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Newspaper
Bryan Daily Eagle And Pilot
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1913
Page
3
H V Weaver Advertising Manager asks Memre A M Waldrop Co Brya for permission to publish their 1911 1912 Holeproof sales and a dealer letter to show growth in Brya to bolster merchandising efforts. The request notes some dealers show no 1912 salon increase and seeks consent to use the Waldrop letter and sales figures in a follow up mailing.
The notice lists numerous real estate transfers with names such as Reed Johnson Maloney Rohde Fountain White Robinson Harriet Brown Robert Nephew and W H Cole. It includes 100 acres in the Green HM Coleman league 34 acres in the William Denver survey and 14 percent water rights in the Join Austin league with total considerations cited, plus a marriage license for Willie Hail and Stella McGruder.
Malian boy Frank Pomilla charged with placing obstructions on the Central tracks faced an examining trial before Judge D. McGee yesterday afternoon. The case proceeds to the grand jury as the Woodmen lodge holds a regular meeting tonight and urges members to attend.
A garbled local page item mentions Min. Arrington of Min., Port Arthur, and Bryan area names. It references coupons, prices, residence listings, auctions and a notice for Marion Foote with coupon book rates, and Bryan Ice Co.
Mr Hi P Ball of Michigan visited Bryan prospecting for a gas system to serve the city. W D Lawrence guided Ball through both business and residence districts and Ball expressed satisfaction with Bryan. He said he would prefer a town of five to six thousand and would welcome spreading to Bryan if Ball decides to install. The Eagle notes gas service could greatly ease domestic life and home expenses.
March 11 dispatch reports a cold wave line for North Texas with a storm over the central region bringing heavy rain and unseasonably low temperatures. Houston area forecast for tonight included near freezing conditions with strong winds.
A list of individuals tied to Houston Dallas Fort Worth Austin San Antonio and other locales. Names include Masters Cain Van Aradell Shanks Jonne Tym Marley Younghood Clow Cox Marry Mf Allendorf Wisehow Burgess Ferrell Cates Mackla Wells Cahill Smetana Roselli Jobhnton McKnight Chamberlain Cheney Wilson McBrayer among others.
Historical notes list events on March 14 including Roger Williams securing a patent for the incorporation of Providence Newport and Portsmouth in Rhode Island. Also cited are a 1860 Quaker execution in Massachusetts, a Narragansett attack on Northampton, the formation of the Tammany Society in Alexandria, and a treaty with the Cherokee Indians ceding lands east of the Mississippi.
The item notes a negotiated retirement to an Arkansas territory with a payment totaling 5,263,261. A Niagara Park suspension bridge event is mentioned as a free time crossing by locomotive and train. It cites 1911 diplomacy with Sir Haward Gray and Taft, the 1912 Deparu Pacific merger, and a 1912 anarchist assassination attempt on the King of Italy.
Mr. Claude Searcy of Hempstead arrived this afternoon to visit at the home of Capt and Mrs. A. J. Searey.
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