Texas Hog Row Tangles Diplomacy and Annexation
Austin reports reveal 1841 friction between Count Saligny the French chargé d affaires and hotel owner Bullock over pigs in Bullock s yard. Saligny shot hogs angering Bullock prompting formal complaints and threats of recall. Texas sided with Bullock, triggering Saligny to seek passports and a possible war demonstration by France. The incident helped push Texas toward annexation by the United States.
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Austin
Texas
Count Satigny
Bullock
Saligny
France
United States
Count Saligny
New Orleans
James Hamilton
Paris
England
Germany
Legion of Honor
Jamess
Mayfield
Mr. Bullock
Col. Flood
Bis
Washington-on-the-Brazos
Republic
Johnston's Ho. Prices on Flour Coffee and More
Weekly price list from Johnston's grocery featuring Snow Drop Flour Snow Ball Flour and other brands 24-lb sacks priced to noon Monday June 26. Includes Javaland Coffee Ouachita Blend Honeymoon Tea Grape Juice Puffed Rice Puffed Wheat Mother's Oats and more with various sugar baking powder soap and starch items.
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Walker's
Arm & Hammer Soda
G. L
Y. C
Damage award over trunk contents in Johnston County suit
Mrs. F. L. Shackelford won a damages award of 409 against a transfer company for a badly damaged trunk on a honeymoon trip. The list details dozens of items including dresses, gowns, skirts, linens, undergarments, hats, gloves, collars, powders, a Baylor College diploma, a Bible, a senior yearbook, and a trunk valued at 17,590.
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F. L. Shackelford
Baylor College
Bride Wins $409 Judgment for Lost Trousseau
Oklahoma City jury awards $409 for items in a bride’s trousseau including clothing and accessories valued at the time of the loss. The court, hearing the case in Oklahoma County, weighed the articles and their stated values as part of the verdict.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma County
Virginia State tennis opener and global sports slate
Wednesday features the Virginia State tennis championship in Norfolk and a postponed Glidden tour from Washington to Ottawa. Also on Thursday the Greenwich Country Club opens its tennis tournament in Connecticut and Chicago hosts hill climbs at Algonquin. Other events include Winnipeg’s Billy Allen vs Billy Lauder and national golf and Yale Harvard baseball highlights.
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Norfolk
Washington
Ottawa
Greenwich Country Club
Greenwich
Conn
Chicago Motor Club
Algonquin
Ill
Billy Allen
Billy Lauder
Winnipeg
Man
Wheaton
Cambridge
Mass
United States Golf Association
Chicago
Western Archery Association
Freddie Welsh
Matty Baldwin
San Francisco
Young Mahoney
Eddie McGoorty
Gary
Ind
New England
Brookline
Crystal Palace
London
Travers Island
N. Y
Missouri Athletic Club
St. Louis
King Edward Park
Montreal
Vancouver
B. C
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Promises Fast Wound Healing
A brief 19th century advertisement touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the quickest, surest remedy for wounds from knives guns tin cans rust burns boils sores eczema chapped skin and piles. It claims prevention of blood poisoning and gangrene and lists a 25 cent price at druggists.
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Buckien
Annual General Society of the Cincinnati Meeting in Newport
The General Society of the Cincinnati holds its annual meeting in Newport Rhode Island with many distinguished attendees. Former Governor Charles W. Lippitt hosts a luncheon for delegates.
New Life Pills Promise Quick Health Boost
Advert describes Dr King’s New Life Pills as starting work soon after use. They claim to relieve constipation and indigestion while improving appetite and providing energy by regulating stomach liver and bowels. Available for 25 cents at all druggists.
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Dr. King
G A R of Michigan Opens State Encampment in Ypsilanti
On June 21 the G A R state encampment in Ypsilanti welcomed veterans and affiliated groups. Opening exercises were scheduled for the next morning with a parade in the afternoon and a campfire in the evening featuring Governor Osborn and other notable speakers.
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Michigan
Ypsilanti
Mich
Osborn
Regional Sporting Highlights Across Several States
Metropolitan A A U event at Travers Island and N Hill climb of the Quaker City Motor Club are listed along with the Boston Terrier Club of New York beach show in Philadelphia and Wilmington tennis championship in Delaware. Western Pennsylvania ladies tennis championship at Pittsburgh rounds out the notices.
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Travers Island
Quaker City Motor Club
Philadelphia
Boston Terrier Club
New York
Delaware
Wilmington
Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Stovewood and Charcoal Yard offers cheap dry wood
An advertisement urges spending only 25 or 50 cents on high quality dry oak or pine wood with quick delivery across the city. It promotes J. R. Patterson’s stovewood and charcoal yard and lists the phone number 522. An accompanying line notes a 7-12 trade item.
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J. R. Patterson
Stovewood and Charcoal Yard
Somers to Send Joe Jackson to College Next Fall
President Charley Somers of the Cleveland club will send his star outfielder Joe Jackson to college next fall. The move aims to develop his batting and fielding while maintaining his major league presence through the season.
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Charley Somers
Cleveland Club
Joe Jackson
Lefroy, Ontario Jurist, Professor, Dies in Toronto
A. H. F. Lefroy, noted professor of Roman Law and Jurisprudence at the University of Toronto, born June 21, 1853 in Toronto, son of General Sir J. H. Lefroy and grandson of Sir John Beverly Robinson. Educated at Oxford, called to the English bar in 1877, practiced law in Toronto, faculty member since 1900, published on legislative power in Canada in 1898.
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A. H. F. Lefroy
University of Toronto
Toronto
J. H. Lefroy
John Beverly Robinson
Upper Canada
Professor Lefroy
England
Oxford
Canada
Indiana University Commencement Address at Bloomington
Commencement exercises were held at Indiana University Bloomington on June 21. President Edmund J. James of Illinois delivered the address and President William L. Bryan conferred degrees on the graduates.
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Indiana University
Bloomington
Ind
Edmund J. James
University of Illinois
William L. Bryan
University of Georgia Holds Commencement Exercises
In Athens on June 21 visitors attended the commencement at the University of Georgia. Dr Me Ashby Jones of Augusta delivered the oration to the graduates.
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University of Georgia
Athens
Me Ashby Jones
Augusta
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