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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1903
Page
3
The readable portion shows a sequence of times such as 10:20 am, 1:27 pm, 4:16 pm and 2:46 am with hints of stops and train or bus codes. It appears as a partial timetable fragment with unclear destinations or train identifiers.
Local residents and visitors are listed with daily movements and commerce. Dr J L Fountain from Austin, George W Higgs visiting Hearne, Henry Rohde from Houston, Gordon Boone from Navasota, and others in Bryan. Hunter and Chatham promote cheap laundried negligee shirts, suitcases sale, and a slaughter sale ending soon. The county reports paid poll tax totals and a rent case heard in county court.
Dr D H Clark and Mr John B Mike are gutting and papering walls in their hall on north Main street now used as an armory by the Bryan Light Guards. Rooms will be enlarged and fitted as dressings rooms. The boys plan balls and entertainments.
Public notice cautions against buying or trading promissory notes issued by 8S Trant and J E Wells in favor of F D Kuykendall. Signed by 8S Trant and J E Wells, the document warns the public not to accept or circulate the notes.
The Galveston grade bill exempting the city from taxation for fifteen years passed the senate after clearing the house. Other measures: Standifer's interurban railroad bond bill, Jefferson County district court creation, Brazoria County storm relief, and canceling nonresident corporate transfers from state to U S courts. A blind adults provision was proposed in the senate. in the house railways must maintain switch lights all night and a deer hunting ban was discussed. Emil Lind, a Houston and Texas Central railroad brakeman, suffered likely fatal injuries after a fall from a boxcar in Austin.
Eight Ladrones and one constable died in a fierce Ormoc clash in West Leyte Tuesday. One hundred fifty Ladrones surrendered next day, with Malanga among those killed. American volunteers including Mr. Osborne were killed at Bolmac. bodies recovered. Injured total 47. In Arizona, 14 victims of a Southern Pacific wreck near Vails Station were identified and 22 remain unaccounted for. total dead 24 and expected to rise to at least 35. A separate crash near Vails left 23 dead and 21 injured, eight identified.
Auction of town lots at Maypearl on the Fort Worth Division of the International & Great Northern Railroad has been postponed to a later date. Those wishing to buy before the sale may contact the Smith Land & Improvement Company representative at the I G N R R depot in Maypearl. D. J. Price, G P T A, L and G N R R, Palestine, Texas.
At Indianapolis the wage conference hears a pending state bill that would force operators to hire mine shooters, raising costs and altering parity with central district competitors. The discussion grows heated as delegates press for fair treatment amid legislative action.
Don’t wait to buy. slaughter sale ends Saturday night. Advertisement notes galvanized iron cisterns in all sizes with guaranteed workmanship by J. Allen Myers. Also offered 61 electric light globes 32 candle power at 23 cents each from Bryan Water, Light & Power Co. manager T. J. Preston.
London January 30 Henry Norman MP the writer traveler was granted a divorce from his wife Morie Muriel Norman on grounds of alleged infidelity. Lieutenant Edward Arthur Fitzgerald of the dragoon guards named as corespondent in the decree law case.
New York January 30 Idolite the Mendocino son sold at Fasig Tipton for eleven thousand one hundred dollars to J J Scannel former New York fire commissioner.
Former Governor John D. Long lies critically ill at St Margaret's hospital. Tonight three physicians are at his bedside, his wife and daughter are close at hand and his son has been summoned.
Constantinople January 30. The third Russian torpedo boat destroyer passed through the Dardanelles on its way to Se bastopol.
An elderly man named Dabney Lewis a colored resident of Houston died at age 115 on January 29. He lived through the Civil War era and witnessed significant changes in the city.
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