklahoma City
Breathitt Refugees Claim Knowledge of Macrom Killing
In Middlesboro Kentucky on May 9 reports from Breathitt county refugees say a man who fled Jackson knows who killed attorney James B. Marcum. He refuses to publish his name to protect relatives, promising to return to Jackson to testify when safe.
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Middlesboro
Breathitt County
Jackson
James B. Marcum
Mosque explosion in Kin prulin buries 200 worshipers
A Sofia dispatch reports a Kin prulin mosque housing 200 Muslims was blown up with dynamite on May 2. The perpetrator Popov killed himself with a shot as the ruins collapsed. A pocket paper calls him a member of the Macedonian Knights of Death.
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Vienna
Kinprulin
Die Ziet
Sofia
Bulgaria
Popov
Macedonian Knights of Death
Plague Fears Prompt Lima Trade Stoppage
In Calles suburbs Lima authorities report bubonic plague is found as mayoral officials close a flour mill and quarantine forty workers. The main Lima market is shut and all flour from the mill is seized. The outbreak has not spread beyond the facility.
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Lima
Peru
Calles
Chambermaid Fired for Refusing Booker T. Washington Bed
A Louisville report says Louise Hadley a chambermaid at Hotel English was dismissed Friday evening for refusing to make Booker T. Washington's bed the night before. Washington lectured here Wednesday night and left Thursday morning.
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Booker
Louisville
Indianapolis
Ind
Louise Hadley
English
Booker T. Washington
Washington
No Monopoly Contemplated in Portugal Note
The New York telegram from Lisbon reports the Portuguese chamber of Oporto protesting a government petroleum monopoly. The minister of finance received the protest and replied that the government does not intend to establish any monopoly.
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New York
Chamber of Oporto
Lisbon
Portugal
The
Herald
Outbreak at Monastir Leaves Christians Dead and Wounded
Reports from Constantinople state thirteen Christians were killed and nineteen wounded in the Monastir outbreak. In nearby Zapari on May 6 imperial troops clashed with insurgents, resulting in eleven Bulgarians killed and seventy-four captured.
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Constantinople
Monastir
Zapari
Poe's For Annie Acrostics Sold in Philadelphia
Hitherto unpublished acrostics to Elizabeth Poe, Poe’s favorite cousin, were sold in Philadelphia along with the original draft of For Annie. Poe praised the lines as the best he ever wrote. The total fetched $775.
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Philadelphia
Elizabeth
Edgar Allen Poe
Annie
Poe
Building Collapse Injures Several in Denver Store and Rooming House
A Lara mie street building housing Nicholson Bros clothing shop and a rooming house collapsed injuring several people. None were rescued. Mrs. McKern suffered injuries and may die.
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Denver
Laramie Street
Nicholson Bros
News in Brief: varied incidents across states
Frederick Coop was thrown from a wagon near Vincennes Indiana and killed. Jacob Burkett a wealthy farmer near Independence Kansas hanged himself in his barn. Arnold J Pagett a leading Indiana attorney was shot and seriously wounded at Washington. Fruit was damaged by a late freeze around Wynnewood. George C Rine fell off his wagon at San Antonio and was run over. Junior Order of United American Mechanics held its annual convention at Dallas. A military company with sixty members was organized at Decatur Texas.
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Frederick Coop
Vincennes
Ind
Jacob Burkett
Independence
Kans
Arnold J. Pagett
Indiana
Washington
Wynnewood
Hake
George C. Rine
San Antonio
Junior Order of United American Mechanics
Dallas
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Serta Cata
Magnificent Arti
Monarch
the Daily Eagle
Bryan, Texas
Grimes
Bryan
Beach & Clarridge’s
Boston
Mass
Emmel’s Prescription Pharmacy
Hunter
Chaihan
Turkey
Germany
Party
Attorney Macrom
Decatur
Tex
Cox & Odom
Ome Neooog
MO. A. Moore
CAE
A. D. McConnico
John A. Moore
Ea Raraes
Egpion
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos. W
Oor
Bryan Postoffice
E. O. Dewitt & CO
Chicago
Madame Butterfly
Violet of
India
Garland of
Hawthorn and Fashion
Wilson & Jenkins
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