Lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco shocks Texas
In Waco Texas on May 15 a juried guilty verdict for Jesse Washington led a mob of about 15 000 people to seize him from the Fifty fourth district courtroom and burn him on the public square. The crowd mutilated the body after burning and later dragged the remains through main streets toward the scene of Mrs Fryer’s murder seven miles away.
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Waco
Texas
Jesse Washington
Lucy Fryer
Here
Fifty-fourth District
Washington
Robinson
If Women Only Knew Doan's Kidney Pills Relief Story
Cameron resident Mrs. M. G. Cox reports years of backache and kidney pain eased by Doan's Kidney Pills. She described dizziness and abnormal urine, noting the remedy regulated kidney action. Price 50 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo, N Y. 1 11.
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Cameron
Dean
M. G. Cox
Doan
Colored Orphanage Fund Drive in Cameron
M P Graham missionary and field representative of the St John’s Industrial Institute seeks 100 from white and colored residents of Cameron to support the colored orphanage. Local committee includes Wm Lofton Louis Johnson G H Hare Joe Davis and others. Clothing and cash donations are welcomed as great need exists. Rev B B Blaylock of First Baptist Cameron endorses the effort.
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M. P. Graham
St. John’s Industrial Institute and Orphanage
Austin
Cameron
Wm. Lofton
Louis Johnson
G. H. Hare
Joe Davis
M. Brown
A. R. Jefferson
Walkers Creek Happenings and Local Visits
Community notes from Walkers Creek record visits and social activity in nearby Cameron Maysfield and Gause. Residents include Mrs Guy Tidwell, Myrtice Rogers, Rett Rogers, Vernon McCall, and families visiting relatives, attending concerts, shopping, or hosting gatherings. Vernon McCall fatally killed a mad dog near his home Sunday morning.
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Guy Tidwell
Gause
John Kennon
Vernon McCall
Roger Delahunty
Cameron
Myrtice Rogers
Elwood Chamberlain
Cameroron
Roy Hightower
Mart
Monroe Hukman
J. W. Partridge
Jim Chamberlain
Dixie Dobbins
Rosa Lee Henderson
B. F. Rogers
Cris Partridge
Theodore Henderson
Maysfield
O. F
Edward Taylor
Claude McCall
Dan Gunn
Buddie Wilson
Harvey Dobbins
Harvey Chamberlain
O. B. McCall
Winifred Henderson
Cameron Clean Up Day Proclaimed by Civic League
Cameron holds a general clean up day with residents urged to place debris in front of homes for fast collection. Civic League and district volunteers will visit every area with council providing hauling at no cost to residents.
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Cameron
Civic League
Milam County Summer Normal Institute Opens in Cameron
The Milam County Summer Normal Institute will run in Cameron from June 12 to July 28, 1916. It features college-trained faculty with practical Summer Normal experience and offers coursework for second and first grade and permanent certificates. Lectures by noted educators are planned, with personal help and special instruction available, plus board at about 27 dollars and tuition of one dollar.
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Cameron
the Normal
Pebble Grove Graveyard Work and Roark’s Departure
The Herald announces a graveyard working at Pebble Grove on Friday May 26. Prof Roark, longtime superintendent of the public school, leaves this fall to head Thorndale High School, with the Thorndale community praised for securing a valued educator.
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Herald
Pebble Grove
Roark
The
Cause
Thorndale High School
Texas
Thorndale
Roarkhe
Gause
United States to police border raids on Rio Grande
The United States asserts it will tolerate no more Mexican raids and will station troops to police the border on both sides of the Rio Grande to keep violence within Mexican soil.
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United States
Rio Grande
For Rent Six Room House Opposite Milam Hotel
Rental notice for a six room house with bath opposite Milam hotel near Sap epot. Monthly rent listed as 1250 dollars. Cal oy phone the Her lald. 8-tf.
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Milam Hotel
Sap
Epot
Cal Oy
Herlald
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Read
Cameron Herald
the Herald
Wago
Heart of City
Walkers Creek
Milam CO. Summer Normal, Institute
J. O. Webb
C. E. LaMaster
Newton McDonald
C. A. Gross
Allie Gilliland
Pebble Grove Graveyard
Paralee Frazier
Longview
Tex
Thacher Medicine CO
Chattanooga, Tenn
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield
N. J
F. A. Black
S. A
A. P
Matogha
Moore
G. B. Taylor
Red Cross
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