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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1903
Page
3
Bryan postoffice hours listed for general delivery registry and money order services. Opens 8 a m closes 6 p m with midnight train mail cutoffs at 9 p m Sunday open 10:30 11 a m and 4:15 to 4:45 p m. Train schedule shows southbound and northbound arrivals at various times including 12 56 p m 4 04 p m 2 30 a m and 12 03 p m 11 62 p m.
Local notices list rental ads for two houses to be leased by M L Wallace and describe a busy day at the Central Texas Fair with visitors from Navasota Houston Waco and Marlin. The report covers balloon events, a riding contest, and upcoming auction sales while detailing several residents visiting the city for the fair.
Paris reports indicate a joint European naval demonstration may follow Russia and Austria pressuring the Turkish port reforms. France, Austria and others likely to join, Germany possibly abstaining, as tensions rise over Balkan affairs. Insurgents threaten railways in Macedonia urging passenger bans to avoid bloodshed.
New Orleans August 20 The Southern Textile Cotton company a merger of about seventy cotton yarn mills across North Carolina Georgia Mississippi Alabama and Tennessee is nearly completed The deal totaling about 14 900 090 is financed entirely in New York Buck Pratt promoters say cash and preferred stock will be used with original owners retaining voting control and common stock holdings The arrangement avoids a formal trust label while giving owners majority voting stock control.
Mrs. James Holder of Denison Township discovered a burly negro hiding in her room about 11 pm. The intruder crawled from under the bed, fired at the house twice, then fled toward Denison as neighbors searched the area. The incident occurred while her husband was away in Indian Territory and her 16 year old brother was ill in bed.
Fort Smith Arkansas August 20 William Hicks and his wife the alleged leaders of eight negro kidnappers holding a white Fort Gibson Oklahoma girl have been captured and jailed. All other band members are reported seized. A rescue party was fired on with Pate a farmer killed. Hicks claims the girl is his daughter. Also a message from Tampico notes a strong hurricane causing property damage. A Seymour Texas electrical storm closes the day with wind rain and damage to barns and wires.
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