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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1901
Page
3
A Bryan druggist advertises a large selection of holiday wares and toys alongside medicines. The catalog includes fireworks dolls china tea sets bisque figures vases and vanity items with Money Saving Prices for Christmas shopping and mentions 15c manicure pieces with a quick call requested.
South half of block near Allen Academy priced at 550 dollars. About one and a quarter acres near the southeast town schoolhouse with a small new cottage a tenant house and a well on the premises priced at 1000 dollars.
The article describes Harvard fashion rules from the mid 1700s to the era, including waistcoats worn by two alumni. It notes color restrictions blue gray, black, nankeen or olive, and details on coats, breeches, gowns, and accessories. It covers seniors to freshmen wear limits on cuffs, buttons, frogs, and cuffs, plus gown styles and prices for adornments.
A collection of brief quotes on virtue, wisdom, and conduct. Notable lines from Fuller Bovee Franklin Longinus Emerson St Simon Seneca Talmud Terence urge concentration, kindness, and proper behavior as guides to a good life.
The text describes removing a rattlesnake’s upper fangs to render it harmless briefly. It notes that venom can still enter a person after a delay when the two incisors reattach and reconnect with the venom glands making the snake venomous again.
In Forest Park the Louisiana Purchase Exposition company marked the first public ceremony for the 1903 fair with ground breaking attended by officials and governors amid cold weather. The event moved indoors to the Coliseum, with speeches by leaders and a parade cancelation.
News in brief reports a Texas laundry blaze in Smithville on Tuesday night. Other items note a Mineral Wells grocer E J Mays assigning, Texas county judges to meet in Fort Worth in February, Miss Belle McClinton dying from injuries after Gatesville burns, Dr John C Mayfield Galveston quarantine officer dying in San Antonio, Roscoe residents opposing bowling alleys, 15 mariners drowned in Portugal gales, December’s heaviest snow in France, and U S Senator Sewell ill in Camden New Jersey.
A collage of 19th or early 20th century items: murders in Parsons Kansas and a couple in Chicago, boxing draws in New London Connecticut, a coal shortage threat in Chicago, a naval dispatch from San Francisco, a fire in Clarksville Arkansas, chilling anti trust dismissals in Mississippi, a new infirmary in South Bend Indiana, an estate worth 3 million in Terre Haute, Oklahoma granite for Rock Island depot in Chicago, skeletons found near Bellefontaine Ohio, Chief Blue Jacket's early village, and Indiana Illinois university debate set for Bloomington on January 1.
An advertisement argues women prioritize jewels but risk health saving money. It promotes Dr. Bosehee German Syrup to halt early consumption and heal lungs, claiming it cures coughs colds and bronchial troubles. The ad notes available at Wilson Jenkins Drug Co in Bryan and references Green's Special Almanac.
Colonel Sir T. H. Holdich writes in The Indian Borderland on storms and wind and snow testing travelers high in the Herat mountains. He notes the horse endures cold better than mules camels or dogs, with twenty men perishing and caravans strewn with ice and death. Some Eleventh Bengal fencers managed to rise next day.
A curious feature for travelers in Norway is the vast number of gates, over 10 000, that must be opened along the routes. These gates mark farm boundaries or separate cultivated fields from waste lands and create notable delay as travelers must stop, alight, and open each gate.
A brief Brooklyn scene shows Mrs Boerum imploring Willie to obey while Mr Boerum sternly threatens confinement in the cozy corner. The exchange hints at parental discipline and domestic routine in a local setting.
In a Boston Transcript item, a dramatic exchange shows Paps forbidding Harry from the house while he pursues a different prize, the beloved partner. The scene highlights romance and conflict within a domestic setting.
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