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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1891
Page
4
Florence Estabrook stars in A Southern Rose a Grand Opera House production next Friday night. Ada Melrose delivers a vivid Southern girl portrayal with song dance and moral backbone. The show features a skilled cast and a full band and orchestra delivering realistic settings and dramatic acts.
Notice from Barrxay Tex dated Oct 26 1891 calls teachers to join the Texas State Reading Circle. Mentions officers Hon Oscar H Cooper W W Barnett and others. Outlines goals exams diplomas and low cost joining with monthly readings and private study in Brenham. Also notes a 15 year old Range boy arrested for horse theft.
Reports from across the state note 127 pupils at Run School and Henderson’s new depot. Sherman seeks better water supply. Leon county faces water rations. Seguin Fair judged a success. Quanak area sees abundance of small game and fat turkeys. Dallas McLeod hotel closed for lack of patrons. Midland's W A Lancaster injured by a train. Crosbys county seat Emma to get artesian well. Temple candy factory burned. Greenville ice storage burned. Hogs thriving on acorns in Shelby county. Garrison, Nacogdoches county sees demand for homes. Lamar county few gins left after fires. Brazos Pilot lists seven marriages. three widows. Hunt county apples considered excellent. Colorado residence of Mrs. Tior dan burned. Walton’s cotton gin near Morgan burned. Floyd county new town Herman started. Navarre county water scarcity distress for cattle. Crosby county prospectors arrive with funds. Brown county schools begin rest Monday. Milam county cotton on sandy land looks promising. Posner gin near Palestine burned with 60 bales. Phanstill dam at Breenville burned, hay lost. Lumber being hauled for homes in Berden county. Hunt county farmer reports yellow yam potato vine blooming. Berden county cotton yields better than since 1870. Gray-son county corn abundant. Van Alstyne price 35 cents. Crosby county hosts Red River valley immigration association. Sealed bids sought for Waxahachie to Boz mail. 240 bales of cotton burned on Central train at Ledbetter. Galveston jetties granite to come from Marble Falls quarries. Gordon Palo Pinto county lacks college and needs wells.
European governments expand pigeon rearing after Paris siege with France boasting 100000 trained birds and Paris 18000, while Germany Italy Spain Portugal Russia Switzerland Austria Sweden Denmark Belgium and England also operate stations and private societies. A scattered miscellany closes with rural notes and active odds and ends from US papers.
In a brief exchange from Le Calendriez Gon tran learns of his aunt’s death and receives sympathy from a companion. The dialogue centers on a personal bereavement and the somber tone of shared grief.
A cotton gin eight miles north of Gropines was destroyed Friday with about ninety bales lost and no insurance. In a courthouse meeting a joint stock company was formed to drill an artesian well with 10000 capital. Lemen's circus performs today drawing a large crowd. District court session starts next week with a light docket. Farmers still hold much cotton. The infant of Fritz Reets died suddenly.
The Brenham Compress Oil and Manufacturing Company will pay $6.50 per ton for cotton seed delivered at their mill for the next thirty days. For sale: Lot on Church street and a five room residence at Baker and Jefferson. Mas. M. J. Masur reports being cured by Kiber's Celebrated Cough Drops, Geo. Stenzes, Dallas.
A Detroit Free Press yarn recounts a lurid night ride chased by two savage mastiffs. The narrator and a companion evade the pack with a pistol firing twice, the dogs dying, and the owner unseen.
A discussion of the visiting housekeeper vocation the lady factotum, its duties and economic value for households. It then pivots to accident insurance noting how risk awareness and exposure influence claims, with examples of hand and eye injuries and the tendency of insured men to claim for unusual risks.
The water pump traces to the Greek era during Prolegues Philadelphos and cerpetes, 283 to 221 B C. The term derives from pempo meaning to throw. Early descriptions cite Hero of Alexandria, with Germany’s use only emerging after the sixteenth century, followed by seventeenth century rotating pumps and plunger piston inventions by Morland and De la Hire.
A traveler reports Norwegian horses eat with a bucket of water beside their hay. They alternate sips and mouthfuls, moistening the mouth between bites. The observer notes few broken winded horses and links the feeding method to better health.
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