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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1903
Page
4
Police discovered a pool room operating inside the Roosevelt birth home on East Twentieth Street New York. Sixty men played checkers when Captain O Connor led officers to the scene. A tablet marking the president's birthplace remains on the wall of the first floor.
J. W. Batts lists the only set of Brazos County Land Titles Abstract Books for sale plus multiple properties around town. Listings include 105 acres near the courthouse with pasture and cultivated land priced at 1500, a southeast block with a cottage and well at 1250, a four block from Main Street brick house at 1250, near Allen Academy blocks at 250 and 500, and additional parcels with houses, wells, and rents. Prices and terms vary, with easy terms offered on select pieces.
President Roosevelt meets twenty tribal chiefs in the capitol private office. Sioux leader John Grass presents a carved peace pipe and translation of a goodwill address while Mandan chiefs express support. Roosevelt recalls his western years and stresses personal responsibility.
President Roosevelt traveled through Mandan Fargo Jamestown and Bismarck greeting old friends and discussing Philippines tariff and prosperity. In Bismarck he was introduced to several Indian chiefs he had once traded with years earlier, who presented a pipe of peace as he offered greetings. The day’s highlight came in Medora with a notable ceremony.
An ad claims indigestion causes most non organic heart disease and asserts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests all food to relieve stomach pressure on the heart. Testimony from D Kauble of Nevada Ohio credits four months of use for cure. Sold in bottles for $1.00 by DeWitt in Chicago and N M McDougall locally.
The text describes a ranch owned by Ownea a ranch and notes his post office address from sixteen years earlier when he served as sheriff of Billings county. Ranchmen from nearby areas welcomed the president for a western reception. Joe Ferris, the president's former foreman, and his brother 8. M. Ferris, joined the president at Bismarck and accompanied him to Medora.
Galveston April 8 officers re elected at a Galveston Houston and Henderson railroad stock holders meeting F B Olcott president J H Hawley vice president A A Van Alstyne secretary and treasurer J H Hill manager attendees included H C Rouse A A Allen J W Maxwell James Brown Potter J W Hageman N A Stedman Hawley and Van Alstyne. Slew His Uncle at Snapp Arkansas Garrett claims self defense.
King Edward boards the royal yacht Victoria and Albert in Lisbon for the passage to Gibraltar. The embarkation ceremony mirrors his arrival with an ovation for King Edward and King Carlos along the route. A vast flotilla escorted the state barge amid cheering crowds.
Governor Lanham vetoes his sixteenth bill disapproving $2000 for Daughters of the Republic of Texas and Cam Con Bilio club in Nacogdoches, citing constitutional limits on public funds. Judge Klugh grants a continuance in James H. Tillman murder case to July term due to two key witnesses missing. Captain A J White and Miss Roper cited as essential forthcoming witnesses.
Mrs. Jacob H. Vanderbilt reports four days of running a women’s smoking parlor on Fifth Avenue has brought continuous protests from societies and individuals. A man claiming YM C A membership delivered a written protest marking a climax in the campaign to force her from the business. She links the opposition to broader sentiment against her venture and warns it has distressed her deeply.
Admiral Walker places the needed force at 30 000 for full canal construction. Current workers are mainly Jamaica laborers and local supply is inadequate, so thousands may be drawn from the southern states and West Indies to meet demand.
Passengers aboard the steamer Guller report Ceiba quiet with city affairs run by revolutionary forces in possession. Citizens have returned to work and normal activity resumes with no government move to retake Ceiba. Bonilla forces reportedly hold every Atlantic entry port in Honduras. At Ceiba when Guller departed were the Panther Olympia San Francisco and Raleigh.
In Rome on April 8 strikers gathered in large numbers on the Corso Vittorio Emanuele. Troops charged firing three times and dispersed the crowd. About a dozen wounded. Order restored but military remains in the city as the general strike continues with arrests. In Amsterdam, April 8 the workers defense committee plans a nationwide general strike of all trades.
A north bound Mobile and Ohio freight collided with a south bound train at Chunchu lu Alabama eighteen miles north of Mobile. Both engines were wrecked. the south bound fireman is missing. Three crewmen injured. Cause thought to be orders misunderstanding. Mobile sent a special train with doctors and a wrecking crew.
Belgrade April 8 King Alexander issues two proclamations one suspending the constitution adopted April 1 101 and dissolving the state council while repealing laws and re enact ing the prior constitution another proclaims the constitution back to full effect. Austin April 8 House finance committee proposes $10000 for a Chickamauga battlefield monument to Texas troops and $10000 for a Vicksburg battlefield monument.
In Colorado Springs on April 8 a certified check for 350000 was delivered to I Harry Stratton by executors of his father's estate. Judge Leeds instructed the district court jury to return a verdict in favor of the proponents, which was achieved and the jury excused.
Dispatch from Constantinople reports from Monastir that the Macedonian revolutionary committee plans a broad insurrection in European Turkish provinces around April 10. The move aims to destabilize Ottoman control and boost independence efforts across the region.
The Stockmen's Association met in Purcell Oklahoma Tuesday with broad attendance from Chickasaw county and neighboring states Texas Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri. Two hundred and thirty entries were filed for the stock show.
The fourteen year old son of the Attorney General of Mexico, Salvador Rebollar, was run down and killed by an electric car in front of Chapultepec Park. He stepped from one car and was struck by another traveling in the opposite direction.
California Attorney General Webb issued an official opinion declaring Bible use in public schools unconstitutional. Teachers may not use Scripture as a textbook and may not read from it even at opening exercises, a practice commonly observed in many districts.
J. W. Bryan formerly lieutenant governor of Kentucky died at his home in Lexington Kentucky. He had been for years an attorney and an influential figure in state politics.
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