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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1901
Page
3
An area merchant advertises a large selection of holiday items alongside regular druggist stock in Bryan. The list includes fireworks, dolls, china tea sets, bisque figures, vases, dressing cases, ink stands, albums, jewelry boxes, picture frames, and more with money saving prices. The note urges customers to hurry to secure 15c manicure pieces and other gifts before Christmas.
In 1880 Aaron Winters and his wife Rosie tested borax with chemicals in Death Valley and ignited a green flame. They believed they found borax deposits, shouted that they were rich, and sold the mine for $20,000 before moving to a Nevada ranch.
Handy kitchen tips include using raw potato to clarify fat after frying and lemon to remove fish odor from knives. Guidance on cleaning rusty roasting pans, saving work with newspaper, and gatherings of domestic advice appear alongside a dialect joke from the Atlanta Constitution about a man claiming renewed youth to win a marriage proposal.
When skin is unbroken cover the burn with white lead paint glycerin fresh lard linseed olive or oils soapsuds. If skin is broken apply oil and limewater in equal parts and place a soft wet linen on the wound. Loosely wind a bandage and rewet the linen as needed, never uncover the injury.
An ad extols jewels, candy, and flowers as feminine aims while warning health is sacrificed to buy them. It promotes Dr Boschree’s German Syrup as a prompt remedy to halt early consumption and heal lungs and bronchial tubes, claiming it cures coughs and bronchial troubles though not a universal cure. Available at Wilson-Jenkins Drug Co in Bryan with Green's Almanac.
New York reports Roche-Stuart syndicate of London has bought Hogg-Swayne property at Beaumont, Texas with about three-eighths of wells. They will pipe oil 20 miles to Port Arthur and ship via eleven British tank steamers to France and England, aiming to cut costs to bring crude to Europe at 25 cents a barrel.
An old Scotchman staying with a young couple is drawn into a domestic quarrel plan. After a staged dinner dispute about the soup, the visitor coolly says he intends to stay only a month or two and will not interfere with their affairs.
News in brief from across the region notes a new bridge over the Arkansas river at Ralston Indian Territory Enid Oklahoma to push for better roads Temple Belton electric line survey Gonzales Texas opera house 12000 in construction Tu ling Tex cottonseed mill in operation Iowa corn at 272,908,850 bushels Hebron Neb alfalfa three crops Richard Croker denies politics Helena Ark victims of freeze plague cases in the Philippines influenza hurting horses Columbus Neb election ballots Kansas City mourns dead Kansas baby born Wichita ends incomplete reference
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