State university tuition and inaugural ball costs drawn
The piece notes that state university tuition is argued to be costly for the state nearly enough to fund Eastern teachers. It cites an inaugural ball estimated at 60 000 dollars with 12 000 tickets at five dollars, though receipts may fall short of expenditures. It also comments on London distress and local Texas politics and press opinions.
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Washington
London
Galveston
Fulton
Prohibition Petitions Unite in Legislature and Cotton Markets Compared
Readers are told that constitutional prohibition petitions press the Legislature to act and that party rifts may follow. Fort Worth lags in cotton as Waco hulls 50 000 bales, aided by three rail lines led by Texas and St. Louis. Blaine’s Maine outlook hints at future clashes with Cleveland, while Gordon’s Khartoum letters expose British delays. A Texas university reform plan urges a regents board, two-year terms, and political insulation from governance.
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Waco
Fort Worth
Recollections of Civil War and San Antonio Commerce
The issue recounts Civil War recollections and contemporary notes in The Century, detailing engravings of General Gordon and the Merrimac Monitor fight with first-hand survivorship accounts, plus biographical sketches of O. B. Frothingham and Langley on astronomy and Webster. It also highlights San Antonio's Art Gallery and local advertisements for farming stoves, tonics, and medical remedies, reflecting a mix of historical essays and commercial notices.
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Gordon
John Taylor Wood
Merrimac
Monitor
8. D. Greene
Admiral Worden
Colston
Sewall’s Point
Beauregard
Ewell
James and
Howells
Langley
John Bigelow
Charles O’conor
Stephen M
Allen
Daniel Webster
O. B. Frothingham
Stedman and
Cheney
Chicago
San Antonio
Texas
C. H. Mueller
Commerce Street
Mueller
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Europe
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T. B. Johnson
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Boerne
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Frie County
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W. W. Berry
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Belmont
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