Local Notes and Notices From North Bound Dispatch
Local items show arrivals and calls at the Eagle office plus rents for houses and hay sales. Names mentioned include J A Palmer Madisonville Dr Jones Bethel Postmaster W H McMichael and J E Tobias Kurten with various frost reports and upcoming performances at the opera house The Real Widow Brown described as an upcoming attraction and Parsons restaurant offering fresh fish and Berwick bay oysters on Fridays and Saturdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. McMichael
Edge
C. F. Moore
J. E. Tobias
Kurten
Eagle Office
T. A. Cloud
Weather
Calvert
Chas. N. Williamson
Dr. Townsend
Dallas
Baptist Church
Berwick Bay
Parsons
Boilers Burst Davi s Torpedo Boat Disabled. Crew Fatalities
In Astoria Oregon on October 21 the torpedo boat Davis was disabled by bursting boiler tubes during its official trip. Eight crewmen were badly scalded and seven died after arriving at port. The explosion occurred in the Columbia River about 20 miles above Astoria. the exact cause was not yet known. The Davis remained otherwise uninjured aside from boiler-room havoc. Separately in St Louis the Pullman tourist car line to San Francisco will divert through Memphis and Corsicana due to New Orleans quarantine, starting immediately and running weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Astoria, Ore
Davis
Here
Columbia River
St. Louis
New Orleans
Pullman
Washington, D.C
San Francisco
Southern Railway
Memphis
Cotton Belt
Corsicana
Houston
Texas Central
Southern Pacific
Hay bale Sunday case ends with acquittal in Sherman
In Sherman on October 21 the county court criminal session acquitted J M Barnes of violating the Sunday law by baling hay on Sunday. He testified he baled to save ruined hay as rain threatened. In Bonham two youths quarreled at Inglish’s home, leading to Charles Clifton’s death from a blow with a club and a warrant for Claud Scruggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman, Tex
J. M. Barnes
Mine firm officers sought after Virden mine disaster
Virden Illinois October 21 Superintendent Lukens of the Chicago Virden Coal company posted bond and was released from custody. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of T L Loucks president and W B York secretary over the mine disaster that killed 15 people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virden, Ills
Lukens
Chicago-Virden Coal Company
T. ©. Loucks
W. 8. York
New Orleans Boats Decline Galveston Trade
New Orleans boats will not venture into the Galveston trade. The Clearwater of the Macheca line, which had considered Galveston, is now in Mobile with a cargo of bananas after landing at Porto Cortez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Galveston
Clearwater
Macheca
Porto Cortez
Mobile
Missouri private dishonorably discharged at parade
Lexington Kentucky October 21 Private John Phelps of the Second Missouri regiment was dishonorably discharged for repeated insubordination. He stood before his company as the crowd witnessed his degradation. He is the son of ex Governor J B Phelps of Springfield Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
John Phelps
Second Missouri
J. B. Phelps
Springfield
boiler explosion at sawmill kills engineer in Freelandsville
Vincennes Ind Oct 21 The boiler in Thomas Noltmeyer s sawmill exploded killing engineer Frank Jarrell and injuring George Breyer and Will Robbins. This is the mill s second fatal boiler explosion.
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Vincennes
Ind
Thomas Noltmeyer
Freelandsville
Frank Jarrell
George Breyer
Will Robbins
Jarrell
Bob Wofford Shot and Killed Near Coffeyville
Gilmer Texas reports Bob Wofford a Black man was shot and killed while picking cotton near Coffeyville on Monday He collapsed and died at his wife's feet in a fatal shooting incident with no further details provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilmer
Tex
Bob Wofford
Coffeyville
Accident Claims Doener in Kenburg Wagon Fall
Kenburg Tex Oct 2 Herpmann Doener of this neighborhood was accidentally killed by falling off his wagon loaded with cotton. His neck was broken and he died instantly.
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Kenburg
Tex
Physical Training Proposed To Fight Tuberculosis
Dr. B Fletcher Ingale argues for systematic physical training to develop respiratory muscles and chest expansion to prevent tuberculosis and aid early recovery. He cites collapsed air cells as a risk, low chest capacity as a factor, and notes high altitude may aid lung distension. He claims careful training can widen the chest two to three inches and help check disease progression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Fletcher Ingale
Chicago
Translation Fails in Industrial Circulars Exposing Translation Gaps
An excerpt notes that exporters must translate materials into foreign languages with experts from the relevant industry to avoid ridicule. It cites a mocked German style and offers a garbled English translation praising a product that supposedly neutralizes calcareous substances and protects steam boiler blades, ending with a questionable claim about decomposition.
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London
Postoffice Key Word Puzzle On Detroit Street Crossing
A passerby found a Yale lock key with a tag bearing Pokey. The owner explained that P O stands for postoffice and that the tag read post office key. The finder and owner shared a smile as they returned the keys to their rightful places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Street
Griswold
Yale
Detroit Free Press
Boisterous Ocean Voyage Ends With Life Saving Apparatus
Mr. Beerbohm Tree recalls a New York voyage aboard a rolling ship. In a terrifying lurch he was knocked down by a heavy weight, then recovered to find the culprit marked Life Saving Apparatus. The tale comes from the London Globe.
Indians Start for Duluth Under Guard of Soldiers
Eleven of the twenty Indians sought by authorities have begun their march to Duluth under guard. Indian Commissioner Jones accompanies them, and the party moves with a soldier escort.
Shaw lunacy trial set for November fourteenth
Cleburne Texas report that John B Shaw faces lunacy charges with the trial scheduled for November fourteenth and a panel of twelve jurors already drawn for the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaw
Cleburne
Tex
John B. Shaw
Kn gad t Hanged for 1896 Brenham Killing
Brenham Texas October 21 Charles Kn gadt was hanged here yesterday for killing his half sister near Brenham in 1896.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brenham
Tex
Charles Kngadt
Onions Recommended For Nervous Prostration And Illness
The article extols onions as almost the best nervyire known and claims no medicine works better to relieve nervous prostration. It also states onions aid coughs, colds, and influenza, and that daily consumption can clear and whiten the complexion.
Real Widow Brown Farce Delights Dallas Audience
Dallas audience applauded The Real Widow Brown last night as a strong farce with a capable company. Beatrice Gambles sang well while Blanche Henshaw and Eddie Clarke provided refined specialties. The show, based on Hoyt Goodwin and Polk style, offered hearty laughter and a front rank theatrical farce experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Widow Brown
Hoyt-Goodwin- Polk
Beatrice Gambles
Blanche Henshaw
Eddie Clark
Chas
Barrington
Brown
Dallas News
The White Slave advance agent visits town. Bowser hurt
Al Caldwell, advance man for The White Slave, says the show is on its seventeenth straight tour, while Bowser the fire horse sustained a cut to his left fore leg during practice and a substitute horse performed. Marriage licenses batch listed after. Farmers urged to press Legislature for Texas A&M College expansion and funding knowledge. F.Cain advertises a well drilling apparatus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Caldwell
Bowser
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Hendersons
Sam Sanger
Bryan
G.N
Hearne
Karst Bound
San Antonio
T. C
J. A. Palmer
Madisonville
Dr. Jones
Bethel
City
W. H. Yates
Forney
Texas
McCleland
Sue McClelland
Ira Gooch
Wiz
Y. OC. A. Rogers
Waco
J. J. Adams
Opera House
P. N. Causey
Walter Royder
D. M. Broach
Wellborn
F.C. Cain
Mark Wilcox
C. L. Tabor
Kate Duff
Willie Duff
Louisiana
Steep Hollow
Tyler
Atchison Globe
M. M. Moseley
Goodie
H. W. South
C. Ae
Nobby
Webb Bros
Change Ion
Bond
Brownwood
Doc Pierce
Pierce
Alf Cogsdall
Hillsboro
Jess Watson
Osceola
Upshur County
Commercial English
Pokey
Duluth
Beauty
Hall’s Twin Sisters
Freckala
Biall’s Drue’ Store
Texas Bakery
Otto Boehme
GLOBE
Taylor & Cox
Prop’s
Julius Bogeman
Anna May Petty
Harrison Grays
Jane Marshall
Albert W. Rice
Lula Williams
Benjamin Mornon
Joe Todd
Jam Collins
Anna Riles
John Square
Perlie Giles
James Franklin Nash
Effie Lee Belcher
H. M. Yeager
Annie Maher
W. F. Terry
Virginia Hollegan
Alexis V. Birkmeyer
Louise & Mendala
Lewis Armstrong
Eula Wyatt
Austin
Farm & Ranch
F.c.cain
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