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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1909
Page
1
Howell and Newton solicit your February grocery account with an exceptionally complete stock and high grade brands. They promise prompt efficient service and exclusive handling of several social lines, with telephones 23 and 150 for orders.
News from Lexington Kentucky reports Mat Workman's Bath county home burned with his two children aged nine and seven dying in their upstairs cradle while the parents woke too late. The blaze follows other violent and sudden deaths including a man shot in McAlester Oklahoma and a farmer who killed himself through ice.
Frightful tumbleweed invasion blankets prairie and towns from Oakley to Oberlin, hindering trains and blocking alleys as a touring car is destroyed by fire while pushing through the thickets. Affected areas report yards and fences buried, with homes surrounded by dense swaths hampering passage.
Cantonna February 1 At least 200 lives are reported lost after a Monday fire in a fleet of flower boats. The charred bodies of 170 victims have been recovered while many others remain missing.
New York City recorded 5 degrees above zero as the coldest weather of the season grips the state. Across Adirondacks and northern counties temperatures plunge to 10 to 15 below, with central and western areas 3 to 5 degrees below zero. Homeless suffering was intense during Sunday night as a biting northwest wind swept the region.
George E. Barstow of Barstow Texas, president of the International Irrigation company, describes a coming social order where farmers live in towns near irrigated tracts. Government-irrigation projects will open 3,000,000 acres, with towns every five miles and farms of ten to forty acres. Urban life benefits will accompany rural farming as educated graduates choose irrigation farming.
A morning paper carried a strange ad seeking a burglar on Lakeview Avenue near Fuller ton Avenue causing residents to debate its meaning. Detectives see a possible deep plot as inquiries draw laughter. locals report several months of efforts to rid the street of troublemakers.
Howell Sigler a veteran telegraph operator in the town and wire chief of Western Union retires after more than forty years at the key He served as a telegrapher in the Civil War and held important positions thereafter ending a lengthy career along the world’s wires in Fort forth Feb 1.
A pall of smoke blankets Liberty Polk and Tyler counties as fires sweep wide areas. Strong winds fuel the blaze with farmers affected and livestock harmed amid memories of a deadly incident.
Blizzard delays trains in Milwaukee Wisconsin as of February 1 causing service disruptions. In Madison Indiana a triple tragedy occurred with Dee Brown shooting Henry Lochard and his wife and being killed by Lochard. Mrs Lochard is expected to die.
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