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Newspaper
Mexia Evening Ledger
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1899
Page
2
A night melee at a Mexia Negro restaurant in the opera house block left John Lewis with a dangerous abdomen wound from a single shot. Two unnamed Black suspects were jailed but no shooter identified. Local sentiment blames loafing crowds and urges work or departure.
Mack Wilder resigns as local circulator for the Dallas News after eleven years of service starting at age ten. Rube Storey is appointed as his successor amid flood relief efforts. Wilder thanks friends and asks continued support for the new circulator.
Bright sorghum hay and finest straw baled for any quantity at six dollars per ton. Local residents dispersed travel notes include Bonner and Wortham, Geo. A. Bell, Chas Jones, W. D. Freeman, W. M. Cochran, Henry Unfried, and J. A. Kennard visiting Groesbeck and Ennis. Dr Johnston offers asthma and bronchitis treatments in Mexia.
The Texas and Pacific Railway announces lowered round trip tourist fares for journeys starting in June and running through September 30 1899. Tickets valid to Alabama Colorado District of Columbia Georgia Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Ontario Pennsylvania Quebec South Carolina Tennessee Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin. Inquire at local ticket agents or write BP Turner GP and T A Dallas Texas.
Cloudcroft in Oters County New Mexico sits 9000 feet up in the Sacramento Mountains at the Alamogordo and Sacramento Railroad terminus. It offers majestic views from White Mountain to the White Sands and dense spruce pine forests. The Sacramento climate is described as superb and pure, with Fort Stanton noted as a Marine Sanitarium site by the federal government. readers are invited to contact S P Turner at T P Ry Co Dallas for rates and schedules.
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