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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1906
Page
5
Rail timetable items list northbound and southbound trains for H and T C and I and G N lines. Local society notes report visits, marriage licenses, new arrivals, and club announcements. A skating rink opening and real estate sale are also noted alongside church and tax notices.
Notice from City Marshal T. P. Boyett prohibits shooting fireworks on Main Street, near the cotton warehouse, yards and platforms during the holidays and warns of strict enforcement. Also reports Rev. F. L. Shettles leaving for Calvert to serve as presiding elder of the Calvert district and notes Calvert will be his headquarters. Rev. W. M. Crutchfield praised as pastor of the Calvert church.
Washington dispatch reports the Comptroller of the Treasury rules that all necessary expenses may be paid from the $100,000 appropriation for the Oklahoma constitutional election and convention. No excess amounts may be contracted, and payments must follow the order of contracting.
Northbound Santa Fe passenger train No. 18 derailed through Seward eighty seven miles north of Guthrie. Mail baggage and express cars plus smoker and day coach went into the ditch. No one seriously hurt though one passenger sustained internal injuries. Train was moving slowly and track badly torn up.
Victoria Texas December 13 The jury found Felix Powell colored guilty of murder in the first degree for the killing of the Conditt family near Edna in Jackson county on September 28 1905 verdict returned after trial city and date appear in report
Condensed happenings report the sudden death of J H Andrews, a well known Chicago figure. Other items note a $25,000 Buckner chapel and school project near Dallas, a remodel of the Overholser opera house in Oklahoma City, and a fatal shooting in Paris Texas. A parole warrant is issued for Monroe Walker, and Caesar Battle’s son narrowly escapes illness after eating china berries. Brinton of Dixon Illinois backs Senator Culberson's presidential nomination.
The tH. & J. C Excursions and HE. & T.C. R. R. announce holiday tickets at one and a third for round trip. Sales run from December 20 to 22 for out of state destinations with return by 30 days. Special Houston and New Orleans train on December 20. Tickets to Texas and Louisiana points west of the Mississippi priced at one and one third for round trip with return by January 7.
Mrs Mary Lawrence representing Ed Kiam promotes Christmas orders at the Bryan Steam Laundry with cash after December 15 and a ten percent coupon book. Also advertises tickets for the Romeo and Juliet production at the opera house Friday night with cash only after December 15.
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