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Newspaper
Brenham Daily Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1902
Page
3
A New York bishop and William M. Evarts offer witty takes on women. Potter says he aims to make the best terms with the sex, while Evarts quips that women are not only the best judge but the best executioner.
The article notes Signor Marcon, soon to wed, is the son of an Irish mother, daughter of Mr Andrew Jameson who ran a distant distillery near Enniscorthy that closed in 1849. It adds his two sisters married A B Davis and Marcon’s wife is the other sister. their son is the famed wireless telegraphy hero.
Agricultural officials report the English sparrow preys on dragonfly nymphs as they emerge from water, reducing dragonfly populations and potentially increasing mosquito numbers. The department notes this predator interaction may influence pest levels and calls for further study.
An elderly woman recalls a vow made in youth after illness that if speech returned she would refrain from unkind words. She kept to the pledge, explaining her quiet demeanor as they found her.
Prof J C Clark of Upper Alton has sent a unique volume to the Smithsonian Institution. The work tabulates alphabet origins from Egyptian hieroglyphics and shows the development of each script from earliest to latest forms.
A Vienna doctor promotes bee venom saturating the body as a remedy for rheumatism. He extracts venom and applies it via puncture to patients. He claims rheumatic sufferers do not feel a bee sting during treatment, linking relief to venom application.
The text notes that in Abyssinia smoking is illegal under a law from 1642. Originally aimed at stopping priests from smoking in churches, the prohibition has broadened so that even foreigners must avoid smoking when seen.
The Long Beach Press laments that few speakers in the recent Women’s Parliament of Southern California could be heard in Los Angeles. One exception was a poem read by a speaker aged years.
Notice to taxpayers that all city taxes must be paid by January 1902. After that date a ten percent penalty will be added.
A Reykjavik boy and a girl are mentioned in a fragment describing a law that allows any adult to punish youths who smoke by spanking and seizing cigarettes. The text is garbled but implies strict penalties for underage smoking in Iceland.
Theodore Schroeder of Salt Lake City has donated to the Wisconsin Historical Library his library of Mormon history. The collection is among the largest on the subject, totaling 23 000 bound volumes pamphlets and newspapers.
Miss Katherine Hughes of Ottawa guides a movement to provide work for Indian children after leaving schools. Her Indian protégés nicknamed her Kater Kaldneronstra meaning she makes things go pleasantly.
Anna Parker Cox, daughter of Quan nab Parker the Comanche statesman, formerly remarried to a white man, now resumes life on the reservation. A Carlisle Indian School graduate, she again wears a blanket as she embraces tribal life.
A lawyer walking with a law book is teased about preaching. He replies I don’t preach I practice. The quip highlights the difference between theory and action in legal work.
Residents in Wilmington Delaware were startled by an hour of continuous whistle sound from a locomotive in the railroad yard. The jammed whistle valve trapped the engineer until steam pressure was reduced by drawing the fire and the noise ceased.
New York Magistrate Crane tells two women prisoners that men nearly always tell the truth about prior arrests while the average woman will lie to her face and persist in false claims even when she knows the magistrate is aware of the deceit.
The shrew mouse inspired the term shrew used for a woman quick to quarrel. The creature's defense of its young and readiness to confront danger led to the stereotype of a combative, quarrelsome woman in popular speech.
President Schwab of the steel trust recalls driving near a Pittsburgh area town with his colored chauffeur when a woman exclaimed about him and asked which Schwab. The other woman, impressed by the chauffeur's dignity, asks further.
A Pittsburg worker slept in a chair suspended from a church spire 120 feet above the street. He was not awakened until a fellow worker climbed up and tied him in to prevent a fall, then lowered to ground level. The incident ended without further harm.
Forest for Rent the old Ewing place with forty acres January. For particulare apply to A. W. Watson. FOR RENT two good improved tracts well watered area west of town rent payable as 4th of cotton and 8th of corn. T. H. Dwyer FOR SALE Jersey milk cow with young calf. Apply at this officer. NOTICE all parties holding claims against the late Britz Finke please present them for adjustment Paul Fricke.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS All State and County Taxes must be paid by January 3 let after which date the ten per cent penalty will be added All occupation tax now due must be paid before January 16th or all it will be instituted for its collection Respectfully SAM SCHLENKER Tax Collectures Washington Co
Jape Fern Balls Spengers Lace Fern available at C Dornburger address North Mulberry Street Brenham Texas. Local ad notes various plant varieties for sale with no further details on prices or quantities.
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