Fiesta Day in Monterey and a Grim Burial Ground Sight
A Brownsville reader recalls a trip to Monterey Mexico on Fiesta Day 1905. He describes two decorated plazas, lively crowds, and a brutal bullfight ending with a matador killing the bull. He also visits a grim state‑owned burial ground where unpaid rents mean reburial, notes narrow streets and iron barred adobe houses, and ends with a hotel crowd inviting him to a fandango.
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Brownsville
Tex
Bryan Eagle
Old Monterey
Mexico
Hargraves
Monterey
Brownaville
Insurance policy sales and features from Batte & Co
Batte & Co advertises tornado, life, accident and sickness policies with benefits. It touts low rates and larger company benefits, covering farms, dwellings, stock, cotton incentives, and individual health and limb loss indemnities.
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BRIRK
LIBR
Aggidant-0our
Innocent Gambler and a Cautionary Warning in Cheyenne
A San Francisco Chronicle anecdote recalls Cheyenne’s wild gambling era with a Missouri gambler who rose $1500 ahead before being warned by hotel owner John Chase about professional players armed nearby. The piece also covers health preventive measures, scurvy cures, Siberian exile life, and the Yakutsk frozen well mystery, noting fears of human wolves, escape methods, and unexplained depths of frozen ground.
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Cheyenne
Inter Ocean
John Chase
Hoyle
Chase
San Francisco Chronicle
Samuel Turner
The Horse as a Jumper in Historical Travel Tales
A compiled note from London Answers recalls a hunter clearing a seven foot paling and a century ago Mr Bingham leaping Hyde Park walls, asserting horse jumps surpass human feats. The item shifts to Guatemala coffee labor and yield, then to general statements about talkativeness in men and women, followed by etymology of the word cigar across languages.
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Bingham
Hyde Park
London
Therein Is the Difference Meddler Quote
A Duluth Herald quotation states a meddler fails in attempt, but a meddler who succeeds becomes a hero. The saying contrasts failure with triumphant meddling and labels the successful one a hero.
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Duluth Herald
Tricksters at the Drug Counter and Chatsworth Sized Homes
A dyspeptic critic warns against asking for prescription copies at drug stores noting extra charges in some shops. The item also questions the vulgarity of oversized houses like Chatsworth and Raby, suggesting such mansions are display rooms for outdated status. Notice then schedules bids for the city of Bryan to select a bank depository, with specific terms and bid requirements.
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New York Press
Chatsworth
Raby
London
City of
Bryan
Brazos County
State of Texas
A. D
Banking Incorporation
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Old Mexico
C. A. Harris
the Eagle
Batte & Co
Insurance
Gotton
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Yakutsk
Siberia
Russian Academy of Sciences
Guatemala
Richter
Academie
Spain
S Bros. & C
Fine
Baltimore
York
Schloss Bros. & CO. of
Wagner
Brandon
Bryan, Texas
RK. H. Harrison
Mayo
C. M. Spell
Soctea
Bryan, Tex
Silas B. Johnson
Montreal
E. Rohde
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