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Newspaper
Mexia Evening Ledger
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1899
Page
3
Cotton receipts for Mexia to Tate show totals from several yards. Alliance 1842, Cogdall 1842, Smiths & Hughes 2070, Torres Jordan & Watson 360, Bawyer 600, with an overall total of 5762 received yesterday.
John Rhea left on the noon train for Groesbeck to spend a few days with relatives. Miss Emma Smith returned from Ennis after visiting friends for a month. Editor Lee Satterwhite of the Wortham Journal visited the city. Several residents, including J. B. McKinney and Tom Ross, were in town on business. Rube Story runs a new ad offering bargain stationery. Mrs. S. E. Cook arrived from Oklahoma to visit her son Dr. J. P. Cook.
The New York Sun reports seventies one marriageable women in reigning families and only forty princesses for them to wed, forcing many to seek matches below their rank. It cites Montenegrin royalty, papal title claimants, and American heiresses as potential brides while noting moral concerns. A Texan man, B. D. Machon, begins a new residence on the previous site.
For Sale a fine milch cow with young calf. Furnished room for rent. Apply to Grace McClendon. J M Vaiden and N B Hunt with mother visiting relatives in the city. All members of Springfield Lodge No 74 AF and AM. Call meeting tonight at 8 o clock sharp. Work in the entered apprentice degree. Visitors residually invited. Pp Parx W M.
A Coleman Review remark cites Cuba showing self regeneration under U S administration with receipts from January 1, 1899 to June 30 of the current year surpassing expenditures by 1 480 021 dollars. The tone mocks advertising and declares a time to stop.
An ad offers improved properties including a five acre tract on the east edge of town for $800, a well improved small place for $600, and various lots. The seller, claiming fire insurance ties, guarantees satisfaction and invites readers to entrust real estate needs to them for timely rent and tailored listings.
Eaght sorghum hay and finest straw baled in any quantity offered for six dollars per ton. Bonner and Wortham will meet all rains with closed carriage. Only 25 pentas available in the city. T. SterHers.
To the Ladies Those desiring anything in my line I shall be pleased to see them Monday or any time following during the week Respectfully Many Jonson Dressmaker When you want to go to train call lephens stable He will answer all calls from this on for 25 cents per head with a closed carriage The new arrangement of the Texas and Pacific Railway for taking care of passengers to Hot Springs Arkansas dodge away with the lay over at Maivers This makes the best service ever offered those who desire to visit the greatest Mineral Springs in America The T and P was two fast trains daily elipped with superb Pullman Sleepers and handsome Dew rom climbing chair cars seats free
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