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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1902
Page
5
Property notes describe several city lots and houses near Allen Academy with prices from 550 to 1600 dollars including a six room house four blocks from Hain Street and a 300 acre Brazos Bottom farm priced at 20 dollars per acre terms. Also details on a brick cistern and outbuildings with multiple parcels offered for sale.
Advertiser seeks to buy the best animals for meat export and butchering. Promises reasonable prices and offers to employ export meat cutters. Requests patronage and support from sellers and traders.
Claiming a four day cure for malaria or fever Quinoria is sold by M H James a leading druggist in Bryan Texas. Price is 50 cents per package and druggists refund money in case of bills or illness.
In Austin circuit court Mrs Libbie Barnhill and her children win 20000 damages 10009 exemplary and 10000 actual from L T Morgan of Fayette county The suit stems from the death of Charles Barnhill her husband a partner in a mercantile firm allegedly killed by Morgan on December 6 1900 with Wildersville Tenn as the plaintiffs home and Morgan named as defendant.
In Jackson Mississippi on February officials announced that Mrs Jefferson Davis would visit to meet and greet the incoming legislature at the historic old capitol. Resolutions offering courtesies were adopted and Beauvoir, her Gulf Coast home, is to be purchased by the state and converted into a home for indigent Confederate veterans.
On her thirtieth birthday in New York, famed author Lillian Treadwell learns her novel has been declined by a publisher. Beside her, her old friend Jack Ainsworth arrives, reigniting past feelings and a chance at happiness. She decides to abandon literature to embrace life with Jack, burning her manuscript as a fresh start.
In a West Baltimore grocery a shopper misidentifies a lithograph showing George Washington, remarking it looks more like Jak Moses in the ambush, reflecting fading antebellum mammy stereotypes noted by the Baltimore Sun.
The article explains a Queen Anne era tradition where the cook’s name is announced before each dish. Originating in King George II’s court, a favored cook rose above rivals, prompting jealousy and allegations of failure. The king ordered the cook’s name to be announced aloud with each course to honor accountability.
In Decatur Illinois on February 8 a 17 year old named John Kohler killed himself after being informed his forgery of his father’s name on a deposited $20 check would lead to penitentiary consequences. Police had become involved and, fearing punishment, Kohler shot himself, ending his life moments later. Separately, Michigan railroads earned $42,374,569 in 1901, over 8 percent above 1900 totals and over 7 percent above 1900.
Lieutenant Edwin S. Jacob of the U S Navy hydrographic office in Galveston dies after a six month tenure there. Born in Virginia he entered the Naval Academy in 1862 and retired in 1885. Also reported a shooting in Jacksonville Texas injuring Frank Dublin and Frank Farrar with multiple wounds.
News in brief lists multiple sharp incidents including Grant Hurley’s accidental self shot near Stubbs Texas. 80 year old Robert Heydon frozen to death in Washington Indiana. Armstrong Hearley hanged at Erwin Tennessee for killing his 6 year old stepdaughter. Benjamin Smith 17 shot himself while hunting near Shoales Indiana. Laura Orvin 77 wandered from Shoales Indiana and froze to death. Oscar Dudley 25 years for criminal assault at Marlin Texas. Walter Daniels shot wife and killed himself at Eagle Lake Texas. mayoral budget report for Houston Texas showing expenses 601,121 and bonded debt 4,097,000.
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