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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1901
Page
8
The Ladies of Orien La and Bryan are invited to shop a strictly male oriented store offering gifts men will wear and use. A large stock of fine furnishings for holiday gift giving is now available with suggestions to help selection and please gentlemen friends.
A magnificent showing of elegant Silk Neckwear in rich holiday effects in Puffs Imperials Ascots Four-in hands Bat Wings etc at 25c 50c 75c and 0l.
Fine silk and satin suspenders offered with sterling silver and gold plated buckles sold in a single boxed lot at prices starting one dollar up to two fifty.
Durable dog skin gloves with fur tops offered at 75 cents to 1 dollar. Dress gloves in silk lined and unlined styles available in new gray and tan shades priced from 1 to 1.50.
Smoking Jackets of self plaid golf materials offered in patterns at 5 7.50 and 10 dollars. Fine Silk and Gloria Umbrellas with wood and sterling handles priced 1.50 2.50 3 and 5. Fine leather Valises and Suit Cases in latest styles from 1 to 10 dollars. Men's patent leather and patent vid kid shoes in lace and button priced 4 5 and 6 dollars a pair.
A Bryan retailer promotes a line of fine overcoats priced at 10 12 15 and 20 dollars. The message highlights the coats as the handsomest selection yet offered in town.
A retailer lists cambric white handkerchiefs plain hemstitched and bordered at 10c and 12 1 4c. Fine linen and silk options include plain white hemstitched at 25c 85c 50c and 25c for initials. silk initials also 25c. Plain white silk hem stitched from 35c to 1. Extra large imported muffler sizes 1 50 and 2. Colored border silk handkerchiefs offered at 25c 50c and 1.
Advertises men's jewelry with gold plated cast buttons priced from 25 cents to 1 dollar and 50 cents, and gold plated and solid gold scarf pins ranging from 25 cents to 3 dollars.
An itemized list shows boys apparel and footwear prices including gloves 50c, loggins 50c and 75c, caps 25c and 50c, shirts 50c 75c and 1, ties 25c and 59c, and boys shoes in Vici Kid Box Call and Patent Vici priced at 1.50 2 2.50 and 3 dollars.
Washington reports Rep Jenkins of Wisconsin introduced a measure for a constitutional amendment granting Congress power to regulate commerce and dissolve restraints on trade. In absence of federal action, states may exercise power. The plan targets trusts and combines, with Indian Territory questions and early 1900s cabinet talks noted.
President Roosevelt has sent to Congress a letter strongly commending the plan for a national forest reservation in the southern Appalachian region. The letter accompanies the secretary of agriculture's report on the subject.
Washington December 20 Senator Hanna introduces a bill granting a pension of five thousand dollars annually to Mrs McKinley widow of the late president.
Cherokee Indians are reported staying in the hills near Tahlequah in the Going to the hills region. The item notes distress among the Cherokee population with limited food and shelter and seeks aid or relief. No further details provided in the fragment.
Washington December twenty historical remarks by General Chaffee label the entire people as traitors and praise secrecy of a people. In London the war office confirms a cipher telegram from Delarey saying he cannot hold out beyond January. Pretoria Times reports Delarey near Klerksdorp with about four hundred men as the war office grows hopeful.
An official source indicates a major discriminatory charge on grain moved from railroad elevators to steamships at New York may be abolished or substantially modified. The one cent per bushel tax, imposed by railroads to protect floating elevator interests, is described as an equalizing levy.
Officials set dates for Manila departures. Sheridan and Kilpatrick leave January 1, Thomas on February 1 carrying the Twenty-ninth Infantry. The Grant sails soon after on a special trip with insular employees and school teachers.
Sailors from the Danish cruiser Valkyrien paraded through Charlotte Amalie streets with music and banners. The crowd welcomed them with enthusiasm and shouted that the islands should not be sold.
Committed death by own action is reported as Lewis P. Kekewich of Morrison Kekewich and Co. dies in London on December 20. He was a leading member of the Metal exchange and was said to have recently suffered heavy copper losses.
Delinquent taxpayers are urged to settle promptly per city secretary M Spell. The notice also advertises Christmas cakes displays at Texas Bakery and various holiday sales from Dunn Daly Taylor Cox and others, with promotions for framed photos, carpets, china clocks, sheet music, chocolates, and a pay update from Scenita Albania troops who were unpaid but paid the civil and military commanders.
Guthrie Oklahoma Territory December 20. Gib bin a farmer living near Ashley Oklahoma Territory shot himself in a hotel at Augusta. He formerly served as mayor of Luka Kansas.
One hundred forty railroad men from 25 branches of the Railroad Young Men's Christian Association attend a special conference in St Louis for division of department work. Miss Helen Gould could not attend though letters from her and from George J. Gould express sympathy. Five new buildings are under way in Sapulpa Indian Territory Parsons Kansas Peru Texas and Stamps Arkansas.
Fresh mutton, fat and fine, every day at the City market. Also have beef, pork, sausage and other bee products. 1 John W. Hicks.
Residents are urged to nail or fasten morning gate posts or nearby anchors to prevent wind displacement and dog damage. Implementing this measure will reduce trouble for all and protect property.
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