New York Guests Tour Texas for Commercial Purposes
A New York business delegation tours Texas cities including Orange and Beaumont on a mission to study conditions and industries. The group plans systematic data gathering for investment and development, while Beaumont sees a major land sale of 1600 acres for 440000 dollars to Right Bladgood Co of Saginaw.
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Houston
Texas
New York
Orange
Beaumont
Texas Reception Committee
Chamberlain
Texas Committee
Wortham
Transportation
Accidental Shooting Ends Life Near Sanger
W W Pirtle a farmer east of Sanger Texas was shot and killed yesterday afternoon when son in law W A Ives discharged an unloaded shotgun. Justice Baum held the inquest and rendered a verdict.
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Sanger
Texas
W. W. Pirtle
Here
W. A. Ives
Pirtle
Justice Baum
Will Power and Tact in Life and History
The piece argues that prejudice blinds judgment and that life is a burden shaped by God, best faced with courage and joy. It asserts will power as the source of achievement, shaped by environment and education, citing Nebuchadnezzar and Napoleon as examples.
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Nebuchadnezzar
Napoleon
Pennsylvania
How to Give Medicine Safely at Home
The guide advises shaking the bottle before pouring and using a properly marked glass for measuring. It recommends a three daily dose at 10 am 2 pm and 6 pm or every four hours as directed, with no night doses unless a doctor says so. It notes iron with meals and hides the taste of cod liver oil with coffee and milk.
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Boston Journal
New York Visitors Begin Texas Tour For State Resources
A party of distinguished New Yorkers arrives in Orange to study Texas resources and meet its people. Local officials and chambers of commerce push data gathering on investment and industrial opportunities, aiming to deepen financial ties and foster friendly relations as the tour progresses across the state.
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Orange
Texas
New York
San Antonio Builders Strike Expands With New Walkout
In San Antonio Texas on April 24 the Builders' Exchange and labor unions clash as a further walkout brings 1000 workers to idle construction sites. No building work proceeds and many contracts for upcoming projects are canceled or extended.
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San Antonio
Texas
Builders’ Exchange
Quote from Josh Billings in New York Weekly
A witty barb on slander and social obligation. The excerpt labels a pious party member as a glib listener to calumny who hopes it is false. It warns a young man to avoid obligations, calling every obligation a mort gage due with interest.
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Yung
Josh Billings
New York Weekly
Neckwear Notes Highlight Gold Styles and Trends
Gold remains dominant in neckwear with studding and spikes. A new art nouveau clagp adds a decorative profile on dull gold, while gold rope fastens four-in-hands with a twist replacing the knot. Lattice work hemstitching and herringbone patterns appear widely in designs.
Injunction Halts Sale Of Belcher Estate Lands In Jefferson County
In the Fif ty-third district court Judge Morris granted a temporary injunction restraining W C Belcher as trustee and the Texas Trust company from selling a one fifth interest in lands in Jefferson county where oil was struck. The land involved is the 540 acre Spindle Top Heights tract, with the decree covering only reserved street strips and a BR strip through the lots. no further details are given.
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Austin
Texas
Fifty-third
Morris
W. C. Belcher
Texas Trust Company
Jefferson County
C. L. Cleveland
Ohio flood recedes as crest nears Cincinnati on record day
Cincinnati reports the Ohio river still rising with backwaters surrounding the city yet alarm ends as crest nears. Lives lost up river in drift and boating incidents, but none in the flood itself. Homes stocked, telegraph lines down, rail tardiness, fruit crops ruined across the Ohio valley.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Ohio Valley
Pittsburg
Cincinna
Parkersburg
Weather Bureau
Point Pleasage
Portsmouth
Springfield
Seymour Man Ended His Life In Baylor County
Seymour Texas April 24 J T Hayden an old time settler living four miles north of Seymour cut his throat with a razor yesterday. He was a widower with two sons aged 10 and 12. The elder boy ran for help while the younger tried to staunch the bleeding with flour.
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Seymour
Texas
J._ T. Hayden
Baylor County
Murdered by Mexican Bandit at Hardshell Camp
News from Phoenix reports the murder of Americans Frank and Charles Leal at the Hardshell mining camp near Nogales. Francisco Valdez, a Mexican bandit, began a saloon dispute and shot both men, then delivered a second shot and bludgeoned them with a revolver butt.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Frank
Charles Leal
Francisco Valdez
Hardshell
Nogales
Leals
Valdez
New Saw Mill at Timpson Texas Readsied by Bagley
Mr Bagley a prominent mill man of Winsboro is in town for railroad work linking to his new mill nine miles northwest of here. Machinery is bought and ready to move as soon as the road reaches the site with completion expected by July 1. A heavy grading crew advances toward the first track mile and track laying will begin.
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Timpson
Texas
Bagley
Winsboro
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Southern and Western Representative
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Lucas
Viterbo Bros
Kelley
Louisiana
the Mutual Life Insurance Go. of
Richard A. McCurdy
Mutual Life Insurance Company OF New
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Mutual Life
Murrat Life
BIFTH
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Flatonia
San Antonio, Texas
R. 1. Fehrenkamp
San Patricio
Cumberland Telephone Exchange
Chaneyville
Washington
St. Landry Parish
Lamorie
Bouef
Trowbridge
Chamber of Commerce
Jessup
Corwine
Merchants’ Association
N. Flanter
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