Local notices from Bryan Texas homemaker ads and arrivals
Tennessee's Pardner Wet Gregg went to Franklin yesterday. Mrs. Bessie Lawrence visits Navasota. J N Mustachia offers store for sale with building and water. Major Mistrot and family left for Galveston and New Iberia. Cotton seed hulls sold by C F Moore. hay from W H Yates. Refs to residents, rentals, and railroad timetable snippets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira Gooch
W. H. Yates
Forney
Texas
Millie Marwitsky
Navasota
McClelland
Apple
Sue McClelland
Lwll Millican
Millican
Bryan
M. Derden
Houston
C. F. Moore
H. G. Rhodes
A. M. Waldrop
Dallas Fair
F.C. Cain
M. & P. Bank
J.J. Mistrot
P. Mistrot
Marie Mistrot
Louise Blanchet
Galveston
New Iberia
Messrs
George
8. R. Clate
Sexton's Report of Bryan Cemetery Burials 1598 Q3
H H Jones City Sexton reports the third quarter burial list for Bryan City Cemetery from July 1 to September 30 1598. Whites from the city and country and colored from the city and country are named with dates. Also note announcing W Gillie Mitchell as candidate for justice of the peace Bryan precinct No 4 for November election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Jones
Bryan City
W. Gillie Mitchell
the Eagle
Justice of the Peace of
Bryan
Mitchell
Office of Justice of the Peace
Brazos County
Justice At the Peace of
Precinct No. 4
Texas
Death of Napoleon McMillen in Bryan County
Napoleon McMillen died Monday night at 10 o'clock at his mother Mrs Annie McMillen's home five miles west of Bryan. He was about twenty three years old and well known in the county. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon McMillen
Annie McMillen
Bryan
The Death of Coaching and Spurgeon’s Early Gains
The piece laments the decline of harsh coaching methods once common in distant districts and cites Nimrod's old fashioned coach. It then recalls Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon’s autobiography noting his switch from hymns to rat killing as a profitable early venture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nimrod
Nottingham
Blackwood's Magazine
Charles H. Spurgeon
Spurgeon
Watt
Bride’s Dowry Boost Sparks Cautionary Tale
A Chicago Post item recounts a witty account of a son-in-law eager to squeeze value. He discovers Minnie’s freckle under her ear and insists on adding $1,000 to the dowry for invoicing errors. The old gentleman notes the bargain hunter as a true New England Yankee in disguise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie
New England
Chicago Post
Barn Burners At Work In Kaufman Area
In Kaufman over two weeks seven barns near each other burned with total losses around 4000 to 5000 dollars. Barns owned by Charley Slaughter W S Watkin R W Smith and Elder D B Mizell all destroyed with little insurance. The town is confident but mystery surrounds the arsons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley Slaughter
W. S. Watkin
Slaughter
B. F. Fox
R. W. Smith
D. B. Mizell
Breckinridge to Return as Inspector General General
Washington reports General J C Breckinridge will be mustered out as major general but return to duties as inspector general with rank of brigadier general. Other dispatches note a mob in Lexington opposing Kitchen after a killing, a North Carolina private shot by a fellow guard, railway charter issues in Texas, a shooting near Lockhart, and political candidacy announcements in Kentucky.
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Washington
J. C. Breckinridge
Lexington
New York Regiment
Camp Hamilton
Wiley
Leonard
Jacksonville
Fla
John Corbett
North Carolina
Clint Robinson
Robinson
Austin
E. B. Perkins
Greenville
H. B. Marsh
Tyler
Cotton Belt Railway
Awent
St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas
Texas
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Sam Sancer
Hearne
San Antonio
Tennessee
Gregg
Franklin
H. W. South
Bessie Lawrence
John B. Mike
D. B. Knox
Gussie Kyle
Mozelle Boyett
Dallas
Berwick Bay
Parsons
Ane
J. N. Mustachia
Claude Mitchell
H. Higgs
Jake McIntosh
Cdl
Mutual Reserve
Joe B. Reed
M. Garnett
J. M. Bullock
R. McClung
J. Mack Black
J. R. Horn
A. A. Allen
W. H. Reidin
J. J. Conaway
Baptist State Convention
Waco
W. H. McMichael
Allwin Glapps Mide
John B. Stetson
Webb Bros
Sexton
Solomon J. Clute
Antonio Trevino
Mary Burton Carr
Cora Lucile Hellman
Simon Pinski
Samuel Hall
Col
Briscoe G. Baldwin
Mollie V. Higgs
Jeremiah Wilson
James King
Thomas Nash
Anna Childress
Dinah Dickson
Thomas Mason
Frank Jackson
Dennis Lee
Richard Humphreys
Erastus Tillery
For Justice of the Peace
Spuregeon
Kaufman
Private Corbett
Lockhart
Tex
Jim Smith
Albert Bradshaw
Bradshaw
Fowler
General Hardin
Shelbyville, Ky
P. Watt Hardin
Corbett
New York
Tom Sharkey
Efight
Guthrie
C. T
Federal
Yorktown
H. Schlosser
Nordheim
Gatesville
John Grant
Hennessy
A. J. Kazebear
Round Rock
McNeil
Beauty
Hall
Freckala
Etall’s Drug Store
Texas Bakery
Otto Boehme
GLOBE
Taylor & Cox
Jesse G. Minkert
A. W. Buchanan
J.T. Closs
J. H. Black
T. C. Nunn
Doremus & Butler
Oliver
Physicians and Surgeons
Orrick
Hallu
Dr. Oliver
W.H. Lawrence
W. C. Fountain
Rhodes’ Baloon
J. Wittmann
Main Street
Munn & Co
Scientific American
Time Journal
F St
Byrd
Bac
Lane Head
Williamson: Haltner Engraving O
Denver
Colo
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