Bryan Tex October 27 1909 News Briefs Chronicle and Devlopments
The Houston Chronicle issues a 112 page convenir edition earning praise for Houston and the Chronicle. Governor Lanham may call an extra session to address evils from the regular session. Del Rio rises in prominence as St. Louis parties acquire $750000 of irrigable land nearby. Sugar cane shipments total 150 carloads. Irrigation drives regional growth and improved roads and bridges could boost Grimes County oil trade through Bryan.
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Lanham
Palestine Herald
Grimes County
Bryan
New Professors Join Faculty With Varied Specialties
The paper notes several new instructors joining the staff. A. A. Haskell becomes associate professor of industrial chemistry, coming from NC A and M after resigning an organic chemistry post. W. C. Nelson joins as drawing instructor, and D. B. Earle as carding and spinning instructor.
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A. A. Haskell
W. C. Nelson
D. &. Earle
Haskell
Agricultural and Mechanical College of North Carolina
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J. Nelson
Assachusetts Normal Art School
Chelsea
Howard Seminary
Toexas
Earle
South
Textile engineers pursue careers after training
The group attended Ridge Spring Academy and Furman University then taught at Fairfax High School before Clemson College graduation in textile engineering. They spent six months traveling for a machinery firm, then became foreman at a Central South Carolina cotton mill before returning to teach carding and spinning at the local textile school.
Dr T C Bittle Dies Suddenly at A and M College
Dr T C Bittle longtime professor of languages and Episcopal chaplain at A and M College died suddenly of heart failure at his campus home yesterday evening. He had been in his classroom that morning and fell ill in the afternoon despite medical attention. The community of College and Bryan is shocked. Funeral arrangements were not announced.
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T. C. Bittle
A. and M. College
College
Bryan
Bittle
Business League Plans Water Project At City Hall
The Business League met at Carnegie Hall with President Saunders presiding and Secretary Law at the desk. A committee including J. T. Maloney J. H. Webb and T. R. Butte was appointed to work with the city council to secure an artesian well for Bryan if possible or otherwise a deep well and permanent water supply. W. S. Howell and Malcolm Carnes were noted in attendance.
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The
Business League
Carnegie Hall
Saunders
Law
J.T. Maloney
J. H. Webb
T. R. Butte
Bryan
W. S. Howell
Malcolm Carnes
Texas football team departs on autumn tour to Nashville and Oklahoma
The University of Texas football squad leaves on its annual trip with 18 players plus manager and coach in a sleeper. They head to Nashville to meet Vanderbilt on Saturday November 1. Upcoming games include Arkansas at Litrock and Oklahoma at Oklahoma City on November 3.
Robbery reports from Dallas and Paris TX
Miss Jennie Wakefield visiting Oakland California was robbed of jewelry valued at 300 dollars. In Paris Texas a thief on a busy Texas and Pacific platform snatched a diamond from L. C. Stiles’s shirt.
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Dallas
Jennie Wakefield
Oakland
Cal
Paris
Tex
Texas and Pacific Railway
L. C. Stiles
Assault at Atlanta Woman Attacked as Bloodhounds Track
A white woman was criminally assaulted in Atlanta at 10 o clock Thursday morning by a black man who escaped. Bloodhounds pursued the trail. In New York Mutual Life Insurance president McCurdy says a committee was appointed to investigate the corporation s methods.
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Atlanta
Mutual
New York
McCurdy
Mutual Life Insurance Curdy
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Tulsa Baptists plan $15000 church erection
Tulsa Oklahoma brief notes include Baptists will build a church costing fifteen thousand dollars and other regional items such as a detention camp abolition near Denison and shifts in rail and commerce across the territory.
League appoints resolution committee for Brazos river progress
A league formed a committee to prepare resolutions approving its work on Brazos river improvement to secure navigation. W E Saunders F M Law Ed Hall J Webb Howell A M Wal drop Dr J L Fountain Tyler Haswell J T Maloney and Dr W A Lawrence elected a board of directors, with the first two ex officio. Next meeting in November marks the fifth anniversary. a special rally and a roasting meeting are planned. Adjourned.
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League
Brazos River
W. E. Saunders
F. M. Law
Ed Hall
J. Webb Howell
A.M. Waldrop
J. L. Fountain
Tyler Haswell
J.T. Maloney
W.A. Lawrence
Bryan City seeks depository proposals from Brazos bankers
The Bryan city council invites sealed proposals from banks associations or individuals in Brazos County Texas to act as city depository. Proposals must include interest rates for funds from bid date to the next regular depositor selection after the April 1906 city election. Highest rate wins. council may reject all. A certified check of at least 0.5 percent of 1904 city revenue accompanies each bid. city officials sign. Bryan Texas October 13 1905.
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A. D
City of
Bryan
Brazos County
State of Texas
Banking Incorporation
H. Harrison
C.m. Spell
Tex
Colquitt Denies Claim Of Quasi Judicial Commission
In a lengthy communication Austin October 26 Railroad Commissioner Colquitt refutes reports that a railroad attorney said he disqualified himself from a lumber rate hearing because of preformed opinions. He states he does not believe the railroad commission is a quasi judicial body and that it lacks any judicial function the legislature cannot perform.
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Austin
Colquitt
Fatal dispute ends in doctor shot and killed in Paris saloon
Dr John Richardson a Ben Franklin resident, visiting for a circus, was shot in a Finley and McQueen dispute over a restaurant bill. McQueen an attache, about thirty five, was jailed. Richardson, about forty five, left a family and local standing. Separate arrest notes mention another Oklahoma killing case.
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Doctor Richardson
Paris
John R. Richardson
Ben Franklin
Delta County
Finley
Richardson
W. J. McQueen
McQueen
Alabama
Land listings near Bryan offer various farms and homes
Abstract Company advertises 10 acres on town south side under fence at $150 and 400 acres on Brazos river 8 miles from Bryan with 120 acres cultivation and 260 acres woodland priced at $12.50 per acre. Additional parcels include 111 acres north of Bryan priced $16 per acre with improvements, 153% acres on the mail route 15 miles north with home and pasture valued at $10 per acre, 50 acres north of Bryan at $640, 242 acres 8 miles from Bryan with 120 cultivated acres and 9 room residence at $10 per acre, 274 acres 12 miles northeast of Bryan at $5 per acre with residence nearby, and a five room house with two acres at $1300.
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Town
Brazos River
Bryan
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Bryan, Texas
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OUR
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Progressive Druggists
Lowney’s Chocolates
Hunter & Chatham
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A. W. Wilkerson
Tulsa
I. T
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Washington
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Forrest
Weleetka
I. T.) Bank and Trust Company
Capital Stock
Indian Territory
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Washington Post
Brownsville
John Erwine
Mann
Kaw. City
Okla
Chickasha
James’ Drug Store
A. L. Mondrick, M. D
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Chaney Bros
Blanke
HIGGS
McCullogh
Thos. W. Higgs
First National Bank
Corsicana
J. W. Howell
Guy M. Bryan, Jr
H. C. Boatwright
L. L. Mginnts
J. W. Batts
Taliaferro Building
Oposite Court House
Sch House
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