Christmas Party Honors Mrs. Buchanan At Bryan Home
Mrs. M. W. Sims Sr hosted a Christmas gathering for friends to honor Mrs. Albert J. Buchanan, praising her as a news writer and friend. The event included gifts, toasts, and festive decorations in the Sims residence.
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Bart Sims
M. W. Sims Sr
Albert J. Buchanan
Mrs. Sims
Albert Buchanan
Webb Howell
McInnis
Buchanan
W. S. Wilson
Sims
Texas Babies Birth Report Counts Twins and Triplets
For the two years ending September 1, 1914, Texas saw 106162 births with 64 sets of twins and 10 sets of triplets. Among twins 870 were white and 74 colored, while of triplets eight sets were white and two colored. White births totaled 95879 and black 8426.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Texas
R. P. Babcock
Registrar of Vital Statistics
Death toll tally totals 51,158 for two years
The report records 51,158 total deaths across the two years. It notes the figure as the combined mortality total from the period, reflecting overall loss across the studied interval.
Midnight Service At St Andrews Church
The St Andrew's choir will sing a full choral Eucharist tonight at 12 o'clock in honor of the King of Kings. Despite the inclement weather a large attendance is hoped as the service begins promptly at midnight.
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St. Andrew's Choir
Woman Returns Borrowed Twain Volume for Humor Found
A woman returned a borrowed Mark Twain book after discovering its humor. The incident highlights the appeal of Twain's wit and readers’ reactions to classic literature.
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Mark Twain
Santa Claus Visits Oak Grove School Christmas Program
Santa Claus braved bad weather at Oak Grove School for a Christmas program. Students performed recitations and dialogues including The Story of Christmas and Silent Night. Afterward gifts from the decorated tree were distributed to children amid praise for a successful event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Oak Grove
Gordon Weaver
Lula Lowry
Charles Garner
Mary Milberger
Joe de Mottier
Frank Stelza
Topsy Turvy
Lee Milberger
Walter Tucker
Sam de Mottier
Fred Manly
Henry Weaver
Manuel Rodriguez
Eula Watson
Mae Tucker
Gracie Lowry
Rabb Declares Mexico Story fabrication
Collector Rabb wired Senator Sheppard at Brownsville and denied a sensational Mexico City report about a Texas syndicate aiming to install Blanco as President of Mexico. He said the tale is a fabrication, insists he never meddled in Mexican politics and knows nothing of the alleged move.
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Washington
Rabb
Sheppard
Brownsvile
Mexico City
Blanco
Mexico
Grasshopper plague prevention urged by Texas entomologist
State entomologist Wi mon Newell warns farmers to plow fields roads ditch banks and turn rows in fall and winter to disrupt grasshopper eggs and destroy wire worms and grub worms. Preventive plowing aims to curb next spring hoppers before they hatch and damage cotton or corn.
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College Station
Tex
Wimon Newell
Texas
Nut Culture Correspondence Course Offered in Texas
I. E. Cowart of the department of horticulture at Texas A&M has made a correspondence course in nut culture available through the college. Based on Cowart and F. N. Hensel’s work on pecans chestnuts and hickoria nuts, the course will use lectures from personal study rather than a textbook. Address the secretary of correspondence courses at College Station Texas to enroll.
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Texas
Cowart
Department of Horticulture
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
College Station
Price of Wheat Fixed at Sydney
El Paso dispatch reports arrivals from Mexico City with tales of executions in the penitentiary and street shootings. Mexicans refuse quotation. Partisans of Villa and Zapata fear a split among leaders. Rumor ties one executed man to Colonel Rudolfo Fierro of Villa's staff.
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Associated Press
el Paso
Tex
Mexico City
Villa
Zapata
Rudolfo Fierro
Buchanan Named Asst to Harris County District Attorney
Frank Buchanan, formerly of the city, joins Judge John H. Crocker as head of the investigating department in Harris County. He came to Houston in 1911 and served nineteen months on the Houston Post before shifting to criminal clerkship and law study.
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Houston
John H. Crocker
Harris County
Frank Buchnan
Young Buchanan
Houston Post
Judge Crocker
T J Sawyer Dead Steep Hollow Local Citizen
Brazos County resident T J Sawyer died at his Steep Hollow home at 9 30 am after years of poor health. Aged about 69, he came to Texas in 1870 from Alabama and was a longtime Baptist church member. Survived by a devoted wife, his funeral was led by Rev J M Bullock at Steep Hollow Baptist Church and interment followed in Bethel cemetery.
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First Baptist Church
M. E. Weaver
Millican
Florine Batte
Mary Oliver Roberts
Millican School
Aaron Hall
Mendelssohn
Adelle Hall
Pansy Hall
Jesse Conlee
Freddie Herrling
Anna Liese Bottler
Houston
Kurten Herrling
Alice Pearl Adams
Fannie Cross
Johnnie Koppe
T. P. Hall
Steep Hollow
Gordon & Sewall
Tom Sawyer
Brazos County
Mr. Sawyer
Texas
Alabama
Baptist Church
West Texas
Sawyer
J. M. Bullock
Steep Hollow Baptist Church
Old Bethel Cemetery
Filipino Uprising Suppressed in Philippines by Christmas Eve
Eight Filipinos arrested in Manila on sedition charges as authorities report a planned nationwide uprising organized from Hong Kong by Artemio Ricarto. Uprisings with minor violence noted in provinces. Washington says the revolt not seen as serious.
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Philippines
Manila
Caloocan
Artemio Ricarto
Hong Kong
Bethlehem Yearned For Light in Christ’s Nativity
The poem reflects on Bethlehem’s ancient night of Christ’s birth, contrasting sacred awe with later human blame and sin. It recalls the holy star, shepherds, and angels, and laments darkened hearts yet ends with praise that Christ’s name echoes worldwide. Written as a devotional poem from Oklahoma City.
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Bethlehem
Judah
Shepherd's Peaceful
Christ
Earth
Oklahoma City
St. Luke's Church
Public Utilities Office To Close For Christmas
The Eagle announces that the city water and light departments will close on Christmas Day under chief clerk G. P. Bittle. Urgent matters may be handled by A. S. Adams at phone 353. Banks post office and stores will close as on legal holidays.
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Public Utilities Office
Eagle
Water and Light Departments
G. P. Bittle
A. S. Adams
Coke Ovens Relighted in Connellsville District
In Connellsville Pennsylvania 1200 coke ovens were relighted today signaling improved steel trade conditions. Officials say more ovens will open next week as activity resumes. The note adds a caution about individuals focusing on national control rather than personal affairs.
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Associated Press
Connellsville
The Daily Eagle Will Appear Tomorrow
The Eagle will appear tomorrow afternoon on time as usual. This holiday note extends Christmas greetings to all readers.
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Eagle
Daily Eagle
Labor News And Notes In Australian Daily Paper
Reports from Sydney that LABOR NEWS AND NOTES will publish a daily labor newspaper. Data on global and regional labor activity include US coal output per capita, German baking apprentices, Great Lakes ore traffic, and Russia irrigation in the Caucasus. Egypt farmers have produced a brown cotton variety.
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Sydney
Australia
United States
Great Lakes
Russia
Caucasus
Egypt
Open air Britain school aims to be a tiny colony
Birley House School in England plans an open air setting where pupils take on productive roles on school grounds. In the U S forest service buys motorcycles for Black Hills fire fighting use with two person capacity and on site readiness at Custer and Deadwood. In Omaha the Typographical Union pushes a state printing office while Chicago labor leaders debate funerals and adopt a resolution for onion coffin burials.
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Birley House
England
Forest Service
Black Hills
South Dakota
Custer
Deadwood
Typographical Union of
Omaha
Neb
Chicago Federation of Labor
Wellborn News Items Highlight Local School and Christmas Plans
The community praises Miss Addie Clark and her pupils after a well attended program despite bad weather. The public school resumes January 4 after holidays. several students from A. and M. College return home for Christmas. Trustees, teachers, and patrons plan celebrations at First Baptist Church and Buckner Orphans Home donations.
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Addie Clark
Miss Clark
Douglass Royder
Edell Royder
Abram Hensarling
Andrew Cothran
A. & M. College
Adams
Douglas Royder
Cooper Carll
Vivian Boyder
Bryan
Houston
M. Blair Autry
Corsicana
Jacksonville
Wellborn
Santa Claus
First Baptist Church
Union Sunday School
Buckner
J. P. Boyder
Railroad Notes Reveal Global and Local Transport Facts
Aberdeen shipyards employ 2,500 men. The French Indo Chinese railway uses metal sleepers. Redwood sleepers cost 1.20 in China. Western Australia owns 3,150 miles of rail with 600 under construction. Danville New Jersey car shops cost 850,000 with a hospital and four beds. Chinese eggs and parcel post pay rates are noted for U S markets and railroads.
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Indo-China
California
China
Western Australia
Danville
United States
Far West
Japan Trades Heavy Guns to Russia
Washington reports that Russia cedes half of Sakhalin Island to Japan in exchange for heavy guns. The island’s southern half was won by Japan during the Russo Japanese War, altering the control of the territory.
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Associated Press
Washington
Russia
Japan
Sakhalin
Lives Lost in Arizona Floods Reported
Tucson reports several deaths from heavy rains and floods across the region with ongoing rescue efforts and weather advisories in effect.
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Arizona
Associated Press
Tucson
Ariz
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T. J. Sawyer
State Department
Robert E. Goodrich
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Aberdeen
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