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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1909
Page
4
The famed rope master CHAS. LAVMAN offers $100 to anyone who can tie him with his feet to 100 feet of rope and preventing release, all in view of the audience. Shows include latest novelty acts. matinee daily at 3 o'clock with new film features and performances.
Adolphe Deutcher installed president of Switzerland succeeding Brenner. National Educational Association heads meet in Chicago to plan Denver convention. Northern Kentucky Gun Club hosts Tri-State championship in Dayton. Pope blesses worldwide followers as year opens. U S and Germany postal agreement reduces direct letter postage from 5 to 2 cents. Philadelphia holds New Year Shooters parade with 5,000 mummers. Anna Hoch wed James Reid in Topeka as guests arrive in London for New Year reception. Pasadena hosts annual floral parade and carnival with 30,000 spectators. Albany inaugurates Gov Charles B Hughes for second term. US troops begin Cuba withdrawal from Havana. Nelson Morris & Co pension plan offers broad benefits to 10,000 workers.
A nostalgic chronicle praising New York hotels and their luxurious features. It extols the St Regis and Astor, notes Knickerbocker's offerings, and imagines hotel services transforming guests into gentlemen through barbering and borrowed attire. It suggests a hotel etiquette school as a starter for improved manners.
A New Peacemaker. First Lieutenant William S. Mapes of the Twenty-fifth Infantry U S A is credited with inventing a hand grenade said to set new records for deadliness. Reports say its detonation scatters over forty bullets in all directions, killing or maiming all within range. The piece also notes express companies charging double rates for balloons, urging intervention to protect balloonists.
The New York theater scene grows crowded with new openings and foundation plans daily. Critics wonder how so many houses can survive without collapsing financially and joke about a correspondence school of acting to supply enough stars.
A historical column critiques self fashioned confessions by business titans like Rockefeller Carnegie Harriman Hill and Hammerstein. It claims pasted memoirs sanitize wrongdoing and frame wealth as virtue, suggesting such narratives erase incriminating details while praising wealth as a soul proxy and life lesson.
The confession portrays Oscar Hammerstein as aiming to vex music lovers as payback for a childhood spanking. He is praised for his successful career and influence in show business.
The Grand Central Palace becomes the center of the automobile world for seven days as the International Show opens under the American Motor Car Manufacturers association. More than 300 manufacturers display gasoline, steam and electric vehicles, tires, parts, and accessories across five departments.
Local shop advertises homemade fruit cakes and introduces Mrs Otto Poehme as a featured confectioner for holiday treats.
Local merchant in Franklin advertises fresh home ground meal and invites customers to ask for it, highlighting product quality and availability. The fragment suggests a small town commerce notice with emphasis on local goods and customer inquiry.
J W Batts Real Estate Agent offers the only set of Abstract Books for Brazos County. Properties include one and one half lots with a six room brick house near Main Street and a corner lot with brick cistern and stable priced at 1050.00, and a new five room cottage with bath in the southeast town priced at 2000.00 with flexible terms.
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