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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1902
Page
4
An older health column argues against food faddism and asserts a balanced diet supports all body parts. It warns digestion and dyspepsia hinder nutrition and promotes Green's August Flower as a general tonic. The piece notes availability at Wilson-Jenkins Crute Co and mentions Green's remedies.
New York Jan 4 Rev Poon Chew editor of a San Francisco Chinese newspaper spoke at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church on causes of the recent Chinese crisis. He cited the opium traffic and foreign treatment of Chinamen, arguing rights do not justify aggression. He noted America as a friend to China and that Shanghai residents are raising a memorial for President McKinley.
New York reports a coal shortage with Berwind-White and Stickney Conyngham firms saying demand outstrips supply. The primary issue is lack of railroad rolling stock as car and locomotive builders cannot meet orders. No reserve coal exists and daily car arrivals lag behind needs. Disturbances like snow could deepen the crisis.
Directors of the Panama Canal Company meet in Paris and decide to offer the canal property to the United States for 40 million dollars. The price covers excavations canal railroad machinery and all items listed in the Isthmian commission report. A representative in Washington has been instructed to formally submit the offer to the president.
Troupe Texas residents welcomed Professors Connell Price and Dr Francis of College Station who accepted the land bonus for a state experimental station. They picked 150 acres north of town with half a mile frontage on the International and Great Northern railway. Work will start soon to build facilities and prepare land for cultivation. The 1903 maintenance bond for the station has been arranged.
Gilmer Texas January 4 news arrives of the old Goode homestead near Bettie burning death of five year old son of William Wright. While Wright was away his wife escaped with the child but in the confusion the boy returned into the house and was burned.
Willemstad Curacao January 4. An armed revolutionary steamer Libertador formerly the Ben Right is believed to have landed an expedition near Barcelona Venezuela.
Guthrie Oklahoma January 4 The impression here is that the land of the Missouri Indians will soon be opened to settlement. Representatives of those tribes have gone to Washington to oppose the opening and to urge payment of 165000 to the Otoe tribe from Nebraska land sale proceeds. The Indians will seek congressional appropriation of the money.
Real estate advertiser touts 40 acres near mill with 25 inside city limits and 15 outside, a five room house, sheds, wells and cement cisterns, plus numerous other city and rural parcels. Offers include multiple 4 and 5 room houses, boarding houses, vacant blocks with oaks, and farm lands totaling 14,000 acres. Calls to see weekly papers for details.
Sam H. Dixon secretary of the Texas State Horticultural Society and chair of the Dallas meeting committee announces postponement of the January 9 and 10 joint meeting. Rail rates were deemed too high by members, prompting the delay.
Hempstead Texas January 4 Charles Wagoner a 26 year old resident was shot and instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his own gun while hunting in the piney woods east of the city. The gun slipped from his arm as he rolled a cigarette and struck a hard substance causing the hammer to strike. One barrel loaded with squirrel shot discharged its contents passed through his body near the heart.
In Gilmer Texas on January 4 a fight near Stevensonville left William Hart dead from a breast wound after a shot rang out. James Calvert and Carse Quinn fled. Calvert’s examining trial ended with release on 4500 bond as Quinn died the following day from a abdomen wound.
Shipping men here believe the vessel in collision with the Walla Walla is the four masted French bark Europe. Europe left Portland December 11 for Queenstown with a wheat cargo. Under normal conditions she would be farther along. Latest reports put deaths at 30 to 40.
Cure dyspepsia and indigestion with Rex Dyspepsia Tablets. Sour stomach or heartburn treated, druggists refund if no cure. Price 50 cents. M. H. James, leading druggist, Bryan Texas. Union Barber Shop under new management by W. A. Cones. Three first class barbers present.
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