Opposed to Woman Suffrage Letter and Local News
Letter from Mrs. George F. Arnold opposing woman suffrage argues that enfranchisement is not supported by majority opinion and cites vote-buying and liquor issues as examples. The column includes brief local items: Martin Miller return from Santa Anna, Tillye Fridge visit, W O W possum supper, A J Bussa cancer operation, fall oats sown, cotton harvested, and potatoes sold at 50 cents per bushel.
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Bryan Eagle
Kentucky
Beardstown
Illinois
California
Martin Miller
Santa Anna
Liberty Settlement
Enjoyable Birthday for Miss Lelia Newcomb Hours
Miss Lelia Maud Newcomb hosted a gathering last Saturday from three to five for her thirteenth birthday. Friends enjoyed games including a peanut hunt with a prize for the winner, while Kodak photos captured moments and an ice cream and cake refreshment course was served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lelia Maud Newcomb
Evelyn Miller
Real Estate Transfers in Bryan List Two Property Deals
Eugene H. Edge transfers lots 10 and 11 in Powell Winters subdivision of lot 2 block 2% to Miss Bernice Carter for 450 dollars. Carter acquires lots 12 and 13 in Powell Winters subdivision of lot 3 block 3 for 400 dollars.
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Eugene H. Edge
Bernice Carter
Powell Winter
City of
Bryan
Army planes reach Waco on Fort Worth to Waco flight
Six army aeroplanes left Fort Worth at nine this morning and landed safely in Waco at 10 15. They will depart for Austin tomorrow.
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Waco
Texas
Navy
Ft. Worth
Austin
Local Visits And Appointments Highlight Week
J D Peeples Jr and Jim Baggett attended the Harrison show in Rockdale Monday night. Bryan visitors Mr and Mrs Lock McNeely and Austin visitors Mr and Mrs Watt McNeely spent Monday here last week. Rev J W Wardlaw was appointed pastor at the town's church by the Longview Methodist Conference. A McGregor family will move to Haskell Texas for positions there. J W McNeely, formerly of this city now in Haskell, visited with his daughters Mrs McGregor and Mrs Miller. Mrs J B Newton and daughter Mrs Joe Elam returned from a Houston visit with Mrs St Claire Byrnes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Peeples, Jr
Jim Baggett
Rockdale
Lock McNeely
Bryan
Watt McNeely
Austin
Longview
J. W. Wardlaw
A. McGregor
Haskell
Texas
McGregor
J. W. McNeely
Haskel
Mesdames McGregor and
Miller
J. B. Newton
Joe Elam
Houston
St. Claire Byrnes
Bryan burglar had busy night in Bryan business district
Three Bryan businesses were hit last night with small cash losses. Bell Brothers grocery $1 from a cash register, Phillip Hermer dry goods about $15, and Myers Hardware $3. Entry at Bell Brothers and Hermer's came via second story windows, hardware via a transom. Mendlevitzs store was an aborted attempt. Authorities push to catch suspects with no arrests yet.
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Bryan
Bell Brothers
Phillip Hermer
Myers Hardware Company
Bell Brothers and Hermer’s
Mendlevitzs
Local Produce Market Prices From The Farm Ledger
Local market listings show eggs at 25 cents per dozen and butter at 25 cents per pound. Heffs and turkeys priced per pound, ducks and geese per dozen, cattle and hogs by the pound, grains by the bushel, and various hays and hides by the ton or pound with specific cents values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bermuda
Denver Train Liquor Sales Halt Under Dry Law
The sale of intoxicants on all Denver and Rio Grande trains will end January 1 as Colorado becomes dry. Orders issued today apply especially to Colorado, Utah and New Mexico.
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Denver
Colo
Denver and
Rio Grande
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
Big gold shipment arrives in New York
More than fifteen million dollars in gold landed in New York to pay for British war munitions. A separate quoted fragment from Life magazine includes a family scene about a bishop visiting and a child asking to baptize a new kitten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Preas
New York
Wilson to Outline Defense Funding in Annual Message
President Wilson plans to tell Congress how to raise funds for national defense as proposed by his administration. He will set aside other work to complete the message for publication before Thanksgiving and push legislation for bigger army and navy, merchant marine, rural credits, and self government measures for the Philippines, plus treaty ratifications.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Philippines
Famous composer Leschetizky dies in Dresden at 85
London reports Theodore Leschetzy famed composer and Paderewski mentor has died in Dresden at age eighty five. His death ends a long career as pianist teacher and influence in European music.
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London
Theodore Leschetizky
Paderewski
Dresden
New Furniture Manager at E F Parks Company
Bryan welcomes Ernest Moore new head of the furniture department. Moore from Fort Worth brings years with a leading southern wholesale and retail firm. He aims to meet residents of Bryan College and nearby areas and showcase the department’s superb stock.
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Bryan
Ernest Moore
E. F. Parks Company
Moore
Fort Worth
College
American composers in concert programs reflect growing merit
The article surveys postwar music notes, highlighting American works and performers. It mentions Ysave, de Pachmann, Elsa Straha, Fritz Kreisler, and Charles Dalmores, plus Paderewski and Sousa. It notes Sousa, born in Washington, D C, and his Liberty Bell march income, plus Carpenter's Adventures in a Perambulator. It reports Leschetitzky's death at 85, marking the end of a long musical career.
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Herbert William Reed
Sterling
Mr. Dalmores
Chicago Opera
Paderewski
Mr. Sousa
John So
Sousa
Washington, D. C
Leschetizky and his famed pupils shaped piano pedagogy
The passage traces Theodor Leschetizky's lineage from father to Czerny and Bee thoven, notes his Streben as a concert pianist and long tenure at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and highlights his influential pupils including Annette Esipoff, Paderewski, Sieveking, Hambourg, Gabrilowitsch, and Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler. It also discusses his lack of a fixed method and his impact on modern music education.
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Beeethoven
Czerny
Liszt
Leschetiszky
St. Petersburg Conservatory
Annette Esipoff
Paderewsky
Leschetitsky
Sieveking
Hambourg
Gabrilowitsch
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
Leschetitzky
Bach and Handel Rise as Masters of Music
In the eighteenth century two great lights emerged in music, elevating the art above earlier works. John Sebastian Bach and George Frederick Handel stood forth as creators who brought order from chaos and defined masterful musical artistry.
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John Sebastian Bach
George Frederick Handel
Texas Foul Brood Law Circulation and Purpose
Copies of the new foul brood law, Act No. 51 of the Thirty third Legislature, are issued as circular 8 by the Texas experiment station at College Station. Beekeepers statewide are urged to obtain copies or request them from the director if not mailed, to aid early detection and stamping out of foul brood for the benefit of the industry.
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College Station
Texas Experiment Station
F. B. Paddock
State Beekeepers’ Association
Texas
Beekeepers Appointed Inspector Coordination Encouraged
The county beekeepers association selects the inspector as part of a statewide push. State entomologist endorses county organization before foul brood eradication begins and urges counties without active inspection to arrange an inspector. Interested parties should contact F. B. Paddock at College Station Texas.
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Spector
County
Beekeepers’ Association
F. B. Paddock
College Station
Texas
How to Teach Children Obedience
In December Woman's Home Companion Caroline French Benton argues that parental obedience shapes character and citizenship. She warns against harsh autocracy, urging guidance to help a child develop will through support, not control, with obedience framed as a temporary means toward lasting right conduct.
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Caroline French Benton
Mitchell County Land Exchange Proposed for Fine Climate Crops
J. Webb Howell proposes exchanging 72 percent acres in Mitchell County citing favorable climate for large crop yields. The plan aims to optimize arable land use and boost agricultural output.
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Mitchell County
J. Webb Howell
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Carl Czerny
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Egypt
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