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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1899
Page
3
Local news covers train times between Weat Bound and East Bound routes, with references to connections at San Antonio and Hea rne. The section also lists visits, visits to Waco, recent arrivals, businesses, weather remarks, and assorted advertisements and notices from Bryants v. Boynton to Dotson Brann pickles.
The page lists Exchange Hotel arrivals including T H Leake and A R Jackson with several others in New York Boston Chicago Corsicana Houston St Louis Memphis Cincinnati Dallas and Bryan. It includes sale notices for a 20 acre farm near town and a request to contact Tow Hudson, Bryan. Also town notices of a newborn boy to Mr and Mrs Castles Bryan and local restaurant ad for Charlie Edinburg. Further items show milk pasture rates, furniture sale by H A Bybee, second hand phonograph offers, wallpaper prices by Lon Johnson, and a letter wait list at Ryan Post Office with a one cent charge per advertised letter and a rental inquiry for a 10 acre tilable tract near city limits.
Rear Admiral Bradford tours Dry Tortugas inspecting naval works under his bureau. Steel coal sheds will store 40 000 tons with a new 60 000 gallon daily water distilling plant. Tortugas to become a well equipped naval station sheltering battleships between Chesapeake Bay and the Rio Grande.
Washington April 5. Interest grows in St. Kitts led plan to swap the Philippines for British West Indies. Proponents argue Britain would cede Caribbean colonies, giving the United States a military Pacific access and a dominant Caribbean sea, boosting ties with Central and South America and expanding commerce south of Mexico.
The Princess Salm Salm of Bonn arrives aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and plans a two month stay in the United States. She will reside with Colonel Edmund Johnson in Vineland New Jersey and visit Washington with a reception by Mrs. Chamberlain. She may also visit Chicago. The widow of Prince Felix Salm Salm is noted for aiding Union soldiers and will return three historic flags to the Sixty eighth New York and three to the Eighth New York.
In New York the League of American Wheelmen reports a weekly membership drop of 9139, with New York 2554, Pennsylvania 1688, and Massachusetts 1879. Total membership stands at 65,418, down about 40,000 in just over a year as April 1 expirations loom and some expect renewals later this month.
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