Bethel Academy Concert Impresses Large Audience
A Bethel Academy concert drew a large crowd including local patrons and visitors from Bryan. The program, organized by music teacher Mrs. Phillip Andrews, featured numerous solos and group numbers ranging from Levada Goens to Seaside dialogues, with performances by Annie Jones, Maggie Jones, Justina McCardy, and others.
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Bethel Academy
Bryan
Phillip Andrews
Guveert Arabella Jones
Howell Sunshine Cotham
Watson Annie Jones
Mr. Bullock
Uncle Pete
Jessie Watson
Elzie Jones
Zacatecas
Codina
Dyess
McClung
McClung, Mrs. Andrews
Stoneabbog
Maggie Jones
Pattie McClung
Justina McCardy
Carl Gandy
Walter Icy Goens
Bertha Sellers
Ryder Ruth Blanton
Blake Faye Buchanan
Ethel Orr
Alice Jones
Jim Watson
Forester Jones
Arthur Gober
Estrada
Andrews
Minnie Pate
Smith
Irene Dyess
Terry Drill
Uth Blanton
Daisy Carnes
Ruth Cotnam
Minnie Ferguson
Essie Jones
Lola Sellers
George Gober
Chester Jones
Winger McCulloch
Ruth Pate
Engelnaam
Panny McSwain
Sam Ferguson
Cyclone Southers to Deliver World Famous Lecture
Edwin Southers known as Cyclone Southers comes to the Opera House for a one night performance on Monday April 2. He will present If I Were the Devil with seats at Haswell's book store selling for 75 and 50 cents.
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Edwin Southers
Southers
Opera House
Haswell’s
Moneybak silk skirts offered with written guarantee
The ad invites readers to view the Moneybak taffeta silks line at 101 Wagner & Brandon and notes a written guarantee accompanies every skirt pattern sold.
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Moneybak
Wagner & Brandon
Bryan City Election Ordinance Set For April
City of Bryan passes ordinance appointing the election of mayor and two council members to be held at city hall on the first Tuesday in April in accordance with city charter ordinances and state election laws. City Secretary M. Spell and R. H. Harrison sign. Mar 3 Apr 10.
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City of
Bryan
M. Spell
R. H. Harrison
Boys for bachelor hoosier farmer found eight orphans
English Indiana March 31 a wealthy bachelor near the city discovered eight young boys two months to two years old tucked on a quilt after a knock on his door. A note said these are all your own care for them. He and his mother suspected a blackmail plot and asked county officers to take charge.
Lawmakers approve 30 million legislative budget in two week debate
Washington March 31 The house passed the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill totaling 30 million after a two week review. Debate centered on removing the clerks age limit and criticism aimed at the bureau of standards by Slayden of Texas and Gaines of Tennessee. The bill funds eighty seven officers and staff and includes a near seven hundred thousand cut from the prior year.
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Washington
House
Sim O
Bureau of Standards
Slayden
Texas
Gaines
Tennessee
Navy Department
Naval Observatory
El Paso to Spend 250000 for Street Car Improvement
El Paso announces a $250,000 street car improvement plan. It includes double tracks on San Antonio and Oregon streets and new service to a theater route. The power plant capacity will double and rolling stock increased to shorten schedules.
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el Paso
San Antonio
Oregon
Texas
St. Louis
Quintettes Arrive at Gunter Farm in Bedias Texas
Word from Bedias Grimes county reports Mr and Mrs W L Gunter welcomed quintuplets all boys. The couple already has two sets of twins and a set of triplets, with the newest arrivals appearing healthy and thriving.
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Bryan
Tex
Bedias
Grimes County
W. L. Gunter
Blank primary debate ends as adjournment motion fails
In Austin on Friday the house rejected a plan to adjourn at six o clock Saturday afternoon. The daylong session centered on the blanket primary amendment as senators debated its provisions.
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Austin
House
Messrs. Winters
Reid
Wilmuth
Senate
Cat and dog charm in Dallas birth of catdog hybrid pup
A French poodle in Dallas recently gave birth to a remarkable puppy with traits of both a cat and a dog. The dam has grown unusually fond of the strange offspring and remains beside it constantly.
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Dallas
Two Drown While Duck Shooting Near Vicksburg
In Greasy Lake twenty miles north of Vicksburg, Alexander Grant a white cotton planter and merchant from Hardee Issaquena county and Alexander Claiborne a colored man drowned. The colored man lost his life trying to save his white companion.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Greasy Lake
Alexander Grant
Alexander Claiborne
Grant
Hardee
Issaquena County
Train car accident injures twenty three in Indiana
An eastbound Nickel Plate passenger train No. 21 derailed near South Whiteley Fort Wayne Indiana on March 31. The day coach smoker and sleeping cars left the track and turned over in the ditch injuring twenty three passengers. One lady died. Baggage car and rear dining car tracks remained on the rails. The smoker was hurled fifty feet.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
South Whiteley
Manahan Secures Five Year Lease for El Paso Theater
El Paso reports A L Manahan who runs a California Arizona theater syndicate has obtained a five year lease on the new 100000 dollar theater to be erected in El Paso. Construction will begin within three weeks.
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el Paso
A. L. Manahan
California
Arizona
Frank G. Moore Dies in Dallas After Long Business Career
Dallas tributes mark the death of Frank G. Moore a longtime resident since 1872 noted as a dealer in Bash and deers with interests in local industry. The obituary describes his deafness and community involvement in Dallas.
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Dallas
Frank G. Moore
The Ambition That Led To An Open Grave
A youth pursues wealth power and fame and, despite acclaim and possessions, fails to find happiness. In the end his quest ends at an open grave as onlookers miss his inner longing and sorrow. The tale warns that true happiness eludes even the mighty.
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Earth
Tares
New York
Witch hazel seed pods provide startling party effect
Witch hazel branches with both flowers and unopened seed pods can deliver a new sensation when placed in water. The pods burst unexpectedly, showering hard black seeds and creating late night excitement. Use fresh cuttings for parties, or keep refrigerated and damp if cut earlier, to prevent withering and premature seed expulsion.
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America
The Fly Soured by Extraordinary Traits in London Lecture
A London lecture by H Hill describes the fly as a crime capable creature with strength seven times a horse and ability to lift twenty times its weight. It notes oxygen intake, upside down movement from foot hairs, a multi eyed organ and extensive olfactory apparatus detecting spoiled meat.
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H. Hill
London
Hot sand bath wonder of the California desert
The piece describes a desert hot sand bath where surface water is shallow and black sand moves beneath. A bather floats with a timber crossbar, body sinking to the shoulders, kept upright in perpendicular flotation. The warmth feels comforting and massaging to the body.
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California Desert
John Browns Cottonwood Grows From Switch Planted
In 1857 John Brown rode to the Benton place near Effingham, Atchison county Kansas and dismounted. He carried a switch cut from a cottonwood tree which he tossed aside. Mrs Benton planted it near the back door and it rooted, growing into a large tree known locally as the John Brown cottonwood.
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John Brown
Benton Place
Effingham
Atchison County
Kan
Marryat and Bride Move to Housekeeping
The exchange reveals Marryat and his bride have left the boarding house and taken a flat, signaling a new home life that brings them closer together. The brief dialogue from the Boston Advertiser notes they have moved in and begun housekeeping.
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Towne
Marryat
Browne
Boston Advertiser
Chattanooga Man Receives Admiral Cervera Letter
Major C. B. McGuffey of Chattanooga, friend of Admiral Cervera, reports the admiral's letter noting he watches the Algeciras conference. He says no Moroccan understanding seems likely and war unlikely.
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Chattanooga
C. B. McGuffey
Cervera
Spain
Algeciras
How to Form Images in Refracting and Reflecting Telescopes
A simple experiment using a reading glass and a concave mirror shows how images form at focal points. Move the lens or mirror to find the focus where the window’s image appears on paper, then adjust to see distant objects in the image, illustrating differences between refracting and reflecting telescopes.
Submerged Guns Demonstrate Harbor Defense Feasibility
A Portsmouth experiment loaded an Armstrong 110 pound gun beneath the water at low tide and fired on submerged targets including a wooden beam hull and a boiler plated ship. The shot pierced the wood, shattered the boiler plate, and caused water to flood the hull, showing submerged harbor guns could damage enemy vessels during siege.
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Portsmouth
England
Loudon Spectator
Custom of the Khands in Madras Presidency
The Calcutta Englishman notes that the Khands offer a buffalo in sacrifice instead of a human victim. They apologize to the deity, saying they would sacrifice themselves but are hindered by the British government, praying for divine anger at their neglect of duty.
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Madras Presidency
Calcutta
Why He Quit Prompted By A Novel's False Hero
A short dialogue recalls a reader quitting a novel at the shooting chapter fearing the hero's recovery. The exchange highlights skepticism about plot twists and reader attachment to the character's fate.
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Criticus
Study, Labor, and Hope Against Moral Suffering
The note asserts that domination of moral sufferings comes through labor and study prevents discouragement, attributed to Abrantes. It frames effort as the path to resilience and moral steadiness.
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Oscar Wild Galop
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Jim McDonald
Eve Richards
Jenes
OPERA
Bryan Lyceum Course
Negro
White Man
Lake
Cottonwood
Ceylon
Fa Hiam
Devinipratissa
Sam Leading
Brande
SIZAS
B. Johnson Phrker
Montreal
E. Rohde
Carson, Sewall & Co
Wilson Grain & Coal CO
A. E. Worley
Prop
THE
Bryan Steam Laundry
United
New Orleans
Jos. Hellen
Pass. Agt
Houston, Texas
Texas Railroad
Memphis
Mexico
D. J. Price
Gen. Pass. & Ticket Agt
Geo. D. Hunter
Asst
G. P
T. A
Palestine
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