CROP CONDITIONS REPORT DETAILS TEXAS OUTLOOK
An August survey by SSG correspondents across ten Texas counties notes cotton suffering from drought with varying shed and boll loss, corn faring better with potential record yields, and diversification aiding farmer finances. Wooly pests and lack of strong worm pressure cited. Historic notes on Go C Wright’s pardon and Navarro county veteran W N X Kenner add local color.
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Plas News
SSG
Texas
North
Pexas
Brazos
W NX
Kenner
Navarro County
Twelfth Texas Cavalry
Brown
Isenner
Geizenhaver
Burgess
Nover
Malone
Starkey
Jeffers
Wilson
Gage
Pullen
Ikx Kener
Claffin's Apple Woman Reveals Morning Habit
The excerpt notes John Claflin described as a leading, versatile businessman who kept a daily apple purchase from an old woman near his store. It mentions his father H. B. Claflin’s strict habit of buying an apple every morning, a routine as regular as a clock and missed if he were absent.
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Topeka
Kansas
Manila
Flannigan
San Fernando
Twentieth Kansas
Aggie’s
Cap
Long Island Railroad
Information Bureau
North Shore
Agricola
Victor Smith
New York Press
Zeb Vance’s mixing in North Carolina explained
A political opponent asked how Zeb Vance could mingle with every voter group. He answered simply that his mixing happened in North Carolina, uniting Democrats Republicans whites and colored citizens city and country Baptists and Methodists old and young rich and poor Union and Confederate.
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Amnce
Zeb Vance
North Carolina
Beechburg Mob Destroys Mormon Church to Prevent Insurance
Citizens in Beechburg Kentucky enraged by a new Mormon church plan demolished the building to defeat a possible insurance payout. They chopped the church into pieces so no timber could be reused, hoping to void coverage and avoid losses for the church elders.
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Beechburg
Captain Dyers Medal Presented by Baltimore City
The city of Baltimore will present Captain XII Mayo Dyer of the cruiser Baltimore with a medal bearing his likeness. The medal hangs from a bar set with sails from the Reina Christina and ribbons in black and Baltimore colors.
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Captain Dyer
Baltimore
Xii
Mayo Dyer
Maryland
Panama Canal Graft in Isthmus Transport Rates Noted
A San Francisco traveler cites Panama railroad profits and high freight rates as evidence of monopoly power. He notes cheaper routes via Cape Horn and urges building a maritime canal to break the control.
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Panama Railroad
San Francisco
Ithmus
Isthmus
Central America
Straits of Magellan
Liverpool
New York
Panama
Pacific Steam Ship Company
Pacific
Steam Ship Company
Atlantic Coast
Cape Horn
Humorous Exchange From The Banks of the Nile Cartoon
A light dialogue shows a sisterly tease and quick quips as animals in a Nile setting joke about romance and speed. The Tapir questions pace while the Alligator claims to be an automo bile after swallowing an electric eel for comic effect.
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Nellie
Wisconsin
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Pierce County
Wis
Tie
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Victorian Club
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Bunker Hill
Helen
Helen Gould
Huntington
Collis FP
California
W. J. Johnston
Electrical World
Europe
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Woolwich
England
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Victor Chevalier
Paris
Montmartre
Tweeddale
Violet
Violet Tweeddale
Kingdom of Mammon
Candida
Julia
Tyweeddale
Allen Sparks
Sarah
Sarah Leinhardt
Pelleas
Maeterlinck
Melisande
Patrick Campbell
Toronto Junction
Canada
Putnam County
Justice Cullen
Oyer and Terminer
Bunbury
Pye
Chicago Theological Seminary
Cincinnati
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