Boy 17 Kills Stepfather in Temple Texas
In Temple Texas 17 year old Clay Bell shot his stepfather H C Woods with a shotgun during a visit by Woods to his mother in Crawford. Bell surrendered to officers and cited alleged mistreatment of his mother as the motive. The inquest found death by gunshot. Woods’ body remains unclaimed at a Temple undertaker as relatives in Kentucky are sought.
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South Third Street
Woods
Mr. Nichols
Justice Ward
Bell
Belton
Temple
Tex
H. D. Woods
Clay Bell
Kentucky
Texas
Denton Public School Is Destroyed By Fire
The Central Public School in Denton Texas with a 2000 volume library and pupils books was totally destroyed Friday night. The fire origin is unknown though defective wiring is suspected. The building had $20 000 insured plus $3000 furniture with total losses estimated around 30000 not counting library.
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Denton
Tex
Central
Carlisle
Witherspoon
Feg
The Right Kind of Reading Matter
A local newspaper column extols home news and town gossip as essential reading, claiming its pages deliver content readers value over external sources and offer the community’s own stories and happenings.
Decatur Festival Tragedy: Diver Dies From Fall
At the Decatur Texas fall festival a high diver fell eighty feet from a water tower used as the platform. He struck the net then a stone and suffered a fatal skull wound. Attendants and Knights of Pythias members aided the body, with the victim identified as a member of local fraternal orders.
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Decatur
Tex
Allie Eckensie
Knights of Pythias
Modern Woodmen of America
Japan Rice Yield Report From Angleton Farm
On Tuesday Mr. Casey reported Japan rice yields about 20 barrels per acre on the Dr. Stockton rice farm in Angleton Texas, with Honduras rice yielding less. Casey cultivated just over 49 acres of both varieties and noted the season could have produced around 20 barrels per acre under normal conditions, yielding a strong return.
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Japan
Angleton
Tex
Casey
Dr. Stockton
Honduras
Father and Daughter Killings Near Henry Hock Creek
On Thursday near Henry Hock Creek community in Taylor County a 41 caliber pistol killed a father, William Griffith, after he pursued his 17 year old daughter Bessie Griffin who had fired first. The incident followed an exchange over work in the cotton field.
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Henry Hockey Creek
Taylor
Bessie Griffin
William Grif
Sennry
Clong Range
Griffith
Bremond Property Sale Aims at Sanitarium Conversion
After months of negotiations for Wootan Wells property, Dr. Robinson of Kansas City is reported to have completed a deal. The plan calls for converting the large brick hotel into a sanitarium, replacing cottages with new buildings and hotels, initiating a general renovation, and adding an electric plant and a rail connection to the Houston & Texas Central Railroad at Bremond.
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Bremond
Tex
Wootan Wells
Dr. Robinson
Kansas City
Houston & Texas Central Railroad
John Webb Reappears After Mysterious Disappearance
John E. Webb returned home to Humble Texas after four months away with his whereabouts unknown. He says he has full mental and physical health now and recalls little of the events leading to his disappearance, including being found at a Houston livery stable and a Galveston bathhouse and later working in a Joplin Missouri zinc mine. He explains a lost memory from June ending with an abrupt awakening in Japan Missouri.
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Humble
Tex
John E. Webb
Houston
Galveston
Webb
Johnny Webb
Joplin
Japan
Johnny E. Webb
Supreme Court拒绝再审 Love税案终结德州摊税
德克萨斯州新闻获悉最高法院拒绝对Love gross receipts税案的再审，宣布对德州铁路总收入征税1%的法律自此无效，州政府将损失约40万美元税收。判决五对四以州权为由否定该法，案情经由地方法院、第三民事上诉法院及最高法院的裁决轮转后最终确立。
Pierce Must Come to Texas for Indictment
Henry Clay Pierce head of Waters Pierce Oil Co must travel to Texas to answer Travis county grand jury charges of false swearing tied to the company’s admission into Texas in 1900. Supreme Court rulings deny rehearing. custody to be executed by sheriff at St Louis on Texas demand.
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Washington
Henry Clay Pierce
Waters Pierce Oil Company
Texas
Travis County Grand Jury
Supreme Court
Pierce
St. Louis
Tragedy at Newton Ends Two Lives in One Night
News from Newton Texas reports that at 10 o clock Saturday night W T Brochard a barber and confectionery merchant was mortally wounded and his 9 year old son killed when Will Hext a laborer aged about 35 fired four shots after a dispute over a small bill. The shots struck Brochard in the breast abdomen and shoulder and the youth in the neck causing instant death.
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Orange
Tex
Newton
Texas
W. T. Brochard
Will Hext
Frisco
Hext
Brochard
Hiawatha
Contractor Picton Aims to Finish North Jetty This Week
Corpus Christi Texas contractor Picton, building the Aransas Pass jetties, says the north jetty will be completed this week and work on the south jetty will start next Monday. He predicts the pass will have thirty five feet of water after the jetty works are finished.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Picton
Aransas Pass
Night riders warn against gin and cotton gathering in Brownwood area
Brownwood Texas reports night riders in two county areas Monday night. At May they posted a Gibbs gin warning not to gin more, and near town mails they warned others not to gather cotton until prices improve.
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Brownwood
Tex
Gibbs
Fatal Mill Accident in San Saba Kills Pambrick
At San Saba Texas a corn mill burr burst killing Will Pambrick instantly while J B Yarborough was seriously injured by rock fragments. The incident occurred on a rural route near West Point where workers also grade streets and lay concrete drains.
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San Saba
Tex
Will Pambrick
J. B. Yarborough
Pambrick
West Point
Allen
Bartlett boy wins 1908 cotton picking title
Temple Texas reports Master Thomas Sughree aged 12 years gathered 281 pounds of cotton on J. W. Ray farm east of Bartlett securing the champion boy cotton picker honor for 1908.
Mexican man Garcia jailed twenty five years for assault
In San Marcos Texas the case State of Texas vs Garcia in district court concluded with Garcia pleading guilty to criminal assault on a young American girl last March. He received a twenty five year penitentiary sentence.
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San Marcos
Tex
State of Texas
Garcia
Big Ranch to Be Cut Up in Corpus Christi Deal
In Corpus Christi Texas the 83 000 acre Dris coll ranch has been bought by the George H Paul Land company for nearly a million dollars. The land will be divided into small tracts and sold to actual settlers.
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Corpus Christi Tex
Driscoll
George H. Paul Land Company
Cotton Receipts Reported at Caldwell Texas
Caldwell Texas reports 6008 bales of cotton received to date for the season, with about ninety percent believed picked and ginned, indicating active harvest progress despite the tally.
Health chief seeks special TB appropriation
Austin Texas State Health Officer Brumby will ask the next legislature for a special appropriation to fund tuberculosis control but is undecided on the amount he will request.
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Austin
Tex
Brumby
Chicago Million Dollar Fire Destroys Dockyards
Property valued at almost 1,000,000 was destroyed by a Friday blaze in Chicago. The fire consumed International docks the offices of the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway and fifty freight cars at 103d street and the Calumet river.
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Chicago
International Docks
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway
103D Street
Calumet River
Weather Watch Maps Mild Fall Run for Cotton Picking
San Augustine reports three weeks of pleasant conditions with light frosts. farmers race to pick cotton before expected rain. Weather remains dry and clear, aiding harvest as rain looms later.
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San Augustine
Tex
Tragic Death Of Boy Struck By Freight Train In Denison
Clarence Bolen seven, returning from school with friends, was struck by a southbound Frisco freight in Denison Texas. His head and body were cut by the train. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Sam Bolen of 728 West Murray Street.
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Denison, Tex
Clarence Bolen
Frisco
Sam Bolen
West Murray Street
Forest Fire Death Toll Reaches Forty One in Michigan
The verified death list from Presque Isle and Alpena forest fires stands at 41 with several missing and high risk of more lives lost in northern Pulaski and Krakow townships. Six bodies were found in Pulaski including Hermann Erke and his children. On Monday two woodsmen found the skeleton of Mrs. William D. Rose near Ocqueroo.
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Bay City
Mich
Presque Isle
Alpena
Pulaski
Krakow
Hermann Erke
William D. Rose
Ocqueroo
King Consents to Abruzzi Elkins Marriage
The king has reportedly given consent to the marriage of the Duke of Abruzzi and Miss Katherine Elkins though no official announcement has been issued. The couple’s plans include travel to the United States via Havre, with newspapers predicting Miss Elkins will become an Italian royal princess and gain royal honors upon marriage.
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Turin
Abruzzi
Katherine Elkins
United States
Havre
Miss Elkins
Houston Carnival funds New York Tuberculosis Exhibit
The Houston Carnival will cover the cost of showing the New York tuberculosis exhibit at the No-Tsu-Oh engagement. The Louisiana State Board of Health effort to move it to Shreveport is unsuccessful.
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Houston
Austin
Tex
Brumby
New York
Louisiana State Board of Health
Shreveport
First Spike in Uvalde Street Railway Driven
A large crowd witnessed Mayor Burney of Uvalde and Rawlingson of Sansome drive the first spike Monday marking the start of construction of the Uvalde street railway.
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Uvalde
Tex
Burney
Rawlingson
Sansome
Sperry in Tokio Arrives with Enthusiastic Welcome
Rear Admiral Sperry commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet arrived in Tokyo at 10 Sunday morning by special train from Yokohama. He was accompanied by squadron commanders and ship captains. The crowd greeted the party with unbounded enthusiasm as the train reached the station. The weather was clear and beautiful.
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Sperry
Tokio
Yokohama
Leesville Cotton Ginning Progress Amid Fair Weather
Cotton picking is progressing rapidly in Leesville Texas with about 1400 bales ginned to date. If fair weather continues for fifteen more days the cotton crop will be all gathered.
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Leesville
Tex
Penitentiary Transfer Agents Removes Five Inmates
Bryan Texas E L Reed transfer agent arrived Sunday and moved five Black inmates from Brazos county jail who were sentenced to penal servitude at the recent district court term.
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Bryan
Tex
E. L. Reed
Brazos County
Corn Growers Meeting Planned for San Antonio
San Antonio business leaders seek to host the next annual Corn Growers Association meeting. President Mullally of the Business Men's Club aims to secure the event location and date, with details to be set by the executive committee.
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Corn Growers’ Meeting
San Anton
Tex
Mulally
The
Business Men's Club
Corn Growers’ Association
Day of Functions With Yankee Fleet in Yokohama
Storm battered but magnificent the American battleship fleet lies in Yokohama harbor as the entire assemblage makes a display unprecedented in the history of the port.
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Yokohama
County institute opens in Angleton with teachers from across the county
Angleton Tex The county institute opened Monday at 10 oclock and will run through the week. Teachers from all over the county attend and a busy session is anticipated.
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Angleton
Tex
County Institute
Santa Fe Shops Burned In Amarillo Fire
A disastrous fire at 5 15 Saturday afternoon destroyed the Santa Fe shops in Amarillo Texas including the roundhouse and water tanks. The plant was wiped out except for the storeroom with loss likely around 100000 dollars. Buildings will be replaced at once.
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Santa Fe
Amarillo
Tex
Rain Ends Thrasher Season in Markham Texas
Rain fell in Markham Texas on Friday signaling the end of the thrashing season as remaining Japan rice is nearly all thrashed and the field work winds down.
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Markham
Tex
Work as though you were to live forever
The passage contrasts living as if to die tonight with having life insurance. It notes that a well insured man can ignore urgency, while others lack funds to support dependents after death. It praises practical policies as proof of forethought and readiness to die if needed.
Steam goes wild with heat in quick quip
In an inspection moment a playful exchange defines steam as water heated past its calm. Patrick answers with a confident joke, turning a science question into a lighthearted bit from Everybody's Magazine.
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Patrick
Everybody’s Magazine
Hicks Capuchine and Allen's Foot Base Remedies Ad
Hicks Capuchine cures nervousness and sleeplessness with a pleasant liquid that quiets nerves. Trial bottle 10c and regular 3d to 3s and Me at druggists. Allen's Foot-Base powder relieves swollen feet with instant relief, 25¢ at all druggists.
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Allen
The Dread of Ridicule Stifles Originality at Birth
A brief reflection notes that fear of mockery curbs new ideas and creative expression. It argues that social judgment can suppress originality from its earliest emergence, shaping how individuals present innovative thoughts.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Teething Remedy Ad
An 19th century advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing for teething children. It claims gum softening, pain relief, and relief from wind colic, presenting the product as a universal remedy for infant discomfort.
It isn’t necessary for a married man to know his mind
A note on marital roles suggests a humorous or ironic view that a husband’s inner thoughts need not be openly known. The remark underscores social expectations about privacy in marriage and the balance of knowledge within domestic life.
Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound Fame Widely Cited
The advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as highly effective for women's health. It claims extensive testimonials and letters from users and notes the remedy's roots and herbs plus lack of drugs. The copy asserts it can save women from surgical operations and restore feminine health.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Ee Ay Ee
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