Ab stract Books and Brazos County land titles for sale
Office in Taliaferro building opposite the Court House Qa Phone 37. Jave in office the ONLY set of Ab stract Books of Brazos County Land Titles. FOR SALE 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. Terms reasonable.
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Taliaferro Building
Court House
Jave
Brazos County
Main Street
Nighttime assault in Laredo ends with assailant fleeing
In Laredo on September 7 Mrs. Dolores Hernandez, a widow with two children, woke to a man at her bedside. He grabbed her head and began to strike, forcing her to scream. The assailant fled through a window when illuminated by moonlight, described as a Black man.
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Laredo
Dolores Hernandez
Peculiar Mishap at Santa Fe Depot In Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City September 7 A Wells Fargo Express messenger E J Barnes is hospitalized after being shot in the head at the Santa Fe depot by fellow messenger C H Peters Peters says he was lying down and when turning over the revolver fired by accident The incident is being investigated and Barnes remains in hospital in a critical condition.
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Oklahoma City
E. J. Barnes
Wells-Fargo Express
C. H. Peters
Santa Fe
Peters
Apparent Suicide at Insane Asylum and Other Briefs
In San Antonio Emma Scratchins aged sixty is found dead in her room by a bed sheet tied around her neck. Remains are sent to San Marcos for burial. In Paris Texas a ten year old boy is crushed in a riding accident risking elbow amputation due to infection. In Tulsa sixteen year old William Dalton is arrested for killing his uncle Charles Fielder. Texarkana reports seed prices set by the National Farmers’ Union at fifteen dollars per ton for cotton seed west of the Mississippi and eighteen dollars east.
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San Antonio
Emma Scratchins
Southwestern Insane Asylum
San Marcos
Tulsa
I. T
William Dalton
Charles Fielder
Ramona
Colorado
Texarkana
National Farmers’ Union
Mississippi
Thompson Reports Suppression of Mexican Junta at St Louis
Ambassador Thompson reports to the state department that Mexican revolutionary Junta at St Louis and its Spanish language paper Regeneracion are unfounded threats. He urges action to suppress alleged insurrectionaries while noting U S press coverage exaggerates unrest in Mexico. State Dept refers to Justice for possible measures against Regeneracion publishers.
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St. Louis
Washington
Mexico
Ding
David Thompson
State Department
United States
Diaz
Thompson
Regeneracion
Department of Justice
Defrauded Hotel Keepers Expose Navy of a Stranger
New York hotel keepers report a so called smooth stranger defrauded 32 inns and private citizens in August. He sent a valedictory note to the National Hotel Keepers Association claiming intent to take his life and naming victims. The alleged aliases include Henry T. Warren Jack Warren and Dr T C Smith with tallies at Breslin Seville Bretton Hall and other properties. He is described as about thirty, 5 feet 8 inches, with a scar over the left eye. The note also names Greens Philadelphia and Hotel Stafford Baltimore among locations.
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New York
National Hotel Keepers’ Protective Association
United States
Breslin
Seville
Bretton Hall
Wayne
Detroit
Edgar A. Walz
Norfolk
Henry T. Warren
Breslin Hall
Jack” Warren
T. C. Smith
Cincinnati
John T. Hardin
Greens
Philadelphia
Stafford
Baltimore
Printing bids rejected by board. new bids sought
The Texas state printing board rejected all bids for public printing and will re advertise. Austin firms State Printing company Von Boeckman Jones Morgan Printing Austin Maverick ike of San Antonio were bidders. The board cited high bids with one firm previously lowest now 80 percent above two years ago. Sheriff Ogmun secured a governor’s requisition to extradite W B Miller held in Seguin for faree pretenses. Miller represents a Chicago casket firm. Railroad Commissioner Colquitt returned from Mineral Wells with no comment for publication.
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Austin
State Printing Board
State Printing Company
von Boeckman Jones Company
Morgan Printing Company
Austin Printing Company
Maverick-@ike company
San Antonio
John Ogmun
Canadian County
Oklahoma
el Reno
WBF
Miller
Seguin
Faree
Chicago
Colquitt
Shaw Letter Urges Local Use of Public Deposits
Secretary Shaw releases a circular to all national bank depositories urging public moneys be used in the communities where deposited and not loaned through brokers in New York for speculation. He says banks should lend at regular rates at home or return excess funds to the treasury for prompt placement where they do good.
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Washington
Shaw
New York
Tam
Four Chinese Community Leaders Vanish In Fort Worth
Fort Worth police fear a secret society at work after four prominent Chinese residents vanished, all property owners. Hong Lee, a key figure, is missing and relatives refuse to discuss the case. A county petition drives an election tied to Dallas County votes amid prohibitionsists’ cautious optimism.
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Fort Worth
Hong
Lee
Tarrant County
Dallas County
United States Buys Three Million Eagles From England
The United States purchased 3,020,000 eagles from England, adding to about 7,500,000 in gold secured from this source in the week. In Houston vandals tried to wreck the Davy Crockett train near Falls City, with a track obstruction and a $1,000 reward offered by Sap for the culprits.
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United States
London
England
Houston
Sap
Falls City
San Antonio
Wagonload of Wags
Dallas police rounded up in a saloon near the union depot a wagon load of negro vagrants at noon Friday. One man claimed he was waiting to see his sister off on the 2 o'clock train.
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Dallas
Union Depot
Favrot Defeats Robertson in Sixth District Primary
In New Orleans on September 7, George K. Favrot won the Democratic primary for Congress in the Sixth district, defeating incumbent Samuel Robertson who has served ten terms.
Permit Granted to Moline Elevator Company in Texas
Austin Sept 7 a permit to do business in Texas is granted to the Moline Elevator Company of Moline Illinois with capital of 75000 dollars Dallas is named as headquarters and the action is noted in state records.
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Austin
Texas
Moline Elevator Company
Moline, Ill
Dallas
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