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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1909
Page
5
In Leeds the Nansen visit drew a large crowd. Two old men mocked the pole carried after him by a tram wagon, joking about cradle safety and sea rocking. A salesman counters that cradles are unhealthy for infants, likening their rocking to a ship in a storm.
Mr. Gwimple, tired of renting, buys a home with 1000 dollars cash and a trust deed for the rest. After moving in, he wakes to his wife saying a man tries to enter the house. He insists he will admit the deed holder at any hour, claiming the document binds him.
New York’s H. H. Harriman and his wife and daughter Carol will join the Texas camp near San Antonio as they depart Thursday in a Harriman private car. Also accompanying them are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gerry Mrs. Hobert Golet and others.
Rev W Y Wilson pastor of a Buck Hill church was arrested in McKinney after his shot struck Tipp Bades home while he says he fired at a robber by mistake.
San Antonio February 2 Robert Walton Goelet of the Harriman party was arrested for speeding. The charge was dismissed in police court with admonition against future violations of the ordinance.
Boyd Sharpe twenty eight an electrician in McAlester Oklahoma was instantly killed when he caught hold of a trolley wire while placing insulators on an interurban railway line.
In February a Grace Methodist Episcopal Church South in Dallas was robbed of several ceiling electric fans and attachments valued at about 500 dollars.
At Colonial Hill Presbyterian Church in Dallas in February the Lockett Adair gathering drew more than 100 conversions, reflecting strong turnout and impact.
Savannah Georgia February notice reports the death of Pr William T Bull after a prolonged illness that drew notable attention from the medical community.
A New York manager recalls Victorien Sardou confronting an actor at the Ambigu during rehearsal. When the actor claimed forty hours of line study, Sardou questioned the claim and quipped that if he had lied twice before, this would be the third lie in his life.
An excerpt describes Queen Adelaide wife of William IV as pious and humble and outlines her funeral wish to forgo pomp. She asks for a quiet daylight funeral at St George's Chapel Windsor and to be carried to the tomb without state or vanities. The piece also notes Chesterton on nocturnal city architecture and night workers.
A brief Meggendorfer Blatter cartoon caption notes a wife singing out of tune. The husband blames the accompanist, only for the joke to reveal she accompanies herself. The gag plays on musical miscue and self-sufficiency.
A humorous string of snappy quotes teams up lines from Louisville Courier Journal Boston Transcript and Syracuse Herald. The chatter riffs on old time attire discomfort permanent crease in trousers and abrupt firings without reason.
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