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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1907
Page
3
Rail timetable lists H & T C Schedules No 3 and No 102 with north and southbound times. The page also records local society items, visits, marriages, rentals, sales, job seeks, and small ads from Bryan Texas with names such as F S Baker Robt May Let tie Wade and many residents of nearby towns.
Prudence and good business judgment urge keeping life and property insured with Jno B Hines Smith Building. Warded wagon sheet missing. reward offered. W Buchanan leases Coulter building half for new meat market. Jno M Lawrence Co uses other half for warehouse. Horse theft suspect Cherry Burl sought in Madisonville area. Pp E Swancoat set to take over Cedar Creek farm. F D Kuykendall moving closer to town and selling hogs. Stephensville North South Texas railway gains auditor and agent at Stephensville. Local produce ad and First Baptist Church services announced with Sunday school and worship times.
Bryan won all three games against the Thornton team with a 16 to 2 victory in the final match yesterday afternoon. Parker pitched for Bryan and Mawhinney was credited, while Randle and Gray paired for the visitors. Parker struck out ten batters.
At the Bryan city council meeting on the second Friday in August bids will be received for a city funds depository including the school fund for the coming year. City Secretary Frank Clarke notes the notice as part of the official proceedings. Also a local ad promotes Dr Shoop Health Coffee imitation with a free sample at the store J M Lawrence & Co.
The report notes the Philippine assembly will meet on October 16. It lists a Chicago population figure of 2,867,000 in a new directory and mentions several Texas and regional events and deaths, including railroad worker fatalities and local officials.
Chicago on August 9 reported no broker or commission house trouble but the Western Union ticket service faced near total outage. About twenty operators were at work at 8 am while the company struggled to man its wires and handle business. Police posted fifty officers to prevent crowds near the building and Board of Trade as an insane man sought President Roosevelt to end the strike. Delays spread as brokers sought stock quotes via alternate wires.
Reports from New York say the Chicago telegraph operators strike is considered local and unlikely to spark a wider walkout. In New York transmission slowed as wire chiefs and bosses work to reroute business after a Chicago walkout discussed by President Clowry and General Superintendent Brooks. In Helena all Western Union operators also struck, about forty men, after a discharge of an operator who refused to man the Chicago wire.
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