Governor candidate Moore urges trust regulation
The Galveston Sunday News notes Hon Monta J Moore of Cameron likely candidate for governor He promotes creation of a Corporation Commission modeled on the Railroad Commission with broad authority to regulate trusts The Rockdale Reporter reports on local business and civic notes including Yellow Pine Paper Company shipping its first car of wrapping paper from Orange Texas and a call to support home merchants across Bryan Texas November 25
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Yellow Pine Paper Company of
Orange, Tex
Monta J. Moore
Cameron
Galveston News
Railroad Commission
Rockdale
Cotton arithmetic urged for Texas school use
The Texas division of the Southern Cotton Association proposes teaching cotton as a subject in arithmetic classes to spread reliable cotton facts among farmers merchants and bankers. They praise cotton as a world changing crop and note its annual value exceeds that of the world’s mined gold and silver, citing Secretary James Wilson.
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Texas
Southern Cotton Association
South
Jas. Wilson
Washington
For Sale Brazos County land lots and farms up to 400 acres
Real estate notices offer 52 acres in Bryan city limits with a good residence and well at 1600 dollars. A 125 acre farm 7 miles north of Bryan priced 1650 dollars. Several smaller tracts priced per acre, including 400 acres on Brazos river at 12.50 per acre and 242 acres near Bryan with 120 cultivated acres. Additional 274 acres north east of Bryan at 5 dollars per acre. Various residences and city lots priced from 300 to 3000 dollars. Terms easy. Also descriptions of theatre production and a lost mule report.
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Bryan
Brazos River
N. B. Cole
Hall
Caldwell
Allen Academy
Cotton exceeds gold and wheat in 1904 value study
The Farm and Ranch piece compares 1904 US silver and gold outputs to cotton exports, noting cotton valued at $623,000,000 outpaced the combined precious metals and a 552,399,517 bushel wheat crop worth $510,489,874. It highlights cotton’s dominance in foreign trade and promises a follow up on arithmetic applications for teachers.
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Theou
United States
South
America
Ringer and Wind and a Banana Cross
The piece discusses wind gauging in quoits and archery, noting precise angles to defeat wind. It then cites a 1620 Glasse of Time excerpt about the banana, describing medieval curiosities and the crucifix motif seen when slicing a banana in early ripening.
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Thomas Peyton
Canary Islands
Brazil
London Standard
A Trip to Egypt Musical Opens at Local Opera House
An advance notice announces a Tuesday November 28 performance of the popular musical comedy A Trip to Egypt at the opera house. The show, by author composer C Herbert Kerr, promises elaborate staging and a wide appeal.
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Opera
Egypt
C. Herbert Kerr
Exact Obedience in Indian Service
An anecdote contrasts rigid obedience with judgment. A servant under Lord Roberts brought a ready bath amid heavy fighting, declaring the bath ready at command. Another tale recalls a soldier awakened by a servant who followed a master’s strict wake time, noting the master had gone to bed late.
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India
Lord Roberts
Sahib
Bathers Learn to Sleep Float on Waves Says Guard
An Atlantic City lifeguard says sleeping while floating is possible and shares a memory of waking half a mile from shore. He notes a Camden man who naps off Chelsea and stresses a relaxed curved body line like a broad V for easy flotation.
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Atlantic City
Camden
Chelsea
Philadelphia Bulletin
Golden box holds good advice in fairy tale exchange
The good fairy entrusts her assistant with a golden box and orders it locked in the safe. The assistant questions the need to lock away advice, noting no one would take it.
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Puck
The Boy and His Pa Cartoon Snippet
A Houston Post small comic snippet features a man saying he makes a chum of his father while noting his own father would not approve. The exchange includes lines about staying out late and the speaker’s relationship with his dad.
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Houston Post
The Reason Lovers Never Grow Weary
A compact epigram on romance cites constant talk as the secret of lasting affection. The quip highlights lovers’ habit of discussing themselves to keep bond lively and enduring.
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Rochefoucauld
Rat Control Methods Touted in Historical Guide
A historical note describes rat destruction tactics using a water-filled barrel with a meal lid and a narrow hole to trap rats as they climb in to their watery graves. It also covers cautious steel trap placement and bait strategies including poisoned crackers cheese or meat to outsmart wary rodents.
He Knew Too Much The Banana Stem Swordfish Legend
A Malayan legend tells of swordfish infesting Singapore waters until a boy advised the rajah to cast down peeled banana stems. The fish impaled by their swords and killed, and the boy was executed to prevent future conspiracies.
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Singapore
Whistler On Hands Via Ethnic Notes
The artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler states he uses Irish models for hands praising their long fingers and articulations. He adds Irish eyes are beautiful and ranks American, English, German and Spanish hands by traits such as texture and veins.
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Whistler
To Break It Gently Dispatch Will Tell Widow News
Mike appointed to a committee to break sad news to a widow. Pat asks where they are going and plans to use a telegram to deliver the dispatch so the widow will faint and the shock be painless. The Chicago Record-Herald notes the propriety of quiet announce methods.
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Mike
Pat
Legrapht
Chicago Record-Herald
Love’s Insanity Sparks Tiny Turtle Dove Cherub
A playful exchange frames love as a romantic impulse. The sweet girl seeks a chance to leap while the old bachelor calls love a form of madness that swells a man to name a 200 pound woman his tiny dove.
The American Woman's Home Message on Boarding House Realities
In a House Beautiful style note, the piece highlights how hundreds of thousands of American women spend lives in boarding houses or hotels, rarely finding time or desire to create a personal home, shaping social expectations and domestic ideals.
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Connelly & Carnes
Bryan, Texas
Thomas W. Lawson
Houston
J. W. Batts
Taliaferro Building
Court House
Brazos County
Hearne Road
C. G. Walker
Igned SctiLoss
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Schloss
Wagner
Brandon
John Witman
John Wittman
Panhandletorn- Texas
Panhandle
Ntti
Denver Road
A. A. Glisson, G. P. A
Fort Worth, Texas
Old States
Southern
Pacific
North Central
T. J. Anderson
Houston, Texas
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