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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1899
Page
2
The excerpt lists the Bryan Texas Daily Eagle newspaper’s entry at the post office, the publishing staff and owners. It identifies Connelly, Palmer & Carnes as publishers and Malcolm Carnes as editor.
A humorous report of a frontier wedding in Kentucky where the officiant mishears the vows as a wild cat. The ceremony ends with the couple pronounced husband and wife and the party dashing away with the preacher leading.
Advertises own preparations at 20 percent below patent medicines. Claims their standard remedies are as effective as patent preparations and offers to exchange for any patent if unsatisfied after trying any of fifty preparations.
A northern journal notes Southern women keep a long afternoon nap season in winter and summer. The practice flourishes south of Mason and Dixon line in country houses and villages, with shops, clerks, and well to do homes all showing a siesta. By late afternoon some revival of activity appears.
Wood carving emerges as a recognized occupation for women and a fashionable pursuit for society women. It emphasizes skill with few tools, quick learning, and the clean, refined expression found in the craft.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote recalls a student’s joke during a teacher’s questioning before the superintendent. When asked where Queen Liliuokalani was born, a back-row pupil quips that she was bred in old Kentucky, eliciting laughs as the lesson becomes memorable.
In Madras the Prince of Wales met Hindu schoolboys who had been taught to say Your royal highness. When he pointed to a prismatic compass and asked its name a bright-eyed boy replied It is a royal compass your prismatic highness, provoking a hearty laugh.
Messrs. Hearry Dillashaw and John Curry endured a brutal ride to a Leon county reunion, crossing flooded creeks and washed out bridges. They aided flood victims at Cedar Creek, then faced roads wrecked from Franklin to Hearne before finally returning home tired but alive.
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