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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1899
Page
3
An OCR fragment shows travel times 8:58 a m and 4:39 p m with route segment between Hearne and San Antonio. The text is incomplete but indicates a regional transport timetable element.
Local items report visitors from Cot and Steep Hollow, millinery sales, fruit prices, a delayed singing school, and flood impacts. Officials discuss road and bridge repairs, mail handling changes, and upcoming community events including picnics and church services.
A Natal road crew encounters a venomous mamba beneath a rock. A slim youth swallows a concoction and rubs himself with it, lures the snake, and breaks its back with a stick. The boy claims a family antidote, guarded as secret lore across generations. Local ads follow.
A London Sketch retells how Maclean of Coll seized Rum Island in the Western Islands of Scotland and drove out Catholics during Mass protected by a gold headed cane threatening to drain all who returned. The tale notes the lasting mark of Protestant control on the local memory.
The report mentions the first Paris post office opening in 1642 and earlier for England in 1581 and America in 1710. It also references Clarke and Dansby’s creamery butter, a quoted remark about authors earning 60 cents royalty, and a tale of a writer fined after painting the town red.
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