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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1899
Page
3
A Finnish Russian border wedding is described as extraordinarily mournful. A professional spokesman guides the match, dowry talks, and the wooing visit, culminating in a ritual where the bride kneels before a sheepskin and bows until her forehead touches the dust.
Smiler, a popular garrison dog on the Rock of Gibraltar, broke his leg slipping on a rock and had to be shot to end his suffering. The sentry dog patrolled the guardrooms nightly and could sense the field officer approaching before human sentries. He joined guard mounting parades and favored guards for the next day.
The Isle of Man town of Douglas has seen property prices double in ten years as summer visitors surged after Hall Caine's "Christian" drew wider attention to his earlier works. Caine himself invested his earnings in Manx real estate, signaling belief in the boom's permanence.
A fervent orator warns that a demagogue will face retribution at the polls with the ides of November seen as a day of reckoning. The speaker urges the public to beware and demands accountability at election time.
Citizens honor Luke the cow killed by a railroad train. The epitaph reads To the memory of Luke, who arised thirteen children. We will meet her at Circuit Court.
Agitation against poisonous ingredients in pottery prompted the British Office of Works to order that all articles supplied to public departments Parliament and royal palaces must use leadless glaze.
A man refuses a battered nickel on a Market Street trolley clash over legal tender. He recalls a prior likely misjudgment when a conductor accepted a damaged nickel, prompting a vow to demand only perfectly legitimate coins from now on.
Bavaria leads beer drinking with an annual 236 litres per person, followed by Belgium 162 and Great Britain 145, while the United States averages 47 litres. City records show Munich at 556 litres per head. Germany produced 1,384,620,000 gallons, USA 1,219,850,000 and Great Britain 1,166,590,000 gallons, amid a global 4,938,820,000 gallons.
An American in Jamaica has constructed a plant to evaporate bananas. Ripe fruit is heated for up to forty eight hours, causing sugar to crystallize. Six pounds of fresh bananas yield one pound of evaporated product, reducing decay and freight costs.
A character boasts of a daughter married to an earl. The reply counters with a wry line about five daughters already married to men of their own choosing and the speaker’s lack of obligation to support them.
Meandering Mike plans to leave the country for the city and quit farming. Plod ding Pete asks about enjoying birds and breezes in the shade, but Mike insists on heading to town to escape laborers at the harvest.
City officers include Mayor D R H Harrison and Marshall T P Boyett with others listed. Numerous county officers, lodge leaders, church pastors, and company executives are named with meeting nights and roles. Local firms Bryan Cotton Seed Oil Mill and Bryan Compress are headed by J O Chance and Dr J W Howell respectively.
In the Northern District of Texas H L Gentry & Co H L Gentry and J T Eaves of Brazos County filed December 5 1899 in Waco a petition for discharge from debts proven. Creditors or interested parties must file opposition by December 28 1899 with Referee M C H Park in the Waco division.
A large black and white hound named Drummer is missing. He was raised on the Navasota river and has one curled ear from a burn. A suitable reward is offered for his return to Kelly Knowles in Bryan.
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