Church Notices and Services Across Local Parishes
Local churches announce morning prayers sermons and evening services for St Andrew's St Joseph's First Baptist and other listings. Topics include Prayer and Its Uses Christ's Cup of Agony Thanksgiving Life of Love and The Labor on Master and Servant. Marriages reported and Holy Mass scheduled with catechism and youth programs.
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St. Andrew's (Episcopal) Church
Duffy
St. Andrew's Brotherhood
Daughters of the King
Altar
Epworth League
Limita
Grand opens week long stock show with three plays
The Jolly Pathfinders grand stock company brings A Fight for a Million to the Grand opera house tomorrow night, followed by The Judge and the Girl on Tuesday and Out West Among the Mormons on a Wednesday matinee. One lady admitted free Monday and Tuesday. seats on sale at Cavitt's. Census reports cotton ginned to Nov 14 1908 show 9,630,563 bales and 26,638 active gins, with prior years noted. Tafts visits Georgia with Judge Taft accepting a guest invitation to Augusta residence Thomas.
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Rentfrew
The
Jolly Pathfinders
Grand Opera House
Cavitt's
Washington
Census Bureau
Sea Island
Tafts
Georgia
Augusta
Landon A. Thomas
Sand Hills
William H. Taft
Judge Taft
Robert Taft
Helen Taft
Mr. Thomas
Negro Arrested for Assault in Ennis Texas
In Ennis Texas on November 21 a black man named Ed Sharpe was arrested near India for criminally assaulting a white woman while she milked a cow. He was detained in jail as farmers worried about potential lynching amid the surrounding county tensions. Officials report the guard at the jail to deter mob action.
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Ennis
Tex
Ed Sharpe
India
H. Kidwell
Waxahachie
Herman Trotter
Italy
Sam Houston Life Insurance company charter amended
Sam Houston Life Insurance company name change approved after amendment to its charter by the department of insurance following AG approval. Certificate of authority issued for life and accident business with paid capital of 100000. Dream Doubtless True. Fort Worth Nov 21.
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Sam Houston
Austin
Trinity Life and Accident Insurance Company of
Dalling
Department of Insurance
Attorney General's Department
Sam Houston Life Insurance Company
Rescued Man in Clear Fork After Night Long Struggle
Fort Worth city police officer Lane compelled Frank McMillan to wade out of Clear Fork using a long pole after an all night rescue effort. McMillan, believed temporarily demented, stood in the water up to his neck before Reluctantly returning to shore and was hospitalized in serious condition.
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Fort Worth
Frank McMillan
Clear Fork
Lane
McMillan
Man Killed by Train in New Orleans
Peter B. Hellwege of the cotton firm Peter B. Hellwege & Co. was run down and killed by a train at Elysian Fields avenue and North Pryor street. He was about thirty five years old.
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New Orleans
Peter B. Hellwege
Bleached flour inquiry opens in Washington
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson presides as experts from government and millers clash over the status of bleached flour under the pure food and drugs law. Government chemists defend the position urged by Dr. Wiley that poisonous substances should be banned, while millers claim nitrous acid in flour is not harmful to health.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
Wiley
Washington Tributes Emperors Kuang Hsu at Memorial Service
Officials and diplomats in Washington attend memorial services for Emperor Kuang Hsu and the grand empress dowager of China. The ceremonies follow imperial instructions and parallel Pekin observances. President Roosevelt and Vice President Fairbanks receive invitation cards.
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Washington
Emperor Kuang Hsu
China
Pekin
Roosevelt
Fairbanks
Alexis Laid to Rest in Romanoff Mausoleum
The body of Grand Duke Alexis uncle to the emperor was interred Saturday in the new mausoleum at the fortress of St. Petersburg. Emperor Nicholas followed the coffin on foot from the railroad station to the fortress, a three mile procession through crowded silent streets.
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St. Petersburg
Grand Duke
Alexis
Paris
the Romanoffs
Nicholas
Poison Beer in St Louis Leads to Death and Robbery
A man died and four others were seriously ill at a city hospital after drinking poison beer from a bogus employment agent. The victims, recent arrivals, were offered work, given beer, then robbed of 227 dollars before the suspect fled.
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St. Louis
Psuedo
United States
Katy official cites cotton crop impact on railroad earnings
In San Antonio on November 21 traffic manager Halle testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission that railroad earnings declined due to a small cotton crop last year and reduced tonnage. In Austin on November 21 Judge D E Simmons urged alumni to attend the university's twenty fifth anniversary celebration next Wednesday and Thursday.
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San Antonio
Interstate Commerce Commission
Trafffic
Halle
Katy Railway
Austin
D. E. Simmons of
Alumni Association of
the University
Injured Splitting Wood in McKinney
Charles Scott was seriously injured in McKinney Texas on November 21 when his ax caught a clothes line and blade struck his head causing a four inch gash over the right eye. The wound was sewn up.
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McKinney
Tex
Charles Scott
Narrow Escape of Family in Tex Fire
Nacogdoches Texas reports the residence of Dr. C. C. Pierce valued at $5 000 and its contents destroyed by fire suspected incendiary origin. All members of the family barely saved their lives.
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Nacogdoches
Tex
C. C. Pierce
Familly
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Texas
Beaumont
Texas Conference
Turrentine
First Baptist Church
J. A. Moore
Will Howell
M. E. Weaver
St. Joseph's Church
J. B. Gleissner
Andrew Di _ Giorgio
Concepta Gragliano
Salvatore Cardella
Seraphina Rizaffi
Father de Simone
White’s Plantation
Father Gleissner
Challenner
Christian Church
Bible School
Christian Endeavor
Union Hill
Blanche Buchanan
Jesus
Minnie Bullock
E. C. Parks
the Grand
Edad AG
Femmel’& Maloney
Webb Bros
Campbell
State Penitentiary Board
Rusk Penitentiary
Black
George W. Stegall
Wichita
Kan
North Fort Worth
Rock Island
Stegall
Tito
First National Bank
Wefsolicit
Oie Kwad Keke
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