Cholera in southern Italy and regional news
The report notes Cholera appearing in southern Italy while Canada’s population is estimated at 7,489,781 and the U S population at over 93,000,000. It lists various regional events including the Cooke County fair opening October 4 and rail and political developments across states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Canada
Montana
Idaho
Greenville
O. B. Colquitt
Cooke County
Gainesville
Columbia University
United States
Lavaca County Cotton Crop Outlook Reported
Lavaca County crop notes from the Galveston News August 23 show ginned 1909 total at 21 516 bales. Hallettsville reports 50 percent better condition but drought harms yield. Shiner reports 15 percent better with general picking and labor ample. Moulton down 15 percent, bollworms and drought harm. Sublime 30 percent below average but 50 percent better than last year due to dry weather. Sweet Home 10 percent better, drought tightens harvest in ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lavaca County
Galveston News
Hallettsville
Shiner
Drouth
Moulton
Legislature In Fourth Extraordinary Session At Aust August 18
Governor Campbel submitted six topics for action including protection for railroad claim holders after bankruptcy a prison system reorganization negotiable bills of lading safeguards against defective cotton shipping railroad worker sheds and supervision of fire insurance rates by repealing the current fire rating board statute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aust
Campbel
Board of Prison Commissioners
Fire Rating Board
Culberson Reports Return to Health for Congress Opening
Austin August 22 reports from here that several personal letters from United States Senator Charles A Culberson state he is fully restored to health and expects to be in his seat when Congress opens in December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
United States
Charles A. Culberson
Congress
Republican Ninth District to Hold August Convention
Republican leaders in the Ninth congressional district schedule a convention at Yoakum on August 27 to nominate a candidate to oppose Congressman George F Burgess. Godfrey Reese Fowler of Palestine, nephew of the late John H Reagan, plans to run for state senator in the Thirteenth district to succeed the late C C Stokes. Kansas capitalists buy J J ranch near Amarillo for 1 2 million dollars to split into 700 small farms for colonization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. B. Colquitt
Tarpon
Ninth Congressional District
Yoakum
George F. Burgess
Godfrey Reese Fowler
Palestine
John H. Reagan
C. C. Stokes
Kansas
J. J
Amarillo
Four New Made Laws in Texas Govern San Antonio and More
Governor signs four bills into law in Austin on August 19. They create a city commission form for San Antonio subject to voter ratification. They expand disorderly house definitions in local option areas where nonintoxicating malt liquor is sold and address a tax defect on occupation taxes for such sales. They reorganize the comptroller's department with an updated auditing system. They require druggists in prohibition areas to obtain precinct voter consent to sell liquor prescriptions and designate nuisance status for places banned from liquor sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
San Antonio
Comptroller’s Department
Picking cotton boom as gins crowd in Dickson district
Eorror EaGle notes picking cotton in full swing with ginner F J Darilek's yard frequently full as workers travel from Shiner region. Crop expected shorter than earlier. Prof H A Hirsch resigns Dickson teaching post and moves to Michnar school near Yoakum Shiner for term. Prospecting trip to Rosenberg Fort Bend yields positive impressions. Motion pictures by Rev F W Rybar shown at Dickson and Evergreen schools with light attendance. Local visitations include Adolph Selzer and family with Frank Riebschlaeger party near Green's school and Jos Heinrich near Charlottenburg hosting friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Darilek
Shiner
H A. Hirsch
Dickson School
Michnar School
Yoakum and
Frank J. Wick
Jos. Pilsner
John Rothbauer
Rosenberg
Fort Bend County
F. W. Rybar
Dickson
Evergreen
Adolph Selzer
Frank Riebschlaeger
Green’s
Jos
Ten Miles of Canal Open For Navigation
Five and a half miles of the Panama canal were opened to navigation for the Atlantic division last week, bringing total usable length to ten and a half miles. The newly opened section has a 15 foot depth at the shallowest point and 100 feet width, with dredges continually widening to 500 feet and deepening to 45 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Panama Canal
Pacific Entrance
Hoke Smith Defeats Governor Brown in Georgia Primary
Returns from Tuesday's Georgia primary show Hoke Smith defeating Governor Brown to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Hoke Smith
Brown
Komensky Notes On Crops and Community Visits
The Komensky column reports dry weather stressing theory of the day as cotton picking thrives with a crop about twenty percent better than last year. Local ginner F J Kubenka has ginned about 400 bales this season while numerous visits and family gatherings occur, including births and social events across Komensky and nearby towns. August 21, 1910.
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F. J. Kubenka
Stork
Joe Holik
Rud
Wenske
Bartsch
Maurin
Annie Freye
Witting
Wm. Boening
Baursville
Adolph Mueller
Roscoe
Nolan County
E. Breitschopf
Frank Schober
William Schober
Mexico
Leon Antrich
Flatonia
Hermann Kuehn
Austin
Pobler
Komensky
Burlington
Milam County
Frank Kresta
Wenzel Breitschopf
John Kunsek
Kuippa
Uvalde County
Praha
Frank Brata
Novograd
Kubenka
John
Joe Antrich
Shiner
Rud. Boening
Lydia Zimmermann
Cheapside
Large Land Deal in Victoria Texas Inez Ranches Sold
The Allison-Richey Land company bought the Rosborough and De Leon ranches near Inez for about 160000. The 7000 acre properties will be subdivided into medium sized farms for colonization by Northern settlers. Surveyors will begin work soon as the deal aims to boost eastern Victoria county population and wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Texas
Allison-Richey Land Company
Rosborough
de Leon
Inez
J. M. Rosborough
Allison - Richey Company
Southern Pacific
Brownsville
Rosborough Ranch
Victoria County
Cotton harvest under way and local events gather pace
Cotton is opening rapidly and farmers expect picking to finish in a week or two. August Rogge has 292 bales through last Saturday. The William Tell Schuetzen Verein set August 27 for a chance event. A baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Willie Coldewey last Monday. A Con play party at the Kaiser home Sunday drew a large crowd and hearty, happy attendees. News is sparse as everyone stays busy with picking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aug. Rogge
William Tell Schuetzen Verein
Willie Coldewey
Fritz Kaiser
Railroads in Texas Promote Agricultural Education Trains
Texas railroads campaign to educate farmers with agricultural trains and specialists. They support the college of agriculture, the experiment station, state and federal agriculture departments to spread practical farm information. Demonstrations at meetings attracted attendance and good will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
College of Agriculture
Experiment Station
State Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Hand Car Demolished Near Flatonia on Fast Freight
The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad section crew on a curved, deep cut four miles south of Flatonia Texas faced a fast freight yesterday. They vacated the car but it could not be removed from the track and was completely demolished with the cow catcher torn from the engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flatonia
Texas
San Antonio
Aransas Pass
Here
Lavaca County Institutes Set for September Sessions
Lavaca County Institute in Hallettsville Texas announces a joint institute program for white and colored teachers in September. White teachers meet in the first week and colored teachers in the second, with both groups following the same program under County Superintendent William Ejlers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallettsville
Texas
William Ejlers
Cotton Fire Damages Bales at Hallettsville Warehouse
Midnight blaze at the Farmer's Union warehouse in Hallettsville destroyed one bale and damaged fifteen more. The cotton belonged to Rosenberg Bros. and S. G. Tarkington and was insured. Cause of the fire remains undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallettsville
Texas
Farmer’s Union
Rosenberg Bros
S. G. Tarkington
Examination for Teachers' Certificates Reminder Notice
The next examination for teachers' certificates will be on September 2 and 3. All applicants except those seeking a higher certificate must be present at eight o'clock Friday morning. Long-distance applicants should arrive in Hallettsville Thursday evening. William Eilers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallettsville
William Eilers
Session chaos and political upheaval mark early Texas legislature
The third called session of the Thirty-first Texas Legislature failed to pass a fire rating insurance law, amid fierce house senate disputes over rate fixing and competition. Sixty-six bills were introduced, twenty-three enacted, mostly local, with liquor laws dominating the agenda. The fourth called session opened amid renewed pay incentives and public interest, August 22, 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Senate
Insurance Board
Texas
IgIo
Unique Panama Exposition Cabinet by Seguin Builder
Louis Dietz of Seguin Texas has begun a remarkable cabinet designed for the Panama world expo. The thirty feet high six feet square structure represents a skyscraper with thirty-two stories and a six story dome and includes over a thousand windows and electric lighting fixtures. Dietz has won prizes at the San Antonio Fair International Exposition and the St. Louis World's Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seguin
Texas
Louis Dietz
Dietz
San Antonio Fair and International Exposition
St. Louis World’s Fair
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Robert W. Park
Waco
The
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Gaynor
New York
James Gallagher
Lloyd Steamship
Hanover
Bremen
Galveston
Fred. Hofheinz
New Braunfels
Otto Etlinger
LaGrange
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Ign
Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt
J. M. Terrell
Bowie County
Mexican Gulf Coast
Porto Rico
Wincie Hancock
Gonzales
Houston
Germany
North Pole
Spitzbergen
Morris Sheppard
Texarkana
Woodmen of the World
Beaumont
W. R. Manning
George Washington University
University of Texas
Culberson
Henkhaus
Eorror
Epiroe
EaGue
Fipdo
Ephor EaGe
Lavaca County Institute
Epttorr
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