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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1902
Page
3
Northbound No 1 at 10 20 a m Northbound No 8 at 1 27 p m Northbound No 5 at 2 15 a m Southbound No 2 at 2 00 p m Southbound No 4 at 4 16 p m No 8 and 4 are fast trains stopping only at principal stations
Day by day visitors and residents are listed as in Bryan with names such as Shelton Sesto Holligan McLeod Parks Smith Cole Kirlicks Renfro Duckworth Beard and Rogers. Local shops advertise Stacy Adams shoes at Hunter and Chatham and bicycle repairs by Karl Beard. The county examiners hold a two day session for teacher certificates at the art house.
On Monday August 18 W J Coulter starts a week long cash clearing sale with very low prices across dry goods. Advertised in town and country, goods are expected to move quickly amid hot weather and seasonable bargains. Call early to pick preferred items.
On August 16 only H. and T. C. will sell round trip tickets to St Louis at 19.15. Chicago fare 92.15. Final limit August 31, 1902. W. S. Wilson, Agent.
Fifteen couples gathered Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Adams for Bryan's first moonlight ping pong tournament. Prizes included a ping pong handkerchief won by Miss Sallie Johnson and a tie for the young men taken by George Smith.
The Southern Pacific opens cheap travel to California with $25.00 one way second class tickets from Houston and Texas Central and Southern Pacific lines during September and October. Rates from east of Houston and Galveston differ, with Galveston at $26.45. Tickets allow stop overs and literature available through local agents.
H and T C announces summer excursion rates to Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Mississippi North and South Carolina Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia. General fare details require contact for further information and bookings.
Henry Wehmeier a Brenham produce broker narrowly avoided death at the Santa freight depot when he tried to strike a dynamite rod fixed with a wire to a car door. A depot porter warned him and stopped the perilous action saving Wehmeier and the car from catastrophic blast.
The third supreme judicial district convention resumes in Waco on Monday at 10 a.m. at the city hall auditorium after failing to nominate a candidate in Austin. With Fisher, Morris, Furman, Streetman, and Surrat named as hopefuls, Chairman Felix H. Robertson urged attendance.
In Winfield Tennessee three young men and a woman prominent in Scott county were involved in a violent clash. Jarratt Trammell was killed and Matt Trammell mortally wounded. Mrs Trammell and Whig Duncan Jr fled to Kentucky and have not been captured.
West Superior Wisconsin August 15 Judge Bailey imposes twenty one lashes across the back on twin brothers Robert and John Scott 13 years old for burglary before the municipal court. Sons of prominent locals they faced a charge of numerous summer burglaries and chose cowhiding over reform school after Judge Riley offered the options.
Oscar Thompson, detained under investigation for the Bartholin-Mitchell killings, confessed under examination by Inspector Hunt. He then laughed and claimed the entire story was a lie, admitting all but insisting the tale was false.
Guthrie Oklahoma August 15 Judge J Le Brown territorial attorney for the Anti-Saloon league was attacked by a mob in Tecumseh on Wednesday He is a longtime Oklahoma political figure and an originator of the Anti-Saloon league in the territory and a former member of the first Oklahoma legislature.
Reports from near Prairie Plains in Navasota County say John Matthews, a black man, was murdered Tuesday night while returning from church. He was shot from ambush with buckshot and killed instantly. authorities suspect a rival from within his own race.
At Mill Creek near Ardmore Oklahoma Territory Mrs J H Dixon was badly burned when nitric acid was thrown in her face. Her husband was arrested and brought to Ardmore for questioning.
Owen Sander, the Galveston youth injured when a train ran over his leg in the yards of the Galveston Houston and Henderson railroad, died at Sealy hospital from the shock and the operation following the amputation.
Galveston August 15 At the convention here Hon W A Gregg of Palestine was formally nominated to represent the Seventh district in congress having received the endorsement from all but one of the eight counties composing the district
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