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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1905
Page
1
Local papers argue that education and transportation lure desirable residents, while their absence drives people away. The Blossom Bee notes huge cotton output claimed near Fulbright to Blossom. Advertisements tout fashion, hats, and low prices, with sensational claims on beggars and a nod to Sunday law enforcement.
The Texas division United Confederate Veterans holds its annual reunion in Galveston with Major General Eli M Van Zant presiding. The downtown is decorated and sessions continue with entertainment and memorial resolutions for Governor Lubbock.
Housekeepers encouraged to inspect a complete line of mattings ruga and lace curtains from Rosenreiß Co. The ad promotes affordable furnishings and home fabrics for the season.
A new railroad is chartered as Shreveport and Northeastern Railway Company to build a line from Shreveport northeast through Louisiana and Arkansas to Memphis with headquarters in Shreveport and $2,000,000 capital. Also notes local ads and a Confederate veteran pension recommendation in Miller county. Earthquake shocks were felt in Maine and California last week.
A lightning strike ignited a powder house at the West Riverside coal mine near Des Moines Iowa causing a terrific explosion. Six men were killed and about twenty were injured. The incident occurred amid a large stored dynamite reserve.
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