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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1899
Page
3
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Mr. R B McGregor of Millican attended the Alexandria protracted meeting with Rev EF M Myers of Millican conducting the first service last Friday night. The Eagle notes good attendance and optimism for a strong revival with invites extended to all in Brazos County.
Reports from Franklin, Rockwall, and Navasota detail visits by residents from Stone City Wellborn and Houston. News covers flood provisions, hill land crops improving, a road dig contract awarded to G D Price, and H T C railway linemen installing electric lights on the Navasota river bridge for a double crew.
In Descanso, California, a rancher finds his cattle and a deer, three wildcats, a coyote, and rabbits alive after forest fires. The coyote, badly burned, seeks aid as the man drives the herd away, while wildlife retreats toward the hills with wary, uneven relief.
A Chicago mail order firm, serving rural patrons, switches from longhand to a typewritten reply after twenty years. A West Virginia farmer, Silas Goggin, writes in a humorous note praising his literacy and claiming he can read printed letters, insisting no need to print for him. The exchange highlights early typing and customs from a catalog business.
Tests on thousands show peak lifting power around the mid thirties for whites. A youth of seven averages 280 pounds, by age twenty 320, peaks at 360, then slowly declines after thirty one. By forty the loss reaches eight pounds and continues, with marked drop after fifty. After fifty, decline varies by individual.
A Boston restaurant owner complains of hard times and devises a plan by placing illegible Latin tablets on his building. Locals recognize a historic flavor and patrons pour in while visitors seek explanations. After years of success he relocates to New York.
In Secretan's account of Lake Bennett rush to reach the Yukon, hundreds constructed improvised boats for river descent and many died. A wheezy portable sawmill paid $100 per thousand feet as men hunted floating craft, with a coffin and soapbox combo proving popular.
London veterinary surgeon W J Arkcoll warns families with cats to keep felines suffering a cold out of the house. He notes influenza in cats across parts of west and northwest London and urges strict caution to prevent spread to people, especially children.
Hampden Maine resident Mrs E Maddocks claims possession of a sugar bowl once owned by Napoleon Bonaparte. The earthenware silver plated bowl was given to her mother in 1812 at Strasbourg where Napoleon was encamped. A nick in the cover is tied to a tale Napoleon dropped it while gifting it to a friend.
A nameless negro allegedly attacked Lemuel Sharp while hunting near Roans Prairie, Texas. Sharp died from head and neck wounds. the assailant was captured north of Iola and lynched by a mob at five oclock this evening.
The region enjoys pleasant weather though creeks damage some farms especially creek bottom lands. Farmers must redo laid by work. A revival at Cottonwood ended Sunday and Rev Myers of Millican began a protracted meeting at Alexander Friday. No deaths but several serious illnesses reported.
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