Summer Camp Closes Kerrville YWCA Cottages
The Kerrville YWCA summer camp closed for the season after July and August hosting 38 young women. The camp on the Guadalupe river offered indoor cottages and outdoor tents with meals, tennis, boating, fishing, and hikes. Local business leaders supplied transport and hospitality, while Mrs. Herbert Linscott left with family for a month of travel.
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Kerrville
Young Woman’s Christian Association
Guadalupe River
Herbert Linscott
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
Lightning kills trooper near Fort Huachuca
Trooper Sadler of the Fourth United States cavalry was struck by lightning and killed while riding near Fort Huachuca yesterday. Light cartridges in his belt exploded and his horse also was killed.
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Bisbee
Ariz
Sadler
Fourth United States Cavalry
Fort Huachaca
Mob Forms to Lynch Three Negroes in Chattanooga
A Chattanooga mob gathered to lynch Newton Howard Ernest Sellman and Gene Davenport for the murder of Policeman Livington. They failed to find the prisoners at the station and sent a committee to check another city. The trio was moved by car to Boise and shipped to Cleveland in an adjacent county.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Newton Howard
Ernest Sellman
Gene Davenport
Livington
Boise
Cleveland
Forty Die As Floods Ravage Harmons Valley Region
Rescue teams report forty fatalities across Collins, Cherry Valley, Burgettstown, Avellia, Cannonsburg, Woodland, Wellsburg and nearby towns. $2 million in property damage, food shortages, and disrupted rail service follow cloudburst floods in the HarMons valley and Ohio River area.
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Pittsburg
Colliers
W. Va
Cherry Valley
Burgettstown
Avellia
Cannonsburg
Woodland
Wellsburg
Harmons’ Creek
Colliers& Va
Themipis
Washington
McKees’ Rock
Ohio River
Pennsylvania
Baltimore and Ohio
Texas claims payment delayed by Congress failure
A. S. Burleson says Texas will wait for December to receive 198368.83 dollars reimbursed for frontier protection from 1855 to 1860. He helped push the claim through the appropriation process after War Department approval, noting previous sums totaling 396814.89. Also notes Kendall County fair at Boerne on September 6 and 7 with two days of fun and amusement.
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Burleson
Austin
Tex
Congress
Texas
Secretary of War
State of
Kendall County Fair
Boerne, Tex
Fan's Enthusiasm Fatal in Local Baseball Rally
Timothy Flanagan, a well known Wilkes Barre baseball fan, died of heart failure after intense excitement during a close game between two local teams. He stood on his seat and yelled for several minutes before collapsing.
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Wilkesbarre
Timothy Flanagan
Flanagan
National Game Commission Officers Elected in Denver
The National Association of Game Commissioners and Wardens met in Denver for its sixth biennial session. J A Adlen of Tennessee was elected president, George H Graham of Massachusetts vice president, Dr. George W Fields of Massachusetts secretary, and Prof L L Dyche of Kansas treasurer.
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Denver
Colo
National Association of Game Commissioners and Wardens
J. A. Adlen
Tennessee
George H. Graham
Machusetts
George W. Fields
Massachusetts
L. L. Dyche
Kansas
Taft Backer Predicts Landslide In Travis County
Gen Webster Flanagan, collector of internal revenue and Taft supporter in Austin, says about 1450 of roughly 1500 Republican votes in Travis County will go to Taft with only around fifty votes against him. Old furniture made new. Cal Mullaly Transfer Co. Varent
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Taft
Austin
Tex
Travis County
Webster Flanagan
Cal Mullaly Transfer Co
Trans-Pecos Valley Land Company Receives Texas Charter
The secretary of state granted a permit to do business in Texas to the Trans-Pecos Valley Land Company of Minneapolis Minnesota with Texas offices at Van Horn. Capital stock is listed at $500,000.
Altered Chicago defender aeroplane readies for Gordon Bennett race
In Chicago alterations on the $15,000 defender aeroplane, built to reach 125 miles an hour for the Gordon Bennett world's championship, are finished. Trials begin today or tomorrow at Cicero field to determine its race participation as aviators had deemed it unsafe two weeks earlier. French team members Jules Vedrines Maurice Prevost and Andre Frey are due in Chicago today.
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Chicago
Ill
Diate
Jules Vedrines
Maurice Prevost
Andre Frey
Thorne Bids Unions End Social Inequalities
In Newport England on September 3 William J. Thorne M P for West Ham and president of the Trades Union congress urged the body to end labor unrest by removing present social inequalities.
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Newport
England
Trades Union Congress
William J. Thorne
Westham
Congress
Wage talks continue with southeastern railways unions
Conferences between southeastern railways and their freight and passenger conductors and trainmen over a general wage increase continued in Washington today with no near agreement after three weeks. President Garretson denied rumors of an imminent strike order. A. Collman, plumber. 416 Main Ave.
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Washington
Southeastern Railways
Garretson
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Staacke Bros
Reaghes
J. R. Cunningham
Moore Bldg
Rmere
Imperial
Manville Chambray
Toil du Nord
Bates
Amoskeag
Everett Ginghams
Madras
Saul Woltson
A. Collman
Main Ave
W. Commerce Street
Emmet Bank
Thos, L. Conroy
E. J. McCormick
J. Frank Gallagher
H. A. Moos, the Book Man
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