Big Day in Schulenburg celebrates Freiligrath Lodge anniversary
Freiligrath Lodge No. 140 D. H. S. marked its 10th anniversary with a daylong celebration in Schulenburg. A big dinner parade and grand ball drew hundreds, with favorable weather and crowds from La Grange, Moulton, Hallettsville, San Antonio, and Weimar. The Lone Star Band led a multi-band parade as 526 visitors arrived on an excursion train and 716 pleasure seekers arrived on a special from San Antonio.
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Freiligrath Lodge
Lone Star
Moulton
Halletsville
Krueger Verein
San Antonio
Hilden
Weimar
Fayetteville
Breslau
la Grange
New England Conscience in Winter Notebook Entry
A Harper's excerpt presents Kipling’s winter Vermont notebook with reflections on New England life. It notes the region's silence, moral debates, revivals, and neighborly tensions born from long evenings by the Connecticut River and the urge to think deeply in cold, quiet towns.
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Kipling
New England
Vermont
Harper's
Connecticut River
Local notices mix medical tonics and racial tensions in Cuero
A mixed page presents Cheatham's Tasteless Chill Tonic ads alongside a racist tirade from La Grange Journal. It also notes the death of Mrs Ed Mattingly after an illness, the birth of a daughter, and a separate obituary, with endorsements for various patent medicines and a Cuero Weekly Star critique of readers who critique newspapers.
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Ed Mattingly
Judge Teichmueller
Mattingly
Wimberly
Claude
LeRoy
la Grange
Cheatham
Round Trip to Cloudcroft New Mexico by Southern Pacific
On September 16 the Southern Pacific will sell round trip tickets from Galveston Houston and San Antonio to Cloudcroft New Mexico at 15.00 dollars good for 30 days. The trip highlights mountain scenery, Cloudcroft as a charming resort, and it invites inquiries to L J Parks Sunset Route Houston Texas for details and literature.
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Galveston
Houston
San Antonio
Cloudcroft
New Mexico
Sacramentos
L. J. Parks
Sunset
Texas
German American lodge bands and visiting officials at Fayetteville ball
A Fayetteville social event featured many lodge bands and visiting dignitaries. The Fayetteville and Lone Star bands performed for a packed hall while officials in carriages and citizens in buggies gathered. Prof. F P Guenther of Moulton was elected county superintendent of schools, praised for energy and scholarship and ease with German, expected to be a strong official.
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F.P. Guenther
Moulton
Halletsville
Where Shall I Go for the Summer
A lighthearted travel prompt suggests destinations by rail via the Katy Flyer. The ad touts a wide vestibuled train with buffet sleepers and Katy reclining chair cars. Contact any Katy agent or W. G. Crush in Dallas for rates and schedules.
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Katy
W. G. Crush
Dallas
Texas
New York Club Woman Praises American Women’s Clubs
A prominent New York club woman recounts Europe visit noting London clubs imitate men’s clubs with housing and social spaces. She praises American women’s clubs for aiming to improve society and laments local clubs’ desire to “patch the holes in the world’s design.”
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New York
Palace
Victor Smith
Batchelor
Union Club
Europe
London
Farm for sale 212 acres in Swiss Alp Texas
212 acre farm in Swiss Alp Texas with black sandy soil wind mill tank and good improvements 75 acres cultivated priced at 27 dollars per acre contact W Sander Swiss Alp Texas for details
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W. Sander
Swiss Alp
Texas
Little Sympathy for the Boers Paris View
A Paris dispatch in the Boston Transcript quotes a diplomat who says no Continental government except Moiland supports the Boers. The diplomat suggests other nations would back England less forbearingly and would regret any loss of England's power from the war.
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Paris
Boston Transcript
Moiland
England
American books rise in popularity in April list
Book buyers show strong demand for American novels with five of seven top titles in April from American authors. The list includes Red Patchage, Janice Meredith, When Knighthood Was in Flower, Richard Carvel, The Gentleman from Indiana, and Resurrection, with Red Postage as the sole English entry by Miss Cholmondeley.
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England
Janice Meredith
Richard Carvel
Indiana
Miss Cholmondeley
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Frielegrath Lodge
Schulenburg
Lloyd Steamship Line
Atlantic
Ocean Greyhound
Stettin
Oceanic
ADD Ran University
A. Clark
Mountain
Cheatham’s
Henry Knigge
la Grange Journal
J. W. Frazier
Methodist Church
Jesus Christ
Chicago
North
Hant
Darkey
Cuero Weekly Star
Chamberlain
Paul Breymann
New Mexco
Bob Antonio
San Antonio Ooes
Lone Star Band
Roemer
Ritter
Bismarck
LaGrange
Germania
Flatonia
Buaen
Moltke Lodge
Cedar Lodge
Bluff
Beethoven Lodge
Ellinger
Arnim Lodge
Yorktown
Thusnelda Lodge
Seguin
Julius Schuetz
Ammaville
Frobsinn
Kaiser Friederich
High Hill
Swiss Alp Society
Mozart
Aschbacher
Marion
Richard Seydler
Holman
Klaus Grothe
Scharnhorst
Engle
Hackberry Society
Carl Schurz
Louise Schuetze
Halletsvilhe Band
Cannon
McKinnon
Beneker
London Women’s Clubs
D. G. Helmers
San Antonio and
Aransas Pass
Shiner
Robinson Thurmal
R. Wright
Waelder
A. A. Cherry
J. F. Dockery
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