Irrigation progress and livestock notes across Texas and region
Secretary Wilson says Frank Bond is focusing on Texas irrigation experiments. R H Lowery of San Saba visits Portland and the Pacific slope to study Angora goats. Heavy cattle shipments to Cuba from Monterey via Tampico. Numerous crop and livestock updates across Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. A near fatal electrocution of lineman R J Knight in Houston is reported.
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Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Cooper
Frank Bond
Texas
R. H. Lowery
San Saba County
Portland
Ore
Pacific
Cuba
Mexico
Monterey
Tampico
Monitor Rodriguez
Ward, Line
Manentitled ticket sale tale in Milwaukee incident
A fourteen year old girl enters a real estate office in Milwaukee asking the polite broker to buy a ticket on a cuckoo clock. He is distracted and答 questions her request with disbelief before reconsidering.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Everglades Land Reclamation Proposal Gains Support
Rich Soll argues Everglades soil is the world’s richest and would yield marvelous crops if drained. The plan seeks to reclaim about 4000 square miles by drainage canals for water removal and transport between plantations. It claims the region is healthful with pure water and low fever risk, estimating cultivation costs at 2.75 dollars per acre.
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Everglades
Florida
Jennings Fire Ends at Burning Gusher After Steam Aid
In Jennings Louisiana a long burning gusher was extinguished when Ennis ordered full steam power at 2 p m. Yesterday. Water and steam streams were kept on to ensure safety and prevent reignition, leaving only a burned pipe and oil-filled area as remnants of the blaze.
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Jennings
United
First Texas cotton bale sells in New Orleans exchange
The first bale of the new Texas cotton crop reached New Orleans and sold at the cotton exchange yesterday. Shipped by Rosenberg Bros. of Hallettsville Texas the bale brought 9 cents per pound at the Austin sale.
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E. P. Morce
Bernalilto County
New Mexico
Texas
Kansas City
J. F. Augh
Athens
New Orleans
Cotton Exchange
Rosenberg Bros
Hallettsville
Flooding Hits Texas Pacific Line Between Toyah and Pecos
Heavy rains in the Pecos valley flood the Texas and Pacific line causing washouts for several miles between Toyah and Pecos. Passengers were being transferred yesterday as crews worked to restore service.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Pacife
Pecos
Toyah
Reeves Captured in Texas Killing Case
Jack Reeves charged with killing his wife, her mother, and a man named Knuckles near Stringtown was captured near Denison, Texas, and jailed at Atoka. J. T. Reeves says jealousy prompted the crime. Reeves, about 30, served in the Spanish American War and came from Boston, Massachusetts.
All Returned to Work at Southern Pacific Shops in Houston
Houston July 22. The Fifth ward saw 700 to 800 Southern Pacific shop workers return to their posts after a three week strike. The 7 am whistle started operations with a full crew and orderly conduct. New workers brought in last week largely left town. officials say they would have been hired if they applied.
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Houston
Texas
Fifth Ward
Southern Pacific
San Antonio
el Faso
Morphine overdose claims life of Marlin man Oscar Stuart
In Marlin yesterday morning Oscar Stuart, 24, son of John Stuart of Groesbeck, was found at the Tom Stuart premises in critical condition from a morphine overdose. Doctors failed to save him. He had many relatives in the county and had recently come to town for treatment at the hot wells.
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Marlin
Texas
Tom Stuart
Oscar Stuart
John Stuart
Groesbeeck
Rhut
Groes
Fatal lightning strike kills Lockhart man in July storm
During a severe electric storm on Sunday night in Lockhart Texas Mr Tom Martindale was instantly killed after placing his baby on a bed He lived on the farm of Mr and Mrs McCurdy Martindale was a respected citizen and Woodmen of the World member He was buried in Lockhart cemetery yesterday afternoon.
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Lockhart
Texas
Tom Martindale
McCurdy
Martindale
Woodmen of the World
Texas State Fair to Build Temporary Structures after Fire
Dallas the state fair management announced that temporary buildings will replace those lost in Sunday's fire. An addition to the machinery hall measuring 200 by 300 feet will house general exhibits. A 12 000 seat auditorium will substitute for Music hall while permanent brick stone and steel buildings are planned.
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Dallas
Texas
Texas State Fair Management
Architetes
Dallas Man Crushed by Railroad Cars Dies
J S Foster aged 27 died after being crushed between construction cars on the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad at Honey Springs five miles south of Dallas. Surgeons said the breast was crushed dislocating the heart. Body shipped to Denison.
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Dallas
Texas
JS. C. Foster
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Honey Springs
Denison
Hydras Quarantined Tug Arrives at Sabine Texas
In Sabine Texas on July 22 the tug E. E. Simpson arrived with oil barges Nelson Bartlett and Ludwig. The Ludwig is aground at the foot of Main street with no pilot aboard and the Hydra has completed quarantine.
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Sabine
Texas
E. E. Simpson
Nelson Bartlett
Ludwig
Main Street
Monument unveiled for Rev. James Hammona in Liano
In Liano Texas on July 22 a Woodmen of the World memorial unveiled for Rev James Hammona who died last year while serving as pastor of the Methodist church.
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Liano
Texas
Woodmen of the World
James Hammona
Methodist Church
Convention Date Changed for Fifteenth District
San Antonio reports the congressional convention for the Fifteenth district moved from August 4 to be held at Lampasas on Saturday July 26. Local officials announce the date change and venue update.
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San Antonio
Texas
Lampasas
Baltimore Tornado Kills Eleven in Fury and Injures Several
A tornado ripped through Baltimore causing eleven deaths and multiple injuries. Emergency crews responded as property damage spread across several neighborhoods and officials warned residents to seek shelter from upcoming storms.
Baltimore Tornado Leaves Eight Dead In Fifteen Minute Onslaught
A fierce Baltimore tornado struck at 1 30 pm from the southwest with extraordinary velocity thunder and rain. Eleven people died nine drowned in the harbor one crushed by a falling tree and another by a live wire. The storm damaged homes along the riverfront but property losses were high with ships and church structures affected. The wind reached sixty four miles per hour and rainfall was 56 inch. The sun reappeared minutes later and no other major injuries were reported locally.
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Edna V. George
Schuller
Cooper
Schiller
Wife
Schuler
Edward H. Hunt
Thomas Carroll
Carroll
Chatham
Mary
St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Catholic
Concord Street
Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Company
Weather Bureau
Troops Ordered Out to Protect Aged Freeman Frederickson
Aged prisoner Brieco Frederickson, 70, was arrested Thursday on a charge connected to a crime against a tied to a daughter of a prominent family. A special train carried Captain ner and forty men from his company to Rusk to safeguard him. Another Marshall company was ordered out after governor’s dispatches. Talk of lynching arose amid the high‑profile nature of the case and the victim’s connections.
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Henderson
Texas
Rusk
Ner
Hs Company
Brieco Frederickson
Mershall
Frederickson
Prisner
Woman Dead Man Dying In Lake House Incident
Miss Nora Minor of Hazleton died by her own hand at the Lake House in Marshall Texas on July 21. The 21 year old wrote a letter to a man in Shreveport asking him to arrange burial. He was contacted and later found in Shreveport City Hospital suffering from poison effects.
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Marshall
Texas
Nora Minor
Hazleton
Lake House
Shreveport
Fire destroys big Dallas exposition building at State Fair grounds
July 21 in Dallas a morning blaze at the northeastern corner of the State Fair grounds devastated the exposition building and soon spread to the music hall annex with 6,000 seating capacity and the beach show and poultry buildings. Sparks carried embers across the block threatening other structures as thousands of dollars of property bound for October fair use were lost. The entire exposition complex burned to embers within about half an hour as the fire department fought the blaze.
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Dallas
Texas
The
Fair Association
Music Hall
Ned Sparks
Theo Sition
Destructive Flood Swamps Great River Towns
A vast flood devastates the Mississippi above St Louis with no chance to halt its advance. Reporters aboard the steamer Silver Ore describe widespread crop loss and rising damage as millions vanish from farmers eyes as levees hold back further ruin.
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Keokuk
St. Louis
Associated Press
John W Mai of San Francisco dies in London
John W Mai of San Francisco died at De Von House Terrace London at 6 30 pm after a day of heat prostration. He had shown slight improvement Friday but worsened overnight with heart failure and pneumonia. Attending were Mrs Mackay his mother in law Cor tess Teleferner and Princess Galat Colonna who arrived from Paris after his death.
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London
John W. Mai
San Francisco
Devon House Terrace
Mackay
Gatlin and Geeslin Mercantile Firm Changes Hands
In Goldthwaite Texas the mercantile firm Gatlin and Geeslin dissolves as B F Geeslin assigns his interest to partner A J Geeslin who continues the business under the firm name Gatlin and Geeslin.
New Bank Opens in Floresville Texas
First National Bank of Floresville opens with J. H. Brown as cashier. The bank expects to greatly benefit the Floresville business community and local economy.
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New Bank
Floresville
Texas
First National Bank of
Cotton Outlook Report From Local Arena Notes Sunday
A brief local agricultural snippet highlights a calm Sunday for area cotton prospects with modest optimism. The report notes flat crop expectations and mentions nearby conditions in the Alto region.
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Alto
Arene
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