Memorial Program Highlights Lee Memorial Oration and Music
The Daily Eagle notes a Bryan Texas post office listing and reports a Daughters entertainment featuring mandolin and guitar selections by Mr. Hardy Newton and Mrs. Howell on piano with Mr. Howell and Miss M. Stella Shepard driving the event. Willie C. Johnson delivered the Lee memory oration to applause and Col. R. K. Chatham thanked attendees and sponsors.Refreshments followed amid social thanks to Mrs. Howell and helpers.
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Hardy Newton
Musicale at the Willows by Daughters of the Confederacy
The L B Ross Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy hosted a Friday musicale at the Willows. Aesthetic lawn setting with lanterns and gowns framed a performance featuring Misses West Robinson Clarke Smith and Mrs Queen, Frances Parker, Ivy Brooks, and others. The program included instrumental pieces and vocal numbers, praised for its artistry and social success.
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Willows
L. 8. Ross
Daughters of the Confederacy
West
Robinson
Clarke
Smith
MrQueen
Frances Parker
Ivy Brooks
Cotton bale tallies report from Bryan yards
The document lists bale counts at multiple Bryan yards led by Lawrence Warehouse with 5429 and others including Farmers' Cotton Yard 445 Kernole Cotton Yard 2185 Brick Warehouse 2336 Darwin & Ponder 2267 Dawson Yard 1138 Mike's Yard 0 Robertson's Yard 504 Bowman Yard 97, totaling 19716. A card from Mr. Graham notes his inability to run for representative of the 55th District, resigning candidacy.
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Eswednege
Robertson
Bowman Yard
Graham
Brazos
Madison
C. H. B. Graham
J A O Club Maintains Winter Momentum
The J A O Club reports steady progress with meetings at Mrs W S Howell and Mrs Maude Willson. Officers elected, twelve new members admitted, and plans set for weekly gatherings on Mondays and Thursdays with the next meeting at Misses Parker's home.
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W. 8. Howell
Miss Shepard
Maude Willson
Parker
Nelle Smith
Death of Sherman Hoar Leaves Concord in Mourning
Sherman Hoar died at his Main street home in Concord on Friday night after a three week illness from typhoid fever contracted while visiting camps as an agent of the Massachusetts Volunteer association. Born July 1840 in Concord, he attended Harvard and Harvard Law School, practiced law in Waltham and Boston, was elected to Congress in 1890, later served as U S district attorney for the Boston district, and held trustee roles with Phillips Exeter and the American Unitarian Society. He was a nephew of Senator Hoar.
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Concord
Mass
Hop
Sheman Hoar
Main Street
Massachusetts Volunteer Association
Sherman Hoar
Harvard
Middlesex
Waltham
Storey, Thorndike & Heard
Boston
Congress
Washington
Cleveland
American Unitarian Society
Phillips-Exeter Academy
Senator Hoar
New York Inheritance Tax Rule Favors Mission Bequest
The New York appellate division rules no collateral inheritance tax on Sarah A L Palmer’s estate bequest of 28 438 to Bishop William Taylor for African mission work. The tax, 1421, is void under pre May 1896 law exempting property bequeathed to a bishop of a religious corporation. The funds now go to Bishop Joseph Hartzell, Taylor’s successor.
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New York
Supreme Court
Sarah A. L. Palmer
Joseph ©. Hartzell
Taylor
Ex Mayor Oakley Hall Dies In New York
New York on October 8 reported the death of former mayor Oakley Hall from heart disease. Hall served 16 years as New York City district attorney and led the city during the Tweed era.
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New York
Oakley Hall
Hall
New York City
Fire destroys workshops in Levis area
A blaze in Levis Quebec on October 8 destroyed Joseph Cosselin’s workshops and lumber yards, damaged two residences and King Brothers shoe factory, with losses estimated at $60,000 and insured.
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Levis
Quebec
Joseph Cosselin
King Bros
Fearless convict Steadman escapes San Quentin
A police chiefs meeting recalls the remarkable escape of Frank Steadman from San Quentin. John Glass captured Steadman after a string of jailbreaks, noting Steadman studied the engine room belt and calculated revolutions to time his ascent. He swung out, reached the belt, climbed to the top, and fled with a guard’s coat and hat in the dusk.
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United States
Canada
Milwaukee
William A. Pinkerton
Frank Steadman
San Quentin
John Glass
Steadman
Glass
Pinkerton
Barnes
Los Angeles
Indiana
Joliet
Illinois
Recaptured convict Steadman returned to old job at prison
Los Angeles chief confirms Steadman was recaptured and sent back to work, with bars installed over a high window. He later cut and nearly killed another convict and now serves an additional sentence for attempted murder at Folsom prison near Sacramento. Fresh fish and Berwick bay oysters noted for Fridays and Saturdays at Parsons' restaurant.
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Los Angeles
Steadman
Folsom
Sacramento
Chicago
Inter Ocean
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J. A. O. Club
Emmel
Edward R. Emmel
Massachusetts
New York State
Seattle
Wash
Pratt
Yukon River
St. Michaels
Yukon
Kisslinok Channel
Eldridge
Spurr
Cooks’s Inlet
Susitna
Kuskowit
Weare
Golovin Bay
Anderson, Ind
T. Doxey
American Plate Glass Company
Pittsburg
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Paris
Gaulois
Peace Commission
Luzon
Dewey
Manila
Halifax
Ganges
Montreal
Aberdeen
Ferral
N. F
Harlow
St. Johns
the Baptists
Waco
Waco, Tex
General Convention of the Baptist Church In
Buckner
Carroll
SALA
R. B. Templeman & Son
Cole Bros
Mayor Hall
San Quentin Prison
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Parsons
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