Bond of Texas Tax Collector Bitter Placed at 700000
The Bexar county commissioners approved the official bond of Tax Collector John A Bitter for 700000 with sureties totaling over 3000000. The bond reflects higher taxable values and notes Bitter will be sworn in this afternoon. Also approved were bonds for Andres Coy district clerk Rafael Lozano precinct six constable and Charles Braun JP precinct two.
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State of
Texas
John A. Bitter
Ferdinand Herff
Adolph Herff
LeRoy G. Denman
Floyd McGown
E. A
Stribling
Charles Zilker
R .S. Tinnin
Edwin Chamberlain
Mr. Bitter
Bexar County
Andres Coy
Rafael Lozano
Charles Braun
A. H. Coates
Bitter
Rare wild pigeon captured in Montreal story
A Montreal anecdote reports the capture and identification of a wild pigeon or passenger dove, a bird once numerous in North America but now nearly extinct. The specimen was mailed from Odell Town Quebec to the Montreal Witness and identified by J B Innes, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, linking the event to wider concerns about bird decline.
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America
Montreal
Odel Town
Quebec
Indianapolis News
J. B. Thnes
Society For Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Quebec Fish and Game Club
Canada
United States
Expense of sending a boy to college
A Detroit Free Press quote contrasts the cost of tuition with the ongoing burden of funding a son at college. The father notes that while tuition may be high, the real drain is sustaining him once enrolled.
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Detroit Free Press
West Commerce Street
Asherton & Gulf plans widen to Eagle Pass coast line
A conference at the St Anthony hotel reveals Asherton & Gulf railroad may extend from Asherton to Carrizo Springs then toward Eagle Pass and the coast. Col. Asher Richardson and Carrizo Springs backers talk $40,000 bonuses with $30,000 pledged, aiming to connect with the Mexican International and reach tidewater.
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Asherton & Gulf Railroad
Aransas Pass
Eagle Pass
St. Anthony Hotel
Asher Richardson
Carrizo Springs
Artesia Wells
International
Great Northern
Asherton
Onion Belt
Nueces River
Richardson
Asherton & Gulf
Dimmit Ang Webb
Mexican International
Tidewater
J. E. Franklin
San Antonio
Saving Yosemite Private Lands for Federal Purchase
The Yosemite National Park should acquire all private holdings to protect forests and halt denudation. Private timber claims on about twenty thousand acres, including the sugar pine along Wawona to Chinquapin, pressure federal purchase as railroads and mills expand.
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Yosemite National Park
Department of the Interior
Forsyth
Kibby
Lake Eleanor
California
Wawona
Chinquapin
Ber Company
el Portal
Merced Falls
Alder Creek
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Joske’s Millinery
Howell
Powell
Egypt
Sapleigh
Miss Pert
Mr. Sapleigh
Boston Transcript
Gunter Hotel
Emil Blum Company
EAST
Houston Street
Sion
British Home Office
Charles Rhodes
Mining Engineers’ Institute
Charles Merz
FL Farrer
Dortmund
Germany
Charlie
Madge
Commerce Street
Sheffield
China
Picard Studios
Santa Claus
Hawkes and Tuthill
Southwest
Lavalliers
Brig-A-Brac
South
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