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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1906
Page
2
Dallas entrepreneur Mr. Cox installs the latest Constellation soda fountain from Liquid Carbonne Co. in Chicago for Smith Drug Co. at a cost around $3000. The unit features counter service, glass doors, marble counters, a grand constellation back, onyx draught arm, and a 9 by 4 foot display mirror. Also arriving are Bangs ice cream tables with plush display cases and new seating.
The U D C announces a January 19 birthday program for General R E Lee at 3 p.m. at Mrs W A Banks residence. Readings, poems, songs and vocal duets honor Lee with performances by Mrs West Mrs Derden Miss West Mrs R S Webb Miss Annie Belle Batte Miss Haswell and others. The United Confederate Veterans and friends are invited.
With twelve days left to pay the poll tax, Brazos county residents are urged to join neighbors in Washington county and begin carload shipments of potatoes. The ad promotes Norwood's Monday showing of a new Spring line of Oxfords.
A playful regional puff proclaims Texas as vast and mighty. The Choctaw Inquirer extols Texas as expansive and influential, using humorous comparisons to neighboring states and natural features to dramatize its size and character.
The Daughters of the Confederacy stage a Hard Times Social at the Exchange Hotel on Friday evening at 8 to raise funds for the state meeting. Attendees are asked to wear old fashioned costumes, bring a quarter, and bring a candle for imagined lights. The program includes music, a calk walk, Blind Man's Buff, a banjo solo, contests, refreshments, and Home Sweet Home.
Januery is the last month to pay your taxes. 89-45 w2t W. Wipprecht, Tax Collector. S.C. Hoyle of Kansas City joined his wife and son visiting her parents, Judge and Mrs. A. G. Board. Hoyle moved from San Antonio to Kansas City last August and traveled to Ennis and Bryan for family and illness matters. Dr. A. J. White and Leonard McDonald visited from Macy yesterday. Dr. White and family moved back to Macy from Groveton and will stay, with friends greeting the return.
Mrs Emms Lameraux wife of Eugene Limeraux manager of the Illinois club attempted suicide at St Marys Church Hot Springs arming herself with carbolic acid while waiting for services. She was found in critical condition with poor prospects of recovery.
In Jackson Mississippi the House approved by 85 to 25 the Smith concurrent resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to elect all judges by direct popular vote rather than gubernatorial appointment. In South McAlester Illinois Mrs William Williamson, on her way to Dallas, died suddenly in the station dining room.
Paris sources report M Fallers will become president on February 18 following the announced transition. The move formalizes leadership amid ongoing political changes in France.
Edwin Gould, president of the Cotton Belt, will inspect the Pasteur Institute line in Austin. The report notes a large number of patients at the institute and includes mentions of Sour Lake residents pushing Frisco Railway shops, an explosion in San Antonio injuring two Mexicans, and other varied items across Texas and nearby states.
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