National and international news roundup snapshot
A sprawling digest notes Senate and House actions on military spending and canal authority, nominations to Russia, and a Panama Canal implementation order. It records floods relief shipments to Texas, public health talks in Galveston, rising coal mine probes, and international unrest from Mexico to Ireland with deaths, crimes, and political shifts amid a period of wartime policy.
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Wilson Friday
Panama Canal Zone
Asile
Canal
Garrett Friday
Washington
Texas
Garrett
Onercasman
General Relief Committee
Cotton ginning totals exceed fourteen million bales
Census Bureau reports 13,549,171 bales ginned before Jan 16 1914, linters 396,934. Total ginnings 13,988,105 running bales. Final figures to Feb 28 to be reported March 20. Early 5 year average ginnings show notable season-to-season variation.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Sea Island
Good Roads Meeting Opens Texas Conference
Fort Worth Texas Good Roads Association held its annual session starting Monday in the Chamber of Commerce auditorium. About 150 business men from across Texas gathered for the earnest convention of progressive road advocates.
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Good Roads
Fort Worth
Tex
Texas
Texas Good Roads Association
Chamber of Commerce
California Case Upheld on Freight Pre Cooling Charge
The interstate commerce commission order requiring railroads to allow California orange shippers to pre cool and preprice their fruit for Eastern markets, and waiving the cargo handling charge during pre cooling at $7.50, was upheld by the Supreme Court Monday.
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California
Washington
Supreme Cow
Fort Worth Hit by $500,000 Cotton Fire
A Thursday blaze damaged Trinity Compress Company plant in Fort Worth Texas burning about 4500 bales of cotton and destroying the compress site, 23 houses, the freight depot and stock of the Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Trinity Compress Company
Denver Railway Company
Secretary of State Reports For 1913 Franchise Taxes Noted
Reports filed by numerous corporations in the state for 1913 show business activity and remit taxes. Franchise taxes totaling 5082 dollars were received, with filings covering various corporate entities and their reports of business during the year.
Sunny South Shoot Opens in Houston Gun Meet
Sunny South Shoot opens in Houston Texas with forty five shooters representing eleven states facing the traps in the thirteenth annual event.
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Houston
Tex
Ask the Man Who Used Long Horn Fertilizers Last Year
An advertisement fragment asks readers who used Long Horn Fertilizers last year and prompts them to contact Industrial Cotton Oil Company for pricing and booking details.
Exhibits Planned for Corn Show Contestants at Dallas
About 11 000 contestants in the 191% competitive crop production are asked to submit samples showing test yields by February 1 for display in the Texas Industrial Congress exhibit at the Corn Exposition in Dallas February 10 to 24. The event will feature cotton corn kaffir milo and cowpea hay exhibits plus charts on the cost of poor farming and gains from better methods, with displays on soil moisture plant nutrition and hillside wash protection.
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Texas Industrial Congress
Congress
Dallas
Salt beds found near Amarillo deepen ocean bed theory
Drillers on the Miller ranch in Palo Duro canyon near Amarillo report a salt stratum 36 feet thick of good quality. The deposit area is not yet known and the find supports the notion that this region was once the bed of an ocean. Salt found at about 1200 feet.
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Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company
Oklahoma
Supreme’ Court
Washington
South Carolina General Assembly
Columbia
Milter
Paulo Duro Canyon
Amarillo
Texas
Iave Strick
Galveston
Tampico
Mexico
Sinaloa
Hera
Webster
Mass
Tex
Miller Ranch
Palo Duro Canyon
Hardware Men Select Waco and San Antonio Convention City
Hardware men vote for W.M. Glenn of Barkinney as president and 8. T. Warrison of Memphis as vice president. Henry Maris of Dallas is reelected secretary, with Waco chosen as the convention city for 1915.
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Waco
San Antonio
Tex
W.M. Glenn
Barkinney
T. Warrison
Memphis
Henry Maris
Dallas
Ideal Weather Boosts Farmers in San Felipe Texas
Ideal weather pleases farmers in San Felipe Texas with mowing starting well. Rebuilding in Hooded district continues as buildings and fences are replaced to resume normal operations.
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San Felipe
Tex
Center Point Grain and Elevator Plans New Warehouse
The Cantar Point Grain and Elevator Company is erecting a 25,000 bushel capacity warehouse in Center Point to expand storage and improve warehousing for grain and related products.
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Cantar Point Grain and Eevator Company
Worms Cause of Your Child's Pain Targeted by Kickapoo Remedy
An advertisement claims worm infestation causes feverish behavior, swollen abdomen, and stomach cramps in children. It promotes Kickapoo Worm Killer as a safe, efficacious laxative solution available for 5 cents, distributed by Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. in Philadelphia or St. Louis.
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Kickapoo
Indian Med. Co
Philadelphia
St. Louis
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Kenyon
Wis
Senate
Atislat
Wilson Sauriday
Theis
Granger
Texe
House
Colorado
Michigan
Democrats
Tod
Foster
Minnoig
Feflin
Alabama
H. M. Pindell
Peoria
Russia
Semite Foreign Relations Committee
Sheppard
Gresham
Stepe Friday
Warine
Houghton
Mich
Charles J. Moyer
James Tanner
Western Federation of Miners
Wilfrid Robin
Steve
Robin
Note Dame de Rossir
Quebec
Lestey Jones
Montecito
Drownel Monky
Santa Barbara
Cal
Julia Flake
Galvesburg
Ill
Robert Higgins
Kuing Ils
Privata Francis Wildman
Warteed States Army
Aerolade Cor
Hedro-Aeropla
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Voyager
Hrout & Co
War Department
Witter
Rave
Marin
CGP
J Herring
Ad Waolvast
Cadillac
Joe Rivers
Los Angeles
Mil Cwwukea
Judkins
State Health Department
Maeague City
Yeston
China
Jbven
Ton Grantly
M.D. Priest
Simonston
Richmond
Ernest Priest
Munthizton
W. Va
Tate Collis BP
Huntington
Kenry B. Jimmington
Surabaya
Dutchass Indies
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Goodland
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Int
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Dresden
Francisco Villa
Tomson
Chihwatun
Torreon
Refugio Velasco
Valu
John MW. Redmond
Waterford
Ireland
George Lee Temple
Hendon
Jorge Vera
Istanol
Jad
Huerta
Nelson O'Shaughnesey
Vera Crag
Cape Haitien
Coto Ginned
Baja
Road
St. Louis ‘and
San Francisco
Interstate Commerce Commission
Frisco Lines
Pany
Potter County
J.D. Jackson Franklin
Ximas
L&gn
Louisiana
Arkansas
W. B. Miers
Hearne, Texas
Hearng
J. M. Haigler, Hearne
Maurice Ryman
Watch Maker
Liles Brothers Drug Store
W. H. Ely & Brother
Gowen & Crocker General Insurance
Charles
City Livery Stable
Chas
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