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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1898
Page
3
An OCR fragment shows a series of clock times and stray letters suggesting a garbled time log. The readable items include 12:18 pm 4:03 pm 2:07 am and 4:39 p.m. with scattered letters and incomplete phrases, no clear event or attribution.
Local notes list Vive cameras priced at five dollars at Emmel's and frequent visitor mentions including Henry Soles, John Payne, and Ed Hall. It records holiday shopping suggestions, minstrels, Christmas candy from H V Shields, and multiple social visits around Bryan and Hearne with brief confirmations of travel.
Special to The Eagle reports H P Erwin of Forney Texas shot and killed Col I G Randle in Dallas at 8 PM. Erwin was arrested and jailed claiming an old grudge caused the trouble. Five shots were fired. Randle, a well known figure formerly of Bryan, Texas.
The partnership between W. M. Foster and W. W. Smith ends by mutual consent with Smith retiring. Foster continues the business, assuming liabilities and assets purchased from Smith. Signatures dated December 10 accompany the notice. Also listed are marriage licenses and local incidents, including a shooting near College Station and a surrender by Dallas Brown.
Nearly the entire business part of Lufkin was destroyed after an oil lamp exploded in a boardinghouse. The blaze damaged a hotel and a large lumber mill while the Masonic hall and ten stores were wiped out with extensive fire loss reported.
J C Blume visited the city yesterday as did Mrs Charles McLendon of Calvert visiting her mother Mrs True. Major J W Tabor and General Stoddard called on an old friend injured by a fall. Daughters of the Confederacy plan a Ross memorial hall meeting Friday at 10. Round trip tickets go on sale December 23 24 25 30 31 and January 1 on H and T C lines at 4 cents a mile.
Campbell Bannerman in London is confirmed as the new leader of the liberals in the commons. The decision has been officially made and acknowledged.
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