Texas and Houston property sale headlines and state notices
Houston property of the Orange Lumber Company sold to National City Bank of Houston for 2,250,000 dollars, including 50,000 acres of yellow pine and a 50,000,000 foot capacity sawmill. Also Dallas cement property bought near Dallas for about 3,000,000 dollars by Texas Portland Cement Company. Texas tax board to lower ad valorem tax from 12 to 7 cents per 100 dollars due to full valuation. Various local notices in Austin Brady Fort Worth and other cities report fires firings and civic actions, with multiple other national and international items summarized.
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Houston
Orange Lumber Company
National City Bank of Houston
Austin
State Tax Board
British cruisers move to protect British interests in Haiti
In London the Indefatigable and Cressy were ordered from West Indian waters to Haiti to safeguard British interests. In Liverpool the steamship Lusitania set a world record, reaching 627 knots in 24 hours, surpassing its prior 618- knot mark. In Guadalajara American Charles Allen, son in law of Michoacan Governor Mercado, was named Prefect of Carrizal to curb gang violence.
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Foreign
London
England
Indefatigable
Cressy
West Indian
Haiti
Liverpool
Lusitania
Guadalajara
Mexico
Charles Allen
Mercado
Michoacan
Carrizal
Slap at Mother and a Highwayman Tale
A family reads about a suburban highwayman while a father acts as a horse for a game. The mother asks about holdups and the father jokes that robbers strike when clothes are left unguarded, highlighting a humorous cartoonish domestic vignette.
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Mother
Father
Willie
Papa
Philadelphia Bulletin
Turner and Pritchard Lived Together in Cheyne Row
Theodore Watts-Dunton recalls Turner the painter and Dr Augustus Pritchard sharing a home in Cheyne Row for a year. They tended a fine garden and their gate was nailed shut by Turner's petty note, provoking Pritchard who quipped he does not paint.
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George Harvey
London
Theodore Watts-Dunton
Turner
Augustus Pritchard
Cheyne Row
Trains Testra Pace Through Towns in New Rail Note
A Philad a shia Public Ledger item notes modern trains run fast and arrive in different places, praising their paces and speed as they appear across multiple locations.
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Philady' Shia
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