Denver Wins Elks Lodge Meeting Site Over Dallas
Denver was chosen as the next Elks Grand Lodge meeting place with Dallas placing second and Atlantic City and Saratoga receiving honorary votes. The vote sparked intense debate over climate and region, with El Paso aiding Denver and Dallas planning to be a candidate for 1907. Delegates from Oklahoma City distributed statehood buttons amid parade excitement and a Mexican Band float winning band contest prize.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Denver
Grand Lodge of Elks
Dallas
Atlantic City
Saratoga
W. H. Atwell
Seymour Heyman
Oklahoma City
Texas
M. T. Lively
J. F. Zang
FE Paso
el Paso
Philadelphia
A. F. of M
Thomas P. Smith
Indian Territory
A Wade
W. H. Fuller
South McAlister
Sheriffs Establish Headquarters In Texas Bureau
At a meeting of the Sheriff’s Association it was decided to establish with Texas police chiefs a criminal bureau of identification with headquarters in Dallas. George Smith of Dallas was elected representative of the chiefs of police last Monday.
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Houston
Sheriff's Association
Chiefs of Police of
Texas
Criminal Bureau
Dallas
George Smith
Smith
Chiefs of Police
Canadian Valley Railroad News Reaches Paris
Report says the Canadian Valley railroad will build from Chickasha to Lehigh then to Boswell via Paris. A deal is closed for Midland coal mines at Lehigh. A surveying corps of twenty seven men works between Lehigh and Boswell.
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Paris
Canadian Valley Railroad
Chickasha
Lehigh
Boswell
Midland
Sullivan Sentenced to Hang for Fratricide Murder
Robin Sullivan was sentenced by Judge L. B. Hightower in Conroe to hang on Friday Sept 1 for murdering his father. He appealed and the conviction was affirmed.
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Robin Sullivan
L. B. Hightower
Conroe
Sullivan
Justin Forms Initiative for New College
Citizens of Justin met to build a college and complete arrangements. The board of directors and trustees were elected and the charter application will proceed after the first directorate meeting Friday. Prof DU Garrison of Illinois, formerly of Texas, will be college president.
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Justin
DU. &. Garrison
Illinois
Texas
Drowning After Collapse At Dragon Heat Festival
News from Victoria B C reports over five hundred Chinese drowned when a crowded mat shed on the West River near Canton collapsed into the river during a dragon heat festival crowd gathered to witness the event.
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Victoria
B. C
West River
Canton
Star City
Prison Financials and Convict Counts Reported for June
Financial Agent John L. Wortham shows June receipts 51134.32 and disbursements 48691.84 with cash on hand 16692.15. Superintendent Searcy Baker lists July 1 convict count at 3956, June adds 89 new arrivals and 40 discharges, 9 deaths and 4 deliveries to sheriffs, with 2 escape attempts and 4 pardons including Paul Deluca and John W. W. Gossett.
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Austin
John L. Wortham
Huntsville
Gibbs National Bank
T. W. House Bank
Houston
American Exchange National Bank
Dallas
Gaston National Bank
First National Bank
Pendergast, Smith & Co
Mexia
J. H. Walger
Rusk
John T. Luther
Morgan
A. Sisk
Searcy Baker
Harlan State Farm
William Clemens State Farm
Wynne State Farm
Camp Searcy Baker
Ed Gilbert
Fred Johnson
Paul Deluca
John W. W. Gossett
Most Celebrated Courier Joseph Hornblend Portrait
The piece profiles Joseph Hornblend a famed courier to General Miles Hopkinson Smith and the German emperor. It notes his Levantine heritage Constantinople birth and mixed ancestry Greek Armenian Hindoo Turkish. Hornblend is praised for temper capacity imagination and multilingual skill and mentions a Sultanate decoration for leading an Asia Minor expedition.
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Joseph Hornblend
Nelson A. Miles
Hopkinson Smith
Germany
Constantinople
Asia Minor
Notable Inventor John T. Foster Dies in New Jersey
John T. Foster, renowned inventor linked to Walter Hunt and the early gold pen, died at Arlington New Jersey at age 85. Foster helped direct the first gold pen work and was among the era’s best known inventors.
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New York
John T. Foster
United States
Walter Hunt
Arlington, N. J
Texas News Roundup Highlights Rural, Transport, and Crime
Dallas hosts a Texas Brickmakers Association meeting while Sherman Denison electric cars suffer a three day pause from a week storm. John J Stevens named San Antonio postmaster as Central Texas doctors meet in Hillsboro. Santa Fe eyes a forty five hour Chicago to San Francisco schedule. Navasota farmers report watermelon weevil damage. Cuthand creek dispute ends in a fatal shooting near Paris. Corpus Christi adds twelve acres for Epworth League grounds and a planned mammoth hotel. Walter Weldon hanged at El Dorado Ark for Lizzie Cantley murder. Fort Worth records 83 year old N A Farnsworth dies from injuries after May car strike. County provides rest rooms at courthouse for country trade visitors. Pine Bluff planter W B Howell commits suicide in New York after failed eye treatment.
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Texas Brickmakers Association
Dallas
Sherman-Denison
John J. Stevens
San Antonio
Central Texas Medical Association
Hillsboro
Santa Fe Railway Company
Chicago
San Francisco
Charles Smith
Sam Strongenberg
Cuthand Creek
Paris
Strondenburg
Smith
Epworth League
Corpus Christi
New Purchase
Walter Weldon
el Dorado
Ark
Lizzie Cantley
Huttig
Weldon
N. A. Farnsworth
Fort Worth
D. B. Farnsworth
Waco
County Court House
New York
W. B. Howell
Pine Bluff
Ostrich Farming Proposed for Texas and New Mexico
Mrs. Edmonia R. Cardenas argues ostrich farming, already established in California and Arizona, could become a major industry in New Mexico and Texas. She cites expected feather values, growing national interest, and rail support as key factors, noting dozens of U.S. farms and a projected Arizona flock growth to 10,000 birds in five years.
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Edmonia R. Cardenas
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Texa
United States
South Africa
Africa
Asia
Anderson Society
Edwin Barbour
Phoenix-American Ostrich Company
Phoenix
Ariz
Edwin Cawston
South Pasadena
Cal
A K. Protheroe
Cape Town
New York
Anaheim
California Ostrich Company
Whittier
America
Cawston
Nice
France
Buffalo
Pearson Ranch
Clanton & Co
Arizona Ostrich Company
A. Y. Pearson
J. Taylor
Florida Ostrich Farm
Jacksonville
Protheroe
Taylor
Florida
Pearson
Alarge
National Ostrich Company
Coburn
Hot Springs
Ark
Asheville
N. C
Cardenas
Texas
William Dutcher
The
Audubon Federation
Audubon Societies
Approach to Lassa from Younghus expedition
A Tibetan city view near Lassa shows narrow streets and flat topped houses with gilded cupolas. The observer notes the Pos tala palace dominating the skyline, a grand lama temple of massive stone architecture, described as a marvel in scale and audacity.
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Younghusband
Tibet
Lassa
Postala
St. Paul's Cathedral
Roosevelt Purchases Camp Land Near Scottsville VA
President Roosevelt acquires 150 acres and a seven room frame house seven miles from Scottsville in Albemarle County Virginia. The site, in the Piedmont region, offers a scenic location with nearby sizable homes while the current house remains modest. The camp is expected to be used by the president. Senator Thomas S. Martin owns a handsome residence five miles away from the property.
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Roosevelt
Scottsville
Albemarle County
Albemarle
Piedmont
United States
Thomas $. Martin
An Old Arab’s False Teeth Arrive in Khartum
Sheich Mahammed Ali Omar Or, head of the Genilab Arabs, arrived at Khartum and was presented by the sirdar with a full set of teeth. He boasts of the gift and plans to astonish his tribe on return, but worries about how the new teeth affect his inside. He asks the dentist what is best for his digestion.
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Sheich Mahammed Ali Omar Or
Khartum
Boots Or Shoes For Shields In New York
United States Commissioner Shields of New York recalls his first shoes since boyhood. The new footwear gave him trouble as strings needed tying and socks slipped, prompting him to joke about returning to boots while his son Archie urged the change.
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United States
Shields
New York
Archie
Lightning Slays Dog and Sparks Fire in Maryland Home
A recent storm in Maryland produced a lightning strike that hit a colored man's house, passed through a window, and killed a dog beneath the home. The same storm set a gum tree alight, though hogs beneath the tree remained unharmed.
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Maryland
Knock the Knocker Out
A Grand Saline Sum article criticizes critics who attack Christians for others faults. It argues moral progress comes from personal virtue not public judgment of neighbors.
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Elks Lodge
State Pen
Peitentiary
Navasota County
Wills Point
Bro
Cilmere
Nan and
Lazarus
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