City Building Notes From Moulton Texas
A 1913 newspaper segment highlights progress themes in Moulton Texas. It champions good roads, transportation, local commerce, and agriculture as engines of prosperity and civic growth, urging communities to value development and orderly progress.
Miss Jimmie Harrison to study expression in Chicago
Miss Jimmie Harrison leaves Friday for Chicago to study expression. Notes from area papers report visitors and relocations including Allyne Jaeg gli and others, Ed Mikulenka taking deputy tax collector post, and Henry Messer returning from Berlin as Shiner considers an Independent School District plan approved by the attorney general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmie Harrison
Chicago
Flatonia Argus
Shiner Independent
Shiner
Shiner Gazette
Slips into hot ashes kill boy in LaGrange
Three boys, two of them Rippel and one Nitschke, played near a power house and slid into a pile they thought was cold ashes. The pile was hot and the older Rippel boy suffered severe burns and died the next morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LaGrange
Texas
C. H. Rippel
Mr. Nitschke
Rippel
Modern three story hotel planned in Smithville city
Smithville Verger Hill has let the contract for a modern three story hotel with work to begin immediately. In Houston a new amusement park opened, funded by the Chamber of Commerce and modeled after Coney Island. Spur city prepares for a $25,000 water works system project. Fredericksburg reports tunnel completion on the San Antonio Fredericksburg & Northern line and a Guadalupe Junction to Fredericksburg stretch soon finished. Temple notes Stanislav Poniatowsky of Russia’s Agriculture Department visiting Bell county stations to study Texas cotton methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithville
Verger Hill
Fredericksburg
San Antonio
Texas
Poniatowsky
Heidrich Family Sidelined by Illness in Shiner
July 25, 1913 report notes Mrs Heidrich and her daughters Ella Annie and Emily ill for three weeks with Annie suffering an elbow fracture. Joe Kolar had major surgery weeks earlier while relatives and neighbors attended church and social events including dances and an ice cream party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heidrich
Ella
Annie
Emily
Annie Heidrich
Joe Kolar
Old Moulton
Lena
Mary
Emily Heidrich
Adolph
Otto Marburger
Willie Heidrich
Otto Hohmann
Wachtendorf
Tilda
Emil Gold
Old Moult
Eddie Lehnert
Rud Koennings
Henry C. Lockstedt, Jr
Brudzrite
Farmer nearly killed by mule near Gonzales Texas
July 26 report from Gonzales says Joe Cooper a well known farmer and watermelon raiser ten miles east of town was knocked unconscious after a mule kicked him while he tried to catch it. He was found in an unconscious state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gonzales
Texas
Joe Cooper
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First Mate Bank of Moulton
Ww. Green
E. Stupeman
F. T. Fehrenkamp
Philip Welhausen
O. Burscher
WM. Green
Jxo. Bucex
E. Studeman
Joc
Henry Etlinger
AGT
Tueller
KODAK
Joe C. Kopecky
Moulton
C. F. Knape, Pounissuer and Proprietor
Moulton Texas
City Building Notes
Mid Hole
Allyne
Elsie Jaeggli
Edwin Jaeggli
Chas. Thompson
J. D. Gray
Shiner Enterprise
Mikulenka
Shiver
Our City
Steve Bennett
Hallettsville Herald
Henry Messer
Kurt
Berlin
Germany
Henry
Lone Star State Industrial Notes
Houston
The
Chamber of Commerce
Coney Island
New York
Route Three
Epior Bacuz
Arthur Peters
Otto K. Gerstmann
Corputr Christi
Mary Kolar
Flatonia
City
Anton Kolar
Henry Petrash
John B. Mikulik
Komensky
Here
Jim Preston
Robt. Preston
Southern Pacific Railway Company
del Rio
Ceifent
Lipme
Eveready
P. O. Pack
Bank
Deutsch Und Englisch Gesprochen
Itatic
Ford
Congress
Detroit
J. R. Matula