City property sale notices mix of small town listings
J. W. Batts offers multiple parcels near Allen Academy and Main Street including a one and a quarter acre near the southeast town, a six room house with two lots, a quarter block east front by the Academy, and other city parcels. Prices range from 100 to 1250 with easy terms and nearby amenities such as a brick cistern and a well. Additional lots near the school are listed at $100 each with other city property available.
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Allen Academy
Snall
Otto Boehme
Electric irrigation plant proposed for 10000-acre rice tract
Nahl and Graybill from Houston seek to install an electric irrigation system on a 10000 acre rice land near Houston. They plan a central power plant, wells with pumps, and a rice mill operated by electric power. Estimated cost is 250000 dollars. Water is available 50 to 60 feet underground. They claim cheaper than canal irrigation and relief from dry spells.
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New Orleans
Nahl and
Graybill
Houston
Texas
Nahl
Riggins Impeachment Case Goes to Court of Appeals
Waco seeks dissolution of injunction blocking impeachment proceedings against Mayor J W Riggins. City attorney Albert Sanford argues higher courts lack jurisdiction to halt removal by charter. Court to hear arguments Friday morning. Also noted, Texas railroad mileage tables issued by Railroad Commission effective Oct 1, covering International and Great Northern and Texas and New Orleans extensions. Some railroads’ annual reports delayed. attorney general unlikely to act imminently.
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Austin
Allan D. Sanford
Waco
Court of Civil Appeals
City of
J. W. Riggins
District Courts
Railroad Commission
Texas
International
Great Northern
New Orleans
Settlement of Palestine machinists strike stalls
Palestine Texas September 23 The long awaited settlement of the machinists strike here has not materialized and little hope remains for a favorable outcome to the strikers. Some workers stay. most have left for other jobs as railroad officials insist they have plenty of competent men to run the machines while some strikers claim engines are deteriorating daily.
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Palestine
Tex
Man Eating Lion Dead
Nick Wallace the famed man eating lion died in Hobart Oklahoma on September 16. He was the oldest and largest lion ever kept in captivity and spent twenty five years in confinement traveling the United States with various circus men.
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Hobart
Okla
Nick Wallace
United States
Beaumont area rushes to rebuild after fire at Keith-Ward tract
Beaumont Texas on September 23 reports property owners racing to restore the Keith-Ward tract after a recent fire. New derricks rise over nearly every well and pumping gear is installed as fast as received. Likely some wells will begin producing within days.
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Beaumont
Tex
Keith-Ward
Three saloon men arraigned over Sunday closing law
In El Paso on September 23 three saloon men were arraigned in police court for keeping doors open on Sunday. Two were accused of selling liquor over the bar while a third simply served drinks to guests at his restaurant table. He says he has a legal right and will appeal.
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el Paso
Tex
Young at New York Taken to Police Headquarters
William Hooper Young was moved from Derby to New York after arriving at Grand Central. A 400 to 500 crowd watched as detectives escorted him from a smoker to a closed carriage. His counsel, Hart, expressed doubt about his sanity and requested a professional examination.
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New York
Derby
Conn
William Hooper Young
Grand Central Station
Young
Hughes
Findlay
Hart
William F. Hart
Roosevelt visits Logansport in brief stop
President Roosevelt arrived in Logansport Indiana at 7 15 am to a large crowd at the Wa bash station He spoke from a high school lawn and then rode to the high school while veterans and Grand Army marchers struggled to keep pace He shook hands with a few on the platform and guards kept the crowd at bay by the carriage Secret service watched closely during the stop.
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Logansport
Ind
Roosevelt
Wabash Station
Grand Army of the Republic
Vaughan
Secret Service
Boxer Chiefs Stoke Boxers to Insurrection in Shen Si
From the Orient dispatches report Li Lai Chung and Lieutenant Prince Tuan arriving at Cheng Tu ahead of an uprising. The mere presence of the leader sparked frenzied Boxer enthusiasm as insurrection intensified. Separately Siamese forces allegedly kidnap the rajah of Tulebin and the rajah of Puni to press surrender terms. Indignation runs high among Malays. In New York Wabash railroad earnings rise with net surplus and a mortgage intended to acquire the Omaha and St. Louis line.
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Tulebin
Puni
Kingdom of
Siam
New York
Wabash
O. D. Ashley
Omaha and St. Louis Railway
Cantor Sues City Street Railway Over Beard Loss
Simon Kurtz, a cantor in a synagogue, files a $10,000 damage suit against a New York street railway company claiming a fall caused him to shave his beard, hindering his ability to perform under church rules.
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New York
Simon Kurtz
Kurtz
Prize list for eighteenth National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden
The prize list for the eighteenth annual National Horse Show association exhibition at Madison Square Garden, opening the week of November 17, outlines conditions for 119 competitors, one more than last year, with total prizes of 20,000 dollars. Entries close October 25.
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New York
National Horse Show Association
Madison Square Garden
Apples Bloom On City Trees In Moom Sherman Tex
Apples around Moom Sherman Texas show a second blossom as warm moderate weather encourages vegetation. The scene reflects a thriving late bloom phase with trees in full bud and flower across the city.
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Moom
Sherman
Tex
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J. W. Batts
Haven
Brazos County
W. W. Griffin
Cook
Post Office
Bryan, Texas
San Antonio
Nabors
Nabors Bros
Bryan
Tyler Haswell
Flite Restaurant
Oystar Parlor
C. M. Camp
John Wittman
Riggin
Court of Appeals
Mrs. Pulitze
FORD
W. T. Ford
Franklin Brothers
SSC
Loganport
Aice
Shen St
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos
McConnico
General Insurance Agency
Bryan, Tex
Mutual Life of
A. D. M’connico
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