General William F. Draper Named Ambassador to Italy
Gen William F Draper of Seatex and Boston has been elected ambassador to Italy. A prominent cotton manufacturer and friend of President McKinley he leads George Draper & Sons after his father’s death. His career spans congress tenure and industrial innovation with about 50 inventions. He is 55 and active in tariff research and corporate affairs.
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William F. Draper
Seatex
Boston
Italy
McKinley
Mamsachusette
Hopedale
Blilford
Draper
George Draper & Sons
Butterworth Plums to Patents Chief in McKinley Era
Benjamin Butterworth, newly appointed commissioner of patents, is renowned in Washington for his long service in Congress and prolific patent theory. He gained wide support in Ohio, with acclamations shaping his rise, and his career spans bar practice, state offices, and multiple congressional terms. The note adds a brief line about a weapon discovery in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Omle
Benjamin Butterworth
Washington
Congdom
Ohio
Lie
Ben
Son Io
Miss Phoebe Cousins No Longer The Nation's Leading Woman Lawyer
Phoebe Cousins, once famed as the first woman lawyer and a stalwart suffrage advocate, is now gravely ill. Once courted by presidents and senators, she rejected traditional roles to pursue public reform, but age and illness have clouded her legacy and blurred her once sharp drive for women's equality.
May Day Fete Promises Royal Crowning At Beethoven Hall
The Ladies of the Woman’s Exchange and Library announce a May day fete and ball next Saturday night at Beethoven hall. Misses Julia King Ada Robards Bertha Houst Helen Devine and Charlotte Mackwell head the pageant while children perform songs. Separate notices discuss piano sales commissions and political party coordination with state and national committees.
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Welock
Beethoven Hall
Julia King
Berste Houst
Ada Robards
Wummel
L. Beal
Helen Devine
G. Lowe
Charlotte Mackwell
Mnathary Im
O Claim His Bride in Texas Jewelers Tale
Otio W. Andrae once a noted jeweler engraver now a businessman in Atlanta Ga is at the Menger hotel unrecognizable due to weight gain. He plans to wed Olga Rochs a longtime Menger day operator next Wednesday evening at 6330 Welock and take a trip to New Orleans and Galveston before moving his business to Shreveport.
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Otio W. Andrae
Atants
Menger Hotel
Welock
Anfrae
Reliability versus chance in organ purchases
Advice warns buyers to choose a reliable house when purchasing organs from dealers. It says trusted firms protect buyers, offering remedies if instruments fail. The text condemns buying from traveling agents, implying risk and potential trouble with unsound sellers.
Fruits and Flowers Aid Society Meeting
FRUITS AND FLOWERS. Arrangements for collecting and distributing wanittes for the Fick, Presidenit Vale Hicks of the Fan An tone Bruit and Slower mission, will call together his committee on organization, constitution and by laws and carmutter on qublle ball, on Tuesday afternoon next, to Trenere for the town meeting to be held later on in the weak. In either the opera house or one of the laggest halls In the city, her society sorely meets contitu tions of various jellies, grapiola oats, meat, soups, etc., for last stage con sumptive and paralyzed cages they have in charge. Also reports will be made up in the work and from reports made by nod tles In other cities of a similar kind as to how it should be done most sus cePtibly at 2 minis cost. The society will give to money but will Investigate cases and where wor thy, will seek to relieve them. New vases are daily reported. All contributions of flowers, reading matter, fruits and jellies are solicited for the regular Hunday distribution, to be sent not later than 1 o'clock p. m. to Silverthorn and Wagner, corner Houston street and Avenue . The subject of fall visitation will al so he brought before the town meeting.
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Presidenit Vale Hicks
Antone Bruit
Trenere
Silverthorn
Wagner
Houston Street
Avenue
Dr Hight Denies Knife Attack In Boxing Incident
Dr Hight writes to Daily Edgbton denying injuring Dr Goodman and recounts an altercation in which Goodman pursued him with threats and a drawn gun bluff yet claims he disarmed Goodman without using a chair while witnesses observed.
Notice of stockholders meeting at San Antonio May 9 1897
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Santa Rosa Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company will be held in San Antonio Texas on May 9 1897 for the election of a dean of directors and to transact such business as may properly come before such meeting. R A Hanatock President.
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Santa Rosa Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company
San Antonio
Texas
R. A. Hanatock
Rival Electric Plants Battle Quietly Rages
A garbled report notes a feud between two electric plants over key facilities and public utilities. No clear dates or specifics are readable, but mentions of tensions and competing interests imply a continuing dispute affecting services.
Jury Cannot Reach Verdict In Will James Theft Case
In the Thirty-seventh District court the jury trying Will James for stealing B E Glaze’s bicycle reported they could not agree and were discharged. A new trial was granted in J H Wallace forgery case, while Bertha Sampson’s four year sentence for burglary and theft was overruled on appeal. Indictments included Zols Vera theft under fifty dollars and Hasty King accused of murder. Terese Burns sues for divorce with alimony and custody. W M Locke sues Storiano Perailo for title to 1280 acres on Culebra road and $1000 damages.
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Will James
BE. F. Glaze
J. H. Wallace
Bertha Sampson
Zols Vera
Hasty King
B.C. Villalabos
Wlander
Dond
Gulf Shore
Williamler
W. M. Locke
Storiano Perailo
Culebra
King's New Discovery Praised By Suffering Smokers
Augur Bogel of Shreveport Louisiana and J F Campbell of Safford Arizona praise King's New Discovery as the only cure for their coughs and a sure remedy for consumption. Free trial bottles offered at Falteyer & Son's Drug Store. Mayor Callaghan comments on 1896-97 tax levy and Elmendorf administration budget, with budget timing pushed to June.
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J. Bogel
Urngpiet
Shreveport
King’s
Weller
J. F. Campbell
Chant
Safford
Arix
King
Ealteyer & Son
Callaghan Tiloka
Elmendorf
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