Special Agricultural Seed Farms Urged for Southwest Texas
A Beeville letter from US Special Agent W W Campbell urges transforming county poor farms into seed and experiment farms to supply pure cotton seed. He proposes district experts and a nonpolitical manager guided by scientific farming, with plans to discuss a practical system.
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Austin
Milner
W. W. Campbell
Beeville
Mr. Campbell
United States
Department of Agriculture
Texas
United States Cotton
Terrible treatment shocks Bastrop in child abuse case
In Bastrop County Texas Lee Hardiman a Black man was arrested after allegedly beating his twelve year old son with a black snake whip. The boy was suspended by the wrists and whipped until unconscious with severe lacerations. He received medical care only after Hardiman was jailed and doctors fear for his recovery though prognosis is hopeful.
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Bastrop
Tex
Lee Hardiman
Doyle Colonny
Hardiman
Pecans Begin Early Harvest in Brownwood Texas
Brownwood Texas September 19 pecan harvesting has begun earlier than usual with the cause uncertain. Some cite continued drought while others note water edge trees are ready too. Most trees will be threshed before frost though not all are hulled out yet. The crop fruit is small due to late spring and dry weather affecting growth.
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Brownwood
Tex
Sunday Drinking Parties In Waco Spark Trouble
In Waco on September 19 a rise in Sunday drinking parties has followed the Baskin McGregor law. Officers are often summoned to secluded outskirts for boisterous gatherings where a keg of beer is consumed. Investigations point to beer supplied by breweries or purchased Saturday by party members and iced for Sunday.
Frank James plans move to Oklahoma farm in October
St Louis reports Frank James says he will leave for a new Oklahoma farm on October 1 and expects to die there. He dismisses rumors that Quantrell is alive, claiming to have witnessed his fall on a Kentucky battlefield and declaring the stories as nonsense.
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St. Louis
Frank James
Oklahoma
Texas firm moves 250000 gallons of oil to Dallas West
A Texas company reports shipping 250000 gallons of oil from the Tulsa field to West Dallas. The move highlights regional output and pipeline logistics.
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Dallas
Texas Company
Tulsa
West
New Era Imminent in Standard Oil Leadership
On Wall Street the belief grows that a new era in Standard Oil's leadership is beginning with younger executives taking the forefront. John D. Rockefeller Jr and William Rockefeller are seen as likely to steer through the company, while elder founders and allies such as John D. Rockefeller Sr and H. H. Rogers are expected to step back, leaving juniors to manage the business.
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Standard Oil Company
New York
Wall Street
Great Corporation
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Wm. C. Rockefeller
Urban H. Broughton
H. H Rogers
H. H. Rog
Ers, Jr
William Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
John D. Archibald
H. H. Rogers
Rockefeller Well Fixed
New York reporters note John D. Rockefeller owned more than a quarter of the old Standard Oil trust shareholdings. W. H. Teilford testified that Rockefeller held 258,854 of 972,500 trust shares in 189, and later assignments moved his proportionate interest in subsidiary stocks.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Trust
W. H. Teilford
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Tielford
Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
First Philippine hangings details reach war department
Details reach Washington of Sergeant William Taylor of Company M Twenty fourth Infantry being executed for the murder of Lieutenant Robert M Calvert after twenty years service. Taylor killed Calvert with a pistol after a debt dispute and was hanged on a scaffold built at the site of the crime following Roosevelt approval.
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Washington
Philippines
William Taylor
Twenty-fourth Infantry
War Department
Taylor
Robert M. Calvert
Calvert
Roosevelt
Tragic School Pressure Drives Boy to Self Murder
Morgantown West Virginia September 19 a twelve year old boy Andrew Stabo killed himself after his father forced him to attend school the boy read of a girl in Pittsburg who killed herself and copied the act the father Joseph Stabo then became a violent maniac attempting suicide three times and tearing himself to pieces by placing a shotgun against his body.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Andrew Stabo
Joseph Stabo
Pittsburg
Strewn with Fish Off Yucatan Coast
A Progresso Mexico dispatch reports ten miles of coast and sea off Yucatan littered with dead fish, likely from a submarine eruption. No recent quake reports from Washington, but the April 15 Gulf of Mexico border earthquake and tidal wave may have killed large quantities of fish.
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New York
Progresso
Mexico
Yucatan
Washington
Mexican
Gulf of Mexico
King Thrown From a Horse in Saxony Maneuvers
King Frederick August of Saxony was thrown from his horse near Dresden on Thursday. He sustained a number of slight injuries but remounted to resume command of the troops during maneuvers.
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Dresden
Frederick August of
Saxony
Oklahoma City Reports Slower Returns in Gubernatorial Fight
Democratic headquarters show Haskell leading with an estimated 40 000 plurality as incomplete county returns reach 86 548 in favor of the Democratic ticket. Oklahoma county remains a Republican stronghold with negative margins for Frantz and Frantz carries in several counties while Governor Frantz claims a statewide edge over Haskell.
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Oklahoma City
Thompson
Haskell
Alfalfa
Logan
Oklahoma County
Oklahoma
Garfield
Wagoner
Blaine
Sequoyah
Atoka
Beckham
Bryan
Caddo
Carter
Cherokee
Coal
Comanche
Craig
Custer
Garvin
Grady
Grant
Greer
Hughes
Jackson
Johnson
Kinefisher
Kiowa
Latimer
Cleveland
Leflore
Lincoln
Love
McClain
McCurtain
McIntosh
Marshall
Mayes
Murray
Muskogee
Nowata
Okmulgee
Osage
Payne
Pawnee
Pittsburg
Pontotoc
Pushmataha
Pottawatomie
Guthrie
Frantz
Bird McGuire
W. Eagleton
Hanver
Woman leaps to death from hospital window in Pittsburgh
Mrs. Catherine Annie Wagner, under care at Allegheny General hospital, threatened to jump and then fell seventy feet to the cement quad. She had a history of illness, including a tumor operated on earlier, and had recently regained some mobility. She lived with her stepmother at 1207 Hill Street Wilkinsburg and was a widow with no children.
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Pittsburg
Catherine Annie Wagner
Adam Forner
Allegheny General Hospital
Wagner
Prominent Alabama Judge Found Dead in Hotel Room
Judge Terry M. Richardson of Montgomery was found dead in bed at the St. Charles hotel in Laverne after being overcome by chloroform taken to ease a headache. He had traveled to Laverne to represent an attorney in a murder case. He was a well known attorney and former circuit court judge.
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M. Richardson
St. Charles
Laverne
Crowd disperses at Checotah election. one man killed
In Muskogee on Sept 19 a mob of Black residents from Bennettville I. T. followed election judges to Checotah. City Marshal Odom dispersed the crowd and killed J. C. Adams. Adams died and Odom was brought to Muskogee by the U S marshal.
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Muskogee
Bennesville
I. T
Checotah
Odom
J. C. Adams
Coyle Aims for Cotton Mill as District Totals Grow
Coyle Oklahoma residents seek a cotton mill amid a district covering Logan Payne and Lincoln counties. The area handles about five hundred thousand dollars in cotton annually, underscoring the economic case for local milling.
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Coyle
Okla
Logan, Payne
Lincoln Counties
Bride of a week drinks sarbolic acid dies
Sabetha Kansas September 19 Mrs John Callahan wife of a week drank sarbolic acid and died.
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Sabetha
Kan
John Callahan
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