Postoffice Bryan Texas Second Class Mail Notice
Notice indicates mail matter type at the Bryan Texas post office with per month cost listed as 40 cents.
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1899
Page
2
Notice indicates mail matter type at the Bryan Texas post office with per month cost listed as 40 cents.
A miscellany of quips on bachelor life, including an anecdote about an absent minded bachelor who bought new gloves then used them oddly. Poem fragments praise faith and guidance. A San Antonio volunteer’s Manila voyage notes contrast Gibraltar with American scenery and mock grand Texas visions.
John M. Caldwell handles the Mitchell pasture with good grass and water. Pasturage is 50 cents per month or 5 cents for daily pasturage. applications at store or residence. Also for sale a good second hand phon ton. Apply to M. H. James.
Prices quoted in Bryan for produce and livestock include Eggs six cents per dozen, Chickens two to two fifty per dozen, Beeswax seventeen cents per pound, Turkeys forty to sixty cents each, Honey nine cents per pound, lard sixty four cents per pound, Butter ten to fifteen cents, Bacon six cents, Irish Potatoes ninety five cents per bushel, Sweet Potatoes sixty cents per bushel, Onions eight cents per pound, Dried Peas three cents, Corn thirty cents per bushel, Hay seven dollars per ton, Wood one dollar seventy five cents per cord, Wool eight cents per pound, Hides green six, salted seven, dry eight, Bones twenty cents per hundred pounds, Cows fifteen to twenty dollars per head, Yearlings ten, Hogs two to thirty four cents per pound gross, Sheep two dollars per head. An anecdote about a city gentleman mailing a letter with a self-stamped envelope and being fined three hundred dollars for improper postage.
In Austin the Senate opened with eighteen members present, three short of a quorum, forcing adjournment for a third day. The House did not engross or pass any bill, though debate continued on a Galveston ordinance ratification and pier project along Galveston bay shore.
In St Louis Judge Peabody held a husband may beat his wife under limited conditions citing a wife provoking and undermining the husband in front of children. The judge argued a wife may irritate a husband to where he cannot control himself and that punishment is rarely warranted. The opinion notes no serious harm is required.
Reports note Detective Patrick Hanifin shot dead in Nashville after money dispute with Thomas Johnson. Knoxville fires destroy four buildings valued at $50,000 with $25,000 insured. Artist Joseph D. Strong dies after operation in San Francisco. singer Lily Post dies of heart failure there. MP Thomas Ellis dies in England. Dan Murty of Fourth Tennessee dies aboard Dixie en route to Savannah from Cuba. buried at sea. A negro body found near Mineola Texas, shot. Captain Elliott's daughter elected city clerk in Coffeyville Kansas after Manila death. Cuban raids and stock theft reported in several provinces. Missouri passes St Louis World’s Fair bill. Harvard defeats Princeton in intercollegiate debate. Philippine casualties since Feb 4 total 184 killed, 976 wounded. County Judge Cannon jailed for killing W. A. Gray. Ike Johnson shoots Charles Graham in Del Rio. Admiral Dewey reported healthy. Civil trial planned for Lt. F Z Curry over Savannah incident. Twenty-five incorrigible girls at Chillicothe industrial home break free. driven back. Lady Harberton faces dress code case in Kingston. Ishpeming miners resume work after strike. Vice President Hobart ill with indigestion. US transport Creek sails to Santiago with more dead. Fire at Lead South Dakota destroys $100,000 of property. water pressure too low to fight blaze.
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