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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1909
Page
2
The Bryan press notes January 15 1909 issues touching subscription rates and advertising. Commentary targets Senator Tillman Roosevelt and Governor Campbell with jokes on prohibition and politics. Davis criticizes executive meddling in appointing the Texas House speaker amid a larger debate on state policy.
Dr Rankin accuses Joe Bailey of deserting prohibitionists and aligning with the enemy. The piece notes numerous state legislatures and national gatherings in session, implying wide political activity while commenting on misery loving company.
The editorial notes Kennedy as a newspaper man Mobley a planter and Davis with a upstairs plantation over Haswell's book store. It argues editors lack perspective about local geography mocks big dailies on night riders and moonshiners and urges farmers to cooperate for public good citing social duty and divine law guiding collective farming efforts.
The Tennessee House of Representatives orders two preachers to provide evidence for charges that liquor merchants fund legislators in favor of statewide prohibition. Failure to prove would lead to arrest and reprimand for slander. The note suggests Texas consider a similar response.
At MP a meeting of the A O U W lodge last night elected and installed officers. Key roles listed include W S Niggs OM W C, Jenking M Wo, B Re ran Pereman, and Joe Pletzer Qverseer with A A Dean Recorder. Afterward members dined at Holmes Bros restaurant and discussed upcoming seed corn exhibits and a farmers’ institute focused on corn care and breeding.
Mrs Ben Priddy becomes local agent for Gulf Refining at this place replacing Mr Ernest Ettle who has resigned. Priddy is a well known territory figure with prompt business methods and broad friends base aiding Gulf customers.
Bishop Seth N. Ward of Houston spoke at First Methodist in Allen, raising funds for the Y M C A. He described Japan, Corea, and China from last summer's travels, noting population, cities like Tokio, and Protestant 70,000 communicants. The talk praised peaceful ties and predicted no war despite trade competition.
Notice highlights the Singer as the most recognized brand among forty six American sewing machine manufacturers. It notes Singer’s dominant annual sales exceed the combined total of the other forty five firms, and provides a contact reference.
A Buffalo Express excerpt describes wheat treated in "wheat hospitals" where grain is washed dried scoured and brushed to remove smut a disease that blacks starch and gluten. The process yields visibly clean grain and the later stages restore a bright appearance akin to fresh wheat.
A New York Post item quotes an astrologer letter to President Van Buren from 1840 predicting events in Harrison’s career. It notes the horoscope suggests illness and danger to Harrison’s term and warns that betrayers within trusted circles could threaten the president. The piece implies such fallacies reflect early 19th century beliefs.
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