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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1902
Page
6
Bryan Texas passes ordinance making it unlawful for anyone with smallpox or who has recovered to walk the streets without a certificate from the City Health Officer. Violators face fines from five to twenty five dollars. ordinance signed by Mayor J S Moortine and City Secretary C M Spell.
Real estate notice lists South half of block near Allen Academy with cottage and outbuildings at 1000 dollars, six room houses on west side and four blocks from Main Street, brick cisterns, and two acres near Allen Academy with residence barn and dug well at 1600 dollars. Also 300 acre Brazos Bottom farm at 20 dollars per acre and option to sell in small tracts. railroad frontage near Otto Boehme property.
An article extols jewels and health as a woman’s priorities noting health is often sacrificed for luxury. It urges fortifying against data coughs and bronchial issues with Dr Bosch ee’s German Syrup to arrest early consumption and heal lungs. The piece promotes Green’s remedies at Wilson-Jenkins Drug Co in Bryan and mentions a Special Almanac.
Quinia or quinoria remedy marketed with refund guarantee by druggists. Bryan merchant M. H. James lists price at 50 cents per package and promises money back if chills fever or malaria not cured.
New York February reports a national effort to expand US educational work, especially in the south, driven by major donors including John D. Rockefeller and heir. Several millions are ready to be pledged as plans finalize, following the Southern Educational conference that highlighted southern funding gaps for white and Black students.
Santo Domingo report says President Jiminez invites merchants to a conference at Puerto Plata to seek their opinion on solving economic difficulties and raising prices for Dominican products. He backs reciprocity with the United States to aid sugar and with Spain to aid tobacco, notes insufficient revenues, and proposes a 34 property tax and a new loan. He tours Cibao gathering information.
Mrs Julia Elme Brewster Brick dies at 80 in Brooklyn on February 3. Her will filed February 12 leaves most of her estate, valued near one million, to charities she supports for decades. The bulk goes to the Joseph K Brick Agricultural Industrial and Normal School in Edgecombe North Carolina, with the American Missionary Association to oversee the bequest.
The Capitol Land company known as the X I T ranch in the Panhandle of Texas has sold 18 000 acres to Reynolds Land and Cattle company 40 000 acres to L T Clark 50 000 acres to William J Todd 210 000 acres to Matador Land and Cattle company 70 000 acres to F D Wright and about 40 000 acres in smaller tracts to various purchasers.
London reports a parliamentary paper detailing a formal defense pact between Great Britain and Japan. The accord, signed Jan 30 by Lord Lansdowne and Baron Hayashi, commits neutrality if the other is attacked and joint action if allies are attacked. It lasts five years, with a year renewal post denunciation.
Bonham Texas February 12 Fannin county forms a committee to combat the boll worm this year. J M Terry is chairman with W A Spangler Dr R E L Kincaid J W Rainey and Zac Smith serving. The group will stay linked with the Paris organization and keep farmers informed.
Frank C White longtime official baker of New York has died at White House New Jersey from paralysis. He supplied bread to city institutions and was known as a millionaire. White aided Chicago fire relief miners strikes in Pennsylvania and bread for returning soldiers at Montauk Point.
George Leonard a Wisconsin heir and former Porto Rican campaign second lieutenant pleaded guilty to burglary after being found in a sporting goods cellar. He attributes his downfall to a drink habit formed during military service and was remanded for sentencing.
New York Feb 12. The New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals dismissed the Landis will contest after finding contestants failed to furnish required security. The estate began at 1,000,000 and is now valued at 150,000.
In Gulpha Arkansas seven miles east of Hot Springs a Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf passenger train rear ended a Little Rock and Hot Springs train. Conductor John Cox was badly crushed with internal injuries. The Choctaw engine buried in a Pullman sleeper though no riders were aboard.
Dallas February 12. Judge A Lawrence believed to be the oldest native born Texan visits relatives. Born in Galveston county in 1824 he is said to be Texas first white child born to American parents. His father came from Kentucky and settled near Galveston about 1823. Lawrence now lives in Alamogordo New Mexico.
Newport News reporting a midweek tragedy. Eva Gilbert, a trapeze performer from New York, fell 85 feet during an aerial act at the Powhatan Theatre after his foot slipped from a loop. She died within ten minutes.
The Egyptian postal administration informs the government that registered mail offices have been set up at Khartoum and 25 other locations in Sudan including here in Soudan. The announcement comes from the February 12 report filed in Washington.
Guthrie Oklahoma February 12 The town of Alabama located 21 miles north of Holdenville in the Creek nation is being moved two miles to meet the Frisco Fort Smith and Western railroad crossing under construction from Fort Smith Arkansas to the city.
Oklahoma Cattlemen's association began a three day session in Wichita Kansas on Tuesday. Hon. Jerry Simpson delivered the welcoming address.
Clyde Fitch the playwright is ill in Atlantic City with acute intestinal trouble. His condition is not thought to be serious.
In Austin on February 12 the governor, acting under last legislature provisions, bought from San Antonio artist R. J. Onderdonk a painting of Senator Charles A. Culberson for 300 dollars. The artwork will hang in the supreme court library.
Groton Mass Feb 12 The reports from Theodore Roosevelt Jr s sick room show improvement since Thursday and at 8 PM Tuesday his condition is better than Monday night At 11 PM Cor telyou said indications favored a favorable night though fever fluctuated and the crisis time could not be predicted likely today
Arthur E. Stillwell proposes a Detroit of rails from Kansas City to the City of Mexico and Tampico with a new Gulf port at Brownsville. He purchases the Hidalgo and Northeastern extending toward Tampico and links with the Orient railway to form a Kansas City to Mexico City corridor.
Several major insurance companies have informed the Texas secretary of state of their withdrawal from the state. European firms dominate the list, with 11 companies exiting last year and a total of 18 leaving since the anti trust act took effect. The Young county suits alleging rate fixing prompted the exits.
Ed Logan, 21, was found guilty of murder in Marlin Texas after a daylong trial. The jury sentenced him to 10 years in the penitentiary for the killing of Neal Sealy, a 30 year old man, on the streets about a year earlier.
In St Louis on February 12 the jury found J W Gilham proprietor of the Empire hotel responsible for eleven deaths due to the fire. The verdict cites neglect to provide fire escapes and life lines. Police testimony said no lives would have been lost with proper escapes.
George J. Gould, president of Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain, acquired a five block area in St. Louis for 325000, reportedly to construct a large freight yard facility.
A. F. Morris, Hill store owner, and bystander A. E. Park were held up at gunpoint by two masked men near Hill, I. T. They were marched away briefly, then released. The robbers took about $50 and some groceries.
Paris February 12 Mme Jean d Ville nua appointed secretary of the French consulate generale in New York. This marks a new departure as it is believed to be the first time a woman has been appointed to a post in the diplomatic service.
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