Tie Boy Placed On Railroad Track by Three Bandits
Dec 22 Mer tokens district reports a 15 year old boy from Mertens was grabbed by three men in a car near the railroad near Hill Ellis line. They bound him on the track and whispered about seeking Worth before daylight. He freed himself and ran home two miles, unable to identify the attackers. Authorities found no trace of the trio.
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Achie
Mertens
Italy
King
Buster Bruton
Bruton
Id N. Bruton
Mer- Mertens
Hill-Ellis Nty
Ruton
HOGWALLOW NEWS A Roving Roundup Of Village Happenings
Dunk Botts reports the more you get mad the more you get mad. Columbus Allsop touts progress selling his corn salve and face cream. Fletcher Henstep soaked today while hurrying home in a sudden rain. Poke Barley and his dog treed a fine fur in a millinery window. Sim Flinders digs a new cistern to stock drinking water. Raz Barlow dresses out Sunday and few friends recognize him. Poke Bazley notes ships’ prices drop to 42 million dollars FOB at his gate. A reader asks how to finish an oak floor. Turn the kids loose on it with roller skates. Ellick Helwanger, famed moonshine mouth, now peeks from his window. Gander Creek floods again. Sidney Hocks notes fish enjoy the water. Sile Kilden narrowly avoids being run over on the Tickville railroad track. Miss Peachie Sims sings The Last Rose of Summer. Sid Hocks notes winter onions replacing roses.
After a Box of Snuff He Forgets What She Sent
A man who had just spent a dime on chewing tobacco forgot what his companion sent him after buying snuff. The fragment hints at a small, domestic moment captured in a local news item.
Man With Crying Eyes Found In Calf Ribs Neighborhood
Sim Flinders reports finding a man in the Calf Ribs neighborhood who was so cross eyed he could cry on a fishing pole.
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Sim Flinders
Calf Ribs
Denison Terminal to Cost Three Million
Denison December 24 announcement that the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad will spend 3,000,000 dollars or more on a new Denison terminal within thirty days. The 400 acre complex includes double style hump yards, roundhouse, shops, storerooms, warehouses, fuel tanks, and transfer buildings. Grading and concrete work contract to Cummins Construction Company of Cleveland, Ohio, with an eighteen month build. When finished, the Katy yards will be the largest west of the Mississippi, aiding heavy freight with higher efficiency and lower cost. Yards will run about three miles in length, expanding toward Pottsboro with a new right of way extending to Pottsboro.
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Denison
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Cummins Construction Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Katy
Mississippi River
Texas
Pottsboro
How Big New York Grocery Firm Keeps Down Rats
Vroome and Co butter and cheese merchants in New York City say they keep RAT-SNAP in their cellar at all times and would not be without it. Farmers use RAT-SNAP because rats pass up all food for RAT SNAP. Three sizes priced 35c 65c and 1.25, Sol and guaranteed by Dyer and Jones and Wilson Montgomery Hardware Co.
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Vroome & Co
New York City
Dyer & Jones and
Wilson-Montgomery Hardware Co
Man coughs up Minie ball fragment from Civil War wound
Greenville reports R C Jones, a Center Point farmer, coughed up a bone fragment containing a Minie ball from a Civil War gunshot in May 1864. He was 20 at injury and had no ill effects until recent coughing fits. He rests easy after the episode.
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Greenville
R. C. Jones
Center Point
Here
Mr. Jones
Atlas Peck Wife Sends Him To Rye Straw Store
Atlas Peck’s wife dispatched him to the Rye Straw store Thursday morning.
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Atlas Peck
Rye Straw Store
Young Boy Captures Wolf Near Ector in Morning Chase
Charles Russell thirteen-year-old son of J M Russell of Caney Creek near Ector captured a wolf in a cotton patch. He rode out at dawn to bring in cows, chased the animal to exhaustion, boxed it between timber and field, then leaped off and haltered it. He choked the wolf to death without injury to himself. Bonham Favorite describes the daring feat.
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Chas. Russell
J. M. Russell
Caney Creek
Ector
Charles
Bonham
Itch Itch Itch Three-in-One Ointment Ad
Itch Itch Three-in-One Ointment is the guaranteed remedy for itch eczema tetter and all skin troubles rough hands and scaley eruptions. Guaranteed by Dyer Jones. Price two pounds.
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Dyer & Jones
Former slave pays fine to keep master out of jail
Lexington officials recount a London term incident where an elderly enslaved servant intervened in a federal case. The master, accused of unlawful liquor possession, pleaded guilty but could not pay the $100 fine. The servant offered his savings, prompting Judge Cochran to reduce the fine to $50, which the servant paid, sparing the master from jail.
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Lexington
United States District Court
London
Kentucky
A. M. J. Cochran
Jedge
Cochran
Debs Granted Pardon by President Harding
Washington reports President Harding commuted the ten year sentence of socialist leader Eugene V. Debs for violating wartime laws. He also pardoned or commuted twenty four others, and ordered Debs released from Atlanta penitentiary on Christmas Day along with several former soldiers.
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Washington
Eugene V. Debs
Harding
Debs
Supreme Court
Atlanta
Postmaster Named at Celina by Republican Wilson
McKinney December 26 Charles F Wilson named postmaster at Celina to succeed Mrs J L Wilson widow of the Celina Record editor The appointee is a Republican and has served as a rural mail carrier out of Celina
Dread Amid Dneiper Famine Forecast in War News
A correspondent notes one ruble buys little postage, while warning that Christmas will be bleak for residents along the Dneiper as famine and pestilence sweep through a region once rich. The message frames hardship amid ongoing conflict and economic strain.
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Dneiper
Russia
Irate Woman Uses Rifle as Officers Seize Hootch
In Cooke County near Pilot Point a tenant farmer’s home yielded an illicit still and whiskey. Constable Cochran and Deputy Glasgow served warrants reading to two women. one woman threatened the officers. A Winchester bullet grazed Cochran as the gunman wrestled the firearm away before a second shot.
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Gainesville
Chas. Cochran
Glasgow
Pilot Point
Cooke County
Cochran
Cass County's oldest Black couple may reside near Atlanta Texas
Atlanta Texas December 27 The oldest couple in Texas is believed to live in Cass County north of Atlanta on the V D Glass property. The long married pair have reportedly shared life for 85 years in the same home, a testament to enduring partnership.
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Cass County
Atlanta
Texas
Postage to Denison Costly in Rubles
A Kiev Christmas letter mailed in November reached Denison Texas with two thousand ruble stamps. The note explains the ruble’s value at about fifty cents in U S money, making the cost roughly a thousand dollars for that single letter. The story highlights quirky international mail rates and currency values.
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DenIson
Texas
Will Hays
Ukraine
Russia
Kiev
Sydney Karchmer
Karmacher
Oldest Black couple living together near a century of work
The article notes Joe Knight and his wife, both aged over 100, living as a long married couple of about eighty-five years. "Uncle Joe" is 109 and his wife 108, with Joe claiming he can work another century and still feel good.
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Joe Knight
Joe
A Personal Question About Money and Love
A woman asks if she is the only girl whose money a man ever loved. He answers with a wary, intimate exchange about affection and financial trust between lovers.
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Dunk Botts
Washington Hocks
Columbus Allsop
Fletcher Henstep
Poke Barley
Raz Barlow
Poke Bazley
Buffalo Express
Ellick Helwanger
Gander Creek
Sidney Hocks
Sile Kilden
Tickville Railroad
Peachie Sims
Sid Hocks
Denison Terminal
New York
Wolf
Eugene Debs
Celina
Mangrum Brothers
R. S. Morehead
First National Bank
C. B. Bryant
R. A. Gillett
Ford
Sears Auto Co
Ford Sales and Service
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