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Newspaper
Houston Daily Post
Location
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1900
Page
9
Fragmented timetable lists trains serving Houston Grand Central Depot with connections to Galveston La Porte San Antonio and Dallas routes. Includes arrival times for multiple trains, express services, Sunday changes, and notes about connecting stub trains and depots at Congress Avenue.
A six year old Williamson boy drowned yesterday in Buffalo bayou at Chaneyville while playing with companions. He was last seen in the water between four and five o clock and efforts by friends to rescue him were unsuccessful. The body had not been recovered by nightfall.
Allison Mayfield, Texas Railroad Commissioner, proposes within state tariffs to Texas common points be reduced to 75 percent of current rates for shipments to Texarkana and Marshall. He calls for an order detailing commodities and rates to equalize with Shreveport and Texas common points, aiming to curb unfair interstate disparities.
The Texas Railroad Commission released a circular announcing a 25 percent rate reduction on a long list of commodities. The measure targets shipments within Texas to equalize differences between interstate rates from New York New Orleans St. Louis and Texas points. The list covers farm implements glassware furniture glass and steel products and numerous other items. Mixed carload shipments will be charged 75 percent of the commodity rate with specific adjustments for machinery and other goods.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe and other lines publish special event and convention rates for August and July 1900. Notable items include Holiness camp at Centraville, Texas. Texas German Baptists at Kyle. Missionary conventions in Waco and Richmond. Seventh Day Adventists at Dallas. Fort Worth Knights and Daughters of Tabbor. and the unveiling of the Armstrong monument in Galveston. One way fares listed around $2.80 to $3.10 with round trips up to $4.15 depending on destination.
The commission adopts an exception to Western classification for Texas rail shipments of furniture, setting minimum weights per car and class items. Special Authority grants International and Great Northern Railway cost limits on bagging and ties stored in Houston. Lumber transport rates from Marshall and Magnoli areas to other Texas lines are adjusted by distance rules, taking effect August 7, 1900.
Western presidents move to end commissions for tourist agencies after this year as railroads push to handle ticket sales themselves. Cook's agency reportedly sold 7,000,000 tickets, highlighting the large revenue and potential loss for agencies. Railroads argue the abolition is necessary amid pressures from major lines like Canadian Pacific.
Ed H. H. Coombs, Dallas based commercial agent since December 189%, will on August 1 become commercial agent for Matlas in Denison and oversee the Katy line’s freight business across North Texas from Texico to Texarkana. Frank Fairhood may take his Dallas post. R. G. File moves to Atlanta in charge of the southeastern territory. Fort Worth notes Rock Island plans for Oklahoma expansion at Mount Lincolnview and ongoing Mountainview extension with steel laid and daily labor shifts.
Two readers share experiences with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs. Many Sarra of Arlington Iowa reports swelling and abdominal pain eased after one bottle, avoiding surgery. Mrs. Evans Bayan of Otisville Michigan says two years of womb falling and ovarian inflammation ended after using the medicine.
A dolured pictire shows a Rock Tataund train landing near Colorado Springs with Pikes Peak looming in the distance. The artwork now graces the walls of the ticket office.
A New York Post dispatch reports a rate dispute between Southern Pacific and Southwestern Association lines. Merchants face cut freight and potential insurance shifts as ocean and all-rail routes spar over base points and delivered pricing. An industry-wide fight may erupt as lines seek advantage against rivals and seek assent from trunk lines.
Oslveston Texan July 19. W. Koes e general passenger agent of the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe returned this morning from St. Louis. Colonel L. J. Polk general manager of the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe left today for Blue Ridge Virginia accompanied
Denison Tex July 18 a new time card goes into effect on the Missouri Kansas and Texas railway Sunday the 22 04. The changes will affect principally the passenger trains driving and departing.
The Missouri Kansas Texas Railway paid its quarterly tax on passenger earnings totaling 1708.85 dollars. The payment was recorded in Katy Earnings Austin Texas on July 18.
G o M Winstead traveling freight agent for the Cotton Bell returns from the interior. Horace Rees a Sunset Central general freight agent comes back from New Orleans. Twenty one cars of mules shipped via C and O from a point to Virginia to Ban Pranmece. W F McClure Galveston Houston and Henderson agent was in the city en route home from New Orleans. The Houston and Texas Central offers one fare plus 10 percent for the meeting of the colored Masonic grand lodge at Gilveston August 14 to 12.
In Justice Hill yesterday DS Davie white was bound over on 200 bond for burglary of the Van Wagen feed warehouse on Rusk avenue. Ernest Simpson and Charley King negro boys were held for the criminal district court on 100 bond each for stealing several umbrellas from residents Friday.
The Ladies' Shopping League withdraws the two o'clock closing date pending a complete merchant interview list. They plan to publish the names in The Post and ask merchants to close when they see the schedule. Ludion's Shopping League is referenced as well.
Mr W C Newhous held a Hutchins dinner yesterday with genuine presauré among attendees. Guests included Mr and Mrs Chirles P Shoarn and other named participants.
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