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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1906
Page
6
The Clifton Record notes Robt. L. Baldridge as the publisher in Clifton Texas. Details are sparse in the readable text, with emphasis on the paper's local authority and geographic origin.
All over Texas capitalists plan another bank for Cleburne while foreign holdings appear. Dallas sees new construction headlining a $125000 eight story complex. a $25000 Paris auditorium contract is set. A. P. Elliott dies in Atlantic City and a Dallas marriage enlivens the stage.
A critical portrait of the American as a cold, calculating creator who mechanizes life. He is depicted as a man without faith or passion, viewing art and nature through market value, cataloguing himself by lavish, impersonal gifts and grand, costed installations.
The essay argues that restricting fortunes through law would hinder national progress. It contends wealth drives enterprise and major achievements, cites oil industry growth, and warns limits would turn the rich into hoarders while reducing charitable giving and entertainment-driven religion.
In Atlanta on September 25 a police ambush near Clark University left Policeman Heard dead and another officer fatally shot. A third officer was dying at Grady Hospital and a fourth missing as attackers were pursued and ten captured, with four escaping. A separate report notes a Mexican man Jose Paulo Chaves injured in Austin. A $200 cash theft at Marlin Express is reported, and H J Norton dies from a ruptured blood vessel on his farm near town.
Gen L M Oppenheimer died at 9 30 Monday morning at the Cohen boarding house. His remains were taken by the Masonic fraternity. He was past commander of the Knights Templars of Texas and chairman of the State Penitentiary Board. He also served on the Austin Board of Water and Light Commissioners and the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice.
Mineral Wells notes surveyors who spent five weeks locating a line north and west of the Weatherford Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway have returned to make a cross section. Rumor says the grade work will start soon and the line will link with a road directly to Trinidad Colorado.
Will Davis of Gatesville Coryell County Texas was found unconscious beside the Missouri Kansas and Texas track four miles north of Colbert Indian Territory. A train crew discovered his injuries and he was brought to Denison where his left hand was amputated.
Reverend W A Hamlett of Gaston Avenue Baptist Dallas has accepted a call from McFerrin Memorial Baptist Louisville Ky A petition seeks a contest of the Athens precinct prohibition election held Saturday September 1 with a 15 vote pro majority.
Postal authorities intercepted an internally addressed machine mailer to Jacob H. Schiff on the New York Stock Exchange main floor. Officials believe Russian anarchists mailed the device in revenge for Schiff’s role in funding Russian loans during the Japanese war. The missile carried guncotton and other explosives capable of destroying a skyscraper.
Five are dead and fifteen injured after a rear end collision between a passenger train and a switch engine in the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad yards at New Prague Minnesota, forty miles south of Minneapolis. The crash was caused by the switch engine entering the main line as the passenger train, already minutes late, approached.
At a special city council meeting on Saturday night a franchise was granted to Mr. Carter of Dallas to build five miles of street railway into Greenville as part of the city system. Texas and Pacific freight No 19 west bound wrecked seven miles from Texarkana Sunday afternoon. ten cars ditched and machinist E H Dice crushed in a box car.
Atlanta residents faced a race riot after a string of assaults on white women, drawing about 10 000 people into downtown. Georgia National Guard and militia moved in with artillery to quell the violence, while negro residents fled and property was damaged in the nighttime mob.
Havana reports a Liberal and insurgent committee empowered to report to American mediators as hopes for peace grow. Business interests doubt Cuban self rule and favor possible American intervention and annexation, while Taft says the US should not keep troops longer than needed to supervise disarmament and will judge harmonized peace in good faith.
Will Carriker was fatally shot near Cushing Saturday afternoon. Will Richmond, a Black man, killed himself in Caldwell county jail by taking strychnine.
In near Valentine Texas Grant Robinson of St Paul Minn buys 60000 acres from Sunset land department to plant macaroni wheat sourced from Volga Russia and the Mediterranean. Beginning work at once with 500 acres this season.
Cooke County representative Blanton vows a special push for passage of a pure food bill at the forthcoming Legislature session. A Santa Fe section hand H B Sanders was crushed to death by a freight train wheel while boarding a switch engine in Fort Worth. Conductor W A Mitchel of Palestine was aboard the ill fated train near the Cinnar ron River in Oklahoma. none shot but baggage was lost. Missouri Kansas and Texas brakeman J W Hawkins had both legs amputated at Chickie Chockie. I T Hawkins rode the engine pilot and fell. he later died of his injuries.
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