Siege of Pekin Told by Chinese Missionary Leader
The New York Times received a dispatch from Rev. Dr. William Alexander Martin recounting the Pekin siege. He notes Christian and Japanese aid, fires, bombardment, and heroic women who helped defend legations. A mother reportedly planned to shoot her children to save them, then herself, under dire siege conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York Times
William Alexander Martin
New Imperial University of China
Pekin
Martin
China
Hing Po
Japan
Legation
James
Houlen Academy
Time Card Notes for Bryan Line Mixed Trains
A brief schedule fragment lists Southbound No. 105 arriving at 10:15 a.m. and Northbound No. 106 at 6:15 p.m. Also shows times 12:80 p.m. and 1:56 a.m. with monetary note $155 p.m. Interpreting as a historical timetable snippet for Bryan railway operations.
Local notices and updates from Bryan area shops and people
Local items report brisk business and moving cotton. Mentions include Lemp's beer promotion, Dallas and Brenham visitors, mayoral health, Exposition Saloon products, Norwood's corsets and Douglass shoes, street pole removals, and Dr McDougald lamp sales. Prose notes on protracted Christian meeting, new vault for AOUW, and local photographers winning prize.
School board elects Emily Tabor and others to teaching posts
The school board met yesterday selecting Emily Tabor as a public school teacher and Hutson as art teacher with Marie Adams as assistant to Sue McClelland in music. A jury awarded Clarence Scott $1000 in a personal injuries suit against the H T C railroad following a fall from a bridge north of town. Many residents from Madison county were present yesterday.
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Emily Tabor
Hutson
Marie Adams
Sue McClelland
Clarence Scott
H. & T. C. Railroad
Scott
Hotel Arrivals From Across The State And Nation
Hotel arrivals list notable guests from Dallas to Boston and multiple cities with names like Hoyle, Du vall, Caton, Hirsch, Cooke, Norrell, Raymond, Thompson, Evans, Bryan, Meade, Dalfhenner, Macomber, Harrington, Pool, Eaves, Van diver, Yardley, Floyd, and Price plus spouses, signaling regional travel patterns and social links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S.C. Hoyle
Dallas
Martin Duvall
Terrell
S. B. Caton
Calvert
M. Hirsch
Cincinnati
Cooke
St. Louis
Raymond
Chicago
L. C. Norrell
New York
KJ. C. Thompson
Louisville
A. D. Evans
C. W
B. V
Guy M. Bryan
A. F. Wilson
City
Win. Meade
Waco
George Dalfhenner
W. F. Macomber
Boston
Central
Lee Harrington
W. D. Yardley
H. G. Floyd
Kurten
E. Gandy
Rock Prairie
George Price
Wife
Edge
Texas State Fair Round Trip Tickets to Dallas
H. and C. will sell round trip tickets to Dallas for the Texas State Fair from Sept. 2 to Oct. 14, 1900. Fare is 5 dollars and 40 cents, limit Oct. 16. Tickets must be stamped by the depot ticket agent before they are valid for return.
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Dallas
Depot
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Dr. Martin
Mena
London
Timothy M. Healy
North Louth
Sir Wilfred Lawson
Cockermouth
Cumberland
Sir Wilfred
United Kingdom Alliance For
Londonderry
Austin
Tex
E,. O. Stanton
Galveston
Rio
Brazil
Blunt
Georgetown
Smith County
Tyler
William Cawley
Brownsboro
Penick & Ford
Java
Mocha
Rosada
Altera
Dansby
H.&t
Bryan
Lemp
B. H. Cole
Dallas Fair
FE. Gandy of
Wellborn
Sam Dunlap
Millican
P. N. Causey
Ira Gooch
Navasota
J. A. D. Robinson
Marlin
Jim Steele
Allenfarm
FE. F. Downard
W. F. Downard
J.S. Mooring
Exposition
J.C. Kernole
Malin
W. A. Duckworth
Burleson County
Norwood
J. A. Baker
College
Mr. Vernon
T. P. Cook
Ed Farquhar
G. W. Buckhbanlts
Dr. McDougald
A. E. Neeley
Daugher
Iola
S. W. Buchanan
Norwood’s
August Guiffre
California
No. 47
The
Christian Church
Miss King
Mrs. Pressley
Brenham
Maggie McDougvald
Anderson Mase
Joe B. Reed
First National Bank
A. O. U. W. Grand Lodge
M. D. Willis
Willis & Coleman
Tyler Haswell
Parks & Waldrop
van Seay
Jim Goodman
Oscar and
Reed Folsom
Henry and
Roe Campbell
J W Towns
J C Carlton
Bascomb Mathews
J G Conn
O L Pigford
J T Park
H Lloyd
T M Bottoms
W H Kelly
C C Lewis
Henry Francis
Charlie Hutchins
J B Gibbs
Hunter Gibbs
M B
Neighbors
G W Magness
E P Moseley
C A Searcy
T R
Jess Tomlinson
N Norwood
Madison County
Ino. M. Lawrence & Co
C. M. Proctor
Franklin Bros
Bulcgdkes
John B. Mike
Texas
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Standard Patent Medicines
M.H. James
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