Lynching in Hillsboro Stirs Texas Legislature Debate
The issue of mob justice resurfaces as Bragg Williams, a Black man, is lynched in Hillsboro after confessing to the murder of a white woman and child. The incident, occurring amid ongoing efforts to curb lynching, highlights persistent racial violence and mob rule in the South. The piece also recalls debates on political responsibility and careful deliberation in government.
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Bragg Williams
Hillsboro
Bragg
Abolition of County Fee System Stirs State Debate
Brendan Messenger notes a proposed bill in the State legislature aiming to end the county and precinct fee system. McKinney Examiner reports Wm Wrigley buys a 1,000,000 life policy, praising advertising. Weatherford Democrat urges early potato planting in Parker County citing current moisture and February timing.
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Brendan Messenger
McKinney Examiner
Wm. Wrigley
Wrigley
Weatherford Democrat
Parker
Humorous Quips and Jokes From Old Newspapers
Short, clever satirical lines and comic exchanges from various papers. The collage includes city life contrasts and marital witticisms, with lines about gambling polish, travel slang, and light social humor. It ends noting newspapers can press clothes with damp cloths.
Worms in a Healthy Child Remedy Ad
An advertisement states that worms in children cause dull color and stomach disturbance. It promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as an enriching tonic to improve digestion and blood, claim it expels worms and restores health, priced 50 cents per bottle.
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Grove
Ford enters newspaper business with fortune in play
Henry Ford begins a newspaper venture backed by forty million dollars, facing the same strains as rivals like James J. Hill who quit the business after tough years. The piece notes the high cost of publishing, the fickle public, and warns Ford may share Hill’s fate as editors fail to move opinion. Also cited are Georgia pig clubs boosting swine value and U.S. electric service reach.
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Henry Ford
Mr. Hill
Hill
Ford
Wall
Georgia
College of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Pig Club
Four mirrors guide light in English gas headlight
The design uses four mirrors to distribute light evenly and reduce glare in a new gas headlight, an English invention. The note adds that warmth remains essential for elderly people.
Patents Granted for Tungsten Free Steel Process and Rollers
England issued patents for a process to make high speed shell without tungsten molybdenum cobalt or vanadium alloys. Steel turns pull rollers are described as produced from a single metal piece for electric lights and similar uses. A cut potato can easily be joined again.
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England
The Stroas Endure Winter Ailments In Poor Health
Fragmentary medical note details repeated talk of colds grip influenza and poor blood circulation. Phrases mention inability to withstand chills and weak heat in the body with garbled terms suggesting feverish or circulatory concerns.
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Lindsey Grogery CO
Cameron, Texas
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Terrell Publishing Company
Cameron
Texas
Thos. N. Herring
Nick Houx
Mexia Ledger
Texas Senate
United States
Morris Sheppard
Woodrow Wilson
Sheppard
Lem
Citizens National Bank
Oxsheer Smith
Pres
Ned’s
San Francisco
Argonaut
John
Jane
Johnny
London
Pearson’s
Farmer Brown
Agricultural College
Farmer Green
Boston Transcript
Detroit Free Press
Alice
Jack Potts
John Bremond
Cheek & Neal
Alaska
Hayes
Healing Honey
S. Kestenbaum
Worcesters Market
Wilkerson
Santa Fe
Wm. Strzinek
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