Davilla Local Notes Mix of Visits and Local News
May 18 Tribune reports illness of Mrs. Jerry Harris, visits from Bob White and Crutz, and new owner of T. W. Smith coffin business. Community events include a Presbyterian church picnic, school job search by Miss Doak, home circle society interest, smallpox updates, dewberry picking, a teen party, and deaths of Rayford White and local figures. Nearby movers George Walker and Beaumont boom noted. Boll weevil seen on river farms with no upland damage yet.
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the Tribune
Jerry Harris
Bob White
Georgetown
Biard
San Antonio
Home Circle Society
Presbyterian Church
Hamilton Pasture
Hugh Harris
Howard Huffman
John Fluffman
New Mexico
George Walker
Beaumont
George
Local notes weigh in on governors and oil politics
Winsboro Wide Awake quotes locals on who should run for governor and bets on candidates in Milam and other counties. Reports from Wortham, Killeen, Galveston, and Rockdale discuss university funding, oil company growth, and legal reforms. Also notices of bakeries and baby care remedies appear with advertisements and small-town business chatter.
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Winsboro
Uss
Mineola
John Smith
Smith
Worthamay
Wortham Journal
Milam County
Bailey
Cere
Galveston Tribune
Texas
Grocery and New Bakery Opens on Square
Proprietor announces move to a new building on the north side of the square one door east of Cameron drug store. Adds a bakery to the grocery business and promises first class staples and fancy groceries, ice cold drinks, and country produce with bargains on all items.
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Cameron Drug Store
Local ads mix drugstore talk and market notices
An assortment of period advertisements and notices from Knightsville Indiana dated April 22 1898. The items include jewelry and watch chains at R H Johnson next to Thomas Moore drug store, a tobacco tag promotion by Show Down Bob Hancock Chip Red Heart Dewey Twist Uncle Henry with a lithographed gift hanger, health testimonials for Smiths Bare Kidney Cure Dr Kings New Life Pills and Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, a drawing sale at Heiley Hetley grocery with Mrs James Gillespie property, poultry and duck offers from Fred Judd, and various goods such as glassware enamelware and farm products referenced from Thomas Moore and local merchants.
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Bob Hancock
Chip
Red Heart
Dewey Twist
Uncle Henry
Knightsville
Ind
Pepsin Syrup Co
Monticello
Dr. Caldwell
H. Came
Thomas Moore
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M.C. Wetmore Tobacco CO
St. Louis, Mo
Vss
Davilla
Prof. Crutz
Maysfield
Willie Templeton
Cameron
T. W. Smith
Pat Johnson
Frank Guest
Leota
Vera Harris
Austin
Gipsy Harris
Berta Templeton
Celia Jenkins
Lexington
Curtis
Annie Sharp
Rogers
Ella Lincoln
Giddings
Mattie Doak
Mally
Little Rayford
Tom. White
Killeen Herald
R Kennon
Rockdale
Ias
Justice of the Peace
Pron Herald
Rock
Sdale
Calvert Courier
Allen J. Smith
Medical University of Texas
Galveston
Casimir’s Opera House
Brazos Valley Medical Association
Dr. Smith
The
Lockhart Register
Beaumont World
Smithville
Judge Dill
New York
Dallas
Brewer & Wallace
Florence
5. C
Charleston
Hartwell M. Ayer
M’g’r
Daily Times
imes-Messenger
Jim Coleman
James F. Ballard
J. M. Banknight
Keeley Institute
J. H. Keith
Bellevue Place
Dallas, Texas
U.N. Green & Bro
Groceries A. L. Purifoy
Phone
R. D. Brown
Droker
Thomas & Moore
R. H. Johnson
Price, & Seats
Thomas & Meare
Hancock Baos & Coa, ‘Tebasso Manufacturers
Lynchburg, Va
Wim
Forrest
Memphis
Tenn
M. M. Austig
Winchester
Heiley & Hetley
James Gillespie
Milano
Superior
Santa Fe
Mexico
St. Louis
Price
G.P
T. A. Palestine
Trice
R. Palestine
Cincinnati
Chicago
Nashville
John & Dedman
P. A. Danforth
LaGrange
Bucklen
Fred Judd
A. Thomas New Drug Store
C. N. Green & Bro
Lone Star
Z. W. Harper Kentucky Whiskey
R. F. Coleman
WLP
Whittaker
C. A. Lankford
J. P
Tynon, Co
Clerk
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