Real estate flock: cheap city and suburban properties for sale
A jittery real estate list offers numerous city lots and houses in Monroe, with several 4 to 5 room frame homes, large barns, wells, cisterns, and improvements. Properties include 75 oak trees on a vacant block, a southern College road parcel, boarding houses, and multiacre land near a mill. Prices range from low to about 1200 for varied parcels.
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Weacres
Ontide
A.B. Ballard
Eee
Free Baptist Church
College Road
Jeff ‘Franklin
City
Bon Ton
Jeep
Rex Dyspepsia Tablets and Quinoria Drug Ad
An old Bryan Texas advertisement promotes Rex Dyspepsia Tablets for dyspepsia and Quinoria for chills or malaria. Both claim money back if not cured and set price at 50 cents per package. M H James, leading druggist, Bryan.
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M. H. James
Bryan
Texas
British Losses Emerge From Bethel Battle in Thick Mist
General Kitchener reports a severe rear-guard engagement near Bethel in eastern Transvaal. 54 killed and 160 wounded, 12 officers and many NCOs hurt, four of the wounded later die. Colonel Benton mortally wounded, the Boers withdrawn after heavy fighting.
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London
Kitchener
War Office
Bethel
Transvaal
Pretoria
Navy
Col. Benton
Broken
Laagte
Benzon
Lord Kitchener
Carter
Benton
E. McGuinness
F. D. Murray
E. Llond
M. W. Lindsay
E. T. Thourouldt
E. V. Brooks
R. E. Sheppard
A. J. Corlett
Standerton
Trichardsfontein
Gabelaar
Erasmus
Yzivarkarfontein
Kekewich
van Albert
Rustenburg
Manchurian Convention Denounced and Li Hung Chang Ill
The Shanghai correspondent reports empress dowager denounces the Manchurian convention after opposition from viceroys. Li Hung Chang reportedly became ill on learning of this move. In Pekin Li Hung Chang’s physicians say his condition is grave with two days of hemorrhages, a death likely to affect Manchuria negotiations with Russia’s M. Paul Tessar.
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London
The
Standard
Shanghai
Li Hung Chang
Pekin
M. Paul Tessar
China
Preacher Arrested in Marion for School Truancy
Rev. George W. Osborne a Seventh Day Adventist minister was jailed in Marion Indiana after truancy charges for keeping his 10 year old son out of school. Osborne pleaded not guilty and a $50 bond was set but not posted. He said he did not want his son to learn certain things taught in public schools.
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Marion
Ind
George W. Osborne
James
Osborne
French naval moves force Ottoman accord on claims
Paris reports Admiral Caillard's squadron has prompted Turkey to accept French claims including the Lorando case. The French seek an understanding to prevent renewed interference with diplomatic mail. Rome dispatch notes a second Italian division heads to Turkey to counterbalance the French show of force.
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Paris
Caillard
Toulon
Turkish
M. Baptiste
Constantinople
Sultan Friday
Turkey
London
A_ dispatch
Rome
Buller Dispatches Not Yet Published in London
London reports the exact words used by General Buller in urging General White to surrender Ladysmith have not been published and are unlikely to be soon. The War Office plans no action until Parliament reconvenes. Officials expect the issue to blow over, similar to Gen Colville’s retirement.
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London
Buller
England
White
Ladysmith
War Office
House of Commons
Pall Mall
Colville
CONDITIONS AT NOME
Lieutenant D H Jarvis reports 8000 to 8500 people wintering in the district with about 2000 in Nome town. He expects ample food for winter and a good season ahead with encouraging gold prospects. Natives are said to be much improved over 1900.
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Seattle
Wash
D. H. Jarvis
Nome
Jarvis
Treasury
Seward Peninsula
Revenge tragedy shocks Amsterdam as suitor slays and self-slays
Fred Bankert gained entry to William Green’s quarters and killed Green with a revolver and hatchet, then fatally wounded Mrs. Green before killing himself. He had previously attacked Mrs. Green in 1895 after a rejected courtship. The incident follows a prior prison release five months earlier. In Newburyport, a body found on Plum Island is identified as John J. Abele of Cambridgeport, believed murdered and dumped in the water.
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Amsterdam
N. Y
Fred Bankert
William Green
Green
Bankert
Bankett
Newburyport
Mass
Plum Island
John J. Abele
Cambridge
Christina Abele
Cambridgeport
Louisville man appointed to post office chief
Washington November 2 Theodore Ingalls of Louisville Kentucky has been appointed chief of the mail depredations division of the post office department succeeding Emanuel Speich transferred to another branch of the service. Over one hundred drowned London November 3 It is announced in a dispatch to a news agency from St Petersburg that scores of fishing boats were wrecked and 179 men were drowned during a storm on Lake Baikal.
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Washington
Theodore Ingalls
Louisville
Post Office Department
Emanuel Speich
London
St. Petersburg
Lake Baikal
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Monroe Edge
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Mith & Adams
Sity Market
A. Watkins
Torney-At-Law
GSE
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos. W
Memphis
Birmingham
Montgomery
Mobile
Atlanta
Savannah
Florida
Frisco System
Southeastern
Alex. Hilton
Bryan Snyder
Thafyio
Saint Louis
R. Astin
Astin
Main Street
ISG Oo
A. D. McConnico
CME
Iit
Sultan Abdul Hamid
Apiano
Stieff Piano
Chas. M. Stieff
Chas. M. Steiff
Geo. W. Stieff
Houston
Sev
John Wittmann
J. & G. N. International and Great Northern Railroad Company
ST. Louis
Shreveport
New Orleans
Ames
Dallas, FT. Worth
Kansas City
North Texas
Milano
Santa Fe
W. & B. Y. Railroad
L. Price
Do. J. Price
J. & G. N. Railroad
Palestine
Texas Central
R. R
Dallas
Austin
Waco
Fort Worth
Denison
Corsicana
Southern Pacific Rice Cook Book
S. F. B. Morse
M. L. Robbins, Gen
Pass. & Ticket Agt
Otto Boehme
Texas Bakery and Boarding House
Bryan, Texas
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