Local Notes from the City and Nearby Visits
City entries list numerous visitors and errands including Rev E L Shettles Calvert fresh roasting ears at Clarke & Fountains Paley Reed Hearne and Drummond Cottonwood. Local sales at Norwood's feature buckskin stockings oysters vest sale and novelty dress goods. A damage suit Williams vs H T C railroad settled for 175 dollars with grand jury adjournment noted.
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Alex Beard
Dr. Drummond
Cottonwood
Norwood
F. D. Perkins
Houston
M. L. Moore
Holmes & Wiley’s
Coaches and local figures visit Bryan as season opens
Coaches of home seeking excursionists pass through Bryan southbound on the H. and T. C. line. Norwood sells $1,000 worth of ladies walking skirts at wholesale. Millican’s Arrington reports the Fuqua crossing bridge on the Nueces river finished. Milam’s County Attorney Cham bers returns to Cameron after visiting his sister. J. Cloud of Reliance seeks votes for Norwood contest buggy. Miss Nannie Berryman opens music class at the graded school on Monday September 14. A and M football coach Platt and Captain Blake prepare for College Station games against Trinity Waxahachie and Add-Ran Waco. Captain H. H. Sargeant arrives as cadet corps commandant with wife, after vacations in California. Sargeant’s troops stationed at Ethan Allen Vermont. he served in the Spanish American and Philippine wars. He travels with a Chinese servant.
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Platt
Tom Blake
College Station
Trinity University of Waxahachie
University of Waco
Blake
H. H. Sargeant
Second Cavalry
U.S. A
Corps of Cadets
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Sargeant
California
Bryan
Ethan Allen
Vermont
Fifth Volunteer Infantry
Twenty-ninth Volunteer Infantry
Yellow fever affirmed in Nuevo Laredo
Officials confirm yellow fever cases in Nuevo Laredo Mexico after examination by Dr. Geo Tabor and colleagues. Quarantine blocks traffic between Laredo and Mexico and trains stop crossing the international bridge. About 500 residents flee toward San Antonio and Corpus Christi while Fort McIntosh tightens quarantine and city bans an opera company to avoid crowds.
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Laredo
Tex
Mexico
International Bridge
San Antonio
Corpus Christ
Fort McIntosh
Laredos
Ordered to Leave Sentences Trigger Sour Lake Alarm
In Sour Lake Texas on September 17 notices ordering black residents to depart caused widespread alarm. Hardware stores sold many pocket pistols and Winchester rifles as fearful residents sought armed protection after appeals to white allies.
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Sour Lake
Tex
Mine Workers Fares Paid at Thurber Junction
District President Hanraty of the United Mine Workers arrived with a large roll of money and paid 229 miners' fares to other points. One mine was started with a small force.
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Thurber Junction
Tex
Hanraty
United Mine Workers
Austrian surgeon Lorenz heals Dallas boy’s clubfoot
In Austin on Sept 17, Dr Lorenz, the renowned Austrian surgeon, operated on the four year old son of Mr and Mrs Hugh Carter of Dallas for clubfoot. The plaster cast was removed Monday and the foot is in its natural position, marking a perfect successful operation.
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Austin
Tex
Lorenz
Dallas
Hugh Carter
Beaumont Labor Troubles Draw to Quiet End
Beaumont Texas September 17. Labor troubles ease with Kirby Lumber workers seeking reemployment and Mexican laborers returning to the traction company. Downey and Co report not short over fifty men now.
Morey Ships Nineteen-Car cattle cargo to Cuba
Indian Territory cattleman O L Morey, headquartered in Bryan Texas, has sent nineteen carloads of cattle from Bedias Grimes County through Galveston to Cuba, marking a new shipment from the area.
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Bryan, Tex
O. L. Morey
Indian Territory
Bedias
Grimes County
Galveston
Cuba
Jury Seated in Curtis Jett Assassination Case
In Cynthiana Kentucky on September 17 the Curtis Jett assassination case proceeded with jury selection at five pm Ten jurors are Democrats and two are Republicans The indictment was read and Jett pleaded not guilty The jury was sworn and placed in the custody of Sheriff Leach before adjournment
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Cynthiana
Curtis Jett
Cockrill
Jackson
Leach
Mexican Veterans Open National Encampment in Indianapolis
The National encampment of Mexican war veterans opened in Indianapolis on Wednesday. About 150 members are in attendance. Mayor Bookwalter welcomed attendees, with response by National President H. T. Ogden of Cincinnati. Breckenridge of Kentucky addressed the gathering.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Bookwalter
H. T. Ogden
Cincinnati
Breackenridge
Kentucky
Insurgent Band Annihilated by Turks in Salonica Region
Band of 450 insurgents wiped out between Istib and Kratova by Turkish forces on September 14. A second group attacking the railroad near Demithissar was repulsed with losses.
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Salonica
Turkey
Istib
Kratova
Demithissar
Ferdinand at Sofia Arrives from Buxilograd
Ferdinand of Bulgaria reaches Sofia from Buxilograd as Prince. Professor John A. Craig is elected dean of agriculture at Texas A&M College.
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Ferdinand
Sofia
Bulgaria
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria
Buxilograd
John A. Craig
The
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
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