Jones Prairie News Roundup and Local Notes
Local column from Jones Prairie reports on community life including marriage and parties, business moves by Flinn & Reid, and the Kemp goods sale. It notes Will Yates and smiths prosper, a jail for gamblers, and town events at Ed Flinn's. Sam Jones comments on Texas politics and the poll tax affecting liquor gangs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Reid
Paris
Flinn & Reid
Kemp Boys
Yarrellton
Joe Reid
North
Texas
Ed. Flinn’s
Flinn
Little River Church
Bro. Henderson F
the Prairie
Will Yates
Smith
Solarksmith
Will Cargill
W. B. Carver
Cameron
Ed. Flinn
Sam Jones
The Turk Feels the Postoffice Fear Abroad
The Outlook notes European post offices operate in Turkish cities with European staff and stamps. In Salonica five offices exist, six in Constantinople, and mail routing demands caution. Turks avoid telephones and electricity due to fears of dynamo and dynamite, leaving Turkish services poorly run.
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Salonica
Constantinople
Turkey
Arizona's Unique Clifton Jail Hewn From Quartz Rock
Clifton Arizona houses a unique Graham county jail carved from solid quartz on a hillside. It has four large quartz rooms, a boxlike masonry vestibule, and triple steel gates. Desperate criminals, including Black Jack, have been confined there with walls fifteen feet thick. Clifton, a copper mining camp, is famed for depravity and extreme temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Graham County
Clifton
A. J
Black Jack
Philanthropist Builds National History Monuments Abroad
West Chester financier John G. Taylor, a retired banker, spends his fortune erecting monuments in Brandywine cemetery honoring prominent national figures. He has spent $100,000 and ordered an Italian monument to Wells and McComas, who killed General Ross during the War of 1812.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G. Taylor
West Chester
Brandywine Cemetery
Italy
Wells and McComas
General Ross
Washington
Padlocks Worn as Necklaces by Indian Tribes
Iron padlocks from South Staffordshire flow to India where tribes use them as door fastenings and ornaments. Cheap cast padlocks, colored red or brown, were sold primarily for adornment rather than function, forming necklace-like strands among African women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staffordshire
England
India
Statue of Cecil Rhodes by John Tweed Unveiled in Kimberley
Sculptor John Tweed has finished a more than life size bust of Cecil Rhodes for erection in Kimberley. The piece, displayed in an exhibition in London, shows Rhodes mid speech with his right foot forward and hands clasped behind him, head tilted in a characteristic pose.
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John Tweed
Cecil Rhodes
Kimberley
London
Mr. Rhodes
Swansea woman Dillwyn balances novels and industry
A versatile English woman, Miss Dillwyn of Swansea, has written successful novels, served as reviewer, acted as farm bailiff, and become partner in a thriving smelter business. She walks three miles to work, stays until five each evening, and chairs both the hospital and school board committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Swansea
Miss Dillwyn
Evning
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Belton Street
J. D. Hefley
Depot Street
Hefeley
Jones Prairie
Drury
Dick Jones
Ness
Anp
WIM
Suresd
Atvivar
Udtiom
Joy
Ase Samady
Seak Ysay
Yiwep Jaye Ajoye
Suresg
Pybjomm
Rhodes
Lesovsky &Krizay
Our Grocery
G. H. McGehee
Asovsky & Kral
Camer Texas
Rts
H. Y
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