White Lawn Cloth 500 Yards at 10c Monday Only
Storeroom sale offers 500 yards of white lawn at 10 cents per yard with the promotion valid only on Monday.
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1908
Page
1
Storeroom sale offers 500 yards of white lawn at 10 cents per yard with the promotion valid only on Monday.
In mid ocean the Cedric halted for nearly three hours to operate on Mrs Thomas Trebell of New York. Surgeons Dr W S Halstead and Dr Prior led the procedure with ship’s stewards and nurses aboard. After two hours more, the patient was moved to New York Hospital and is expected to convalesce barring complications.
A mob of foreigners in Philadelphia on August 8 attacked police officers while seeking to lynch Joseph Green alias Joseph Finestein after an alleged attack on Nellie Wiener a three year old girl. Mrs Wiener led the crowd to a barber shop where Green hid and refused arrest with an open razor. A policeman knocked him down and the crowd battled to reach him before he was taken to a police station.
Dubuque Iowa Aug 8 Senator Allison was buried with simple funeral rites held at his residence. Rev Bergen of Westminster Presbyterian officiated with private interment as crowds mourned. city operations paused, flags at half mast, crepe on homes. Notable attendance included congressional members, Governor Cummins, Des Moines officers and state delegates.
Fifty more non union workmen were taken to the Winnipeg shops of the Canadian Pacific railway and put to work. The company arranged housing and feeding for 1,000 men in the yards. A special policeman man on duty at the Winnipeg yards was assaulted with a cordwood stick. Several Winnipeg strikers faced rebuke from their executive officers for jeering at non joining workers.
In Minneapolis on August 10 stockholders petitioned the Federal district court for a receiver in the Pittsburg-Washburn Flour Milling company reorganization. C. S. Pittsbury was appointed. Business will continue during reorganization. Capitalization is $5,000,000 with $4,150,000 bonds outstanding.
Henry Johnson, a Black man, was hanged in the county jail for a criminal assault on Ida May Broadway, the four year old daughter of a local dairyman. The brutal crime shocked Memphis residents as authorities carried out the sentence.
Lincoln Nebraska August 8 Robert E Coughlin an attorney from Paola Kansas visited Mr Bryan as Kansas prospects for Democratic victory appeared brighter He suggested time spent stumping the state Eugene Chafin Chicago Prohibition candidate for president joined the call and left saying the visit was courteous
The Texas department of agriculture is tallying cotton ginners reports on bales ginned. Reports have been received from 500 ginners.
Mrs. Florence Richards of Ohio told an Austin Lincoln Temperance chautauqua audience that women should strike from housework and child care until suffrage is won. She warned husbands would be dragged to polling places and saloon doors would close once men feel the lack of domestic help.
Hon. W. H. Taft attended the horse show in White Sulphur Springs on August 8.
Senator Scott met with William Howard Taft for a lengthy discussion likely covering policy and political concerns. The private session underscored ongoing dialogue between leading figures of the era.
Chicago reports an important conference set for Tuesday between William Jennings Bryan and Chairman Mack to finalize the campaign outline. Urey Woodson and Treasurer Haskell arrived, with efforts noted to reopen a Western Passenger Association decision on reduced rates for Bryan ceremony observers.
Chicago and Northwestern unveils plans for a Madison street passenger terminal costing about 20 million dollars. The facility aims to handle over 250000 passengers daily, spans four city blocks, and features a 120 foot granite portico, bronze lamps, 12 foot clocks, and six grand entrances. Construction starts with caissons, targeting occupancy by January 1 1910.
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