Texas A and M set to face Texas in Thanksgiving clash
A College correspondent compares records after eight games for Texas and A and M. Texas shows 71 points for and 69 against. A and M records 180 for and 56 against with one loss. The piece notes stronger out of state play for Texas and highlights Coach Bachman as a new driving force. Local fans plan to travel to Austin to watch the game.
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Texas University At Austin
University of Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical College
The
Agricultural and Mechanical
Agricultural and Mechanical Boys
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Bachman
Texas
Austin
Brazos County Winners Take All Prizes at San Antonio Fair
Millican, Texas, November 26. Messrs J D Steele and F W Yeager carried Brazos County’s exhibit to the San Antonio Fair and won every prize totaling 615 dollars. The blue ribbon went to general agricultural exhibit and high land truck farming. Exhibits largely came from Brazos County with some from Bryan. Steele and Yeager, respected local farmers and truck producers, are noted authorities on diversification and scientific farming. Yeager is famed for his strawberry display. Steele is regarded as the state’s most successful sweet potato raiser.
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Millican
Tex
J.D. Steele
F. W. Yeagar
Brazos County
San Antonio Fair
Bryan
Yeager
Steele
Galveston News
Pearlstone Sees Houston & Texas Central Surveyors In Field
Palestine Tex Nov 25 Hu man Pearlstone of the Pearlstone Grocery Company is home from a business trip to Jewett and enthusiastic over railroad news. He says a reliable source reports the Houston and Texas Central has in the field a corps of surveyors.
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Palestine
Tex
Human Pearlstone
Pearlstone Grocery Company
Jewett
Pearlstone
Houston & Texas Central
Corps of
Surveyors
Road survey from Wortham to Palestine eyed for rail line
The Galveston News notes a survey running from Wortham to Palestine to build a line into the territory. It says the road asks no bonus and aims to enter the area, with the Palestine Board of Trade likely to act quickly to secure the road for Palestine.
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Wortham
Palestine
Palestine Board of Trade
Galveston News
Colored Institute Program for Brazos County 1905
The Brazos County Colored Teachers’ Institute executive committee met at the courthouse and arranged a two day program for December 15 and 16 1905 The agenda includes roll call composition arithmetic Texas history geography physical geography consolidation of rural schools and an open discussion with sessions led by E E Haynes P Landry Mary Minor E W Knox F D Vaughan and M W Burgess
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Brazos Co. Colored Teachers’ Institute
Court House
Ceee Eee Eeevuees Institute Peayot
Cinee Area
W. Robinson
Chree Te Eaeee Institute
E. E. Haynes
Texas History
Peo Eugesesyé
E. W. Knox
Mary Minor Herbert Spencer
M. W. Burgess
Dces
F. D. Vaughan
Immediate Elections Ordered for National Assembly
St. Petersburg reports an imperial decree mandating immediate arrangements for elections of members to the national assembly. Regulations for the elections are published in the Official Messenger.
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St. Petersburg
Honeymoon Recall On A Calais Crossing
A married couple's wedding trip aboard a Dover to Calais voyage ends with a mistaken tender scene. James lavishly spreads cologne and sweet words on Jenny in a saloon corner only to find another woman wearing the same plaid as his wife. A tearful apology leads to a reflective tale of marital affection and memory.
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Dover
Calais
Jenny
James
John
London
Cader Idris and the Giant's Chair Myth
In Dolgelly Wales the peak known as Cader Idris is famed in folk lore as Idris Chair. Local legend says the giant Idris used the hollow summit as a chair, and those who spend a night there emerge dead, mad, or gifted with poetic genius. Nearby Lake of the Three Pebbles holds three stone blocks Idris supposedly spilled from his boots.
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Dolgelly
Wales
Cader Idris
Idris
Idris Long
North Wales
Rochefort Cheese From France Aged Six Months In Cave
Rochefort cheese gains its distinct flavor by six months of cave aging near Rochefort in southern France. The process includes pricking to allow air into holes. Only sheep's milk is used to make Rochefort.
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Rochefort
France
Human nature pictures draw crowds says Kansas City dealer
A Kansas City art dealer argues that portraits of human nature attract buyers more than landscapes. He recalls a window display of cowboys at a grave scene drawing many viewers, including children, who return with friends to see it again. The dealer notes the painting’s powerful appeal and the crowd’s response.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Times
The Critic and the Lady Talleyrand wit and salon legends
The article recalls Talleyrand’s famed wit, his admiration for Mme de Stael and Madame Recamier, and a humorous exchange about saving one of them on a sea plank. It notes rumors that Delphine mirrors Mme de Stael and Talleyrand inspired a character in her book as he remarks softly on appearing in the work disguised as a woman.
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Talleyrand
Juniper Hall
Mme, de Stael
Mme, Recamier
Mme
de Stael
Delphine
Mme. de Stael
Mme. de Vernon
Real estate listings near Bryan with varied farm and city lots
A miscellany of Bryan area properties for sale including 52 acres inside city limits with residence and well at 1600 dollars, 125 acre farm seven miles north at 1650, 7 acres near Bryan at 10 per acre, 400 acres on Brazos river with 8 houses at 12 ½ per acre, 15314 acres on mail route with 10 acre hog pasture, 242 acres eight miles out with 9 room house and tenant houses at 10 per acre, 274 acres twelve miles north east at 5 per acre, a five room residence near a school, a ten room residence with 40 acres and outbuildings at 3000, N B Cole block at 750, eastern town block at 425, 242 acres Caldwell pasture tradable in tracts, three lots with shade trees at 300, eight lots near Allen Academy at 325, and 52 acres with residence and bore well outside city limits at 1600 with favorable terms.
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Bryan
Brazos River
School House
N. B. Cole
Hall
Caldwell
Allen Academy
Why Prussia Is So Called
The article traces Prussia's name to Borussi or Porussi who conquered the country about 320 B C. It notes early Slavonic inhabitants on the Baltic shore, their clashes with expanding Teutons, and Christianity brought by Bishop Adalbert of Prague in 997. It then describes the 13th century Teutonic Knights' conquest and the merging Borussia with Teutonic and Polish peoples.
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Prussia
Borussi
Porussi
Baltic
Kingdom of
Adalbert
Prague
Borussia
Tridacna Shells Used in European Churches
The large tridacna shells, used for holy water basins and fonts, are common in Europe with the biggest at St. Peter's in Rome. These shells weigh up to 500 pounds for the two valves, while the animal itself can reach twenty pounds. The name comes from Greek for eaten in three bites.
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Europe
St. Peter's
Rome
St. Nicholas
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