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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1900
Page
3
Readable fragments show several clock times including 12 30 p m 3 55 p m 1 45 a m and 8 00 a m suggesting a schedule or sequence without clear context. The piece preserves time stamps but lacks full event details or attribution.
The column lists residents and visitors such as Miss Mattie Tabor, Luther Taylor, and Mr. Vernon Pure Rye at the Exposition saloon. It notes several illnesses, travels to Houston and Dallas, a birth death in a camp, church notes, road fund appeal, a railroad celebration booth, remodeling at Mistret Bros. store, and a census guessing contest with prizes.
Firemen organize committees for the railroad celebration with invitations to four parade entrants from Palestine Taylor Calvert and Navasota. Local firms sign on for trade displays and a dam powered lake resort may be built near the new track. Knights of Pythias and other groups prepare elaborate displays as Edge notes sick list and social visits.
July 22 notes report Oma Worley visiting High Prairie and local visits to Macy and San Jacinto county. A protracted meeting is planned to begin the Saturday before the second Sunday in August with two deacons to be ordained at the start. An arbor will be built at the Mumford road four mile post on August 10 for the gathering.
In San Juan July 27 a sea of Spanish flags dominated the streets for St. Jago, eclipsing the Fourth of July. Habitable houses wore banners while no American colors flew, with bands of locals shouting Viva Espanol and 2500 flags fluttering in the breeze. A Puerto Rican observer noted U.S. citizenship has not been extended here, arguing the celebration was Spanish and many natives did not participate.
Indianapolis reports chairmen threaten to call off the Indiana Democratic notification if railroads do not offer fair terms. Other items include a minister's libel suit in Anderson, testimony challenges in Missouri murder case, and Texas Socialist convention results with candidates G H Royal and Edward Ballinger. Additional notes cite a Pacific coast arms export ban and a morphine poisoning death in San Antonio.
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