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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1903
Page
3
The notice lists Northbound numbers 1 8 6 and Southbound numbers 2 4 with a 1:27 p.m. and 2:46 a.m. time reference. It states Nos 8 and 4 are fast trains stopping only at principal stations.
Local readers are invited to attend the Jordan Minstrels performance at the opera house with a noon parade later today. The troupe is billed for both matinee and evening shows with L J Cox and colleagues promoting Ford's Exposition saloon.
The Monday evening program at 7:30 by the Daughters of the Confederacy honors Gen. Robert E. Lee. It features organ music, solos and choruses, several addresses by Mr. W. M. Board, Prof. Minter, and Mr. W. C. Davis, and prayers led by Dr. West, with Master of Ceremonies Gen. H. B. Stoddard.
In Bryan on January 14 1903 County Superintendent A G Board calls white teachers from the county to a January 25 meeting at the courthouse to organize a teachers institute inviting A M College Allen Academy Graded School and Free Baptist College. Also notes local poultry prospects and a fatal burn death of Florence Wynne.
The article recalls George Eliot’s kindness and humor while stressing her care for manuscripts. When Blackwood offered to mail Deronda, she begged against it fearing loss. He reassured by offering a sober footman, yet she worried he might stop for a fire. A family member finally delivered the manuscript.
The text argues that death by lightning results from the earth’s negative current rushing to the positively charged cloud. It claims the discharge from the earth, not the forked bolt, delivers the fatal shock as the currents meet, causing instant death in a living being beneath the cloud.
The article recalls Immanuel Kant’s daily Konigsberg walk to the Pregel shore near Friedrichs fort. He noticed swallows dropping fledglings from nests during an insect-scarce season, interpreting it as the old birds sacrificing progeny to save the rest. He called the moment the mind’s hush and worship.
A fragmentary notice cites Edward III and Philippa of Hainault with a Harwich collection about Felixstowe palace. It records repairs to the queen's crown tossed into the fire, costing 3s 6d, highlighting the king's temper and the frugality of mending.
A man falls from his roof, breaks a rib, and asks for a doctor who has fallen from a roof. The hakim answers he has not, prompting the man to insist on a physician with that exact experience. The exchange ends with the man requesting a doctor who understands the fall.
The West Indian migratory crab is born in the sea and matures in fresh water. Each year thousands migrate from Jamaica’s uplands to the sea to deposit their young, then return to rivers to continue their life cycle and finally reach land again to reproduce in the sea.
Stern father confronts daughter Dora about a mysterious late hour visitation and her mother’s view that men have not changed since her youth. The dialogue hints at a family tension over curfews and expectations within a household.
A Galveston News remark asserts that a trained educated mechanic is the key force behind national progress. It credits such a man with foresight for the unexpected and the ability to multiply forces while challenging the world.
An expert explains that serpentine Cheddar Gorge arose from two vertical joint systems in limestone. Water following these joints widens fissures, causing zigzag erosion that carves the valley as streams move alternately right and left.
A Times-Democrat recounts railroad men recalling a record run across bayous and the Rigolets. The train was said to move so fast it sucked water behind it, with onlookers claiming fish groaned and a later rider finding a “finest bunch of fish” on the rear platform.
The piece notes Rhases the tenth century physician first described smallpox and cites its presence in Chinese and Indian texts. It mentions the Chinese term bean disease linked to Emperor Kuang Wu era and records a 1323 Chinese smallpox treatise showing inoculation dates to the Sung dynasty. It explains transmission from parent to offspring and lifelong germ in the constitution.
The flag authorized by Congress on March 2 1798 showed sixteen red and white stripes and a blue union with the United States arms on a white field. It reflected the sixteen states then in the Union and has remained unchanged since.
The article details river slopes toward the Mississippi. Eastward tributaries average about three inches per mile descent, western sources about six inches. Missouri drops a foot per mile after mountains, Des Moines 7.3 inches, Ohio five inches, Mississippi from Ohio to gulf 2.5 inches.
A Brooklyn Life quip shows Mooney insisting he has friends only if money is involved. Hogan counters that no one has a friend in the world, prompting a heated exchange about borrowing and friendship.
A husband mutters about tough steak and cold coffee, souring breakfast. His wife tells him to stop growling and jokes that no one will take it away, highlighting a domestic squabble with sharp humor.
In a short Newark News quip Madge claims she is twenty odd years old. The phrase implies she is more than forty when both even and odd years are counted. The Atchison Globe notes that idle interruptions irritate busy men.
Dallas January 10 cotton growers heard from the boll weevil convention executive committee. A sub committee will test field methods and poisons while urging early planting, wide rows, deep plowing, and burning trash. Organize district groups and notify the secretary. Gro. N Aldridge chairs. J. H. Connell secretary.
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