Debating race restrictions in a social club pledge
A special meeting adopted a constitution baring negroes from membership after a debate where Southern delegates argued blacks cannot share social privileges with whites. Also noting Chelsea Races accidents in Vinitia I T on Sept 6 with a horse fall injuring riders Heath and Lamar and Walter Morrison stabbed in an altercation with a showman.
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Vinitia
I. T
Chelsea
Robert Heath
Robert Lamar
Walter Morrison
Mexican Bank Declares 2 Percent Dividend
The Mexican Trust Company bank in New York declared a quarterly dividend of 2 percent from net earnings and carried forward 2 percent as undivided profit. Conditions show net earnings at 4 percent on stock since June 1, with paid in capital of 4 million dollars.
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New York
Mexican Trust Company Bank
South McAlester Se Commissioner's Handling of A Killing
In South McAlester the commissioner discharged Elwood John Yoakum on a murder charge tied to the death of a farmer found in a field. Bud Daniels Frank Daniels and Georges were arrested last week, and T. J. Truitt died during a hunting arrest. Evidence at the prelim suggests a link to the crime, though no connection to the suspects was established.
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South McAlester
Phias
Elwood
John Yoakum
Field
G—nes
Bud Daniels
Frank Daniels
Georges
T. J. Truitt
Navy Claims Victory After Harbor Duel
New R I Sept 6 two cruiser porters and three battleships of Higginson s fleet pressed Fort Adams and Wetherill fire in broadside range before forts detected them. The Brooklyn reached harbor mouth before searchlights picked it up, seen by naval men as a fleet victory.
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Navy
New R. I
Crus
Damakal Oe Higginson
Adams
Wetherill
Brooklyn
Hail Storm Ravages Letson Area Damages Crops
Guthrie Oklahoma September 6 a violent hail storm hit the Letson area causing heavy crop and stock damage Kaffir corn was threshed and seed destroyed while stalks were stripped. The storm's reach was limited to a small district.
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Guthrie
Okla
Letson
Man Shot and Killed Near Conroe. Arrest Made
A man named John Allen was shot from ambush at Arnold's Mill four miles west of Conroe and died of his wounds. Martin Chambers, colored, was arrested and jailed on a murder complaint in Conroe Texas.
Prohibition Maintains Majority in Titus County Vote
Mount Pleasant Texas September 6 In the local option election Friday a conservative estimate gives prohibition 200 majority. The twenty one precinct will go dry by vote.
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Prohibition
Titus County
Mount Pleasant
Tex
Local City Property Listings With Various Prices
Real estate notes describe several parcels near Allen Academy and a schoolhouse with prices ranging from 250 to 1250 dollars. Properties include a small cottage, tenant house, well, brick cistern, four blocks from Main Street, and lots near the railroad. Terms are advertised as easy with multiple parcels offering frontage and varying acreage.
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Main Street
Allen Academy
Strikers Prepared to End Coal Field Walkout
Miners at Elkhorn and Fiat Top fields report readiness to return to work amid a Monday start pact. About 1000 men resume duties as Norfolk and Western classifies its equipment, with train crews due since June. Mitchell confirms 700 affected in Pocahontas settlement, while Kanawha and New River districts stay firm and applicant numbers rise.
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Bramwell
Elkhorn
Fiat Top
Norfolk and Western
Ad Kanawaha
Keystone
Pennsylvania
Wilkesbarre
T LL. Lew
United Mine Workers
Virginia
Mitchell
Pocahontas
Kanawaha
New River
Fairmount
Hutchinson Nominated by Idaho Democrats for Congress
The Idaho Democratic state convention at Pocatello on Sept. 6 nominated Joseph H. Hutchinson for Congress. The platform endorses the Kansas City program, backs Bryan’s stance on McKinley’s assassination, opposes anarchy and party failures to enforce anti trust laws, condemns Fowler currency bills, supports public ownership of railroads telegraphs and telephones, and urges direct election of U S senators along with initiative referendum.
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Idaho
Pocatello
Joseph H. Hutchinson
Congress
Kansas City
W. J. Bryan
McKinley
Fowler
United States
Dewey Sues TPA Over Membership Reinstatement
In Judge Sam R. Scott's court A O Dewey sues to force the Travelers Protective Association to readmit him after his post dropped his name for refusing to sign a waiver. Dewey, who lost an eye in an accident while a member, challenged the waiver condition as a requirement for reinstatement.
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Waco, Tex
Sam R. Scott
A. O. Dewey
Travelers’ Protective Association
Thrown from a Horse Fatal to Dallas Boy
Thomas Cline aged 16 died at St Pauls Sanitarium after a horse accident near his home at 331 Oak Grove avenue. He was moved to the sanitarium where an operation was performed but he died despite physicians efforts. The incident occurred Wednesday morning.
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Dallas
Thomas Cline
St. Paul’s Sanitarium
Cline
Oak Grove Avenue
Suit Against Santa Fe for Child Death Damages
A suit filed in Dallas seeks $20,000 in damages for E. W. Williamson and wife after their child died June 6, 1902, when the child fell from a defendant abutment near Oak Cliff on the Guilt Colorado and Santa Fe Railway line.
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Santa Fe
Dallas
Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company
E. W. Williamson
Oak Cliff
Delta County farmer killed in wagon accident near Prattville
Tex Sept 6 Thomas Dial a prominent farmer of Delta county three miles southeast of Prattville was thrown from his wagon and killed while taking a load of cotton to Cooper Paris.
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Tex
Thomas Dial
Delta County
Prattville
Cooper
Paris
Steam er Bagasse Sinks at Southern Pacific Wharf
The steam vessel Bagasse of the Southern Pacific line that runs between this place and Morgan City sank at the Southern Pacific wharf getting lodged in about 30 feet of water near New Iberia Louisiana.
Farmer Bridgewater Injured in Sherman Affray
Sherman Texas Sept 6 Near here in an affray a farmer named Bridgewater received knife wounds. William Henderson another farmer posted bond before Justice Thompson.
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Sherman
Tex
Bridgewater
William Henderson
Justice Thompson
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Flite Rstaurant
C. M. Camp
Bryan
V. Telephone No
Hicks
Propneta
Henry & Brogdon
On Ory
John Wittman
Galveston
Bryan Weely Eagle
Bryan Eagle
NEW
A. L. Zinanti
Zannatti Block
Bryan Gocery Co
Madisonville
Daily Hack Service
Ss. W. Buchanan
J. W. Batts
Brazos County
Schoghene
Otto Boehme
West Virginia
Spit
Tron
Laredo
Mexican National Railroad
Cincinnati
Corpus Christi
City of
Mexico
Nabors
Bors Bros
Mississippi
Franklin Brothers
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos
Texas
Lin. Waters
Tyler Haswell
Hanway
E. Grieser
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