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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1899
Page
4
The High Flyer limited will run from Laredo to St Louis with through coaches and Pullman sleepers. It will traverse Texas from the Rio Grande to the Red River, via San Antonio Austin Palestine and arrive in St Louis the following day. Tickets available from I and G N R R agents with D J Price in Palestine Texas.
A promotional note offers a one year deal for Texas Farm and Ranch and The Bryan Weekly Eagle at 1.25 dollars. The Texas Farm and Ranch is billed as the cleanest and best agricultural stock and family paper in the Southwest, printed on calendered paper with illustrations and practical value for every family member.
Announcement dated January 1 1899 by Charles Carr offering fire insurance real estate rental and collecting agency services including mortgages abstracts and notary services. He promises prompt personal attention and competitive commissions and asks for a share of your business for the new year.
A collection of fragmented excerpts describes watchfulness over gun cotton on battleships, with notes on keeping it wet and neutralizing acid, plus a vivid tour of Paris catacombs beneath the city, mushroom gardens, and bone-filled vaults. Also included are humorous sketches on Horace Walpole and a teacher’s Macbeth joke, and a mosquito dissection guide.
A quirky exchange on tautology and dinner plans features a boy defining repetition and a teacher probing examples. The piece then shifts to humorous snippets about manners and names, followed by a brief note on heraldry and early counting stones, tracing origins across German, French, and Roman practices.
A collage of vivid ledger items and sketches: a brutal description of a bushwoman’s injuries and dehumanizing portrayal, reflections on Astor and Cogswell with anecdotes of wealth and library endowments, a resuscitated kitten tale from the Pittsburg Dispatch, a restaurant patchwork anecdote from the New York Tribune, a child’s chatter in Chicago papers, a German horse supply note, and a note on India’s bamboo pens.
The city and county officer roster lists Mayor C A Adame and officials including Marshall T P Boyett, Secretary Henry G Rhodes, and various aldermen. Clergy entries reflect Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Christian, and Catholic pastors with service times and church names.
An advertisement touts Cephalotus as an absolute cure for nervous and sick headaches, promising relief in fifteen minutes. It offers powder packages at 10 cents for three and nine powders for 2 cents, with Marsh Mfg. Co. based at 538 W. Lake St., Chicago.
The Eagle lists a full line of legal blanks with prices for individual sales and bulk orders. Items include Affidavits, Bonds, Mortgages, Contracts, Deeds, Leases, Notes, and related instruments.
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