Texas News in Brief from Wortham to Dallas
A collage of incidents and notes across Texas: Walter Williamson breaks his ankle after a wagon fall in Wortham. a Dearborn bartender Mr. Clark is killed. Hoskins & Co. store burns at Richland with $4,000 loss and $3,000 insurance. Waco orders filling old wells. Lindale ships first cotton bale. Dallas County redraws precincts to take effect Jan 1 1907. Tom Moody breaks an arm in Corsicana, and a State Holiness camp meets near Waco. New York Monarch Typewriter Co. gains Texas permit with Dallas HQ. Roosevelt orders War Dept report on Brownsville trouble. Cotton soon in Ellis County with cotton and workers from South Texas. Eduardo Leabe, secretary of the Colombian Consulate in Mexico City, dies in streetcar accident. Pecan crop may be record in San Antonio and Concho country. Two Negro children bitten by dogs in Ennis. A wagon accident at an éé wagon. Charlie Rogers’s son in San Saba accidently shoots and kills his brother. An infected Kansas Cherokee County cattle fever quarantine established. Bob Davis, a negro, is lynched near Columbia after attempted rape and crime. Texas and Oklahoma top gypsum production with 148,947 short tons valued at $1 per ton. Austin taxpayers oppose City Board of Equalization tax rise to 50 percent. Waco and Mineral Wells vie for Baptist General Convention meetings. Dawson vs Blooming Grove grandstand collapse injures about a hundred. Harrison County rains worsen boll weevil damage.
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Japan
Pribiloff Islands
Vancouver
Syd Miller
Fairbanks
Edward M.amés
Sons of Veterans
Peoria
Ill
Dayton
Alfonso
Spain
United States
Russia
Dorchester County
U S. C
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
London
Cuba
Havana
Michael McNamara
St. Louis
James J. Brophy
McNamara
Brophy
J. C. Wilson
Centralia
Chicago
Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw
Illinois
Wm. J. Bryan
Sullivan
National Committee
Bryan
Democrats
Ohio
W. J. Bryan
Moss
Cannon
Sant Chile
Vatican
William Jennigs Bryan
Jefferson Club
W. Randolph Hearst
Reform Party
Constantinople
Turkey
Mahala Lewis
George Washington
Lewis
Virginia
Roosevelt
Rownsville
Roosev
Oyne
Count Fermor
Warsaw
Daniel B. Wesson
Wesson Memorial
Springfield
Mass
George Bull
Wir
Democratic State Committee of
Tennessee
Hoke Smith
Georgia
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Iowa
Michigan
Milwaukee
Yerkes
George Boynton
New York
Lyman J. Gage
California
Brazilian Congress
Valparaiso
Berlin
China
Nebraska
Texas
Fort Brown
Houston Tom
Range
Interstate Commerce Commission
Murray
Department of Commerce and Labor
Valdez
Alaska
Walter I. Lembkey
Seal Fisheries of
St. Paul’s Island
Poland
Skallon
Pacific
Lewis Morrison
Mephisto
Faust
New York City
Kingston
Jamaica
George Baumgartner
Germany
St. Benedict's College
Atchison, Kas
Chile
Andes
Valpa
San Francisco
Santiago
Earthquakes and accidents clock vivid regional turmoil
The report details a Mendoza Argentina quake with no serious damage, a Kentucky hanging for murder, a failed Nebraska fusion, a deadly Birmingham railroad blast at Ensley, and a fatal lumber slide in New York. Other items note oil price effects, floods in Langtry and rail expansions in Shreveport, plus local deaths in Washington and Missouri.
News of the Week compiles global events and crises
A condensed digest notes Japan planning a probe into the killing of Japanese seal poachers by American guards at Pribilof Islands, riots and lynchings in Dorchester County, Cuba's unrest and U S intervention talk, earthquakes in Chile and Valparaiso, and political shifts in the United States across parties and states.
White House facts and a sparrow tale in readers correspondence
Readers correct White House history noting Adams first occupant in 1800 and the mansion’s 1792 start with a 1818 reconstruction after the 1814 fire. The letter also questions claims about paint and praises accuracy in historical writing. The page then shares F L Vandegrift’s sparrow anecdote from Kansas City Journal.
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White House
Madison
Adams
Kelvin Visits British Schoolship For Navigating Officers
Lord Kelvin toured the Portsmouth based British schoolship for navigating officers where several of his contrivances and apparatus were demonstrated and explained. He grasped the theory but had not previously seen them in practical operation.
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Lord Kelvin
Portsmouth
Grape-Nuts Promises Sleep Aid and Digestive Relief
A reader testifies that switching to Grape-Nuts eliminated vomiting and bloating, improved sleep, and boosted energy. She notes her mother’s diarrhea eased after using Grape-Nuts and credits the cereal as a brain restorer and nerve builder.
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Postum Co. Battle
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the Shiner Gazette
J.C. Habermacher
Pub
Walter Williamson
Wortham
Mr. Clark
Warren Hart
Dearborn
Hoskins & Co
Richland
Board of Health of
Waco
Lindale
Dallas
Dallas County
Tom Moody
Camp Appell
Monarch Typewriter Company
Capital
War Department
Ellis County
Eduardo Leabe
City
Mexico
San Antonio
Concho
Ennis
San Saba
Charlie Rogers
Hutto
Cherokee County
Kansas
Bob Davis
Columbia
D. C
Oklahoma
Geological Survey
City of
Austin
City Board of Equalization
Baptist General Convention of Texas
General Convention
Dawson
Blooming Grove
Richard Hall
Will Burs
Harrison County
Mendoza
Argentina
Jospeh Johnston
Louisville
Birmingham and Southern Railroad
Ensley, Tenn
David Faust
North River
Brown County
The
Jewish Chronicle
Frank Estor
Estor
Standard Oil Company
Langtry
Southern Pacific
Robert F. Horne
J. F Horne
Canute
Washita
County Ok
Alanreed
Sam Hoffner
McCullan
Charles N. Gould
the State University
Secretary of the Interior
John Knapp
Chas. W. Knapp
St. Louis Republic
Associated Press
J. J. Knapp
United States Navy
Kansas City Southern Railway
Shreveport
J. M. Mills
Seguin
Butler Junction
Stef Reway
Steven Mageley
Othe
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Kinsley
Van
Kansas City Journal
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