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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1900
Page
4
The text provides multiple population scenarios for 1900, stating 21 percent would yield 75,772,922, 22 percent 76,399,144, 24 percent 77,651,588, and 25 percent 78,227,512, with corresponding increases from 1890. It reads as a statistical estimate.
In case of a tie or multiple equally correct estimators, prizes will be divided equally among them. The text then lists stepping fractions from the third to the eighteenth places, indicating prize divisions or steps, though the exact figures are garbled. It references to the nearest correct gu and several ordinal placements.
The contest will close one month before the population is officially announced by the Director of the United States Census in Washington, D.C. The Eagle will publish the closing date.
The First prize is 15009 dollars funded by the Press Publishing Association with 25000 dollars deposited in Central Savings Bank, Detroit for prizes. Readers may obtain the paper at regular price and guess for free. send orders to The Eagle in Bryan or The Meteor in Madisonville, Texas. Postmasters are notified that commissions are not allowed for agents on these guesses.
The Dent murder case in Rusk Texas features Dent's life-term verdict while he had helped Isaacs, a life convict for murder, obtain a forged pardon. Dent, once pardoned by Governor Sayers, faced multiple acquittals on other charges and disappeared after Isaacs fled. Doings trace a web of forgery and accomplice allegations across Austin Dallas and Rusk. The broader dispatch includes wheat shipments to Galveston, Goebel murder suspect Noakes, assaults in St Louis, a stalled Democratic convention in Newport, a major fire in Pittsburg, fraud probes in Austin, and a death penalty ruling in Shreveport.
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