Wheat and Cotton Exports From Galveston Saturday
Six steamships left Galveston port carrying cotton and foodstuffs totaling about two million dollars. Cotton reached 24,900 bales valued at 944,407 dollars, and wheat 322,000 bushels worth 519,300 dollars. Transatlantic cargoes included Livonia to Aalborg and Copenhagen and Decide to Gothenburg with extensive cotton and wheat shipments.
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Galveston
Texas
Livonia
Aalborg
Copenhagen
Decide
Gothenburg
Millicent Knigh
Naples
Gloria de Larrinaga
Manchester
First Law Suit in the Field Filed Last Week
Attorney E A Camp files in Milam county district court for client John McRight of Taylor against S M Lipscomb of Rockdale and associates. McRight seeks his share of oil land leases valued at 75 000 with 15 000 already sold for cash and an undivided one sixth interest in the entire syndicate.
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Rockdale
Texas
E. A. Camp
District Court
Milam County
John McRight
Taylor
S. M. Lipscomb
Taylor Associates
Thrall
McRight
Lipscomb
Farmers Rally to Plant Corn as Cotton Talk Emerges
Jones Prairie notes a week of fine weather boosts corn planting with talk of cotton. Tarver Grove hosts boys and girls basketball with Tarver Grove girls defeating Branchville 27 to 8 and a Woman Suffrage debate won by the Sufferagetts. Local visits and social events fill the weekend.
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Bro. Spradley
Brock
Walkers Creek
Sam Hickman
Fontaine
Eva Flinn
Cameron
Jamison
Rice
Tarver Grove
Branchville
J. A. Rice
Alvin Wilburn
C. 5
Cameron History Club Reviews Texas History
The Cameron History Club met Thursday afternoon with Miss Arriett. A program covered bits of written and unwritten Texas history a review of the Texas Constitution by Miss Wilson and a paper on Cameron since the Civil War by Mrs. T S Henderson. The club voted to study Texas history next year and notes the departure of Miss Viola Middlebrook for Bay City due to ill health. The next meeting will be hosted by Mrs. Henderson.
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Cameron
Cameron History Club
Arriett
Texas
Wilson
Bay City
Henderson
Greatest cotton crop in U.S. history recorded for 1914
Census figures show the 1914 U.S. cotton crop at 16,103,148 bales of 500 pounds each, the largest on record. California and Arizona contributed notably, with 49,835 and 7,142 bales respectively, while the total value for lint is about 570 million dollars and seed about 134 million, totaling roughly 704 million for cotton farmers.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
California
Arizona
Department of Agriculture
Three Battleships Blown Up by Mines at Dardanelles
British battleships Irresistible and Ocean and French Bouvet were destroyed by floating mines during an attack on the Narrows forts. Bouvet sank within three minutes after hitting a mine, with most crew lost. Two British ships saved their crews under fire. Fort bombardment continued as Inflexible and Gaulois were damaged.
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London
Irresistible
Ocean
Bouvet
Dardanelles
Bouvert
Straits
Queen
Gaulois
Kephez Bay
Kephez Point
Narrows
Kilid Bahr
Chanak
Kephez
Legislature Passes 266 Measures In Regular Session
Austin reports the Thirty fourth Legislature completed its regular session with 129 general bills and about 130 local bills passed finally. It submitted seven constitutional amendments. A total of 1 172 bills and joint resolutions were introduced across both houses.
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Austin
Texas
House
Senate
Rockdale Men Plan Thrall Oil Drill Venture
Rockdale investors I. P. Session C. M. Session H. T. Coulter and G. C. Murray announce a new oil company for Thrall. They hold a 450 acre lease on a top Thrall field prospect and expect to begin drilling within ten days, hoping for a thousand barrel gusher.
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Rockdale
Texas
Messrs. I. P
C. M. Session
H. T. Coulter
G. C. Murray
Oakdale News Notes Reports Local Happenings and Visits
The Oakdale column records multiple small events including hunting gatherings at Mrs. Hensley s home, visits to Cameron Milano and Woo ten Wells, marriages and homecomings, and neighborly travel. Names mentioned include the Fisher Hensley Hause Shaffer Vancheck Cook Sprayberry Williams Dicus Ethridge Beckenson Barrett Moore Smith and others in a sequence of social and domestic activities. The tone reflects a tight knit community sharing daily life and local movements.
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Oakdale
Milano
Cal Shaffer
Vancheck
N. S. Cook
Dee
Collins
Casey
Joe
Cameron
Sprayberry
Dean Shelton
John Williams
Nannie
Maggie Dicus
Wooten Wells
Nancy Ethridge
Convicts Caught Near Milano by Local Officers
Convicts were rounded up Wednesday night by Justice J. D. Ruby and Deputy Sheriff W. E. Peel about a half mile east of Milano on the I and G N railroad. They recovered three escapees from a state convict farm near Valley Junction and escorted them back that night. An officer proposed a harsh lashing in the cold, but Judge Ruby halted the cruelty and advised returning the prisoners by night passenger train for safety.
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J. D. Ruby
W. E. Peel
Valley Junction
Also Mentioned on This Page
New Oil Company
Dan
Herald
Milam
Gotton
U. S
Census Bureau Statistics
Taylor Oil Syndicate
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