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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1899
Page
7
Local snippets show trains between Hearne and North bound lines with arrival around 12 50 pm. Community notes mention visitors from Calvert Navasota Hearne and Houston. Several notices cover marriages licenses church revivals and small business ads amid town life.
The Concord singing school conducted by Prof C Bailey and N L Outlaw closed July 26. They had 44 pupils. Local thanks extend to the professors and Concord residents for hospitality. The Baptist revival opens tonight with a musical entertainment at Mrs Pen Isbel’s home. W W Thomas’s daughter shows improvement. J L Thomas’s daughter also better. Mr and Mrs Biggs of Brazos county visit their daughter in this community. Rose Bud.
Mr. W. A. Stewart and wife of Reliance visited here over the weekend while Rev. J. A. Freeman dropped by this week. Miss Maud Nichols left for home after a pleasant stay with the Misses Hickman. A revival meeting in Wesson led by Rev. Myers drew many young locals to events as cotton picking nears.
J H Wilson of Tabor Texas reports strong growth from Peerless cotton, with April 10 and June 3 plantings producing blooms by July 20. He notes mixed boll sizes, small bolls carrying more fiber than large ones, and rain damage affecting the crop. He promises another update later.
Under a recent ruling of the Commissioners of Internal Revenue banks are prohibited from stamping checks for customers. Therefore all unstamped checks will be returned unpaid. This applies to receipts also when not presented by the drawer in person. First National Bank of Bryan. Merchants & Planters National Bank, Bryan, Texas.
In a carriage a poorly dressed Quaker woman sits with a silver gray dress snowy collar and a large Madonna face. Two travelers joke about her quaker yeast then she quietly retorts If thy father and mother had consumed more sweet quaker yeast and less beer and tobacco they would have been better raised and better bred. The remark silences the compartment as the train hums on.
Directors of Surati Bazaar company resorted to astrology and sorcery after failing to trace Rs. 2,000 missing from the cash safe. Every employee received a mouthful of rice treated with a magical preparation to reveal the thief, with no disaster reported yet. The year 1810 is noted for four peers born that year, including the late Duke of Northumberland’s contemporaries Lords Tankerville Gwydyr Maxborough and Armstrong.
The new Cuban stamps feature a Columbus statue in Havana’s courtyard for the one cent, a map of Cuba for the two cent, the marble statue La Cubana for the three cent, a New York and Cuban mail steamship for the five cent, and an agricultural scene with a tobacco field and royal palms for the ten cent.
Notice warns water and electric light customers with unpaid bills they will be cut off by August 10 if not paid. Bryan Water Ice Light & Power Co. reports no further indulgence. Mr E Mixer of Dewey Nurseries, Richard La, tours town selling shade trees and a cleaning polish. He offers free grease stain removal at the Central hotel during his stay. Numerous items follow including social visits, a ball game score Navasota 14 Bryan 7, sale ads for a horse and a corner residence, and an 10¢ box of borated talcum powder at Emmet's Pharmacy.
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