Lone Star State Industrial Notes Report
Commercial club formed in Navasota to promote local business. Kerrville sees wool stockpiled at Schreiner warehouse with few sales at 30 cents per pound. San Benito Swedes buy 800 acre irrigated tract near town for small farms. Brenham domestic science adds textile product demos in schools. Beeville hog shipments reach five carloads with county hogs at high levels. Mexia pecan crop expected to exceed prior years with strong nut quality and prices. San Benito hog industry expands with potential 16000 head sales this year. Sonora cotton harvest marks first and last time, about two bales grown, farmers break with King Cotton over near-zero prices.
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San Benito
Illinois
Sonora
Sutton County
Hallowe'en Party Nets $25 for Moulton Club
The Studeman home hosted a Halloween party on Friday October 30 for the Moulton Home and School Club. Jack o lanterns decorated the porch which became a stage for music speeches fortunes and a comic drama. Refreshments followed as proceeds reached about 25 dollars.
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Hallowe'en
Ed. Studeman
Moulton
War and Fire The Twin Enemies of Progress
Editorial laments war and fires as twin threats to progress. Calls for concrete action over mere wishes, urging readers to back beliefs with judgment and effort to prevent devastation.
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General Sherman
Community Notes Include Visitors And First Baby Of Week
Henkhaus notes the hunting season opening and a well attended Saturday dance. Jos Heger and family, Ferdinand Schindler and relatives visited Weimar. Frank Wickard family traveled to Shiner. Rudolf Seidenberger welcomes a baby girl born November 27. Albert Brom family and Ludwig F. Heinrich family seen passing through en route to Yoakum.
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Jos, Heger
Ferdinand Schindler
Scott’s School
Weimar
Frank Wickard
Hallettsville
Shiner
Rudolf Seidenberger
Albert Brom
Near Moulton
Yoakum
Ludwig F. Heinrich
Re opening the Channels of Trade
After diplomatic talks with England, American shippers may send cotton to Germany and Austria without British interference. Several foreign steamers left Galveston with cotton for belligerent nations and more will sail soon. Germany and Austria demand seventy five thousand bales monthly to meet needs during the war, reviving U S commerce and likely boosting cotton prices.
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England
Germany
Austria
Galveston
Representa
Local visitors and new homes noted in city circle
Mrs R B Papacek visits Al vin with her parents Mr and Mrs Arnold Supt and Mre W K E Parr return from Yoakum Miss Ella Meyer Swiss Alp stays in city visiting sister Mrs O Knape Mr and Mrs H W Harrison Flatonia visit Warne r Krause family Hermann Thar settles in new city home Charles Miculka family return from Cis tern after days with relatives Albert Wolf and family depart for Arnegker many friends greet them
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Mrs. R. B. Papacek
Alvin
Mrs. Arnold
Ella Meyer
O. &. Knape
H. W. Harrison
Flatonia
City
Warner. Krause
Hermann Thar
Charles Miculka
Cistern
German born Eliza Brune dies at home near Moulton
Mrs Eliza Brune a native of Germany died at her home near Moulton on October 27 1914 She was born April 27 1840 at Bue desheim on the Rhein Her parents Richard and Poth emigrated with 75 others bound for America Their voyage included a Texas blizzard and a death in the party before the Bernard Prairie settlement was reached
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Eliza Brune
Moulton
Germany
Buedesheim
Rhein
Richard Poth
America
Texas
Galveston
Bernard Prairie
Bernard
Me Poth
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Lone Star State Industrial Notes
Navasota
Kerrville
Schreiner
Brenham
Beeville
Bee
Mexia
Rio Grande Valley
Hallowe’en Party
Cal
Henkhaus
Supt
Mre
W. KE. Parr
Albert Wolf
Arnegker
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