Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
A historical testimonial advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as curing various female ailments including ulceration displacements and inflammation. It claims long use, free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts, and urges women to try the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bardstown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Joserullau
Barda- Town
Christiana
Tenn
Mrs. Many Woop
R.F.D
Terrific storms kill and maim across the Midwest and South
Severe storms across the Midwest and South cause several deaths and injuries and heavy property damage. Reports from Arkansas Mississippi Tennessee Illinois and Iowa describe ruined towns damaged infrastructure and widespread power and communication outages.
Denison to Get Four-Story Peanut Factory
Denison plans an $25,000 four story peanut factory by Texas Nut Company of Cleveland Ohio to process North Texas peanuts. The Denison Board of Trade promotes the site to spur planting, with contracts to pay market prices and operate year round if peanut supply allows. Local farmers expect growing peanut acreage to rise as land recovers soil, and profits for 40 bushels per acre at 60 cents per bushel plus $10 per ton hay.
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Vealton
Texas Nut Company
Cleveland
Denison Board of Trade
Denison Denison Board of Trade
Denison
Oil woes and cross country events in Texas and Oklahoma
Telegraphic briefs report James Davis fatally injured in Tulsa after a sleepwalk fall. Beaumont chosen as Knights of Pythias meeting site. oil field activity near Dein with a new well May 1. Grand jury probes a lynching in Ada. Diaz visit urged in El Paso. Gainesville reports a big oil strike near Ten miles west. Various other local incidents across Texas and Oklahoma include fires, murders, lynchings, accidents, and court actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillsboro
Tex
Dein
Here
Beaumont Oil
Self-Defense Claims Against Lamastic Robbery Tale
The Dallas Times Herald questions a Reco and Chronicle robber yarn about corn soaked in whiskey. It recounts Denton and Bonham brag stories of a drunken turkey gobbler hatching eggs and a Rhode Island Red nest in a tree near Lamasco. Col. J. D. Whayne owns the gobbler and plans to expand the scheme next season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas Time
Herald
Reco and Chronicle
Times Herald
Roosevelt
South Africa
Dan F. Sullivan
Denton
Bonham
Mr. Sullivan
Newt White
Lamasco
Rhode Island
White
Col
J. D. Whayne
Court House
Col. Whayne
Indictments in Marshall Texas Murder Case
Grand jury returns murder indictments after Deputy Huffman killed and Constable Cargill wounded by Negroes. Creole Mose Pie Hill and Mat Chase charged with murder and assault to murder highway robbery and firearms. Attorneys appointed and trials set for Monday.
Numerous 1909 events span politics, crime and science
Rev. Ulney in Ennial Vernon. Allison Mayfield becomes Railroad Commission chair. Dallas church calls Rev. Barto from Waco. Tornado at Douglas Kansas kills Louis Ayres and injures ten. Dr. David F. Houston undergoes appendicitis surgery in St. Louis with recovery possible. Fort Worth sets Democratic primary May 12 to pick mayor successor. War Secretary Dickinson tours Colon for Panama Canal inspection. Missouri Senate amends bank guaranty bill. House likely not to concur. Richard Croker exits American politics. Beach Hargis jailed for patricide, life term at Irvine Kentucky. Senator Nelson hires tariff expert to find jokers. Two more Oklahoma banks convert to state charters. Massachusetts Governor Draper says Japan competes with U.S. cotton mills. Taft may seek larger signal corps and aeronautics funding. Rev J W Hill of Dallas supports church bond issue in Memphis. Spradlin case goes to jury in Dallas. Dr J Spradlin charged in bleeder murder. Ross County votes net by 2000 margin amid militia presence. Supreme Court rules county subdivision cannot be created solely for local option election in two or more precincts.
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Lame Ulney
Vernon
Allison Mayfield
Railroad Commission
Baptist Church of
Dallas
Barto
Waco
Douglas
Kan
Louis Ayres
David F. Houston
St. Louis
Fort Worth
Williams
Dickinson
Colon
Panama Canal
Missouri Senate
House
Richard Croker
Beach Hargis
Irvine
Nelson
Oklahoma Nationaal
Gov. Draper
Massachusetts
Japan
United States
Taft
Signal Corps
J. W. Hill
Church Extension Board
M. E. Church South
Memphis
Spradlin
Dr. J. Spradlin
A. J. Rogers
Ross County
Supreme Court
Dallas to get pay as you enter street cars
Fragments report numerous national items including a Dallas pay as you enter street car program, a large Texas fund subscription, fires, tornado deaths, political moves, and legal actions across several states. Notes mention Jac Johnson Jeffries mill bid, Ada lynching investigations, census reform, and a forthcoming grand jury in Muskogee townsite fraud cases.
Dallas names R. L. Cornwell chief of police
Dallas appoints R. L. Cornwell as chief of police. Gov. John A. Johnson may join Minnesota’s senatorial race. Florida Senate approves a bill restricting voters to white males. Texas Baptists report over 106000 dollars raised for home and foreign causes.
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R. L. Cornwell
Dallas
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
Florida Senate
Multiple Disparate Events Reported Across Cities
Washington upheld ruling against bleached flour while Blackhanders fire a tenement in New York killing eight and injuring fourteen. Sulphur Springs fires up a crowd to discuss a north south railroad line. Ellis found after disappearing in Hot Springs. Great Lakes Seamen strike to begin with 6,000 members involved. Fort Worth presbytery acquits Rev Caldwell over religious views. Pontotoc grand jury adjourns with no indictments of Ada lynchers. Watt Goodson preserves 22,000 in an old fruit jar while seeking his money. Ignatius Ralf dies rescuing six year old Adolph Reiss, who will recover. Arkansas prosecutes Waters-Pierce Oil with over five million in penalties. Memphis extension board adds 15900 yearly to loan fund. Sexton named assistant secretary. Dallas aftermath: two injured, mother Nora Tyson and Lizzie Kerns fined for intoxication.
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Gainesville
Tex
Here
Myra Oil Company
Katy
Independent
Godley
Johnson County
Waco
Cisco
Eastland County
Texas Central Railroad
Texas Central
Lampasas
Charles Hoover
John Cumby
Hoover
Waxahachie
Robert
Johnnie Holveck
Midlothian
Beaumont
Waterman
Texas and Gulf Rairoad
Arthur Beinan
C. A. Roberson
Hill County
Rogers
Knoxville
Oklahoma City
Okla
St.s
John W. Gates
Port Arthur
Kansas City Southern
Texas
Orient
Texarkana
Dallas
Fort Worth
Col. Gates
Amarillo
Golley
Goldfield
Nev
Jeffries-Johnson
Terrell
Adana
Golden
David F. Houston
Clarence Jolson
Decatur
Condtton
Clow's
N. M
Canadiana
Ada
Congresman Scott
Kansas
Wilson
New York
Galvestop
Nora Tyson
Census
North
Nagel
B. J. Sloat
Teague
Dck Ward
Sloat
Ward
Sam Davis
Pulaski
Tenn
Nashville
Chicago
W. D. Davis
Denton County
North Fort Worth
W. D. Williams
Q. A. Ellis
Gatesville
Hot Springs
Ark
Seay
Hay
R. L. Cornwell
Cornwell
United States
Muskogee
Gov
Haskell
Grante
Wickersham
Iehard
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
New York City
North and South
Seamen's Union of the
Ignatius J. Ralf
Houston
Adolph Reiss
Arkansas
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
M. E. Church South
Memphis
Geo
Sexton
Lizzie Kerns
Many Events Reported From Across World Headlines
Castro may sue France over expulsion. Manuel Amador, first Panama president, dead. Mrs. W. E. Leadford killed by Birmingham streetcar. John W. Gates denies plans to buy Waters-Pierce Texas property. Roosevelt party killed four lions with three by Roosevelt and one by Kermit. Smallpox outbreak in Adana amid massacres. Japanese warships arrive in San Francisco, greeted. Harvard gift fund reaches $150,000 toward $200,005 goal. Mills eyed as gubernatorial candidate via Austin letter. Confederate monument planned for Washington. Gatesville map missing then found. General Lee statue to be unveiled at Memphis Confederate reunion. Insurance charter in Kansas allows banks to guarantee deposits. Kassim barracks revolt at Constantinople. leaders sought. Storm toll 224 dead, 40 injured. $2,000,000 property loss. C. Pierce case for false swearing may proceed May 17. James Hazen Hyde convicted for taxi collision in Paris. Comanche judge indicts Rep. Gaines for killing opponent last July. bond posted. Cooke county dry efforts spurred by Supreme Court ruling. Harvard Astronomer Pickering seeks Texas visit for observatory site. Texas Central stance on Jim Crow law questioned. Tennessee legislature adjourns after drasti reforms. veto disputes over intoxicant searches persist.
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Castro
France
Manuel Amador
Panama
W. E. Leadford
Powterly
Ala
John W. Gates
Waters- Pierce Texas
Roosevelt
Kermit
Adana
San Francisco
Chas. W. Eliot
Harvard
Chas. H. Mills
Austin
Washington
Sons of Veterans of the North
South
Q. A. Ellis
Gatesville
UC Noimati
Stephen D. Lee
Memphis
Kansas
Kassim
Constantinople
Mn. C. Pierce
James Hazen Hyde
Equitable Life
Paris
Comanche County
E. C. Gaines
J. W. Reese
Gaines
Comanche
Cooke County
Supreme Court
Pickering
Mars
Texas
West Texas
Hamilton
Texas Central
Eastland County
Tennessee
Patterson
Mexican teen stabbed to death in San Antonio feud
Frank Castellano aged nineteen was stabbed to death late last night near his San Antonio home after years of feud. Police seek another Mexican named Valdez in connection with the killing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Frank Castellano
Valdez
Ten jurors chosen in Lane case at Corsicana trial
Ten jurors were selected today in the case of J. P. Lane charged with killing his stepdaughter Miss Bell Nix on March 7. The trial is drawing much attention.
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Lane
Corsicana
Tex
J. P. Lane
Miss Bell Nix
Hhuch
Abdul Hamid Is A Prisoner In Salonica After Deposition
Constantinople reports Abdul Hamid I, former ruler of the empire, is kept prisoner in a walled house overlooking Salonica. He is not to be tried and his household will be lavishly administered as the government seeks to recover wealth tied to the ex-Sultan.
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Constantinople
Abdul Hamid I
Salonica
Turkey
Abdul Hamid
Yildix Palace
Mohamed V
Suahagg
Leishman
United States
Sabah Eddine
Letter from J F P Lee of Oklahoma to Recording Chronicle
J F P Lee writes from 27 miles north of Herrietta Oklahoma after two years away from Texas. He notes strong farming in Oklahoma with corn 45 bushels per acre cotton one fourth bale per acre but bollworms cut cotton by half. Wheat looks promising and rain on the 19th boosts planting as many farmers plant cotton this week.
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J. FP. Lee
Clack
Aubrey
Texas
Record
Chronicle
Wife
Roanoke
Justin
Ranchman Kills Mexican in Quarrel Near Range
Range Texas May 4. Late yesterday at a ranch near here James Tomlinson shot and killed a Mexican, Bruno Gonzales, as the result of a quarrel.
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Range
Tex
James Tomlinson
Bruno Gonzales
Bell County Telephone System Sold for 25000
Belton Texas May 4 property of Bell County Telephone Co was sold under court order for 25000 to H M Daugherty J B Camion and Jos Brailey.
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Belton, Tex
Bell County Telephone Cs
J. B
Cam
Ion
Jos. Brailey
Buckeye State Prohibition Battle Opens in Chillicothe
Wet and dry election kicks off with women patrols at polling places. Detectives guard dry interests while undercover officers monitor the wet side. Reverend Eldredge of Cincinnati Anti Saloon League jailed for polling place limit violation amid large police presence. Sheriff Swope and Judge Goldsberry mobilize one hundred deputies. A Portsmouth preacher named Park is assaulted as women patrols use cameras to observe.
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Chillicothe
Rev. Eldredge
Cincinnati
Anti- Saloon League
Swope
Goldsberry
Rev. Park
Portsmouth
Cutting Cotton: Bulletin on Early Weevil Control at A M College
A Texas A and M Experiment Station bulletin by W C Welborn describes cutting small cotton stalks in mid October to destroy boll weevil breeding grounds, noting improved fiber and reduced trash with minimal cost.>The method aims to reduce weevil populations by depriving squares of breeding sites up to six weeks before frost.
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College Station
Tex
W. C. Welborn
Texas Experiment Station
A. & M. College
Denver Denton Dead Letter List May 1909
List of uncalled letters at the Denton Texas post office for week ending May 1909. Letters will move to the Dead Letter Office in Washington May 16 if not claimed. Includes Ladies List and Gentlemen List with named names and a one cent fee for each advertised letter.
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Denton
Texas
Washington
Lina Baker
Vean Bowers
Sallie Cobb
Lulu Cook
Sarah Hart
Thos
A. Hauzhhan
Nannie McClether
Temple
Jas
Mattie Garrison
Haydee Morgan
G. L. George
Horace M. Green
Witt Lew's
Edgar McBrayer
Other Smith
W. G. Strait
Chris
Charlie Washington
Wood
Elmo. Wright
John B. Schmitz
P. M
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Oux Rapids
Iowa City
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Wes Wrested
Nison's Peanut Factory
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James Davis
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Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Pythian
H. A. Burett
Palestine
Ada, Okla
el, Paso
Diaz of Mexico
el Paso
Internationl Bridge
F. W. Harper
Sam Chisholm
G. G. Whitfield
J. S. Morgan
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C. J. Porter
Fred West
Bailey
Buffalo
Eastland
Dabney
Texas News Service
E. IL. Pearson
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Ind
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C. S. Brown
Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad
Houspecs
Georgge Hall
Marshall
Ane County
Tyler
Simpson
Mineola
Jim Hodge
Winnie Harmon
W. P. Getzendaner
State Senate
Citizens’ National Bank
New Orleans
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
George Downs
E. A. Blount
Dstrict
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Odie Hillen
George Blackey
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