Local Notes and Sales Promos in Bryan Towns
Local items list visitors from Hearne Houston Millican Brownsville and Kurten. Advertisements offer china silk eggs and leather goods at Norwood Wagner Brandon and Emmet Maloney. Easter egg hunt set for April 14 at the courthouse yard with prizes and lemonade. Odeon Male Quartet and Nettie Jackson bring Bryan Lyceum to the opera house April 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwood
Newsome
Brazos
Wagner & Brandon
L. B. Mendola
Villa Maria Academy
Geo. A. Adams
E. Wilking
Kurten
R. Shepherd
W. J. Lawless Kurten
Yester
Emmet & Maloney
Sanders Bros
Hart
H. T. Coulter
Baby
Rockdale
Odeon
Nettie Jackson
Bryan
The Fixed Stars And the Vast Distance of Sigma Draconis
A historical exposition explains why some stars are termed fixed, detailing vast cosmic scales. It defines light year distance, uses Sigma Draconis as the example, and notes that its light would remain visible even if Sigma vanished before the Revolutionary War.
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Sigma Draconis
Earth
Sigma
Ugly Korea Women Claim of a Western Observer
A Western writer in Ladies' Weekly asserts Korean women are very unattractive despite some fine features. He describes palace access and street women as ill dressed or hurried, arguing that overall appearance reflects mental life and social status.
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Korea
Little
Hermit Kingdom
Seoul
Census of the Stupid Among Us
A sultan orders a census of the empire's stupid people. The vizier includes the sovereign at the top of the long list, explaining that two days earlier the sultan entrusted vast sums to two strangers for buying horses abroad. The sovereign asks what if they return. the vizier replies he would erase the sultan's name and elevate the strangers.
Trade and labor roles in Turk communities observed
The excerpt notes Turks avoid trade and commerce while contrasting the Frank’s science, American commerce, and Ottoman majesty. It warns that majesty cannot feed people, so non-soldiers aim to be functionaries, leaving villagers and women to carry land and household duties, with rare mentions of men helping at home.
Domestic Bookkeeping Clarifies Household Spending
A woman defends wage increases for servants by arguing to a friend that dress and millinery bills, not household expenses, drive up costs. The exchange appears in London Tit-Bits illustrating domestic finance and social norms.
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London
Dinner schedule hinges on last night’s clock setting
A dialog from Harper’s Bazar shows a couple discussing meal timing. The husband asks if dinner is ready, and the wife confirms, noting she set the clock to the timing agreed on last night and expects four hours until dinner.
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Harper’s Bazar
Identification After Interrogation Sparks Vicious Threats
After identifying a suspect, a detective and the victim exchange taunting dialogue. The victim vows stronger retaliation once he can approach the man, signaling escalating tension in a tense confrontation.
Italian Professor Hopes Vesuvius Will Return to Normal
From Rome on April 11 Professor Mattucci in charge of Mount Vesuvius observatory reports a grave night but says the volcano is now calmer. Seismic instruments show quieter records and he will remain at the observatory to guide the population toward normal conditions.
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Rome
Mattucci
Mount Vesuvius
Vesuvius
Boy Swallows Fish In Oklahoma Incident
In Gazebo Oklahoma on April 11 Dick Adams six years old living near Rainy sucked water through a rubber hose from a tank where his father kept minnows and drew a two and a half inch fish into his throat. Physicians were summoned and removed the fish by pulling it in two pieces.
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Gazebo
Okla
Dick Adams
Wild Volt of the Heart: A Japanese Proverb Insight
A Japanese proverb asserts to never release control of the wild volt of the heart. The saying reflects caution about impulse and persistence in desire.
Gems and Disease In Ancient Healing Lore
The article recalls ancient claims of gems curing blindness and illnesses. It notes emperors and Pliny attributing healing and protective powers to stones like diamond and ruby, including color changes, poison antidote, and truth sensing. It mentions April as the month dedicated to a gem and its supposed luck for those born in April.
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Theodosius
Pliny
Myerson
World coal supplies and future fears warned by editors
A magazine excerpt argues coal reserves seem vast and disputed with figures suggesting centuries or thousands of years of supply. It notes China, Japan, Romania, the Balkans, America, Britain, and Germany as having ample coal and urges readers to focus on other worries.
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China
Japan
Roumania
Balkan States
America
Great Britain
Germany
Everybody's Magazine
Price and Imagination in Grocery Judgments
A grocer recalls selling two flour qualities, one fine and one poor, by mistake. Customers paying high prices for the poor flour praised it, while those paying little for the fine flour complained, with some returning it as unfit for use.
Reflected Affection in Rain Like Returns to the Fountain
A poetic reflection on love's value, arguing affection nourishes the heart as water nourishes a fountain. Even when not cherished by one, the care circulates, enriching the giver and flows back to renew the source.
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Longfellow
Tracing Ancestors Yields High Fee Claim
Jones asks about success in tracing ancestors, then questions a large charge. Genealogist offers to reveal results for one thousand pounds and to keep quiet about them, as reported by London Tit-Bits.
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Jones
London
It Hart. Pa Whaled Me With a Beard
A comic exchange recalls a boy and his father trading blows over a beard insult. The child asks if the lash hurt the old man, noting the father endured a splinter in his thumb, implying mutual discomfort.
The Pre-Adamites and the Two Creations Theory
In the seventeenth century Isaac de la Peyrere argued for two creations of humankind. He claimed the first race united both sexes in one being and that Adam arose in a second creation. His followers, the Pre-Adamites, grew influential until he renounced the doctrine in Rome before Pope Alexander VII.
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Isaac de la Peyrere
de la Peyrere
Adam
Bela Peyrere
Rome
Alexander VII
Quote on heroes and neighbors from G W Curtis
A reflective line notes that heroes feel poetic by presence while truth about neighbors would read like plain poetry. The aphorism contrasts mythic memory with everyday reality.
Rider for Frisco Agent Dies Suddenly in Muskogee
In Muskogee on April 11 H. EB. Hark a Frisco agent rider died suddenly. The incident was reported as a sudden death affecting a railway employee in the city.
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Muskogee
H. EB. Hark
Rider
Frisco
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