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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
4
A vivid report describes an opium facility near Macao at the Canton river mouth. Workers cut open brown balls of dried poppy, smoke-filled rooms heat the sap, and brass pans boil the mixture before syrup is formed and packed in sealed cases under government oversight.
Humboldt, silent at dinner with Mendelssohn the banker, learns the landlord sold his house and must move. Mendelssohn then reveals he owns the property but will let Humboldt stay in his apartment for life, under the condition that he continues to reside there.
A Cincinnati boy visits an express office and asks for a ten dollar money order. After checking the rate of eight cents he offers a nickel and three coins totaling 10.08 dollars believing that buys a 10.00 money order. The clerk explains the exact amount required.
philanthropist George Marshall invites ragged street urchins for a camping week. He reheats breakfast hash for noon, but one boy refuses dinner saying he liked it in the morning and dislikes reviews. The tale from Lippincott's Magazine highlights frugality and humor.
In a Tuesday night event at the hall of representatives Governor Campbell returned to the state capital to a large crowd. Judge C H Miller and Hon J B Robertson defended the chief executive and a musical program followed.
W Perby Love, cashier of the First National Bank of Greensboro Alabama, was arrested at Lookout Inn Chattanooga by Deputy Marshal Evanson on telegrams from the Mobile district attorney charging embezzlement. He is jailed after showing a self inflicted throat wound. The same issue notes a London Subway fire trick with a blower in a fireplace triggering a large blaze.
V. B. Hudson owns a 190 acre tract on the Navasota river including Double Sulphur springs known as Wilson Platter Place.
Office in Taliaferro Building opposite Court House offers the only set of abstracts. One and a half lots with six room house two blocks from Main Street, corner lot, brick cistern and stable for 1050.00. One quarter block with five room house in good neighborhood on east side of town priced at 1000.00. Terms: one quarter cash, balance in one two and three years with interest.
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