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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1899
Page
2
A Post-Dispatch item recounts a humorously misspelled street encounter with diverse foreigners claiming U S A origins from Porto Rico to Manila. It ends with a quip about an Indiana man suing for his ninth divorce to remarry, and Lon Johnson selling cheap wallpaper in Bryan.
A Syracuse Post item recounts a woman dropping a street memorandum with quirky phrasing about taxes and roosters. Peter Cooper, noted for vast wealth, extols newspapers as a business booster where every town resident should advertise, benefiting both advertiser and distant readers by signaling a thriving community.
The 1899 calendar lists New Year as Sunday with calls on Monday, Washington's Birthday on Wednesday, Memorial Day and July 4 on Tuesday, Christmas on Monday, Ash Wednesday February 15, Shrove Sunday March 12, Good Friday March 31, Easter April 2, new congressmen beginning prerogatives on Saturday March 4, and May Day on Monday.
Residence Phone 131.
Capt. F A Reichardt reported to the Houston board that the A and M College biennial report will seek $165,000 in appropriations for new dormitories a combined agricultural and horticultural building a chemical and veterinary laboratory sub experiment stations a steam heating plant a sewerage system a new well residences for professors and other needs. The report notes record matriculation this year about 391 students with expectations to reach 400 and more than 100 turned away.
In Washington a large delegation pressed for Aransas Pass Texas harbor improvement to create a 20 foot deep, 150 foot wide channel via two parallel jetties and dredging. The plan, costing about 1.525 million dollars, calls for removing the sandbar and extending Mustang Island protection, with a 12 foot dredge option for the nearby narrows at 150 feet wide.
The Missouri Legislature organized on Thursday with W. J. McClintic elected president of the Senate and W. J. Ward elected speaker of the House. Gov Stephens’ message was read in both houses, urging an investigation of municipal affairs in St. Louis amid persistent charges of bribery and boodling.
Nebraska chose William Pointer as governor in Lincoln, while Indiana Massachusetts New Hampshire and Maine also inaugurated leaders. Governor Pingree in Michigan delivered a 25000 word message on taxation reform and anti trust policy. In Texas and Louisiana accidents claimed lives as a buggy crash near Marble Falls killed Mrs Lester and a hunting accident near West Lake killed Benjamin Louis, age 10, with Tommy Kaufman witnessing the tragedy.
Paducah Jan 6 A passenger train on the Illinois Central Ste Louis branch wrecked near Grantsburg Conductor William Mertz seriously hurt Fifteen passengers injured no fatalities reported Every car overturned engine remained on track Brownwood Tex Jan 6 Steve Delainy Santa Fe employee struck by eastbound train near a curve died of injuries in hospital
A short, enigmatic line from McDuff Simpson, 39, remarking that rare flowers are hard to cultivate this time of year to let them bloom for their young lady friends.
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