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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1905
Page
2
Franklin Texas forms a business league as state assessable values rise by twenty five million dollars. The post office note and weekly weather report are mentioned with market impact on cotton.
Missouri records three yellow fever cases while Texas remains clear. The old Texas is described as getting wily or clever in tone.
A damage suit has begun at Texarkana over a dog incident reported by the Galveston News. The opening hints at a dispute about injuries and responsibility in a local case.
A reporter is advised to travel to the countryside to count cotton bolls and interview pickers as a way to craft a story for Wall Street readers, suggesting a market for agricultural anecdotes.
The piece praises Collier's Weekly for exposing the patent medicine business as a dangerous public health fraud and condemns newspaper support for dope manufacturers. It calls such commerce a centurys fraud and notes some papers would suffer if the industry ended.
The article argues for Texas Health Officer Dr. George R. Tabor defending strict quarantine rules to prevent yellow fever entry. It contrasts Texas with other states, warns of economic and social disruption from outbreaks, and urges local support for Tabor’s measures to protect Texas’s climate, schools, commerce, and reputation.
The midway at the Dallas State Fair will host twenty five refined shows with attractions like a figure eight Rivers of Venice toboggan and merry go round. The fair runs September 30 to October 15 with railroads offering their lowest ever Dallas rates.
Up to Tuesday 6 PM New Orleans shows 57 new fever cases, 1508 total, with 9 deaths and 214 total deaths. Eight new foci above Canal Street, a Rosa Park case near St Charles avenue, a boys’ college worker ill, Rev Father Aveilhe among patients, and one uptown death. Outside city, Dr Devron reports 69 positive cases, 53 suspicious, 145 dengue, with widespread sickness and calls for more doctors and nurses. Nearby parishes report additional cases and isolated deaths. Mississippi City notes three new cases and denies state board fever declaration.
Houston reports Dr. George Tabor overseeing protection against yellow fever. He notes detention camps are in good shape and guards added to bolster containment. He warns that spread of fever into Louisiana outside New Orleans poses greater Texas risk than the city outbreak. Echo detention camp reaches capacity and stops new arrivals.
The executive committee of the state board of health declares a yellow fever epidemic at Mississippi City and appoints Dr. Charles Le Baron to lead sanitary measures and enforce regulations in the city.
In Knoxville Tennessee a widow Mrs John Lea and James Hix, both sawmill workers, are implicated in the death of Lea who was found with a broken neck after hanging. The couple fled. Lea’s daughter, sent to Murray Georgia, confesses the pair killed her father with Hix restraining him while Mrs Lea struck. Hix arrested in Spring Place Georgia. Mrs Lea sought in Sherman Heights Tennessee.
Exhaustive Hyomei trials claim a daily inhalation regimen prevents hay fever if used weeks before symptoms and relieves and cures once symptoms appear. Stomach dosing fails, climate change offers relief, Hyomei medicates the air at home. Outfit costs 1 dollar, extra bottles 50 cents, seller E J Jenkins offers refund if not satisfied.
By virtue of a county court order I will sell at private cash sale the furniture and household effects of the estate of Mrs. Zelia Bonneville deceased at her Bonneville residence. Call on Mrs. Blanch Hall for purchases. O. P. Buchanan Temp. Adm. 223 By V. B. Hudson Atty.
W C Fountain dentists offers crown and bridge services with office upstairs over Burt Norwd’s store.
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