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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1908
Page
2
Lovers of Pure Comedy are urged to attend at the Grand Opera house Thursday night for Adelaide Thurston and her strong company in The Woman's Hour by Frederic Paulding. The Americ an comedy of modern days features Thurston in a youthful, lively role praised for showcasing her best abilities.
A Pacific district low moves east with unsettled conditions from the Northwest to Minnesota. Precipitation noted in extreme western Texas and in northern and middle Pirate and Pacific districts. Temperatures rose 10 to 16 degrees from El Paso 42 to Galveston 58, with generally fair skies elsewhere and increasing cloudiness east of Texas.
Sunday school begins at 9 45 a m with Prof R O Allen as superintendent. Morning and evening sermons by the pastor at 11 and 730 p m. Miss Lillie Morris to sing in deaf mute sign language at the evening service. Rosebuds meet at 230 p m followed by a talk on Scarritt Bible and Training School by Miss Martha Morris. Senior Epworth League at 4 p m. Wednesday prayer meeting at 730. All invited. Thomas H Morris Pastor.
Cyrus R Teed known as Master Koresch I died amid followers who deem him immortal. A Chicago mob nearly lynched him earlier. his wife Victoria Grada has seized control and forbade burial until divine will manifests. Teed founded the Sunset Flat Heaven colony with roots in California and spread nationwide.
Margaret Thomas an 83 year old woman tried to stop her sons dispute at their Winnetaka home on Christmas Day. In a frenzy Hendrick 50 struck her with an ax fracturing her skull and causing injuries deemed unrecoverable by doctors. He will be held to the grand jury.
Ten Oak Park society women, wives of business men, were summoned before Postmaster Hutchinson and ordered to pay a $10 penalty for attempting to evade proper postage. They complied. Violations included wrapping bric-a-brac and lace in newspapers and sending items as printed matter. Many foreigners and servants nearby are also accused.
New York reports that Austrian government agents probe a June 1907 incident when warships anchored in the Hudson River received a large beer cargo. Sources claim the quantity ranged from 400 barrels to about 700, with beer loaded into the warship launches at the foot of West Eighth Street.
In Chicago on December 25 testimony in the Peter Runberg case shows the accused was found guilty of practicing medicine without a state license. The witness J J Stodard described being given a hot water herb bath with hay from a livery stable. A testimonial book says Runberg sent a telegram to President McKinley offering to heal him with the water cure method.
In Boston a £5,000 diamond necklace belonging to Mrs Jobs de Costa, wife of painter Ping sh artiet, was found in a hotel laundry sheet about to be mangled. The necklace had been sent to New York by express and both cities’ police have been on the lookout for the jewel until its recovery.
A young Wétoman woman named Pearl Pim ter was found dead in the Boavigan Meuse area on December 25. Police report unclear causes as investigators set up routine inquiries. The case is being treated as a possible death with unnamed factors under review.
Rush Springs Oklahoma reports two men who were to wed sisters lie side by side after separate gunshot incidents. Lee Lincoln died en route to Fort Worth after a hunting accident while preparing to marry that day. Henry Trapp’s body was found in the parlor with a gunshot wound to the head, his sister-in-law Mrs Henry Trapp at his side. The two deaths are linked by a grim sequence with no stated cause for the second tragedy.
The Washington post office announces plans to issue limited rolls of 500 to 1000 stamps for vending machine use and stamp affixing, inviting postmasters to submit requisitions to try the program.
Governor Hoke Smith in Atlanta was sent a watch charm from forty convicts working in Walker county coal mines. The accompanying note thanked him for ending the convict lease system and enacting prison reforms. A similar token was sent to State Senator T S Felder, chair of the legislative committee that investigated the system.
Chicago bankers and note brokers warned that a $60,000 forged bills receivable scheme has been planted with Chicago banks. The method involves issuing duplicate bills receivable and selling them to brokers at standard discount, who then discount the paper with their banks.
In Gibbsland Iowa December 25 W C Brice shot and wounded Town Marshal Rogers fatally shot John Moberly a respected citizen and seriously wounded an unnamed Black man Brice was taken to Shreveport for treatment or custody.
New York on December 25 reports a uniform price cut of ten cents per 100 pounds across all grades of refined sugar. The move affects retailers and wholesalers, reflecting market shifts and supply adjustments.
Chicago police report that Vito Lantille received a third Black Hand warning demanding 1500 dollars to be paid Friday under death penalty. He reported the letter to authorities for action.
The basilisk, famed in medieval folklore, allegedly hatched by a toad from a cock’s egg. Descriptions vary from eight legged serpent to dragon, sometimes with wings, crowned head markings, and a deadly bite. Revered voices from Pliny to Bascho claim terrifying power and no plant growth near its lair.
A physician explains that many diseases emit distinct scents aiding diagnosis. Gout smells like whey, diabetes like honey, jaundice musk, smallpox a burning-bone odor, measles like fresh feathers, typhus musty, intermittent like bread, yellow fever like washings from a dirty gum barrel.
A wealthy banker named Herr Hager was robbed after abandoning safety measures. In a separate incident a watch he gifted exploded during winding, injuring a man’s hands and destroying an eye due to dynamite concealed inside the case, per the London Telegraph.
A member of parliament calls it a difficult task to commend an opponent's worthy intentions while also persuading others he is an impostor and a humbug of top rank. The passage notes the need to balance praise with a clear insinuation of mendacity.
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