City Council Minutes Report Petitions and Repairs
Regular monthly city council meeting discussed petitions and accounts with little business. A refund request for power bills was referred to the waterworks committee, and a damage claim by Alice Jackson was postponed for investigation. A resolution allowed levy on delinquent taxes, while collectors and deputy Roark faced follow up on back taxes. About $1000 in delinquent taxes had been collected to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. F. Jasper
Waterworks Committee
Alice Jackson
W. B. McClurkan
J. T. Page
Messrs
Egan and
Roark
Old Guard Admits Roosevelt Victory in Election Row
In a terse meeting the Old Guard conceded Roosevelt’s win as chairman but argued they cannot control in venture or policy direction. The clash signals factional strains within the party leadership.
Turn Down of Sherman Declared Slap at Taft
Saratoga New York Sept 27 Col Roosevelt leads a personally conducted convention as old guard leaders Barnes Woodruff and Sherman clash over Roosevelt as temporary chairman. The fight centers on direct primaries and support for Roosevelt amid a split party. Sherman remains in the battle with hope of swaying delegates while the old guard maintains control of the executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
Roosevelt
Barnes
Woodruff
Sherman
Old Guard
Roosevit
Committee
Taft
New York
Africa
Depot
Griscom
Missouri Republicans Endorse Taft Administration
Missouri Republicans will endorse the Taft administration while Roosevelt supporters in the state oppose committing Missouri to Roosevelt in 1912.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Taft
Roosevelt
Prohibitionists urged to unite at Texas meeting
Houston urged all prohibitionists to stand together in a political party at the Twenty-eighth annual meeting in Waco. He said the Anti-saloon League and the W C T U should not oppose party prohibition. A. J. Houston, candidate of prohibitionists for governor, spoke as Mrs. Nannie Curtis presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Anti- Saloon League
Waco
Tex
Anti—saloon League
A. J. Houston
League
Fire kills and injures dozens at Houston warehouse blaze
A Houston transfer warehouse fire on Wood Street injures 35 firefighters, with three feared dead after carbide storage exploded when water hit the burning stock. Loss exceeds $100,000, with fifty families displaced. other local facilities suffered damages including the Texag Ba and Fibres plant at $17,000 and E Alkemeyer warehouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Houston Transfer Company
Wood Street
Texag Ba and Fibres Company
Mexican man ends agony by shooting himself after accident
Amado Garza, a Mexican laborer in San Antonio, shot himself in the head after an accidental gun discharge during pecan thrashing at Pearsall. He believed he would die soon from a groin wound and killed himself to end his suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Amado Garza
Garza
Pearsall
Telegraph Workman Killed by Live Wire in Galveston
Galveston Texas September 27 William Gaynor thirty a lineman died after contact with a live electric wire while painting a telephone post. He had few known facts locally aside from relatives said to live in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
Tex
William Gaynor
England
Evers Stoves Offer Experts Help and Fair Terms
A local stove dealer promotes a lifetime of experience and neighborly trust, inviting customers to compare the best stoves. The ad promises reasonable prices and flexible terms, urging shoppers to visit and see for themselves.
Petition for Speedy Trial in Crane Murder Case
About 1000 men sign a petition taken to Judge Pearson in Sherman Texas urging a special grand jury to investigate the killing of M. P. Crane and to grant a speedy trial to Ben Thomas the Negro who stabbed Crane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Tex
Pearson
M. P. Crane
Ben Thomas
Crane
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Williams Store
Denton County
Moon Bros. Buggies
Queeneware
Taylor Hardware Co
Denton County National Bank
J. P. Blount
B.H. Deavenport
A. E. Graham
V.pres
R.M. Barns
Asst
the Alliance Milling CO
Zor
E.L. Hopkins Livery Stable
W. Hickory St
Denton
W. S. Yeagley
Ice
Chronicle
Ben Key
Record
Weather Report
New Orleans
Toni
First National Bank
Denton, Texas
Paris
France
Jarrell-Evans Dry Goods Co
Roosevelt Victor
Stacy Adams
Long & Wilson
Evers
Evers Hardware Co
Majestic Airdome
Martyne and
Hardy
Charater
The
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