Expeditions Into Northland Planned for Three Years
In New York on February 4, President Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History announced two major Arctic explorations. A Stefansson led three year voyage is funded by a $25,000 gift from Mrs. Morris K. Jessup, while Donald B. McMillan will lead another expedition northwest of Grant Land, following Peary’s 1909 observations set to start this summer.
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Stefansson
New York
Northland
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American Museum of Natural History
Stefansson-Anderson
Osborn
Wilhjalmar Stefansson
Morris K. Jessup
Grant Land
Peary
Donald B. McMillan
Museum
Cleburne Minister Dead in Johnson County
Rev. W. Menefee, longtime Johnson county resident and Methodist minister, died at 9:30 this morning. A Confederate veteran who served in the Mexican War, he came to Johnson county in 1854 and was 95 years old.
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Cleburne
Tex
W. ©. Menefee
Johnson County
Menefee
Things Do Not Just Happen
A concise statement attributes outcomes to deliberate work of a healthy body and brain, arguing that success results from intelligent effort rather than chance or fate. It stresses the role of mental and physical health in shaping events and personal achievements.
West Coming Feb 7 Lecture on City Planning
Marion West of Chicago, president of the American Park Builders, will lecture on city planning and landscape architecture at Carnegie Hall Friday night February 7 at 8 o'clock. Atlee B. Ayres, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce City Plan Committee, announced the event. No admittance fee will be charged, and a large audience is expected.
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Marion West
Chicago
American Park Builders
Carnegie Hall
Atlee B. Ayres
Chamber of Commerce
West
Pearson Presented at Buckingham Palace Levee
Feb 4 at Bucking ham Palace Sir Edward Grey introduced the United States embassy staff to the king Charles the first. F B Pearson president of the Mexican Northwestern Railroad was also presented.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Edward Grey
United States
Pearson
Mexican Northwestern Railroad
Harlandale Hot Sulphur Baths Promises Relief
Advertisement urges nervous disorder and insomnia sufferers to take a course of Harlandale hot sulphur baths. It claims the waters’ medicinal properties ease grip aftereffects and improve comfort and happiness, advising riders to take the South Flores street car.
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Harlandale
South Flores Street
Officers Strike Continues On Fabre Line Vessel
Marseilles France February 4 The steamship Canada of the Fabre line sailed for New York with a staff of St Malo port officers. The strike continues as officers who deserted their ships urge arriving crews to join. The motive is the company's failure to grant better conditions and pay.
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Marseilles
France
Steamship Canada
Fabre Line
New York
St. Malo
Mrs Booth to Tour Texas on Prison Farm Inspection
Mrs Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America travels to Texas by special invitation of Governor Colquitt and the state prison commission to inspect prison plantations farms and the prisons at Rusk and Huntsville. Governor Colquitt and the commissioners accompany her on the tour.
Farmer Wounded in Farm Shooting Near Hillsboro
J C Mayberry a farmer twelve miles northwest of Hillsboro was shot and seriously wounded around sundown. R N Shelton who lived in a tent on Mayberry's farm is jailed in Hillsboro. The shooting followed a dispute after Mayberry ordered Shelton off his land.
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Hillsboro
Tex
J. C. Mayberry
R. N. Shelton
Mayberry
Shelton
Grace Cox Dies After Gasoline Burn Fire Incident
Mrs Grace Cox a trainer nurse who was badly burned cleaning gloves with gasoline and who developed pneumonia from the shock of the burn died this morning in Waco Texas on February 4.
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Waco, Tex
Grace Cox
Newspaper Plant Destroyed in Erie Fire
Erie pa February 4 flames practically destroyed the plant of the Evening Herald with total fire loss in the past 24 hours about 500000 dollars.
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Erie
Evening Herald
Seguin poised for commission government vote
Seguin Texas politics indicate revival of the push for commission government in the upcoming city campaign amid strong local sentiment in favor of the change.
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Seguin
Tex
Comptroller Reports 6.26 Million Transactions Processed
Austin February 4 Comptroller Lane released a statement after Governor Colquitt's request detailing that the comptroller's department handled a total of 6 256 638 separate transactions across its various divisions.
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Comptroller
Austin
Tex
Colquitt
Comptroller’s Department
Lane
Beach trial opens in Aiken for alleged attack on wife
In Aiken South Carolina on February 4 the Beach case begins with Mr Frederick Beach and his wife facing a juried trial over a reported winter attack. Prosecution presents eleven witnesses and argues the wife was stabbed from behind by a man described by witnesses and doctors. A juror named S H P Davis, a farmer, is first selected.
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Aiken
S. C
Frederick O. Beach
Aiken County
New York Society
Gunter
Beach
Sed
Dr. Wyman
S. H. P. Davis
Pape's Diapepsin Relief for Stomach Misery
Sour gas and heartburn vanish in five minutes with Pape's Diapepsin. It regulates weak stomachs, prevents distress after meals, and is sold in a fifty cent case at drug stores as a quick, harmless relief.
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Pape
Seats on Exchange Decline in Value
New York February 4. A slide of over 50 million dollars in the aggregate market value of seats on the New York Stock Exchange marks Wall street's gloom. A seat last sold for 48000, half the 1909 peak, shrinking the 1100 seats’ paper value to 52800000.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Man sends water melon to mayor as February curiosity
Louis G. Espinoza of 902 West Commerce Street sent Mayor Jones a water melon from Bexar county raised in January. The mayor kept the fruit on his office desk as a February curiosity, not yet carved.
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Bexar County
Louis G. Espinoza
Commerce Street
Jones
Espinoza
Chef Gustave Beraud Receives Watch Fob on Departure
Steward of the St. Anthony Hotel presents Gustave F. M. Beraud, three year head of the culinary department, with a jeweled Knights Templars watch fob as he leaves San Antonio for a Houston Rice Hotel position. He plans trips to New York Chicago and Boston to visit his daughter.
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Steward Beraud
St. Anthony Hotel
Houston Hostelry
St. Anthony
Gustave F. M. Beraud
Knights Templars
Mr. Beraud
Houston
Rice
San Antonio
Sible
Beraud
New York
Chicago
Boston
Gimbel Delicatessen Ad Highlights Service and Location
The Gimbel Delicatessen offers fine lunches and refreshments at moderate prices with quick, excellent service. Located on Crockett street opposite the Grand Opera House.
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Gimbel Delicatessen
Crockett Street
Grand Opera House
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