Abstract books and property sale ad in Brazos County
J. W. Batt s office in Taliaferro building opposite the Court House. Q F phone 37. Located in office the only set of abstract books of Brazos County land titles. Five room house and two lots on east side of town two blocks from Main Street in good neighborhood. Improvements in good repair. Price for a few days only 1100 dollars. Terms reasonable.
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Taliaferro Building
Court House
Yave
Brazos County
Main Street
Death by own action shocks Loutaville firm head
Harry B. Pine, head of Harry B. Pine & Co. machine manufacturers, committed suicide at his home in Loutaville. After a failed pistol attempt he cut his throat with a razor and worsened the wound with his fingers, witnessed by his wife and others. Kidney trouble and insomnia were cited as health factors. his father resides at Hot Springs.
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Loutaville
Harry B. Pine
Harry B. Pine & Co
Hot Springs
Taft Speaks in Bath Maine as Roosevelt’s Probable Successor
Secretary of War Taft addressed a Maine campaign audience in Bath on Wednesday night. Harold F. Sewell, former U S consul to Hawaii and Taft’s host, introduced him and called Taft the probable successor of President Roosevelt, drawing an enthusiastic reception.
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Roosevelt
Bath
Taft
Maine
Harold F. Sewell
United States
Hawaii
Sewall
Forty to One Killalos Wins Great Filley Stakes
The surprise of the year arose at Sheepshead Bay in the Great Filley Stakes for three-year-olds. Killalos, a 40 to 1 shot, defeated the Keene entry Court Dress at six furlongs, with odds of 1 to 10 against the runner-up.
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New York
Sheepshead Bay
Killalos
Keene
Court Dress
Temporary injunction halts roping contest in Oklahoma City
Judge Burwell grants a temporary injunction at Oklahoma City on request of the Humane Society to stop the roping contest planned for the national Hoo-Hoo meeting on Sept 8. Cruelty cited as reason. Injunction hearing set for Saturday.
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Oklahoma City
Burwell
Oklahoma
City
The
Humane Society
Eliza Fairchild Wheeler Dies at 101 in Easton
Mrs Eliza beth Fairchild Wheeler mother of Yale University professor A M Wheeler died in Easton Conn at age 101 She reached a ripe old age and is mourned by family and friends in the community.
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Easton
Conn
Elizabeth Fairchild Wheeler
A. M. Wheeler
Yale University
Bryan returns to Lincoln with heartfelt hometown welcome
W J Bryan arrives at Burlington depot to a massive, nonpartisan homecoming in Lincoln. Crowds line streets, flags fly, and Mayor Brown, Governor Mickey join the greeting before Bryan's Capitol speech and a fireworks finale.
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Lincoln
W. J. Bryan
Bryan
Burlington
Mr. Bryan
Mickey
Brown
John E. Miller
Lincoln Commercial Club
M. D. Welch
J. E. Miller
Charles W. Bryan
State Capital
Capitol Grounds
United States
Democrats of New York Hold Impor tant Meetings at Albany
Two Democratic conferences convened in Albany. One centered on Jerome of Greater New York and aimed to block Hearst’s nomination at Buffalo. The other gathered radical Democrats endorsing Sulzer and criticizing Hearst. adjournment set for September 25 before the state convention.
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New York
Albany
Jerome
Greater
Buffalo
W. R. Hearst
Hearst
Sulzer
Fall was short neck of little girl dies after fall
Natchez city report describes Concerto Pagano aged four dying after losing grip while hanging by hands on a board thirty inches above a sidewalk. She fell across the gutter, struck her head on the curb, and died minutes later without uttering a sound. New Orleans and Northern Midland railroad chartered with 6 million capital to connect to the Ohio River and join the Big Four.
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Natchez
Iss
Concerto Pagano
New Orleans
New Orleans and Northern Midland Railroad
Ohio River
Cannon Attacks Gompers Over Labor Demands in Lewiston
Speaker Joseph G Cannon denounces Samuel Gompers for pressing anti injunction labor laws and for demanding Congress enact his will. He praises the AFL yet warns against political proscription and bossism while defending lawmakers who refuse to break their oaths.
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Lewiston
Joseph G. Cannon
Gompera
American Federation of Labor
Representative Littlefield
Gompers
Congress
Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Mr. Gompers
Canal Zone
Confederate Flag Sparked Tense Moment at Ohio Reunion
Colonel Horace Welch of Jefferson Texas traveled 2000 miles to attend the Fourth Ohio volunteer regiment reunion in Columbus. He waved a Confederate flag before about fifty Union veterans prompting cries of Shoot it and Fire on the flag as he displayed resolutions from General Dick Taylor camp United Confederate Veterans. No action was taken on the resolutions.
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Columbus
Ser
Horace Welch
Jefferson
Tex
Ohio Volunteer
Memorial Hall
Welch
Dick Taylor
United Confederate Veterans of Jefferson
Texas
Girl Seized Nighttime Abduction Foiled Near Cooper
In Paris Texas on September 6 a 14 year old girl, Len Hargrove, steps from her home for water when an unknown man grabs her arm and covers her mouth. She screams, the abductor flees fearing discovery. The incident occurred two miles north of Cooper.
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Paris
Tex
Len Hargrove
Cooper
Deplorable Affair Claims Life On City Hall Square
Waco Texas Sept 6 Honea and his father walked together when the son was instantly killed by a pistol shot the bullet piercing the boy's brain The man who fired the shot surrendered to the sheriff Police say the shooting may have been accidental and the shooter turned himself in to authorities
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Waco
Vaco Honea
J. P. Honea
Committees Appointed as Cotton Yield Declared Down
Texarkana September 6. About fifteen committees were appointed at the opening session of the National Farmers Educational and Cooperative union with 300 delegates present. Excessive rains and insects are said to have cut down cotton yields by 20 percent. By unanimous vote 11 cents was reaffirmed as the minimum price for middling cotton at interior points.
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Texarkana
National Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union
Terrible Mistake Shoots at Mexicans Killing Child
In New Ulm Texas on September 6 a man named Morris Rifacer fired a shotgun at Mexican cotton pickers seeking shelter on his porch during rain at about 3 am. A child was killed and a man wounded. no reply was given when he asked who was there.
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New Ulm
Tex
Morris Rifacer
Rifacer
Ear Sewed Back After Wreck Injury
Stroud Oklahoma Sept 6 in a wreck Aug 4 Frank Snodgrass a railroad man lost an ear. He picked it up and held it until a surgeon arrived. The ear was sewn back and is growing together nicely.
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Stroud
Okla
Frank Snodgrass
Tulsa Secures 8000 Retort Smelter and Zinc Mill
Tulsa Oklahoma Evening News reports the city has secured an 8,000 retort smelter and a zinc rolling mill costing about 1 million dollars. The project will create around 1,000 jobs and is backed by eastern capital.
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Tulsa
I. T
Eastern Capital
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R. K. Chatham
Cox Place
J. W. Batts
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Chester
Mich
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Monroe
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MNO
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Thromg
Ogee
Cannon
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Wilson Grain & Coal CO
Ford's Saloon
San Francisco
Heath & Milligan Paints
Heath & Milligan
Garth, Howell & Webb
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Hasweun’s Book Store
Big Smelter
John Wittman
W. C. Fountain
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