Train Schedule Fragments Note East Bound Departures
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1898
Page
3
Partial OCR shows times and train numbers with scattered digits. No clear event or location. no coherent narrative or dates discernible.
Local items list visits and illnesses in Madisonville including H C Robinson and R J Ford, Prof. J H and R O Allen, W E Mathis, J E Butler, Uncle Dave Lloyd, and others. Ads note rental, livery services by Ira Gooch and W T James, sale notices by John Q Tabor and John M Caldwell, and insurance notices by Joe B Reed. Tyler republican convention attendees also listed.
Burt Norwood on sick list and Mrs. J. H. Mawhinney visitations mark a busy day in Navasota. Watered by mentions of Madipo, Fort Presidio, and several area figures, the items cover rent notices stock repaints and a bridge inspection plan at Bundick bridge.
In April every good American seemed expert. In June he was making military campaigns. In August he is a diplomat. In October he will be pronouncing on the government of colonies. The American citizen is hard pressed, but he shrinks from no duty in running the government. Franklin Texan.
A Santiago de Cuba dispatch from August 15 describes Cuban sentiment as divided. The pro annexation majority seeks American protection while a rabid anti‑American faction promotes rebellion and rejects peace efforts, inflaming unrest and pressuring harsh policy responses.
American officers and Cuban leaders met at the palace in Santiago de Cuba on August 16 with General Garcia present. The hour and a half session agreed to disband the Cuban army and have the United States pay the men, an expenditure of about 15 million dollars, justified by the island's agricultural wealth and disruption from insurgent raids.
Dan Thomas, a Negro crab fisherman, was wounded and barely saved from lynching by 500 Tennessee soldiers after riots began in a saloon. Officers later protected him at the guardhouse as quarrels continued and the crowd dispersed. Fort Worth and Atlanta items follow.
A Washington street car passenger notes Chinese travelers favor car rides and fare paying habits. Lieutenant John J. Blondin of the Maine recalls his Samoan hurricane ordeal aboard the Trenton, clinging to rigging for sixteen hours, then rescuing Vandalia survivors with little rest.
A New York car incident shows a woman defending her damaged skirt with a quarter offered to a gentleman, while a columnist muses on professional sweaters and the potential for ministers and women. The piece then shifts to European Agrarian rage and a survey of cheeses produced in North America, noting Stilton Cheddar Gruyere Neuchatel and a few foreign brands not yet made locally.
A midweek social at Mr. and Mrs. J A McQueen hosted Miss Shelby of Houston Miss Goodrich of Marlin and Miss Nellie Smith as guests of honor. About twenty couples attended with ten euchre tables. Prizes included a four leaf clover charm and wisp brush for men and an embroidered patriotic belt and hat pin for women.
A country girl new to town writes about her first street living classifies the place as queer. A guiding moral urges reader to seek God in the soul first to live rightly and better the world.
I W H Haynes calls a mass meeting of Brazos County Republicans at the county courthouse in Bryan on August 27 1898. Purpose is to endorse the state convention actions and to form a county ticket. Signed by W H Haynes County Chairman and M M Haynes Secretary.
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