How One Road Paid
College Station reports on T. W. Larkin of the Denison Board of Trade touring to discuss experiments with the Agricultural and Mechanical College. The article highlights the split log drag as a cheap effective road grader and cites a local project where farmers funded road work, expanding cotton and hay marketing in Denison's area.
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College Station
Texas
T. W. Larkin
Denison Board of Trade
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Board of Trade
Larkin
Denison
Good Roads Club
Commissioners Court
Snowing in Dimmitt and county gains amid cold spell
W S D reports rapid snowfall in Dimmitt Texas on November 18 as a second cold snap hits Castro county. He notes election results with S J Lee as county treasurer and Edgar S Ireland as county clerk, widespread feed hauling, rising wheat prospects, improving farms, and a planned courthouse replacement after the loss of the old building. A prairie fire in northern Mexico near Hereford scorched feed and grass across Deaf Smith county.
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The
Eagle
Dimmitt
Texas
S. J. Lee
Edgar S. Ireland
Castro County
Mexico
Hereford
Deaf Smith County
W.S. D
Grange Convention Adjourns Forms Weekly Grange Paper
The fortieth annual National Grange convention adjourned after ten days of sessions. It approved establishing a weekly newspaper devoted to Grange interests with J. G. Wardrow of New York named as editor.
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Denver
National Grange
Order
Grange
J. G. Wardrow
New York
The
Fall River Cotton Manufacturers Grant 10 Percent Wage Rise
Fall River textile operators across seventy firms with ninety two mills voted a ten percent wage increase effective immediately for six months with possible extension. About thirty thousand workers are affected. Independent operator C. D. Borden, employing five thousand, set the demand example and others soon complied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall River
Mass
C. D. Borden
Masked robbers fatally injure clerk in Arkansas City hold up
Two masked men attempted a hold up at the St. Charles hotel in Arkansas City Kansas injuring William Goff the night clerk who died within hours. Actor A Halpin was also badly hurt and died later. The assailants escaped.
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William Goff
A. Halpin
Arkansa City
Kan
St. Charles
One Killed, Another Hurt at Race Track Trial
Philadelphia November 24. Ernest D. Keller of New York a demonstrator and professional race car driver was killed and Henry Sutton of Colwyn Pennsylvania seriously hurt in a collision while testing racing cars at the Point Breeze track in preparation for the Quaker City Motor Club races.
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Philadelphia
Ernest D. Keller
New York
Henry Sutton
Colwyn
Point Breeze
Quaker City
Chimpanzees Proved Susceptible to Yellow Fever
Liverpool dispatch reports that the School of Tropical Medicine expedition in Brazil has successfully shown chimpanzees can be infected with yellow fever via the yellow fever mosquito. The finding is described as a discovery of the highest importance.
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Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine
Brazil
Roosevelt Arrives Safely at Sydney Harbor
Peary’s Arctic steamer the Roosevelt has reached Sydney Nova Scotia harbor with the explorer aboard as of November 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Nova Scotia
Blacksmiths and machinists head to Panama for Uncle Sam
In reprose to local recruiting efforts an agent drew thirty to forty railroad workers from Houston to join the Panama service. The group of blacksmiths and machinists left the Southern Pacific line to travel to New Orleans en route to Panama for federal work.
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Panama
Houston
Southern Pacific
New Orleans
Uncle Sam
Carlsbad Faces Freezing as Fuel Runs Out
A Carlsbad New Mexico report says fuel supplies are exhausted forcing residents to burn bacon to avoid freezing. Schools are closed as a foot of snow covers the town and two feet on the surrounding ranges.
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el Paso
the Herald
Carlsbad
N. M
Texans Win in Rain at Texas Upset
In a driving rain on November 24 at Austin the University of Texas football eleven defeated Washington University of St. Louis 17 to 6.
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Texans
Austin
University of Texas Football Eleven
Washington University of St. Louis
Humble Shrubville Doctor Reaches for Brookfield Aid
A young Shrubville physician gaining experience is invited to consult with the Brookfield doctor over a complex case. The elderly husband initially resists but reveals his wife had insisted on not offending the local physician by seeking additional expertise.
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Shrubville
Brookfield
Quaint Distinctions In the Old Hatfield Meeting House
A Springfield Republican East description details seating in Hatfield Massachusetts meeting house with singers in front rows, children in next rows, youths on opposite sides, and distinct square pews for old maids and old bachelors. It notes tithing men on duty and color-segregated seats, with wealth dictating floor pew assignments.
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Hatfield
Mss
Samuel Dwight Partridge
Springfield Republican East
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Burt Norwood
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A. Moore
VIA
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