Town Real Estate Listings From Nearby Town
About 105 acres one mile from the courthouse includes 25 acres cultivated with balance pasture fenced with six wires priced at 1500 dollars. A quarter acre near the schoolhouse in southeast town holds a small cottage tenant house and well priced at 750 dollars. A six room house with two lots four blocks from Main Street with brick cistern and price 1260. Half block near Allen Academy priced at 500. About 13 acres on the town’s south side with a new four room house, well cistern and outbuildings priced at 1000. A four room house with pantry hall two galleries tub cistern bor ed well stable garden four blocks from courthouse rents 99 dollars monthly price 650. The Joe B Reed home place, quarter block ground and nine room two story dwelling priced at 4250. One half block adjoining the DC DeMaret place price
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Court House
School House
Allen Academy
Courthouse
Joe B Reed
DC DeMaret
Six Inch Rainfall Floods Brownweed Vicinity
A six inch rainstorm fell from daylight to dark after the 1900 fall, causing the bayou to overflow and flood valleys. Many cotton fields remain. residents moved from the north side along the slough. In Abilene general rain was reported with wide spread western Texas impact.
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Brownweed
West Texas
Abilene, Tex
Stave Industry Powers Nacogdoches Timber Economy
In Nacogdoches Angédjas and Sabine counties about 750 men work in stave production for white oak timber. Staves are shipped to France to be made into barrels, with average earnings around 3000 dollars for roughly 150 days yearly, totaling about 590000 dollars for the region. Captain Frank M Browne, bank president, is found dead in bed in Dublin Texas, with death likely from apoplexy or heart failure after moving his family from Comanche. A Waco strike mediation committee of five prominent citizens may settle the street car workers dispute, expressing sympathy for motormen. In Terrell, A N Stallings displays pears weighing 24 ounces.
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Nacogdoches
Tex
Angédjas
Sabine
France
Dublin
Frank M. Browne
Citizens National Bank
Comanche
Fort Worth
Waco
Overdose of Opium Ends Life Near Southwest City
George Payton, a 40 year old white man, died of an opium overdose near the Territory line to Southwest City Missouri after seeking treatment from Dr. Denman. He was found dead in his hotel room Wednesday morning. his wife and adult children live in Kansas City. Chickasha racing association holds its first annual meeting at the fair grounds with strong attendance and top horses entered.
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Vinita
I. T
Chickasha, I. T
Chickasha Racing Association
Twenty Steamships: KC Southern Builds Gulf Transatlantic Line
Kansas City October 1 The Kansas City Southern Railway launches a new ocean freight service with twenty first class freighters operating from Port Arthur Texas to major British and continental ports. Stuart R Knott says vessels are enough for prompt sailings to United Kingdom ports and the Continent. The line targets Gulf of Mexico exports and partnerships with connecting railroads.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Southern Railway Company
Port Arthur
Tex
Great Britain
Stuart R. Knott
Roadiway Company
United Kingdom
Mr. Knott
Gulf of Mexico
Trench Collapse Kills City Official in Columbus
In Columbus Georgia a 30 foot trench near the Enquirer Sun building caved in killing Superintendent of Public Works Johnson and workman Brad Smith. Johnson's assistant W B Clay raised the alarm as rescue crews entered the trench. A second collapse buried seven or eight more. five workers were saved, two fatally hurt.
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Columbus
New
Enquirer-Sun
Johnson
Brad Smith
W. B. Clay
Death of British Ambassador Herbert Shocks Washington
Washington officials mourn the death of Rt Hon Sir Michael Herbert British ambassador to the United States and acting secretary Atlee promptly telegraphed Ambassador Choate to convey condolences. State Department bulletin confirms Herbert died this morning at Davos and notes Lord Lansdowne relayed the news.
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Herbert
Washington City
Washington
Sir Michael Herbert
United States
Atlee
Choate
London
Foreign Office
State Department
Department of State
Ambassador Choate
Lord Lansdowne
Ambassador Herbert
Davos
Jockey Shea Hurt in Delmark Race and Falls
Shea, a leading Delmark jockey, was fatally injured after Harplithe toppled at the far turn and Mathilda tangled with the horse. Bridewell and Beech were hurt, while Mac Kinney suffered a fractured shoulder blade. Shea remained unconscious and was taken to Baptist sanitarium.
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St. Louis
Baptist Sanitarium
Neville
Five Die in Train Car Collision At Harlem Race Meet
Five people were killed and about a score injured when a Wisconsin Central passenger train collided with a Forty third Avenue streetcar in Chicago. The streetcar, crowded with Harlem race track riders, was returning passengers when the motorman signaled to cross. Separately near Philadelphia a dozen people were struck by a train at Sharon Hill, killing five and wounding three as a family reunion party waited for a train.
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Chicago
Wisconsin Central
Forty-third Avenue
Fifty-third Avenue
Harlem
Philadelphia
Sharon Hill
Baltimore and Washington
Farran
Presbyterians settle Negro Question avoid separate denomination
The Presbyterian Church of the United States resolves that 15000 Negro members remain within the church. No class legislation will use race as a qualification, and no action will promote a separate church or discrimination. Committee chair S. J. Niccols led sessions in St Louis with W. B. McAllister F. A. Ellmore C. H. Uggams and L. T. Berry. Report to Buffalo assembly due next May.
Anarchist Rally Upsets Yom Kippur Observance at Cooper Union
Thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at Cooper Union for Yom Kippur services only to find the hall rented by the Free Society, an anarchist group. Speakers mocked Jewish customs in Yiddish, provoking protests and a mass exit as police stood by. It was the first such gathering in ten years.
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New York
Cooper Union
Free Society
Temple of Jerusalem
University of Texas opens fall term with 600 matriculants
Austin reports formal start of classes as students return to campus though real work begins next week. Matriculation near 600, higher than last year. Confederate pension apportionment set at 9.50 per quarter for oct 1 start, about 7000 total recipients after additions. In Lexington, Tillman trial enters second week with seven witnesses heard and ongoing cross examinations.
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Austin
Univrsity of Texas
Lexington
S. C
James H. Tillman
Retired Manufacturer Gives 25000 to Wesleyan Fund Drive
Meriden Conn Oct 1 Cephas B Rogers a retired manufacturer has given 25000 to Wesleyan university Middletown Conn as part of a 1,000,000 fund drive. In addition to this gift 75000 has been contributed and the alumni have pledged 100000.
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Meriden
Conn
Cephas. B. Rogers
Weslyean University of Middletown
No Match For Fitzsimmons In Early Knockout
In Philadelphia on October 1 Bob Fitzsimmons fought Don Coughlin with Coughlin knocked down three times in the first round. Coughlin’s seconds threw up the sponge as the round ended ending the bout. Harriman Elected Director At Erie Railroad
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Philadelphia
Bob Fitzsimmons
Don Coughlin
Coughlin
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WRK
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Terrell
A. N. Stallings
George Payton
Splendid Racing
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Dillashaw Tap
Madisonville Road
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H. B. Dorse
Prop
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Tirs
Otto Boehme
Haswell’s
Bof
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Geo. W Fountain
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Higgs
Clarke Lawrence
Hee
New Orleans , Pacific Coast
VIA
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Pacific Coast Express
Cincinnati
Ande
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E. H. Harrison
Erie Railroad
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