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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1906
Page
4
A Jefferson Texas issue column urges focus on road improvements and fiscal discipline. It notes Daingerfield district court in session, Easter season reflections, and promotes direct voting over primaries and conventions to choose public officers.
The piece reflects on the Santa Fe and Katy railroads in Texas, noting how past acquisitions shaped routes to the Gulf and East Texas. It cites Judge Parker’s Southern presidential hint, shifts to a hopeful view of Northeast Texas as a cheap, thriving home region, and ends with a confident forecast of rising prosperity.
Mr Dodd visited Atlanta with family for a Glen Sunday school at the new school house draws a good turnout. Mrs Dodd and Mia visit Glen this week while the Dodd house nears completion and saw mill activity increases. Horace Nelson and M A Steelman are noted locals with D D Dodd in Jefferson on business.
A local notice invites readers to attend the United Confederate Veterans reunion in New Orleans from April 25 to 27, 1906, proposing four travel routes via M K T Railroad and other lines. The notice is signed by ticket agent O Connor.
London reports August Belmont has bought the celebrated racer Rockland for 125000 dollars. The horse, a Derby and St Leger winner in 1903, has been at the Hamilton stud farm at Newmarket this year after Bathfaln out of Roquebrune.
Washington April 11. In a seven hour House debate on the post office appropriation bill Mr Bede of Minnesota delivered a humorous speech built on a resolution to carve four states from Texas. He claimed the south should have northern papers earlier and supported the subsidy to aid southern readers. He noted Texas has shifted flags from Spain to Mexico to the Republic of Texas the Confederacy and now the United States.
A speaker extols Texas as an autonomous state with its own constitution and a strong local loyalty. He likens Texas to an empire and notes affection for state pride, while joking that a well paid senator might improve public service in Washington.
Delegates to the Methodist Educational conference are welcomed in Dallas by Hon. N. W. Finley and Rev. J. L. Morris. Cone Johnson of Tyler and Bishop Galloway respond. Notable talks include Waterhouse on The Church and Higher Education and Downman on The Educational Policy of the M E Church South.
The Marion County Singing Convention will meet with the New Prospect Choir on Saturday April 21 1906 All classes or choirs in the county are urged to be represented and all lovers of good music invited. G W Grunaps See
A bouquet of hot house flowers was presented to the Jump people on Saturday by their friend W. C Hill of Hillsville Nursery. The note thanks Mr. Hill for a well stocked greenhouse with many fine plants in this section.
An advertisement urges subscribers to join The Semi-Weekly News and The JIMPLECUTE for one year at 81.50 cash in advance. It markets the paper as a world class general newspaper with farmer pages, market reports, and sections for boys and girls, claiming readers receive vast value and coverage twice weekly.
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