Telephone history and local notices from Southwest region
An assortment of notes covers Southwestern Bell’s use of Western Electric for uniform service and cost savings, a short historical sketch of early telephone makers, and local social visits. Beaumont visitors, paper prices, and Dr. R. Henry Harrison’s Eagle Lake business trip are listed among the fragmented items.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Western Electric
R. Henry Harrison of
Alleston
Eagle Lake
Distant Glimpses of Gargood and County Folks in 1910
Looking Backward items from August 27 1910 record Gargood school building progress Miss Zenobia Walker guest of Miss Ollie Strahan local deaths include Grace Dismukes three miles south of Garwood and Jos Burttschell Colorado county treasurer in Columbus. Mentions Eagle Lake business activity and community notices among dozens of short items reflecting daily life, names, places and events of that era.
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Gargood
Zenobia Walker
del Rio
Ollie Strahan
Garwood
Grace Dismuikes
H. A. Dismukes
W. J. Wright
Alleyton
Jos. Burttschell
Colorado County
Columbus
Burttschell
J. R Pinchback
Grain, Feed & Furniture Co
Houston
Eagle Lake
Vineyard
Fay McHenry
Esther Westmoreland
Zoe Byars
Jeanie Vineyard
Frank Stephens Gs
Range
Madeline Denr
East Bernard
Theo
Bennett
P. H. Roberty
We Rosenberg Herald
Calvert
Will | Walker
Brady
Stacey
On. W. Callison
Oy Gaynor Jones
Prank Causey
Rebecca Watson
San Antonio
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Homas A. Watson
Dal
Watson
Tyre
Western Electric Company
Lwre
C W. Goodson
Louise
Ma Lee Goodson
Lanelle Brown, Ll
Beaumont
Mollie Goodson
Margaret Cash
Beekman
Dror
Albert
Skelton & Tate
Headlight
Irene Brown
Pearl Lee
Myra Walker
Ruth Westmoreland
Pansy Green
Cleo Baughman
Mary Baker Gordon
Josephine Thatcher
Madeline McRee
Ray Wilson
Lelia Skelton
Erna Causey
Messrs
Rob Walker
Jack Davidson
John Wright Westmoreland
Carl Bentley
Elwood
Chester Stewart
Archie Douglass
Tom Renick
Preston Wicker
Harry Rather
Lawrence Watson
Robert Pergram
Eugenia Harrell
Sugar Land
Fannie Williamson
R. S. Simmons
Corpus Christi
Nedra
Will Bricker
Chesterville
A. L. Baring
Beckman’s Drug Store
Confederate Home
Lee
Jackson
Texas Confederate Home
Austin
Colorado River
John B. Hood
Texas Division
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Kater
Det Howard C. Court
Fist Chis
U.S
Ceavons
Madeline
Alberts
Frank Dromgoole
San Antonio Tech
Agne
J. G.townley
Zeb Milner
Verda ‘Townley
Allen Franz
Bay City
Pryor Simmons
Engle Lake
J. J. Parker
Treasure Island
Albert's
Alice Weber
Gullfornit
Gle Lake
Charlotte ‘Thomas
California
Sallie Westmoreland
Seckman
Dorothy Russell
Fay Godfry
Austin Hall
Just
Exotie Lake
Furnsrune
Real Values
THE
IGA
Texas Triumph
Colorado
Fargo
Crisco
Baker’s Prem
Maxwell House
Alaska
Sethe
Frank Stephens Co
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