Balloon Man in Town Brings Up Bryan Exhibition
J F Baldwin an experienced aeronaut arrives with wife and daughter to perform daily at the Central Texas fair. He has 14 years of ascent work and 963 ascensions, skylines at 8000 feet, parachute drops from 4000 feet, and war ballooning service near Santiago. He also stages snow effects and explosive shells heard 87 miles away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. FE. Baldwin
Bryan
Baldwin
San Antonio Fair
Lewiston
Idaho
Snake River
Mr. Baldwin
Santiago
Cuba
Notice to Ladies Exposition at Central Texas Fair
The Textile Work committee urges all Bryan area ladies to show their work at the fair. Exhibits cost nothing to enter and names are not attached to the work. Superintendents will supervise during the day and items will be locked and guarded at night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Textile Work Committee
Bryan
Isle of Man Tax System Overview in London Standard
The passage notes Isle of Man taxes with no income tax or estate duties and describes road funding from wheel tax and resident levy. It contrasts stamp use with postal stamps and includes a humor exchange on spelling psychic versus psychological.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isle of Man
London Standard
Why Care If the Baby Is Healthy? Muggins Not Handsome
A humorous quip from London Tit Bits about a man named Muggins asking if his newborn resembles him and his request to break the news gently to his wife. The Central Texas Fair Culinary Committee asks Bryan ladies to contribute displays, inviting names to Mrs Albert Buchanan and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muggins
London
Central Texas Fair
Bryan
Vicinity
Albert Buchanan
J. J. Adams
W. E. Saunders
J. W. Coulter
Insurgent losses and pacification efforts delay in Panay Cebu Samar
Manila reports 25 insurgents killed and three captured near Pas-i, Iloilo, with arms seized. Lorega surrenders with rifle cache as General Hughes negotiates Maxilot’s surrender. Samar actions include hunger-driven unrest, Balangiga orders to surrender by Nov 6, and naval patrols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Passi
Iloilo
Panay
Hughes
Cebu
Lorega
Maxilot
Samar
Catbalogan
Smith
Loveman Noa
Mariveles
Nipa-Nipa
South Samar
J. van Schaick
Sabang
van Schaick
Feud extends into Sabine area over Wall killings
Reports from Nacogdoches to San Augustine detail a crowd of about 40 men in Tebo vowing to hunt down Wall enemies after Eugene Wall and later Pez Wall were killed by unknown assailants. Shelby County sheriff offers help to curb violence as the case remains unsolved.
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Nacogdoches
Tex
San Augustine
Wall
Eugene Wall
Pez
Tebo
Sabine
Hemphill Road
Walls
Shelby County
Notable incidents and deaths ripple through the nation
Reports from across the United States include a $3400 Pan-American exhibit win in Buffalo, life sentence for Caleb Powers in Kentucky murder, a Berea burglary loot, a German Lutheran pastor's suicide in Alabama, a Madison assault over a farm sale, North Carolina's Josiah Turner death at 90, a serial poisoning attempt near Stroud Oklahoma Territory, a yellow fever outbreak in Yukon, a fatal saloon fight near Middlesboro Kentucky, Cuba’s 1901 customs receipts of $11,584,837, a fatal train wagon crash in Oakland Wisconsin, civic deaths in Milwaukee and Colorado Springs, union leadership in Chicago, and the New Orleans streetcar strike ending.
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Buffalo
Caleb Powers
Georgetown
William Goebel
Berea
Otto P. Lenk
Cullman
Ala
Earward
W. Collier
Madison
Josiah Turner
North Carolina
Hillsboro
Abraham Forbes
Stroud
O. T
Yuca
Tennessee Line
Middlesboro
George Mayes
Joe Nail
Cuba
Oakland
Wis
A. L. Lawton
Colorado Springs
Col
Milwaukee
W. H. Jackson
Chicago
Electrical Union
New Orleans
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Wales
Wilson-Jenkins Drug Company
the Daily Eagle
Ay Connelly
Penner
Wright
Powell's
Sarah Bernhardt
Powell
Oka
MR. A. M. Powell
New York
America
France
Munsey's Magazine
Emmet’s Prescription Pharmacy
Philippine Wews
State Department
Miss Stone
Paris
Bud Guthrie
South Main Street
Gib Durrell
Texas and Pacific and
Santa Fe
San Antonio
August Schroeder
New Braunsfels
Cief Texas News
Texas
Terrell Tex
Roscoe
L. J. Guynes
W. J. Hume
Waco
John Brown
Houston
J. H. Reagan
Palestine
BE. A. McDowell
Gatesville
Congress
California
Scott Bruce
White Mound
Grayson County
Simic
Auburn Prison
A. D. KcConnico
ACME
John “Ot Mann
Bryan and Vacinity
Kline, Kohn & Co
C. M. Proctor
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos. W
Warden J
Warren Meade
E. Grieser
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