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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1900
Page
4
Speculation among high society in New York centers on Mrs. Astor potentially abdicating her social leadership to Mrs. Eamund Baylies. Mrs. Astor is said to be guiding the heiress apparent in duties and privileges of a social queen, with Baylies described as starting her ascent from old Knickerbocker stock.
A humorous exchange notes why men’s pockets seem easy to access while women’s are harder. The reply explains a man has no business with a woman’s pocket, but a woman may with a man’s. Chicago News tone.
Quotation notes uncertainty over an 83 year old uncle's death and his faculties as the will has not yet been read. The dialogue cites inability to confirm facts pending probate.
A downtown night wanderer finds jelly locked by his mother but discovers the cellar light is poor and ends up tasting soft soap instead of the prized jelly after a dawn theft attempt. The tale from the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses a humorous twist on parental caution and mischief.
A writer notes the skylark’s remarkable song volume and endurance. The bird rises tiny above the nest yet its notes carry half a mile, singing nearly 20 minutes nonstop while hovering with constant wing use.
Chicago Tribune warns that a lucrative con thrives on false pawn tickets sold to gullible New Yorkers. A swindler propositions a ring or gem valued at 100 dollars, pawns it for 25, then offers a bargain at 35 to buy the equity. Victims pay 35, redeem the pledge, and learn the article is worth 50 to 60 dollars, losing 5 to 15 dollars while the pawnbroker gains the loaned amount and the original owner recovers nothing.
A singer recalls meeting Mose Rosenstein who ran a one night Faust troupe. He aimed to play Mephistopheles and earned a $500 weekly contract after a sharp remark. He acted as the devil through most of Faust then moved to The Foundry, a workingman’s play, earning his first advance salary of $7.50.
A witty exchange in the Chicago News depicts a frustrated bard asking where to send his effusion after being told it is not welcome. The editor suggests the house of correction as a venue.
A sketch of the hedge school in rural Ireland built into a roadside ditch. Peasant labor assembled a sod wall front, earthen floor, and rush thatch roof using local materials like green sods wattles and bog slabs. A compact, humble al fresco classroom ready for lessons.
A man with Alaska experience recounts hunting with miners when weather shifts from warm to bitter cold. Icicles form on his beard and, with no cartridges, he uses ice as bullets to kill a bear, which dies as the temperature warms and melts the ice.
A sensational claim describes a nearby poison factory and a comical encounter at a store where a colored woman orders flesh color plaster. The clerk tests vivid color confusion as a Pittsburgh News quip ends with the needless seriousness of laboratory checks.
A teacher assigns a spelling exercise and asks Thomas to define ibex. He delivers a playful definition: it is where you look in the back of the book to find text printed in the front, in a humorous misunderstanding.
At a Sydney banquet a Macdonald descendant passed a knife blade foremost to a member of a famed Macdonalds betrayers family. Onlookers branded it contemptible bad breeding while a few understood the act signified the enduring, unforgiven betrayal from Glencoe.
A doctor and a professor discuss the sea as essential, disputing the idea of its waste. They argue the ocean saves land and enables continents to remain habitable, noting no drop is wasted. Chicago Tribune quotation marks the exchange.
The grave of Daniel De Foe lies in a crowded area of London near the Bank of England, just about a quarter mile away. The location situates him in a busy historical and financial district.
The secretary of war sustains Cuban military authority in the slaughterhouse case but preserves the claimants rights for Cuban courts. Originating from a 1783 Spanish grant, the case centers on the Havana cattle slaughterhouse emoluments and the office of sheriff. The decision denies U S support to the claimants, who may seek future litigation in Cuba.
A batch of brief items from Des Moines to New Florence reports debunking a drowning scare of 49 schoolchildren as a hoax started by railroad workers. Other dispatches cover crimes, pardons, church disturbances, an AP agent’s death, a dance fight, a stabbing, a penitentiary transfer escape, and a saloon shooting panic involving Black residents.
Edward McElroy was shot dead and Con Stable Whitford wounded in the neck by Sylvan McClannahan at Trinity church four miles west of Dover during an entertainment. The incident occurred as the event was underway in Nashville on December 28.
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