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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
2
A collage of notes and opinions from The Daily Eagle and other papers. Topics include religious practice, census funding, civic duty, partisan remarks, health policing criticism, railroad disruptions in France, and a Chicago scientist studying human freak specimens. It references Texas law, education, enlistment at Houston, and an effort to organize Texas children as Little Patriots.
The Houston Daughters of the Confederacy unveiled a monument titled The Spirit of the Confederacy in granite and bronze. Mrs. J. B. Dibrell of Seguin leads the state organization and may visit Bryan before summer break. The piece questions Bryan’s new fashioned ideas and asserts old fashioned Democrat distrust of government ownership.
The Copeland Stock Co presents the Opium Fiend tonight at the brand theatre. It is a strong drama with a vein of comedy and features Ed Copeland as Lee Chow and C. C. Copeland as Jack Mortimer. The Denison Herald notes a large season crowd in January and audiences were pleased with Three of a Kind previously.
Wilson & Derden presents a store sale offering 300 pairs of Douglas men’s shoes in any style and leather for 3.15 per pair, with the store slogan The Store Ahead.
Morris K. Jessup, a retired New York banker active in civic affairs, died of heart disease at his home 197 Madison Avenue after a two year illness. He had been bedridden two weeks and worsened about 1:30 Wednesday morning. wife Mrs. Jessup and relatives were at his bedside.
Two naval apprentices at Newport station diagnosed with spinal meningitis were deemed hopeless until Medical Inspector H E Noberger used serum from Dr. Simon Flexner at the Rockefeller Institute. Both are now expected to recover. patients are identified as F F Crawford of Charleston Illinois and R B Charleston Illinois.
The private bank of A. G. Tisdell suspended payments to depositors. Police were alerted to prevent disturbances at the office, but none occurred. A notice announced the bank had assigned its assets for the benefit of creditors to Charles A. Post.
An unknown young woman entered a Broadway department store restaurant at noon on Wednesday and shot dead Frank Brady an advertising solicitor dining at a table. She then wounded herself three times in a suicide attempt.
New York dispatch reports Thaw trial resumed with Miss Frances Pierce identifying the will and codicil proofs. Anthony Comstock testified Thaw described a secret house on Twenty fourth street with secret stairs and a room behind a pictured door used for illicit acts and crimes. In Paris a libel suit is noted. Frankfort legislature adjourns without choosing a senator.
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