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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1901
Page
2
The June 30 state tally shows 4014 convicts in custody. The Leon County fair is scheduled for October 2 and 3 at Marquez. With Wooten in Congress the octopus will have to watch out some more. Trusts are his long suit.
The Huntsville business league announces a big barbecue and tournament set for Thursday July 25. Local sponsors and participants expected to join a community event featuring competitive games and fellowship at the venue.
A blaze in Joshua Johnson county destroyed every business house in town. Fourteen structures were burned with total losses estimated at 28 900 dollars and no insurance carried.
A provocative remark suggests rewarding anyone who harms the Shamrocks and their title defenders across the water, a statement that would spark strong reader reaction and national debate about sports rivalry and sportsmanship.
In a speech before the Democratic state convention Charles P. Salen said about 500 million dollars in railroad property in Ohio escapes taxation, making the tax issue a red hot topic in the campaign.
The Ohio Democrats nominate James Kilbourne for governor and advocate municipal reform equitable taxation retrenchment tariff reform trust reform a merchant marine without subsidies imperialism and centralization oppose subject colonies condemn government sympathy with Britain in South Africa endorse the Monroe doctrine back direct US Senate elections civil service reform and labor relief pledge. boss rule and corruption are condemned. The Johnson McLean faction shows a split with a dog fall outcome.
After a week’s session and 4046 ballots the Democrats named Dudley G. Wooten for Congress. The Eagle lauded him as the ablest and most available man, brilliant and well educated, with a firm grasp of public questions ready to serve from day one.
The Ohio Democrats drew criticism for riding on Bryan's picture. He is a great man and a Christian gentleman whose name and character remain undimmed by defeat, though not suitable as a standard bearer again.
John A. Caplen displays an oil lamp he made from a whisky flask with a rope wick. The flask holds crude oil drawn from a Grimes county well and, when lit, reportedly burns like top grade illuminating oil.
A Navasota dispatch reports Lon Holliday and P K Lott have filed suit against Lamb Springs oil company seeking possession of 640 acres described as highly valuable oil land.
A vintage medical advertisement touts Green's August Flower as the top selling remedy for indigestion biliousness and general malaise. It claims to cleanse the system regulate liver and nervous function and insists a few doses prove no serious illness. The note encourages obtaining Green's Prize Almanac and lists Wilson-Jac kins Drug Co for purchase.
Dr J L Fountain representative from the 55th district gives notice that competitive examinations will be held in Bryan on Friday July 26 open to persons of good moral character seeking appointments from Brazos county to the Sam Houston Normal Institute white and Prairie View Normal school colored the appointments go to those making the highest averages.
President J H Connell announces the Big Fall Fair committees covering Culinary Textile Art Poultry Cattle Horse Sheep Farm Floral Merchants Displays and more with 12 exhibit groups and standing panels led by J H Connell J W Dyer J W Carson A M Waldrop and others for community event organization.
To anyone suffering with Dyspepsia Indigestion Sour Stomach Heartburn take Rex Dyspepsia Tablets. All druggists are authorized by the manufacturers to refund the money in any case they fail to cure. Price 50 cents per package. Remember the name Rex Dyspepsia Tablets. M H James the leading druggist Bryan Texas.
Exchange shows a roster of individuals with associated cities including EC Fain and C W Bennett from St Louis, T P McGowen from Houston, W E Neal from Denison, M L Smith from Rockdale, Sol Reis from St Louis, G R Wilson from Huntsville, 8S J Emory from Navasota, GH Arntfield from Chicago, W F Wilson from Madisonville, and W S Thompson from Waco.
All druggists are authorized to refund the money in any case of bills fever or malaria it fits to cure. Price 50c per package. M. H. James, the leading druggist, Bryan Texas.
Wood and hulls offered for sale from 190 S. M. Derden for buyers near Bryan. 400 cords of wood available two miles away. Hulls priced at five dollars per ton at the barn or six dollars per ton delivered.
A July meeting of Virginia Carolina Chemical stockholders in Jersey City will consider a resolution to raise authorized capital by 26 million dollars to 50 million. The effort supports securing cotton seed oil assets to obtain ammoniates for fertilizer, with aims to buy or build cotton mills and expand the fertilizer supply network. The United Cotton Oil Co is rumored to be folded into the Virginia Carolina Chemical, and several oil plants and mills have been acquired or optioned, including Southern Cotton Oil and Atlantic Refining.
A cloudburst at Wickes and Corbin in Helena Montana leaves debris piled in a gulch as a six foot high water surge sweeps the area. Northern Pacific tracks and bridges are demolished with rails and ties bent and scattered. Losses are not yet estimable.
In Venona Illinois on July 3 a stranger shot Max Nacci and brothers John and Charles Schaaf with a buckshot shotgun. Nacci died later at a hospital. The assailant, unnamed, was captured near Rutland and brought to Toluca. Miners urged lynching and the suspect was moved to Lacon jail amid grave injuries to the Schaaf men.
Niagara Falls July 11 Carl ysle D Graham famed as the hero of Niagara announces he will, on Sunday, battle the dangerous gorge waters again in his self built barrel. Webb and lack were once foes of notoriety in rapids. Logansport and St Joe items follow.
The Spanish mail steamer Mexico from Buenos Ayres ran ashore south of Viana near Oporto. Passengers and crew are being landed as rescue operations proceed.
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