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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1907
Page
2
The Daily Eagle from Bryan Texas notes its second class mail status dated August 21 1907. A brief editorial quip suggests delaying the second Thaw trial during a telegraph operators strike to avoid hearing more about it.
The article asserts Japan has adopted a policy of benevolent assimilation by flooding Pacific possessions with brown settlers to create a demographic majority. It frames the tactic as an intentional colonization strategy and notes concern over long term control and influence.
Taft is rumored to travel south to court demolition crate supporters and persuade them to join the Republican fold. His true aim is to curry favor with Southern Republicans as the presidential candidate.
George Gould spurns his festive brother in law Count Boni d Cas telane in a fashionable London hotel lobby. The Count reportedly makes three attempts to seize Gould’s writing hand before giving up the effort.
A man seeking better prospects abroad is urged to study soil conditions and fertilizer needs, plant selected corn and cotton seed, diversify crops, and raise good stock on his own farm.
A group of Houston housekeepers regret trusting a young soap salesman who promised a buggy prize with soap purchases. They sent money for illusive soap and a chance at a prize and have since heard nothing about the soap, the buggy, or the promoter.
A passage from the Christian Observer extols living each day as if one would live a century and performing every duty as if facing today. The rule leads to a life of sweetness beauty thoughtfulness and restfulness while reducing fear of the future and leaving tomorrow in God's hands.
The 1908 scholastic count will exceed 1,000,000 with a per capita rise to about 5.90 for ages 7 to 17 and $5,000 remaining unspent. The Cotton Journal fixes spot cotton at 15 cents middling across the South interior. Global demand for cotton goods remains high as spinning capacity limits consumption.
The Southern Cotton Journal argues that spot cotton value is not fixed at 15 cents per pound. It says speculation no longer governs spot prices and that farmers in the South, with Southern bankers, now hold the price in their hands.
A Dallas capitalist says John D. Rockefeller's father is alive and living on Frank Rockefeller’s Beauvaire Kansas farm. The informant, who asks not to be quoted, says the old man sometimes ranches in Wyoming but Beauvaire is his home and Frank Rockefeller is "a fine fellow" with millions.
Herr Berbel used the Boise murder trial to claim American liberty and justice exist only on paper. He urged American workers to mobilize like British colleagues and elect many representatives to Washington as large rallies drew 40,000 to 50,000 attendees.
President Samuel Gompers of the Federation of Labor said he John Mitchell and D F Keef were entrusted by united labor to seek an honorable adjustment of the telegraphers strike at an opportune time. He would not name when that time might arrive.
President DeVoE says the Actors' union has 50000 dollars for striking operators and will stage benefit performances for locals in all cities to support the labor dispute.
In Helena Aug 20 a Phillips county case stars A A Sweetfer suing Bruce Rainey of Turner for a five cent tea cup loaned to give a lady a drink at a ball game. The cup was lost on return by a negro boy. Sweetfer pursued Rainey on horseback. Trial before Esquire J T Ward resulted in Rainey fined one dollar plus fourteen dollars and twenty five cents costs. The case was appealed.
Bonham Texas hosts a sensation as authorities arrest three young men on suspicion of involvement in the Elbert Pinion case dating six years back. Pinion’s body was found in a cotton sack and no clues emerged at the time.
Hillsboro Texas August 20. Following a district court divorce decree issued Saturday the couple Mr and Mrs Addie D Warren were remarried Sunday evening at their former home in a ceremony conducted by Rev N W Holsapple pastor of the Christian church in a tasteful service.
Dallas Aug. 20 H S Thompson principal of Booker T Washington school named superintendent of the state institution at Austin for the deaf dumb and blind of the colored race The post deemed by Superintendent Long one of the most desirable for negro educators in the state.
Houston reports a worker named W. C. McLaughlin slipped while cutting stove wood at the Brady Woodyard company on Tuesday morning. He was nearly severed by the revolving saw and died en route to the hospital. Moe Laughlin is noted as the deceased.
Journal of Commerce reports possible retirement of Attorney General Bonaparte from the cabinet. It says close observers in the city expect his immediate departure, a move seen by some as signaling a shift against the administration anti trust policy and reflecting concerns over his conduct and legal methods.
In McKeesport Pennsylvania on August twenty a woman Mrs M Kierney aged thirty was fined three dollars and costs by Mayor Coleman for kissing a man she deemed cute while riding a street car. The man fled after reporting the incident and the woman paid her fine.
In Dallas on Tuesday noon J W Kerr is in critical condition after being shot twice in a mill incident. W W Clawson was arrested over the affair at the planing mill where both men worked. The shots hit Kerr above the right nipple and in the left arm.
Provincetown Massachusetts August 20 The cornerstone of the Cape Cod Pilgrim memorial monument was laid in a ceremony attended by President Roosevelt Governor Guild and other guests The event marks the foundation of an imposing Atlantic coast structure near the Pilgrim fathers landing site The harbor hosted about fifty sail and fishing boats eight battleships and numerous yachts displaying signal flags Roosevelt arrived aboard the Mayflower shortly after 10 o'clock.
Dallas workers walk out after Textile Workers' union demands a closed shop. Officials say about 50 employees refused to strike while union supporters claim only eleven are working, including some from the office.
Guthrie reports the drowning of John Brooke, twenty one, son of Bishop Francis Key Brooke of Oklahoma. He died while trying to rescue a companion in San Francisco. The body was sent to Gambier, Ohio, for burial. He graduated last year from Kenyon College and planned to join a San Francisco Episcopal college faculty.
In Greensburg on August 20 a man identified as Mr. Grill died after pulling a trigger while examining a gun barrel. Police investigated the accidental shooting believed to be a fatal mishap.
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