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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1898
Page
3
Readable parts show departures and arrivals with numbers No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 and times around 12:50 p m and 2:45 a m, but many words are garbled. The snippet indicates a north bound timetable with arriving No. 3 and leaving No. 4 and intermittent times.
Mrs D B Knox visits in Bante and many residents travel to Houston Yoakum Wooten Wells Waco Fort Worth Alvin Alvin Miss Eugenia Bone returns from Alvin Hearne and Brazos bottom towns see local movement. Several locals buy, hire, or rent housing wagons scales and dry goods trade noted along with cigar and turnout ads candid.
W. T. James offers livery service for balls and picnics. Navasota visitors 246 Robert and Eugene Flewellen visit Jno Johnson. Bettie Flewellen and Bessie Clark return to Navasota. Family visits in Hempstead and Galveston. Dr. Parsons sells fountain sodas and snacks. Fred Vanney injured near College. no bones broken. Hettie Bernard Chase company to perform at Grand Opera House starting Monday. Joe Reed promotes war era life and accident insurance. Dr. Pugh visits Hearne to see Rastee Doremus improving. Mrs. Levy and Eva Fink visit Helena, Ark. Georgia Topsky and Beulah Williams fight. both jailed. J. W. Hickman visits from Indiana. First cotton bales from Madison County merchants. bonus paid. Marshal Boyett cracks down on loafers. Rev. Mouzon of Fort Worth preaches at Methodist church. health improved.
In Washington on Aug 20 Charles Cramp head of Cramp’s shipyard in Philadelphia meets naval officials. He discusses Sept 1 bid openings for three 16 knot battleships and notes plans to lay keels next week. Cramp reports Russian contracts for a battleship and cruiser, with ships designed for 18 knot sustained speed and heavy stores.
From Indianapolis August 22 delegates from all regions gather for the supreme lodge biennial meeting and the uniform rank encampment opens with about ten thousand in camp as security proceeds.
A New York electrical exposition features a chapel lit entirely by vacuum tubes designed by D. Mc Farlan Moore. The ornate light arches and brass fixtures glow through iron armored conduits as a pipe organ fills the space. a museum-like display showcases Moore’s lighting system.
The Jennie Califf company will start a week long engagement in Waco on Monday September 5, not September 3 as previously announced. A local observer praised their recent performances while Bryan reports improvements including a new underground exhaust pipe and fuel oil burning plans.
Republican delegates of the 55th district are summoned to Bryan court house on Saturday August 27 1898 to transact business likely to come before the convention. Elias Mays chairman J F Burn secretary
A jeweler laments his waning business as youths pass his shop without pause and buy bikes for sweethearts at bicycle stores. He predicts it will become fashionable to gift bicycles instead of rings when couples pledge vows.
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