Railway Time Table for Main Line and Plainview Branch
The timetable lists west bound No 118 to Carlsbad from KC and freight No 76 leaving in the morning. East bound No 114 from Cincinnati to Kansas City and local freight No 74 are also shown. Plainview Branch north end times are given.
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Cijovis
Carlsbad
NES A. Mh
Cinvis No
Kansas City
Plainview
Can- Fon City
Ciovis
A. m
Sundar
Candidates Named for Democratic Primary In 1910
Announcement lists J. Rollins for District Attorney and Henry S. Bishop as contenders in the Democratic Primary set for July 23, 1910, subject to voters.
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Henry S. Bishop
Patronize Your Home Merchant Theme
A column urges supporting local merchants over mail order catalogs. It notes shoppers are dazzled by glossy pictures and descriptions from mail catalogs and highlights the tension between town welfare boosters and their spending choices.
Support Your Home Merchant for Local Prosperity
The article urges townspeople to favor local merchants over mail order houses. It argues locally sourced goods reduce freight costs and aid bank deposits, taxes, schools, churches, and civic projects. It warns that out of town catalogs often degrade quickly and cost communities through lost revenue.
Hale Center Live Wire Reports On Local Bonds
Canyon City and Lubbock are mentioned as voters prepare to decide on sewerage and water works bonds. The Hale Center column notes the area’s modernization with a long installed system in Canyon City and praises the high tank pressure and water quality, calling the Plains region well served and affordable.
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Canyon City
Lubbock
Hale County
Hale Center
Rip van Winkle
Plains
Ran dall County Board of Equalization Meeting Notice
Notice to Commissioners Court states the Ran dall County Commissioners Court will convene as a Board of Equalization on Monday June 27 1910 to hear tax payer reasons why their tax renditions should not be raised.
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Commissioners’ Court
Randall County
Board of Equalization
Mrs. R A McCartney Visits Am arillo Daughter
Mrs. R A McCartney of Amarillo spent Monday with her daughter Mrs. Carl Coffee.
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R. A. McCartney of
Amarillo
Mrs. Carl Coffee
The Microbes And The Circle Of Life
Sir Ray Lankester explains in the London Telegraph that microbes exist in air water dust and living things driving a vast chemical cycle. They break down dead matter into simpler compounds feeding plants which in turn rebuild living matter sustaining all life on earth.
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Sir Ray Lankester
London Telegraph
The Perverse Comma in Christmas Greeting
The London World laments the modern punctuation of the Christmas salutation God rest you merry gentlemen. It notes earlier forms such as Gog rest rou merry and Mest Fou merry in Elizabethan times and urges readers to consult the old carol for correctly punctuated wording.
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Shake Speare
London
Dead and Alive Glaciers Studied Near Alaska
The Vancouver Providence notes that some Alaskan glaciers are classified as dead or alive with Davidson a tongue of the Muir glacier. Davidson glacier is described as dead, leaving miles of moraine before the sea, while the decked surface from a boat shows a kaleidoscopic, sunlit pattern with deep crevices to be navigated carefully.
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Davidson
Muir
Vancouver
Providence
A Man of Straw Origin in Law and Greece
The article recalls an English custom where men placed a straw in a shoe to signal willingness to testify as witnesses, a practice connected to the phrase man of straw. It notes this form of employment-witness signaling was common in Westminster and traces its antiquity to Greece.
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England
Westminster Hall
The
Quarterly Review
Greece
Hat on You Causes Quiet Confrontation in City Eatery
A downtown restaurant encounter ends with a gentleman informing a patron he has something on him. The remark leads to a brief exchange about the hat as the matter at hand. The moment captures a small urban skirmish over appearance and propriety.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
What part of the railway train is most dangerous
A nervous man asks which car is safest and a dyspeptic answer labels the dining car as the most dangerous in a Washington Star style quip.
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Washington Star
Desolate Exchange About Wife Leaving Home
A terse exchange quotes a lawyer and Uncle Ephraim as they discuss a wife leaving the home. The speech captures a comic, melodramatic tone with a country humor edge.
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Ephraim
Puck
Fight Temptation Daily and Stay Steady
The quote cautions against yielding to small temptations and urges persistent self control. It frames daily choices as ongoing battles where even minor temptations deserve firm resistance to build discipline.
Mining Stock Fever Ends in Senate Bid
A tale recalls how rumors of gold lead to mining stock booms and empty pockets. Peter Anderson and his wife discover a trunk full of certificates after a mine strike, cashing in until he becomes a state representative and then a U.S. senator.
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Anderson
Clear Creek
Peter Anderson
United States Senate
A and M College Kep ker Summer Session Details
The regular session closed June 14 and the Summer School runs June 20 to July 30. It offers three divisions: College, Farmers School, and Summer Normal School. Courses cover agricultural teaching, cotton classing, farm management, soils, cattle, dairy, corn, and more. Rail fare offers round trips, dormitory housing provided, and maintenance charges listed. The college sits at College Station Brazos County with deep well water and full campus facilities.
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A & M. College of Texas
School For Farmers
Houston and
Texas Central
International & Great Northern Railways
College Station
Brazos
Houston
How to Kill Flies in the Home
The piece advises several methods to kill flies using common chemicals. It describes heating carbolic acid to vaporize it, using bichromate of potash solutions, formalin or formaldehyde in water, sticky fly papers, and burning pyrethum powder to stupefies flies before removal.
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Bulletin of American Civic Association
Armstrongs Visit Canyon From Italy Texas
W B Armstrong and wife of Italy Texas arrived in Canyon a few days ago and are visiting at the home of their son J W Armstrong and family who reside in the west part of the city.
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W. B. Armstrong
Italy
Texas
Canyon
J. W. Armstrong
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Randall County News
Chas. Ed
Needham
Postolice
Weat
Plainview Branch
North End
J. N. Browning
J. & Rollins
Miller
J. A Kekok E
County
Sidgor
W. DO Scott
Cand Tan
R. H. Sanford
Worth A. Jennings
A. P. Garner
W. J. Flesher
G. G. Foster
Will
C. L. Cartell
Cyrus Earman
Os OI Avia
J. Cavet
M. M Wesley
Henry J. Weber
W. J. Redfearn
TF. Belo
E. W. Neece
W. S. Cook
Justice OF the Peace
Commissioners Court
Straw
First State Bank
Hugh S. Maxwell
Jackson St
A & M College
Kepker
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