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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1905
Page
4
The exchange urges year round kindness while the Navasota Review notes Grimes county's new areel bridge policy may be costly during construction but could become a mortgage lifter in the end.
Hill county farmers form a branch of the Southern Cotton Growers' Association signaling a wider mobilization across the cotton belt. The movement appears strong and aims to unify growers nationwide to protect their interests.
A strong outcry accuses the Panama Canal Zone government of fostering immoral and unhealthy conditions. The critique says the area seems fit only to breed scandal, mosquitoes, and fever, signaling widespread public concern.
Texas A M College will send a strong representation to the International Live Stock Show in Chicago. The college is preparing a herd of fine cattle for the contests and aims to win blue ribbons and prize money.
The first Thanksgiving was observed by Plymouth Colony in 1621 and soon spread through New England. After the Revolution the custom widened to the Middle States and beyond, with uniform presidential recommendation beginning in 1863.
Six million Americans remain illiterate despite free schools yet progress appears as older generations show improvement. Women lead in education with girls dominating graduation classes nationwide while boys abandon schooling, claiming lack of time to study.
A Main Street poultryman said good turkeys will run more than 30 cents per pound with cheaper birds available. He noted a forthcoming lot at 30 cents wholesale and dismissed recent southern Texas birds as thin and unsalable. He warned buyers to consider Bryan for better salable poultry.
The Donnelly and Hatfield minstrel troupe under Al G Field performed in Paris to strong audience approval. Norman Stanley and a quartet received praise for singing while Lee Edmonds Arthur Crawford and Tommy Donnelly delivered top comedy. The Toscano Brothers Roman ajo jugglers and the Toledo troupe impressed with feats of contortion. Tommy Donnelly and Harry Shunk offered a novel act. Crawford and Finning drew applause with musical numbers and the Darktown Circus burlesque drew laughs. The review predicts a strong future for the show in Paris. Grand Opera House, Tuesday, Dec 5.
The advertisement extols Hyomei as superior to patent remedies for catarrh. It praises eucalyptus oil and balsams, claims germ killing and healing powers, and asserts physician endorsement. The product is guaranteed to refund money if it does not cure, with no risk to the buyer.
Quarantine cattle receipts for the week reached 140 cars, up from 55 the prior year, with top prices for fed steers at 3.65 and fed cows at 2.75. Grass cattle sold around 2.60 with Texas cattle from Llane at 2.874 and canners at 1.90. Hog receipts totaled 60,000 with current supply about 6,000 and a narrow weekly fluctuation.
Market weak to a lower tone with top at 4.80 and bulk sales between 470 and 4774. Light hogs fetch up to 4.75 while pigs run around 445. Kansas City prices mirror St. Louis and Chicago for typical mid season packer droves, a yearly pattern noted by J. A. Rickart, live stock correspondent.
178 acres of well improved prairie farm within one mile of College Station for sale at 10 dollars per acre. Interested buyers apply to W-2T 308 J. W. Bares for details.
A vivid piece contrasts the Yaghan of Tierra del Fuego living with minimal gear in frail canoes and a family unit, and notes their resourceful hunting of otter and birds while seas wash the shore. It also wryly observes that the so called simple life can be extraordinarily expensive at a modern urban entertainment.
The La Necropole Zoologique in Asnieres near Paris boasts elaborate canine graves with statues and marble kennels. Prices range from 2.50 francs for a three year grave to 100 francs for a perpetual plot, with profits also from visitor admission tickets.
In the Pacific a New Bedford captain raced his crew back to port after a water stop. He teased them to slow down while focusing on the real prize, the shore. He spotted a cow whale and calf in a rocky bight, claimed them as his trophy, and returned first to New Bedford.
A Tasmanian Tasmanian creature known as the bulrush caterpillar or vegetable worm is described as an above ground fungus reaching six to eight inches. Buckland notes the fungus replaces the caterpillar’s interior with a hard brown growth, preserving the insect’s form but ending its life.
In tenth century practice women entered churches veiled to avoid distracting male worshippers. A story cites a French saint’s order after a priest fell in love with a noble child, later recognizing her in the pew and forcing a ban on unveiled women to prevent distraction during sermons.
A painting at Lord Leigh's Warwickshire residence was found to conceal a fine portrait of Charles I by Vandyke beneath a flower image. An art dealer, granted permission to clean, uncovered the royal portrait believed hidden to protect it from destruction during the Commonwealth.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman argues that households strive for spotless living and refined food yet ignore air quality. She contrasts human habits with a “greasy savage” who breathes pure air rich in oxygen, while people crowd together and defile the air with germs and pollution.
J W Batts Office offers Brazos County lands and dwellings for sale near Bryan including 125 acre farm north of town at 1650, 78 acre tract at 10 per acre, 400 acre river land with houses at 12.50, 16314 acre mail route parcel with cultivation, 242 acres with 9 room residence at 10, 274 acres northeast18 with 5 per acre, five room house on two acres at 1300, N B Cole block at 750, eastern town block 425, Caldwell pasture 242 acres for tract sale, three lots with shade and 3 Allen Academy lots at 325, 40 acre city side lot with improvements at 1200. Terms easy.
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