Property for sale near Main Street with five rooms
One and one third lots of ground and a five room house in a good neighborhood two blocks from Main street offered for 1000 dollars.
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1906
Page
8
One and one third lots of ground and a five room house in a good neighborhood two blocks from Main street offered for 1000 dollars.
In New York, banker Brampton and secretary Wilmanton weigh a $35,000 purchase of 175 pearls from Wilfred Harrington of San Francisco. Harrington’s arrival reveals a wife with superstitions about pearls and a web of romantic entanglements with Felicia and Jack, ending in a dramatic proposal refused with mock funeral flair.
A traveler hears a cottage tale from an old woman about praying big and open hearted. She recounts a man who hid in a wall hole praying only for himself as thunder struck, and the wall fell, killing him. The lesson: pray for the whole of us, not just yourself.
A morning blaze in Texarkana destroyed the residence of Mrs. Ella Reinhardt, the Grand Central Hotel, the general offices of the Kansas City, South ern and Gulf, the Kansas City Southern freight house, and Pat Cohn’s dwelling. Losses include 25,000 on offices, 5,000 on the hotel, 2,000 Reinhardt home, 3,000 Cohn home, plus about 500 each for the phone and electric companies. The fire, aided by a high wind and water shortages, origin unknown. the railroad suffered full insurance coverage.
The interstate commerce commission plans to certify cases to the Department of Justice for criminal proceedings over alleged underbilling and misdescription by shippers. Indictments may follow after hearings in Buffalo and Philadelphia in April, as the commission seeks drastic court action to curb frauds.
The passage recalls Thomson sending a bound copy of Seasons to Sir Gilbert Elliott of Minto who shared it with an old gardener. The gardener admired the volume and affirmed Thomson's ingenuity, saying the lad had produced a neat piece of handicraft, signaling the work would bring fame.
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