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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1907
Page
4
The Bryan Texas Daily Eagle column mulls happiness irony and public figures. It notes Switzerland's quiet presidential election, a Lockhart tomato project, and old aphorisms about fame age and politics. It mentions a minister banning hats, navy staff conflicts, and rising 1907 records.
The commentary laments social disorder from Maypearl roistering to anti‑Oriental sentiment in Seathbridge, Texas proposes state bank deposit insurance, and discusses crime and legal affairs in New York with rising prison counts and docket load. It also critiques politics and advocates sidewalk improvements in Bryan.
W. T. Foster predicts a sequence of disturbances across the continent from late December into January. He warns of a moderate crossing storm turning furious by January 3, with heavy rains in the south and snows in the north, and forecasts warmer trends near the great lakes and a very dry January in the central valleys.
Advance notice announces Helen Grantly to present Christian Reid’s four act war drama Under the Southern Cross at the Opera House on New Year night. The play shows a Southern girl’s courage during the Civil War with interiors and battlefield scenes. Grantly’s return to the stage is highlighted by strong company talent.
Notice that T A Satterwhite announces his wood saw is back in good working order and will cut wood starting Monday December 30. Phone orders 104. Prices for 10 cords or more at 65 cents per cord.
San Antonio reports on Dr Leon Akpert Landon from Los Angeles testing cactus as food over 14 days. He prepared cactus soup omelets sherbet salads and juice while noting prickly pear preserves and cactus candy selling in El Paso. Researchers explore cactus for bagging berlap and denatured alcohol amid Southwest Texas abundance and potential fortunes.
The First Baptist Church presents a Sunday musical program featuring a Christmas Prelude Allegro Maestoso Gloria in Excelsis Deo Pastorale Adoration Chorus of Shepherds Doxology and solos with Offertories Reverie The Door of Hope and The Song of the Brook under organist Mrs Robt S Webb with performers Mesdames Boatwright Howell Davis and Miss Peale.
Feathered pets and reptiles arrive in large numbers from Mexico and the Rio Grande region. Conrad Hertz of Denver oversees the shipment to ease travel fatigue as birds monkeys and snakes fuel a thriving circus and zoological trade in San Antonio the world’s largest rattlesnake market. Snakes mainly come from Mexico and Rio Grande country and professional snake catchers earn good livings supplying the trade. Mocking birds primarily originate in Texas with millions of these singers reported.
A Denton Texas resident A G Lee funds a stone monument to John D Rockefeller on his farm near town despite legal limits on Standard Oil. The article notes Lee’s wealth and odd taste including a hotel named John D Rockefeller and cites broader quips about optimism and aviation future warfare.
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