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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1903
Page
3
The schedule lists northbound trains No 7 No 8 No 5 and No 1 from Houston to Bryan with departure and arrival times. Southbound services No 2 No 4 No 6 No 8 also show Bryan to Houston times plus connections at Hempstead and a note on No 104 Northbound passenger and No 1W Southbound service details.
Weekdays General Delivery Registry and Money Order service begins at 8 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m. Mails for midnight trains close at 9 p.m. Sunday hours run from 10:30 to 11 a.m. and 4:15 to 4:45 p.m.
Judge Taliaferro went to Calvert yesterday. Rev. Tucker traveled to Galveston. J Wren and J Kernole returned from Wellborn and Houston respectively. Francis of Cottonwood and Rev E L Shettles also visited Bryan yesterday. C T Battle of Wellborn, August Kern, and J W Martin of Montgomery were in town yesterday.
A recent Entre Nous Dancing club event at College drew a large and happy crowd of young women including Misses Porter Smith Hattie Smith Edmonds Thomas Harbers McConnico Hattie McConnice Beard Adams Robinson Alma Robinson Lemon Webb Jones and Hearne of Navasota. The piece notes social activity, postmaster appointment chatter, Beaumont news, corn arrivals signaling scarcity, poor Bryan sidewalks, Carnegie library delays, new alarm clocks and a postponed Domino party due to weather.
A stream of short items reports on people visiting Hearne from nearby towns, officials traveling to inspect convict camps, theatre and club notices, and local sales offers. Names include H. G. Drummond, Cliff A. Adams, L. B. Menodla, J. C. Boyett, Lee Gilmer, Loula Bell Renfro, Pearl Wallace, Jno A. Moore, J. D. Martin, R. H. Harrison, W. M. Smith, Florence Williams, Beatrice Hearne, Beatrice Hearne, G. W. Winter, Tom Sanders, and Frank Stasney. Also ads for box calf shoes and seven room house with land near Allen Academy.
A New York physician reports the first American use of a new anti strepococcus serum for scarlet fever. A frail girl with high fever improved after injection, shrinking to normal then fluctuating briefly before stabilizing. The serum, discovered by Berlin bacteriologist Dr Heines Aronson, shows promising recoveries in early trials begun last July.
Newark February 20 report lists eight dead from the crash between a train and a trolley carrying school children. Eleven were injured including the motorman as authorities inspect the wreck near the city.
Mazatlan reports no deaths from the plague on Thursday yet merchants in Guaymas have decided to suspend commercial intercourse. The move threatens to inflict great losses on Mazatlan’s export trade to interior Mexico and foreign markets, with Guaymas serving as the port through which Mazatlan channels shipments.
New Orleans on February 20 saw the Knights of Momus stage the carnival pageant with sixteen floats depicting legends of the Red Men. Miss Roosevelt and other visiting ladies watched from club galleries as Admiral Schley stood by the city mayor on the hall platform and received an ovation.
Feb 20 in Buda Pest Baron Fejervary minister of national defense fought a sword duel with Deputy Lengyal after a chamber dispute in which the minister called a deputy a liar. Fejervary, over seventy, was slightly wounded three times in the right hand. He initially declined the challenge due to age.
It is stated that the $5,600,000 bonds recently authorized by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe directors will not be bought by J P Morgan and Co. The issue is not large enough to justify a syndicate operation.
Washington February 20. The anthracite coal strike commission met to begin formulating their conclusion and framing their report. All commission members attended as the session focused on preliminary details.
Monterey Mexico February 20 Colonel Jose L Cristo retired after monthslong illness died from cancer of the throat authorities reported his death at his home in the city funeral arrangements pending local officials noted his military service and ties to the community
Several buildings burned at Woodville. J T Chief of Police Winfrey of Dallas fell and broke an arm. Oklahoma legislature adopted a resolution for immediate statehood. M B Porter elected professor of mathematics at the University of Texas. 700 St Louis City Hospital patients in critical condition due to fuel shortage. Judge Richard Woodridge of Oklahoma City died in Gainesville. Floyd Ramey cut by barbed wire while skating near Chickasha. Storm deaths in South Carolina include two in Anderson County two children in Aiken County and a negro in Laurens County. A Winston County Alabama killing ends in murder suicide.
President Diaz cannot attend the National Manufacturers convention in New Orleans in April due to government business. Congress will be in session in Mexico City at that time.
Torreon Mexico February 20 authorities offer two cents for each dead rat to curb the threat of plague. Boys bring in rats by the hundreds as a precautionary measure.
One fare for the round trip with tickets via Sunset Route 17hh to 23rd inclusive. Return restricted to February 28 with extension to March 14. Two trains daily El Paso and San Antonio. three daily Houston. Trains offer Standard Pallman and Excursion sleeping cars free chair cars and day coaches. No transfer trains operate into New Orleans Union Station. See local agent M. L. Robbins T. J. Anderson G.P. & T A A.G.P.&T. A Houston Texas.
Auction sale of town lots at Maypeart on the Fort Worth Division of the International and Great Northern Railroad has been postponed. A new date will be announced later. Prospective buyers may contact the Smith Land Improvement Company representative at the I and G N depot in Maypearl. D. J. Price, G.P.A. L and G N R, Palestine, Texas.
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