Hardys Brave Cold To Reach Ontario Gold Field
In Hudson Ontario February 29 reports say a few hardy sourdoughs braved blizzards and thirty to forty degree cold to reach Woman Lake where a vast gold vein sixty feet wide is claimed to run the length of a one mile long island. Captain L O P Pickard leads the party and remains in Quebec conferring with the Quebec mining company.
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Hudson, Ont
Woman Lake
Ont
L. O. P. Pickard
Quebec
Quebec Mining Company
Lived Too Long Heroic Soldier Faces Harsh Fate
John Ambles, once a personal orderly to General Pershing, saved five lives last summer, but years after war years he killed his wife and sister in law. An Alabama jury sentenced him to death, later commuted to life imprisonment, a fate that may stand.
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John Ambles
John Joseph Pershing
Alabama
Board of Pardons
Galba
Henry VIII
Erasmus
Thomas Moore
Woodrow Wilson
Paris
Baby Chicks from Selected Flocks for Sale
Baby Chicks from popular breeds hatched and shipped at $15 per hundred. Specializing in English S C White Leghorns. Visit the flock any time or place orders early for quality chicks. Custom hatching available. O M Buse Box 57 Morgan Texas.
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S. C
Westerner will pick no more cotton
Brownfield February 18 C A Stewart a county farmer says he solved the cotton question with a cleaning machine for sledded cotton before gins He cites cost under 150 dollars and shows how cleaning reduces dirt increases lint yield lowers gin charges and raises price per pound He plans patenting and wider manufacture and vows not to pick another bale in western Texas if his device proves profitable across the region
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Brownfield
C. A. Stewart
Plains
West Texas
Stewart
Plant trees now for Texas planting season
Austin Nursery offers special prices on fruit trees for home planting in Texas. Write for a free catalog and specify what you want to plant. Advertises seasonal tree planting ahead of March end.
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Texas
Austin Nursery
F. T. Ramsey & Son
Austin
American reporter taxed in Moscow over toothpaste tube
An American newspaperman in Moscow faced an $11 duty per toothpaste tube. He donated the paste to the Russian government and now cleans his teeth with ashes.
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Moscow
Prohibition Agents Uncover Whisky Mash in Cemetery
Federal agents probing a wooded cemetery near Tom Ball found six graves with soil mounds and boards, revealing six barrels of whisky mash buried two feet deep. A 150 gallon still and distilling gear were found nearby, yielding 75 gallons of spirits before agents sealed the scene.
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Federal Prohibition
Tom Ball
Prohibition
Houston Post-Dispatch
Clifton Texas to Elect City Officials in April Vote
City Council orders mayoral and alderman elections for April fifth to fill vacancies left by Handley Rachirg Bronstad and Westley. officers include G B Helm as presiding officer with judges and clerks to be chosen. governed by general city election laws.
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Clifton
Texas
Ed Handley
J. H. Rachirg
O. M. Bronstad
City Recorder
J. N. Hill
C. C. Westley
G. B. Helm
W. C. Hurst
Handwritten Will On Narrow Paper Found In Probate
A probate notice reports a Massachusetts man’s will drafted in handwriting on a seven foot long strip of paper. The document’s writing occupies nearly the full length with only about three inches unused.
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Massachusetts
The Market Debt and the Weary Collector
An aged worker buys freely and misses a payment on the first day. The collector searches, finding him absent from home and places of worship. On the second day the buyer appears, parades wealth, and pays seven fifty. The scene ends with the collector lamenting the folly of men.
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Solomon
Tree Seeds Sent to European Battlefields as Messengers
The American Tree Association ships large quantities of American tree seeds to Europe for war relief, framing them as messengers of peace and goodwill. The seeds are intended to symbolize renewal and aid rebuilding efforts amid the conflict.
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Europe
American Tree Association
Copper Mines Open at Burnet Texas
Burnet Texas February 18 The secretary of state granted Burnet Copper Mining Company a 300000 capital stock charter with incorporators Dr A Howell J L Williamson Yantis Jones Townsend Miss Mary Jones and Cyril D Nelson. They lease the old Sheridan Copper mine seven miles west of Burnet and expect work to begin soon.
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Burnet
Secretary of State
Burnet Copper Mining Company
A. Howell
J. L. Williamson
Yantis
Bangs
Jones
Brownwood
Townsend
Lampasas
Mary Jones
Cyril D. Nelson
Fort Worth
Sheridan
Giant Mung Beans for Sale by J T Jenson Crawfills Gap
Classified notice states J T Jenson of Crawfills Gap offers giant mung beans for sale. No price or quantity specified in readable text.
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J. T. Jenson
Crawfills Gap
Borozone Healing Remedy Promises Fast Flesh Repair
An advertisement touts Borozone as a purifying liquid and powder treatment that cleans wounds of infection and speeds healing. Liquid prices 30c 60c and 1.20. powder 30c and 60c. offered by Price & Stuart.
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Price & Stuart
Price
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Hy and
Plenty
Ontario
Canada
T. C. Coston
D. A. Carpenter
Carpenter Bros. Drug Store
BABY
O. M. Buse
Morgan, Texas
H. Whering Ofice
First Guaranty State Bank
Clifton, Texas
Promise
Burnet, Texas
J. C. Carpenter
Carpenter Bros
Jas. M. Robertson
Meridian
Clifton Tailors
S. M. Ringness
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