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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1901
Page
3
A Bryan retailer promotes a vast holiday stock including fireworks, dolls, china tea sets, bisque figures, vases, dressing cases, ink stands, albums, cigar cases, and many accessories. The ad highlights money saving prices on brooches, watches, statuary, rings, chains, ink stands, pens, and other gift items, inviting customers to hurry for 15c manicure pieces and to visit for Christmas purchases.
Hale Center Texas report details a snowbound journey from Bryan to Hale Center via Abilene Colorado City Snyder and Amarillo. Writer notes plains scenery, abundant quail and game, good crops, surface coal use, absence of wood and rail, prohibition on whisky, and prospects of a railroad. Also includes a humorous anecdote about a slave and a humorous miscommunication over silverware.
After the Civil War ended Wendell Phillips, the abolitionist, stayed at a Charleston hotel where breakfast in a large room was served to him by a slave. The anecdote highlights colonial era social norms and Phillips’s early anonymity before fame.
A Philadelphia Ledger item quotes a child asking for money for poor dinners. The mother offers cash if the girl goes without sugar, then the child asks if soap would do instead, highlighting a contrast between charity and daily comforts.
A Newfoundland coast fisherman braves a gale to fetch a physician for his dying wife. Two companions join the perilous voyage through a snowstorm to reach the doctor, but despite the risks the woman dies the next day after the child is born.
A discussion in the York Telegram notes barber shops routinely reuse mugs brushes and sponges left behind by customers. Barbers profit from supplying private labeled items at about 1.50 per cup while keeping the rest to resell or reuse, with many patrons leaving gear behind rather than taking it. The article highlights common practice of using customers names on items and rebranding for resale after the visit.
The article passages discuss how to handle compliments with grace, citing Mme Recamier and De Quincy on good manners. It stresses attentive listening, warm responses, and the impact of a ready smile on dialogue, amid reflections on social courtesy and conversational cordiality.
In older times careful mothers kept thrift proverbs about bread and crumbs. Crumbs were saved for use, and warnings kept children from wasting crusts or feeding the devil by throwing crumbs in the fire. The crust was prized and a crusty loaf was the goal.
News from Australia says Captain Moss and a 40-foot canoe reached Sydney on November 20 after departing from British Columbia. Mates changed en route. Degonte washed overboard five days out, leaving Moss to finish the voyage solo. He plans next to sail from Sydney to Ceylon en route around the world.
Birmingham reports the Tennessee Goal Iron and Road company has completed its steel fast mill at Ensley. General Manager Charles McCreery says the plant will be in operation within a few weeks and will produce steel for mines. The article notes the plant will serve the Birmingham area with new production.
A London Graphic correspondent reports a tiny 2 by 2% inch card showing the words Two pence printed twice and a border amount. The center copy promises payment to the bearer on demand of twopence by the Corporation of the City of New York dated February 20, 1790, signed D. Phoenix City Treasurer.
A Chicago Post quotation comments that marriages may be made in heaven but warns they degrade yearly, likening heavenly unions to cheaper goods that do not endure as they once did.
A brief humorous quote set appears in a column, describing a man asking who keeps saying the unexpected happens and another suggests it is probably an attack of the weather bureau from W. Star.
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