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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1891
Page
5
Local items report cotton planting starting soon, a sick child, and a boy born to Mr and Mrs C T Helvey. Proposals for electric lights a tannery and artesian well pet the town. A masquerade chair at Valley Grove and burglaries and lamp fires frighten residents as plans for a tannery shoe factory and ice factory gain interest.
Henry Mahlmann formerly living near Welcome in Iowa County sold his 40 acre farm for 40 dollars per acre and bought a Tom Green county ranch near San Angelo for 2 dollars per acre. He plans extensive horse raising and shipped several carloads of belongings via the Santa Fe railroad on Tuesday.
The notice argues Brenham should adopt electric lighting, citing Navasota’s chartered plant and the city’s poor kerosene lamps. It urges public discussion, possible investment, and warns of adverse advertising and lost opportunity without illumination. It notes local street cleanliness and a humorous aside about a boy crying for a pipe.
Saronpay night brought sleet and a sharp freeze. Morning sun showed ice on roofs and drifts on shaded sides. The Sunday chill cooled further at night, killing embryos, cutting early vegetables, and harming watermelon crops. The frost was unusually severe for the season and caused considerable damage.
Tuesday morning a shrill police whistle near the county jail sparked a crowd pursuit of a man described as a negro running from a yard. It was learned no prisoners escaped. Purcell Scott a Camp Town officer raised the alarm to help capture Jeff Jordan accused of disturbing peace after a woman struck him with a broom and he knocked down a child. Jordan pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace.
Me J D Sutra of Independence takes a position as book keeper with the firm Eldridge and Williams. The week’s pleasant weather has not been enough to help vegetation recover from a recent freeze and resume growth.
A visitor notes Brenham lacks street lighting and urges electric illumination for the town. The city is improving but could rise in prominence among enterprising cities by shedding darkness. Brenham’s K P delegate to the Dallas Grand Lodge is ill. alternate E L Salley may attend.
A collection of missives from soldiers of Co H and others unable to join a reunion in 1891. Messages from W J Murcutson of Texas, Hesri Marwatp, a Sth T M V member, and others express regret, sickness, and hopes to meet next year. Sentiments recall brigades, lagrippe illness, and camaraderie across Texas towns Plaxtersville Brenham and Mapenville.
Letters from Texas veterans recount missing a Brenham gathering due to lagrippe and fever. J M Opmtx and J G Ranxm write from Cuenvase Morroomear and Brenbam Texas thanking friends, pledging reunion wishes, and sending best regards to brigade comrades.
A Texas recipient in Colmesniel requests the Weekly Banner and recounts wartime memories. J J Chooge expresses regret over not attending the county event due to transportation costs and vows to write a brigade history recalling Tom Green’s Regiment.
A brief remark notes that even sheep confined from danger show complaint. The line emphasizes that distress affects all creatures, large and small, when isolation or threat occurs.
The Floresville Chronicle reports local option in town affairs. Aransas Pass builds a twenty-piece brass band and grants a tele phone exchange permit. New facilities include a Pennington hotel at Wallis and a post office at Bee. A $40,000 sugar plantation and mill is planned near Fidna. Several legal and crime items are noted, including a fatal arthur city family dispute and a San Antonio head injury from a bat strike.
A collection of quips and short observations on ignorance, virtue, education, women, humor, and daily life. Includes lines on soldiers, reading, education in America, governance, and a brief note about the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in London with focus on diseases communicable from animals to humans.
A misformatted piece promotes Pe-ru-Na as a cure for catarrh with letters from patients in McComb City Mississippi Hallshurg and other places recounting long battles with chronic catarrh. The text claims varied relief, hearing restoration, and health improvements after using the medicine, alongside notes from observers and doctors.
An article promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Grove's Tasteless Chili Tonic as cures for malaria dyspepsia constipation and other ailments. It notes dangers of unregulated inhalants and boasted speeds of a railway experiment in London.
A brief item notes a claimed home cure for opium addiction via Antidote No 342 Elm St Dalles Ter Oak Chiff Texas Weekly. It cites medical failure to relieve pain and claims the remedy offers a painless cure and a quick return to work.
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