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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1898
Page
2
The item notes that 8000 people attended the Vernon Cowboys reunion at Haskell last week. It mentions a Nebraska snowfall event, Gov Hogg’s Hawaii visit, and a quip about knot usage in nautical miles. It also explains that a ship’s twenty knots equals about 23 ordinary miles per hour.
A court house gathering elected H. Crenshaw as chair and D. D. Dawson as secretary. A committee was named to select delegates to the county convention and a long list of delegates was announced. Delegates go uninstructed.
New manager Jake Schwarz directs a complete rebuild of the Waco Grand Opera House with new floors fire escapes and fresh painting and upholstery. The goal is a first class amusement venue ready to welcome top companies and pleased patrons. opening date to be announced.
In Thompson Creek the drought continues with hot dry spells yet cotton nears harvest but prospects show little to pick due to boll worms. Local life includes meetings at Benchley led by Rev. Andrews, a small choir turnout, and many social visits. A typhoid illness felled Miss Mollie Higgs and funerals were held. crops improve with rain though health concerns linger. The Thurber Coal Company begins drilling, and area families relocate as gin season nears.
The Brazos lodge of the Knights of Pythias holds its annual outing today at the fish tank with a barbecue dinner. Thirty Navasota lodge members arrive by a northbound train at noon, escorted by a brass band to the rendezvous. Visitors are to be entertained tomorrow night at the academy of music.
Geo R Tabor chairman of the 55th district in Brazos and Madison counties calls a legislative convention of accredited delegates at Bryan courthouse at 2 pm on Saturday August 20 to nominate a candidate for the legislature and conduct other business as needed.
List of names of letters remaining at the Bryan post office for the week ending Aug 9 1898. A one cent charge is added for each advertised piece. Readers are urged to call for letters by stating advertised with the date. Also notice of a mass Republican meeting at Brazos county court house in Bryan on Aug 27 1898 called by W H Haynes county chairman with M M Haynes as secretary.
An advertisement touts S. S. S. as the only vegetable blood remedy free from potash and mercury. It recounts a Texas man’s recovery from contagious blood poison after failing doctored treatments and extols the product’s cures of rheumatism scrofula and other disorders. Books on blood diseases are offered free by Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta Georgia.
The piece extols Mexico’s September 15 and 16 celebrations marking Diaz’s birth and independent Mexico. It describes the Battle of Flowers, public displays, and democratic flower pelting, then promotes I. and G. N. R. rail tickets to Mexico City with options via Laredo or Eagle Pass and a two-route return at a $5 extra charge.
City officers listed with mayor and department heads. Church directory details pastors and service times for Baptist Methodist Presbyterian Christian and Catholic congregations along with fraternal orders and lodge rosters.
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