Homestead Exemptions and Texas Land Issues Highlighted
The Daily Eagle discusses Texas homestead exemptions including 200 acres with improvements and 5000 valuation, plus farming tools, livestock, provisions, and wages. It notes caution about forced sale limits and property classifications, plus local land lease tensions and a vivid critique from Alpine Avalanche. It also describes Southern Pacific’s rice country observer experience with Japanese straw hats seen from trains and nearby Japanese communities along the line.
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Texas
Southern Pacific
Louisiana
Pacific
Eagle offers vote coupons for Colorado trip contest
Merchants of Bryan will issue coupons redeemable for votes in the Colorado trip contest. They will sell coupons to the Eagle to distribute with merchandise and to new subscribers. The plan aims to keep readers engaged this summer and generate lively local interest. Mrs. M. D. Seay of Connor Madison County dies at home aged 31 or 32, sister of local Connor family members.
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Brewster
Terrell
Eagle
Bryan
Colorado
M. D. Seay
Connor
Madison County
Rail strike prompts Mobile and Ohio workers to switch cars
Mobile officials and clerks abandon coats and switch freight yard cars to make space for Cuba bound shipments. Ten dynamite cars moved to pier for Mexico. Five nonunion workers return to work under special officer protection while two seek transport back to St Louis. Company warns trains carry U S mails and interstate commerce.
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Mobile and
Ohio
Mobile
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Cuba
Mexico
St. Louis
Clarke
United States
Must Go Back. Diminutive Child Denied U S Entry
Joseph Bernstein, seven, arrived from Prussia with his mother and siblings and was deemed ineligible for admission due to his small size weighing fifteen pounds. Though healthy, he is classified with cripples and ordered deported. The father works in a Toledo glass factory and has just become a citizen. The mother returns to Prussia while the brother and sister join their father in the United States.
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New York
Joseph Bernstein
Prussia
Berstein
Toledo
Clerk Barnett Accused of Creating False Accounts
Washington May 11. Investigation into Frank M Barnett a clerk in the bureau of ethnology from Alabama reveals he opened fictitious accounts credited names for services to the bureau. He passed the accounts and checks for amounts then intercepted the checks totaling about $500.
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Washington
Frank M Barnett
Bureau of Ethnology
Alabama
Barnett
Massive Croton project clears cemeteries and woods
In White Plains on May 11 the aqueduct commissioners launched the largest contract to protect New York City water. It calls for removing over 10,000 bodies from three cemeteries and clearing timber on the Croton division of the Croton reservoir. Completion is required by October 1, 1904.
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White Plains
N. Y
Aqueduct Commissioners
New York City
Croton
Croton Reservoir
Confederate Reunion to New Orleans May 17 18
The H and T C railroad offers round trip tickets to New Orleans at 9.20 with a one day transit limit each way. Tickets must leave by May 24 1903. extension to June 15 1903 possible if deposited with joint agent in New Orleans by May 24 and 50 cent fee paid. Agent W.38 Wilson May 7.
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New Orleans
Wilson
Lightning strikes farmer and mule near Howell Bros farm
A report to the Eagle says Frank Richardson a Black man plowing on Howell Bros farm east of the city was struck by lightning yesterday afternoon and killed instantly. One mule also died during the rain and hail storm accompanying the strike.
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Eagle Office
Frank Richardson
Howell Bros
Hotel Arrivals Across Cities List With Names
A roster of hotel arrivals includes RW McFerran and T E Wren in New Orleans. T E Cook in Dallas. C M Sparks in Waco. B P Stewart in Kansas City. M O Johnson in Louisville. E J Watts and wife in Sour Lake. F Z Mills in New York. Victor Barringer in San Antonio. W T Shannon in Belton. A H March in North Carolina. R C Carden and W A W Carden in Chattanooga. T S Green and Frank Simpson in St Louis. plus TURCKER Robert Carden and W A W Carden in Chattanooga. Ernest Gallatin in Ta bor. Tom Richmond in Gatesville. T H Hayden in Mart. E C Bacon and W H Daniels in Terrell. R E Creswell. R C Watts. Arcade entries include Ben W Brown in Riverside. Frank Shaw in Bryan. W B Hassell in Fort Worth.
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RW McFerran
E Wren
New Orleans
E Cook
Dallas
M Sparks
Waco
P Stewart
Kansas City
O Johnson
Louisville
J Watts
Sour Lake
Z Mills
New York
Victor Barringer
San Antonio
T Shannon
Belton
H March
North Carolina
R C Carden
W Carden
Chattanooga
T S Green
Frank Simpson
St Louis
Robert Carden
A W Carden
Ernest Gallatin
Tabor
Tom Richmond
Gatesville
T H Hayden
Mart
E C Bacon
W H Daniels
R E Creswell
R C Watts
Terrell
Petitioner horse advertised by J W Dyer in Eagle issue
J W Dyer promotes his fine horse Petitioner and its stylish, speedy, well mannered colts. He notes Nettie Dillard has two months training and shows a strong pace of 1:18. Readers are directed to see the advertisement elsewhere in the paper.
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J. W. Dyer
Petitioner
The
Eagle
Nettie Dillard
Public notice of dental office move to Parker building
After Saturday May 9, the dental office will be located in the Parker building, upstairs over Burt Norwood's store. W.C. Fountain.
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Parker Building
Burt Norwood
W.C. Fountain
Maypearl Texas New Town Plotted Along I N Railroad
Maypearl sits in Ellis County on the Fort Worth division of the International and Great Northern railroad twelve miles north of Italy between Italy and Fifth. The area sits in rich black land farming country with artesian water reachable at 300 feet where a superior flowing well exists. An initial development plan is described.
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Ellis County
Fort Worth
International & Great Northern Railroad
Italy
FI V Forth
Texas
Auction Sale of Maypearl Town Lots
Town lots in Maypearl offered by the Smith Land and Improvement Company on Thursday May Fourteenth. Terms are half cash, balance in one and two years at 8 percent. Bids may shape one of the region's finest black lands towns with low excursion rates from I. and G. N. system. Inquiries to D. J. Price Palestine Texas.
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Maypearl
Smith Land & Improvement Company
Black Land
D. J. Price
Gen. Pass
Ticket Agt
Palestine
Texas
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Watededes Baba
Koity von Fee Ce
Magnificent Arti
Monarch
Arar
the Daily Eagle
Connelly & Carnes
Bryan, Texas
Beach & Clarridge’s
Boston
Mass
Emmel’s Prescription Pharmacy
Hunter & Chatham
Clerk
Tucker
Ben W Brown
Riverside
Frank Shaw
W B Hassell
Cox & Odom
MO. A. Moore
A. D. McConnico
John A. Moore
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos
Bryan Postoffice
E. O. Dewitt & CO
Chicago
N. M. Medogua
Madame Butterfly
Violet of
India
Garland of
Hawthorn and Fashion
Wilson & Jenkins
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