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A New Orleans paper asserts that within the same period "he has elevated his Louisiana Railroad bed, along its route for twenty miles, above the highest water-mark of overflows, and has converted a shallow bayou between Galveston and Houston, Texas, into a deep stream, navigable for his largest vessels. On these works he expended over two millions of dollars."
Arriving at the office, they found no one there, and Houston immediately began an attack upon the work accumulated during his absence, while Mr. Blaisdell proceeded to the mills and mines. On his way he met Haight, and the subject of the unsuccessful mining deal was at once taken up.
As a lawyer, a politician, and the holder of important offices he could not keep aloof from that gentler and more winning influence which had hitherto been unknown to him. In 1828 Governor Houston was obliged to visit different portions of the state, stopping, as was the custom, to visit at the homes of "the quality," and to be introduced to wives and daughters as well as to their sportsman sons.
Jim," he continued in a lower tone, "what would you think two fellows like Houston and Van Dorn would want with that old chap, Jack?" "Huh?" said Maverick, rather stupidly, "what are ye drivin' at?" "Wake up! you're half asleep, Jim!
She felt compassion for the poorest of the poor who had to be in bleak circumstances but she could not do anything in her two years in Houston but take photographs of the infamy of the free enterprise system and continue with her job working with refugees. She didn't do all that much.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman spoke under the auspices of the league. The second State convention or conference was held in Houston in December, 1904, Galveston and La Porte being represented. Reports were given and officers elected, Annette Finnigan remaining president.
Then Martha was married, and went to her own housekeeping, and a cousin of the little German girls who lived in Houston Street, who had just come from Germany, petitioned for a trial. She was so bright and clean and ambitious to learn American ways that after a fortnight, Mrs. Underhill decided to keep her.
Houston had been called away to the office at Silver City, a telegram coming one afternoon for him to come down by the next train.
Pioneers of Electricity. By J. Munro. Dynamo-Electric Machinery. By Silvanus P. Thompson. A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms, and Phrases. By Edwin J. Houston. Electricity and Magnetism. By Edwin J. Houston. Electricity One Hundred Years Ago and To-Day. By Edwin J. Houston. Magnetism; Electro-Technical Series. By Edwin J. Houston and Arthur E. Kennelly. Electro-Dynamic Machinery.
"As to what constitutes a home, I am scarcely qualified to judge," said Miss Gladden, "for I hardly know what a home is; but my idea is, that any spot where my best loved ones were, would be home to me." "And with such sentiments as those," Houston responded, "you would make any spot on earth home to those whom you loved."
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