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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1905
Page
3
Poem extols a unnamed maiden's beauty with vivid imagery. May reference Viking flag and celestial patrons, praising pure features and graceful form. Credits James H. Kinsella Chicago Post Office Registry Division.
A misrouted telephone message at the Planters Hotel led to a mix up with Henry Peters answering for Gen Pleasant Porter. After a lengthy joke and confirmation, Porter laughed off the error and invited clerks to hear the tale himself.
Assistant Attorney General Charles H. Robb recalls defending a Vermont client in a cow fraud tale. A tall Yankee traded a blind, lean cow misrepresented as healthy, leading to a lawsuit from a neighbor who believed the animal was misused.
A Brookline scion married against his family wishes and lived on a meagre income. With a weekly net of 15.98 dollars he gave 15 dollars to his wife and kept 98 cents for himself. He admitted spending 10 dollars at poker and 5 dollars at the club, then claimed the 98 cents was spent foolishly.
Rev. Lucius R. Page recalled Samuel Saunders a Cambridge builder who fell from a roof while shingling for Rev. Thomas Whittemore. Saunders, found on the ground, joked that he was looking for the buttons ripped from his seat as he was helped.
The New York Herald notes a Saturday release of 200000 to 300000 pigeons racing to London from Retford and Branston with 127 and 113 mile routes. Templescombe to London yielded 108 miles in 94 minutes. A Liege Belgium home bird follows a Liege to Warenme train each morning, returning to its station home each day.
In a Vermont town a local life insurer appointed an agent who mailed back calendars as marketing. He sold calendars for up to 25 cents and one for 10 cents to a prospective policyholder, asking whether to send money now or after selling all calendars.
Dwight L. Moody visits a Massachusetts minister’s pulpit and challenges a church habit. He promises to speak to two sorts, sinners first then saints, and after addressing the sinners invites the saints to stay for the rest of the sermon. The congregation remains seated to hear him through to the end.
Albert French of Dexter Maine, short of fuel, asks a neighbor for tip-top wood. The neighbor drives an ox team with a load. French deems the load small and inferior while the neighbor explains it was cut from the tree tops, the intended tip-top wood.
The narrative traces a voyage from Alexandria to Cairo by rail, detailing the Nile delta scenery, camels and markets along the way, and the allure of Cairo’s bazaars, mosques, and mushrabeyah latticework. It captures the exotic East atmosphere and colonial-era travelogue tone.
Canada passes legislation that provides for a salary to the leader of the opposition in parliament. The ruling party supports the measure while critics argue it may affect parliamentary independence.
A nostalgic portrait of early suburban elites who settled Washington Heights around New York, their lodge houses along Broadway from 170th to 215th streets, and how the area’s country life faded as modernity changed the community. It recalls families like the Martins and Beverley Wards and the lasting signs of past hospitality.
The piece describes early Broadway lodge houses west of the ridge including the Marble Arch gate at the Seaman or Drake place, built in gray stone with gilded posts and a tunnel-like driveway, and notes the nearby old Bennett lodge with wrought iron gate posts. It reflects on fading monuments of a bygone social era in the city.
A German steamship Ce cilia carrying 100 monkeys sails from Singapore to Prussia. The goal is Breslau for experiments related to a serum, with no details disclosed on the serum’s nature. London Globe reports the consignment at government direction.
Mrs. Marion B. Baxter leads Seattle's only free hospital the ship Idaho funded by Roger S. Greene and other civic supporters. She has served for years on the editorial staff of a Seattle paper.
Mme. Gorky rejects the common claim that her husband born in poverty and vagabondage. She asserts he came from well to do parents and that although he did not attend school his grandfather the painter gave him lessons.
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