The Las Cruces Padre and the Gallows Plot
In Las Cruces a fat priest faces a plot of murder when Senor Miles is killed and Hueco contemplates more bloodshed. The priest Miguel devises a drastic penance by using a hanging device to force Hueco toward confession, with Hueco dying as the priest falls. The town later spreads the tale as local legend.
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Hueco
Padre
Miles
Poca Rosa
Rose
Paca Rosa
Senor
Padre Miguel
New Mexico
Don Hueco
Las Cruces
Senor Miles
Jose Hueco
Poca Hosa
Senor Americano
As Cruces
Williams Postoffice and Imperial Mail System
The German emperor runs a dedicated postoffice handling vast daily mail. Private letters go unopened to the emperor, Official letters to civil or military cabinets, and Immediate items are processed under strict rules with inquiries and approved signatures before dispatch by trusted messengers.
Mirror Ceiling Building Turns Hall into Seaside Trip
A downtown office building advertises comfort with circus style touches. Mirrors line broad corridors creating a view of walkers upside down. Cleaners face hardest work as a bucket of water looms above them. Passages demand looking up, offering a sea like experience for tenants and workers.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Poor Taste Prize Gift Stuns Chicago Readers
A Chicago News snippet recalls Bilkins mocked for gifting his ex wife a book titled How to Manage a Husband as a wedding present after her second marriage. The remark highlights a notable display of sharp humor and social sting.
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Bilkins
Chicago News
Whispers and Whimsy in a Curious Class Scene
A comic student exchange unfolds with playful clatter as a professor is urged to rise. The voice hints at a hidden creature in the room, provoking a mix of urgency and humor while characters tease one another.
Bankers Seek Answers Through Sorcery After Cash Loss
The Surati Bazaar company directors fail to trace Rs. 2,000 missing from the cash safe and turn to astrology and sorcery. An employee rice ritual is believed to prevent misfortune, though no disasters have followed. The piece also notes long-lived peers born in 1810 and Shakespeare's fictional deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe
Surati Bazaar Company
Duke of Northumberland
Lord Tankerville
Lord Gwydyr
Lord Maxborough
Lord Armstrong
City Directory Listing City Officers and Churches
City Officers include Meyer and Adama as mayor and marshal with deputies and clerks. County officers list judge, clerk, attorney, tax collectors, sheriffs and commissioners. Churches show Baptist to Catholic pastors with service times and Sunday schools.
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A. G. Board
G. W. McMichael
Chas
Gainer
J. J. Adama
R. M. Nall
T. C. Nunn
A. W. Buchanan
J. W. Batts
R. J. Deena
Lee Edge
Felix Phiilips
P. H. Arrington
Church Ra
Fraternal Lodge Schedules Across Brazos Area
Local notices list regular meeting nights for branches of Masons Odd Fellows Royal Arch Knights Templar and related orders in Brazos County. Entries name lodge numbers officers and meeting days including Brians Lodge 129 Brazos Lodge 64 Vulcan Lodge 37 and others with second fourth or alternating week schedules.
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Brazos Camp
W. R. Johnston
C. C
Joe B. Reed
Bryan Tent
J.H. Mawhinney
R. K. Bryan
W. T. James
Bryan Lodge
National Aid
W. W. Griffin
E. J. Jenkins
C.C
D.C. de Maret
R.&s. Vulcan Lodge
A.O.U. W
A. W. Hollman
M. W
W. J. Walker
Bryan
A. Emden
A. J. Platner
Time He Was Married Wedding Fiasco at Province Ceremony
A provincial wedding ran long as the groom failed to find the ring. He searched pockets to no avail, and the ring lay in a hole in his high boot. The parson urged him to remove the boot, the organist played, and the ring appeared with the minister remarking the timing of marriage.
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Mowara M. Strong
Egypt
Pora Rosa
Holy Father
Holy Mary
Little Rose
Rosa
Dios
Hles
Williams Postoffice
Johann
Shakespeare
Horner
H. H. Jones
Constable
C. L. Baker
R. G. Tabor
W. 8. Howell
W. W. Harris
C. H. Wyne
Jno
M. Lawrence
Baptist
R. D. Wilson
Methodist
J. B. Cochran
Epworth League
St. Andrews
Navasota
J. D. West
Christian
J. L. Andrews
Christian Endeavor
Free Communion Baptist
A. M. Stewart
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Father Pelnar
Odge Meetings
Scientific American
All
MUN & Co
New York
F St
Washington, D
Anna Gaines
Sebesta
Texas
R. A
North
South
Houston
Denver
Ennis
Ft. Worth
Galveston
Denison
Dallas
Louis Ennis
Paris
Austin
Brenham
Waco
Corsicana
Waxahachie
Plano
McKinney Sherman
Dennison
O. W. Bary
W.S. Wilson
M. L. Ronars
G.P & T. Agi,et
Tonston
Che Willamson- Kattaer
Colo
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