Fraternal lodge notices from The Leader weekly
Local notices list meeting dates for Masonic bodies and fraternal orders. Corinthian Lodge Knights Pythos meets Mondays in Castle Hall. Mason Countray Lodge and Young County Lodge schedule meetings around the full moon. Knights of Honor meet on the first and third Saturdays. visiting members invited.
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J. W. Graves
J. W. Akin
Corinthian Lodge
Knights Pythos
Castle Hall
B. L. Adams
Jo. W. Axix
K. of
Legislature Nears Senate Swing and Tax Fears In Texas
Austin Texas January 21 1896 legislative actions dominate the scene as Horace Chilton nears U S Senate election while a Republican of sorts proposes a 25 cent revenue tax and a 50 cent school tax. Bills target Johnson grass robbery railroad crime home insurance and a proposed executive slate for pardons and asylums amid reshuffles at state institutions. J R Yarbrough vanishes from Scarbrough Hicks dry goods amid unsettled finances and a missing family.
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Austix
Texas
Horace Chilton
United States Senate
Boren
Bowser
Alamo
San Antonio
Carlisle
Senate
Worsham
Pardon Board
Govenor Culberson
Senate Penitentiary Board
L. M
John O. Johnson
Travis County
Deaf and Dumb Asylum
T. W. Gregory
Walker
Jeff Johnson
Sam DeCordova
W. H. Thaxton
Confederate Home
H. E. Shelly
Levi Shackelford
von Rosenberg
Joseph B. Rogers
Forg Kyl
Hayes County
Dr. White
Austin
Rangers Report Details Milam Trip and Arrests
Detectives suspect a woman influenced a sudden departure after a planned visit to Milam County. Adjutant General Mabry’s forthcoming report covers ranger travels in two years totaling 137,337 miles, 902 arrests, 88 days guarding trains, and recovery of stock and property. He seeks an encampment but legislature's appropriation is in doubt.
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Milam County
Mabry
Old Senators Pleased. Chilton elected to succeed Coke
Washington January election results bring congratulations from southern senators and colleagues. Senator Daniel and Senator Butler praise Chilton as a fine, upright choice. Ransom reflects on success, effort, and the value of sunshine and charity over wealth, arguing true success serves others.
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Washington
Chilton
Coke
Senate
Gazette
Daniel
Virginia
Senator Butler
South Carolina
Senator Ransom
North Carolina
Texas
Ransom
Getting Into Society
A reflective piece on how society admits people by appearances, money, or status rather than brains or character. It contrasts inflated pockets, muscular or noble façades, dowries, uniforms, and fathers’ names with the claim that true worth shines only when genuine virtue remains after scrutiny.
Picnic for Agents Prizes From Teaxs Sand Which
The Great Humorous Industrial Paper of the South offers a $100 prize. Send postal to Dallas for details on how to participate.
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Teaxs
South
Dallas
Mortality Among Populist Papers in Texas Feared
The Fort Worth Gazette notes high mortality among populist newspapers in Texas, describing the losses as something fearful and indicating widespread closures or failures within the local press.
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The
Fort Worth
Free Education Offer From Walden Texas Business College
A call to contests offers a five month scholarship at Walden's Texas Business College Austin. Guess the number of shot in a bottle for a chance to win. Send two cents for full circular and a college catalogue with details. No postal card responses.
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Texas
Walden
Texas Business College
Austin
Ag Narest
The Power of His Eye in Lion Taming
A Tit Bits tale recounts Van Amburgh the lion tamer claiming power over animals by fearlessness and eye contact. He challenges a rude bar patron, fixes his gaze, and the man approaches, then strikes him hard under the chin. The story emphasizes the eye as a controlling tool.
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van Amburgh
A Liberal Offer for Bible History Engravings
The American Publishing House in Philadelphia offers Part 26 of Young People's Bible History. This issue contains 12 magnificent full page engravings illustrating a Bible history. Send name and postal address by return mail to receive the number.
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The
American Publishing House
Fairmount Ave
Philadelphia
Rival business rivals in Laramie linked by odd sign tale
In Laramie Wyoming two rival shopkeepers, a stationer and a feed store keeper, lived opposite on Main Street. A mutual friend witnessed their feud when the feed man pointed to a placard in the stationer window declaring hay for sale there. The gag reveal: the only baled hay was a new Bill Nye book, turning enemies into friends. The narrative shifts to a New York Ledger piece praising nighttime digestion, then a note on Wyoming legislators’ mileage and free passes, ending with Comanche Chief commentary.
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Laramie Wy
Jake
Feller
Wyoming
Bill Nye
English Bride for Harlem Boxing Star sparks Texas remark
A report says a pretty English girl will wed Frank Craig known as the Harlem Coffee Cooler who is in England. The Kansas City Star notes, This seems to be turn about and fair play. If Coffee Cooler and his bride were in Texas they would be jailed.
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Frank Craig
Metro
Harlem
England
Kansas City Sur
Texas
Robbers Loot Fort Smith Store and Target Editor
A criminal raid near Fort Smith Arkansas left a store looted and an editor robbed of seven dollars. The incident followed by a newspaper man roaming late with cash on him drew sharp local criticism of his judgment.
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Fort Smith
Ark
See Our Clubbing Rate Best Offer Ever Made
A bold newspaper offer in Young county promotes a clubbing rate claimed as the best ever, aimed at readers seeking value.
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Young County
The Art of Remembering and the Locality System
A discussion of mnemonic methods tracing origins to Simonides and the locality plan. It recounts how memory techniques use spatial loci and recalls a tale of Lemaitre the actor, debt, and a pawnbroker scene illustrating financial reliance on memory and leverage within theater.
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Cicero
Simonides
Havig
Proper butter making on the farm emphasized
The article advises farmers to wait until butter forms small grains before churning to prevent overworking and flavor loss. It explains how over churning creates greasy lardlike texture, and stresses washing out butter milk to preserve grain and keeping quality. It urges farmers to follow careful steps to produce fine butter at home.
Keeping Hens Active Prevents Soft Egg Shells
The American Cultivator notes hens with exercise and gravel access resist soft shells, urges avoiding starvation, and suggests culling hens laying soft eggs for table use. It emphasizes keeping fowls busy with tasks to ensure hard shells and vigor, warning inactive birds digest poorly and may eat their eggs.
Practical rural tips from old garden and home scraps
A compilation of domestic and farm advice on pruning grapevines and handling old orchards with wood ashes and fertilizer, storing cucumbers and squash seeds, keeping sheep healthy in cold weather, choosing stock, washing fabrics with alum and starch, treating pimples with camphor, oven and kitchen hygiene, coffee brewing, lamp maintenance, and carbolic acid disinfection.
Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke You Life Away
The startling no to bac cure claims to end tobacco habits and improve nerves strength and vigor. The Sterling Kennedy Co advertises book availability at druggists or by mail with a money refund if not satisfied, listing Chicago Philadelphia New York addresses and a Price’s Cream Baking Powder endorsement from the World's Fair.
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Additys
The
Sterling Kennedy Co
Chicago
Ae Delph St
New York
Fort Worth Gazette and the Leader in 1890s coverage
The Fort Worth Gazette and the Leader offer daily city news, editorials, and notices from Fort Worth and its surrounding areas. Local events, business updates, and community items reflect the era's civic life and printed journalism style.
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