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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1898
Page
3
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Local items report visits by M. L. James N. Williamson and Henry Karten, returns from Waco and Calvert, and various rental and boarding notices. Services include a Bethel meeting led by Rev. J. M. Bullock and promotional blurbs for ciga rs, licenses, and a new buggy sale. Community updates mention illness, travel, livestock, and crop notes from Capt. J J Adams on the Brazos bottom.
A list of visitors arriving at the Exchange Hotel includes Jim Stevens Houston J S Stuart Chicago S T Randle Houston R EL Upchurch Pankey Dave H Shapira Madisonville J W Bartlett Dallas B H Zaber St Louis R M McGarvey Dallas ST Schoolar Houston Cooke St Louis A A Farley Baltimore LH Garnet St Louis.
A Boston Transcript poem contemplates how true value lies not in swords, wealth, fame, or intellect but in the good we have wrought the lives we have blessed and the love we have earned as life fades toward its crest and a promised light.
At a conference insurgent leaders said they would disarm only if the island remains under American or British control or a U S protectorate. They warned of rebellion within a month if Americans withdraw and blamed religious orders for anti American sentiment. Some Spaniards fear ruin if the Americans depart. A few monopolists seek to stifle competition by pushing a new regime.
Orders issued to muster out multiple units including Fourth Pennsylvania and Sixth Illinois infantry with various batteries and cavalry from several states. Reports from San Francisco note ship arrivals and Hawaii government talks. Other dispatches cover US Navy strength, a poison ice cream incident at Mountaindale, and miners flooding in Sicily with 300 drowned.
A loud crowd watches Pat fix telephone wires when he slips and dangles. A passerby calls for help while others propose rescue ideas. Pat saves himself by grabbing the wire but falls to the ground. He survives and jokes about why he released the hold.
The Galveston News notes Texas has the largest corn crop in state history due to ideal weather from planting. Yields will exceed last year by at least 25 percent, potentially more when shelled. Movement of the harvest could begin in October or earlier.
A lazy regiment casualty jokes about keeping one boot while an injured man jokes he would discard the other leg later. In fashion notes, golf stockings replace leggings and high top cycling boots as wheelwomen abandon warm, bulky gear for comfort.
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