Power and Power Transmission hailed for artillery admissions
Professor E W Kerr, a Texas native and former A and M College instructor, is cited as an authority on power and transmission. He authored the first edition while at A and M and now teaches at Louisiana State University. Kerr, a Bryan resident for five years, will represent Brazos County in the next legislature and opposes leasing convicts to private individuals.
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E. W. Kerr
United States
United States Artillery
Kerr
A. and M. College
A. and M
Louisiana State University At
Baton Rouge
Collin
Texas
Walker County
Walker
Baylor
The
University Law School
Chicago University
Anderson
Grimes County
Bryan
Brazos County
Brazos River Navigation Company Formed in Waco
The Brazos River Navigation Company will be chartered with Mayor Baker of Waco as president C R Kitchell of Galveston as secretary and J H P Davis of Richmond as treasurer. Capital stock is $50000 and a large day boat steamer will be built for the channel. A fleet of tugs and barges will support freight service from Galveston to Velasco and up the river to Waco for freight and passengers.
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Brazos River Navigation Company
Mayor Baker
Waco
C. R. Kitchell
Galveston
J. H. P. Davis
Richmond
Velasco
Pen Pictures of Texas Legislators Highlight Wakes Davis
The Houston Chronicle details Hon. Wakes Davis, representative elect from Brazos County. Davis, a 28 year old lawyer born in Alabama, is profiled as part of the legislators’ portraits in Sunday editions.
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Texas
Houston Chronicle of Sunday
Wakes Davis
Brazos County
W. C. Davis
Alabama
Royall and Smoot Wed in Quiet College Station Ceremony
Mr A H Royall and Miss Ollie Bertha Smoot were married Sunday at 3 30 pm in the home of Rev G A Foster with relatives and a few friends present. The groom, a rural post office employee, and the bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs A Smoot, are praised for their character and happiness.
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A. H. Royall
Ollie Bertha Smoot
College Station
G. A. Foster
R. R. Royall
Post Office
A. Smoot
Tians T
No Hunting Notice Across Luza Lands East of Bryan
No hunting allowed on all land owned by the undersigned lying east of Bryan. All persons will govern themselves accordingly. 294 Jacob Luza. Vince Luza.
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Bryan
Jacob Luza
Vince Luza
Texas Bakery Ad Promises Fresh Bread and Cakes
Fine fresh bread and cakes of all kinds available at the Texas Bakery. Careful attention to special orders. Phone 86. tf Mrs. Otto Boehme.
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Texas Bakery
Otto Boehme
Calvin Files Charter for Farmers' Union Cotton Co
E A Calvin of Dallas filed the charter of the Farmers' Union Cotton Company of Dallas with authority to transact business in Houston Galveston and other Texas points. Capital stock stands at 100000 with B A Calvin B F Chapman and A H O Keefe as incorporators. The firm will serve as a clearing house for warehouses statewide and aims to place ware houses at every cotton point within two years. The Superba Manufacturing Company also filed a charter with capital stock 100000 to manufacture medical devices.
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Austin
E. A. Calvin
Dallas
Farmers’ Union
Farmers’ Union Cotton Company of
Houston
Galveston
B. A. Calvin
B. F. Chapman
A. H. O'Keefe
Calvin
Texas
Superba Manufacturing Company
Houston and
Fort Worth
Capital Stock
Charles O. Farrington
Thomas Watson
H. A. Meyer
Cases Postponed As Witnesses Fail To Appear
Assistant Attorney General Pollard returned from Del Rio where he aided in the prosecution of alleged Mexican revolutionists charged with robbery. The cases were postponed to the 20th inst. due to missing witnesses. Pollard noted election day tension and Rio Grande City remained quiet with no new outbreaks by Saturday, per Captain W J McDonald of the state rangers.
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Austin
Pollard
del Rio
W. J. McDonald
State Rangers
Rio Grande City
Chicago hotel licensing debate draws reform groups
Chicago women from the Chicago Woman's club, Cook County League of Women's Clubs, and the Woman's Legal Aid Society urged the council license committee to back the Comford ordinance licensing hotels. Speakers warned safeguards are needed as underpaid shop girls frequent downtown hotels with men, and Miss Lucy Page Gaston cited police detectives tracing sixty girls from a single store to hotels weekly. The committee set the discussion to resume in a week.
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Chicago
Chicago Woman's Club
Cook County League of Women’s Clubs
Woman's Legal Aid Society
Comford
Alice E. Bates
Louis Greely
Charles Hendotin
Wilbur Jackman
Lucy Page Gaston
Collins
Gaston
St Petersburg Armory Robbery Seizes Gun and Cartridges
The city reports the theft of a latest model machine gun and a large cartridge stock from the armory. An expert gunner is suspected as all components disappeared together. The police prefect orders recovery of the weapon. In other notes, Ardmore convict Wallace Meeker related to bigamy receives five years at Leavenworth. A lake accident near Stamford, Texas leaves two youths dead. A Chicago case alleges sale of homeless girls and boys for fifty cents and twenty five cents respectively.
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St. Petersburg
St Petersburg
A. Wilson
Ardmore
Leavenworth
Wallace Meeker
Cameron Nance
Lake Stamford
Stamford
Tex
Chicago
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Diam
Edison
Bryan, Texas
Royall-Smoot
London
Higgs & McCulloch
Farmers’ Union Cotton Company
W. A. Watkins
California
Tom Lee
Cole Hardware Co
Ge T. SC
Pullman
Denver
Col
Denison
C. K. Dunlap
M. L. Robbins
G. P
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S.L. Ewing
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E.L. Beard
Rex
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