Local business moves mix with county court notes
Mistret Bros and F Carter plan a March opening at Crockett in Houston county with 8 F Carter as manager and George Willman in charge of shoes. Willman departs Bryan after sale as Sanger’s Waco stock moves. goods are sacrificed below cost. Kurten’s G D Price to rebuild gin with corn mill. blacksmith shop added. Commissioners court reports overseers and $7000 county script canceled. Wallace couple to mark 40th wedding anniversary. Smallpox cases unchanged. eight original cases recovering. Lt Albert Jenkins rejoins Battery B at Key West after recruiting in Indiana. Parks and Wakkrop update spring fabrics. March 1 delivery planned. public welcome. Vacar Lowry
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mistret Bros. & Co
Crockett
Houston County
F. Carter
Brenham
George Willman
Willman
Bryan
A. Sanger
Waco
Seam Sanger
Sanger
Eagle
G. D. Price
Kurten
Price
Karten
Tabor
Albert Jenkins
Key West
Fla
Indianas
Marriage Licenses and Local Notices From Bryan
Marriage licenses listed including Tom Wilson to Des Smith and Henry Brown to Priscilla Gay among others. Local ads offer plumbing, insurance, wallpaper, millinery, and service notices. mentions of West Point grads, residents visiting Mexia, and a discussion on the Tasmanian devil from Lippincott's Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Wilson
A Des Smith
Henry Brown
Princilla Gay
Richard Nash
Maud Elliott
W. W. Jackson
Willie B. Birdwell
Exchange Hotel Arrivals List From City Hotel
A roster of arriving guests includes W. 8. Mial Brazosbottom Harry Bowles Dallas R. L. Downcan Mumford W. P. Gilbert Waco C Jenkins Dallas John LaPrelle St Louis H. S. Wigie Chicago George A. Wilkins St Louis L. J. Navra Baltimore R. H. Cool grove San Antonio Sid Covington Hearne W. P. Hughes Ft. Worth Eugene Lewis Thos L. Dodd St. Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. 8. Mial
Brazosbottom
Harry Bowles
Dallas
R. L. Downcan
Mumford
W. P. Gilbert
Waco
C. Jenkins
John LaPrelle
Sale Notice of Steele's Store Stock in Brazos County
On March 1 1599 between 8 and 11 am at Steele's Store Brazos County Texas I will sell to the highest bidder for cash the assigned general merchandise stock invoicing between 3500 and 4000 plus nine head of horses and mules For particulars address E D Cantu Assignee Steele's Store Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steele’s
Brazos County
Texas
H. B. Steele
E. D. Cantu
Steele's
Bankrupt Sale Notice for H L Gentry & Co in Wellborn
District Court appoints trustee T C Davenport to sell the bankrupt stock, fixtures, books, notes, and debts of H L Gentry & Co at Wellborn Brazos County Texas on February 25 1899 at 10 am. The sale proceeds in cash and may be bulk or parcel as the trustee completes the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of the United States
District of
Texas
H. L. Gentry & Co
Wellborn
Brazos County
H. L Gentry & Co
T. C. Davennoxt
Legal Blanks Advertising List and Prices
The Eagle lists various legal blanks and forms with small quantity pricing and discount calls for larger orders. Items include Affidavit to Account and to Fact, Deeds with warranties, Quit Claim, Power of Attorney, Land Note with Vendor's Lien, Release of Deed of Trust, Transfer of Vendor's Lien, Promissory Note, and Real Estate Leases with vendor lien details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle Office
Eighteenth Century Naval Punishments and Devotion
In The Pall Mall Magazine W Clark Russell cites 1635 Earl of Lindsay orders for captains to enforce daily worship, discipline for swearing drunkenness and theft, and brutal punishments. Marooning keel hauling nail through hand and tying living to the dead before throwing overboard were described as common penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pall Mall
W. Clark Russell
Earl of Lindsay
Rats Doomed Vernon Afloat in Great Lakes Legend
An old superstition about rats deserting a sinking ship survives among fresh water sailors on the Great Lakes. The case of the Vernon, a Buffalo built three master from 1850, illustrates the tale. After a November night sighting of 50 to 75 rats fleeing the vessel, the crew refused to sail but a fresh crew sailed. the ship was lost with all hands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
Vernon
Buffalo
Chicago
Empress Keeps Famous Diamond Pen From Paris Treaty
A correspondent recalls how the former empress of France used the diamond pen that signed the Treaty of Paris to write about her late husband. Reportedly, all participants sought the pen as a memento, but she insisted on retaining a single quill fashioned from a golden eagle wing, studded with diamonds and gold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Prominent Sheepdog Sabbath Moment Narrated at Communion
An autobiographical vignette recalls Scotch sheepdogs at a mountain communion Sabbath. Shepherds and dogs gathered in a churchyard as the sermon and psalm concluded. When benediction began, the dogs rose in orderly procession before the Amen, a vivid devotional scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newman Hall
Preparing For Me Feast With Beefsteak Request
A dialogue from London Tit Bits has a lieutenant instructing John to fetch two beefsteaks with onions for a dinner at Mr Holdfast’s, reflecting a comical misgiving about dining with an old miser and being unprepared for the invitation. A separate note mentions soft redstone quarry work in southern Minnesota and historic Indian pipe materials found in graves from the gulf to Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O&g
John
Holdfast
London
Minnesota
Gulf
Canada
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Tigati
Swift
H.&t
G.N
Hearne
Ni and
San Antonio
J. E. Butler
A. J. Buchanan
Harry Peverley
Millican
Henry Prinzer
Kourten
Mira
Todd
Bethel
Jesse Moore Af Edge
Commissioners Court
Millican Precinct No. 1
G. C. Wallace
Rusk County
W. H. McMichael
Edge
J. B. Cochran
Courtney
Webb Howell
O. C. Utsey
The
Watchers
Hood
Sot Bies
Arkets
Odd Fellow
John Mi
E. F. Parks
Parks & Wakkrop
St. Louis
Vacar Lowry
New York Life
Earth
Biel
Jenkins S ) Bug Co
Nage
Pearle Appleby
New Orleans
B. L. Appleby
Calvert Courier
J. A. Myers
R. C. Rhea
L. D. Carroll
James Justic
United States Military Academy
West Point
Charlie Goen
John Ferguson
A. A. Gober
McClung
Will
George
W. RR. Parker
C. OC
Dulaney
James Henry, Jr
W. J. Meads
Thompson Creek
Sre
Joe B. Reed
G. W. Jenkins
Proctor
Charles McLeodon
Calvert
Walter Wipprecht
Mexia
Austra
Tasmania
van Dienan’s Land
Australia
Lippincott’s
Exchange Hotel
Legal Blanias
Reman
Tee
Sam Sanger
Ben Ettlfson
Telephone Exchange
Ays
Ela Sivan
John M. Caldwell
J. F. Parks’ Livery and Undertaking Establishment
Lin
J.f.parks
Charles Carr
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