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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1899
Page
3
Partial OCR shows scattered times and station names including references to San Antonio and times such as 1 05 a m 9 05 a m and 11 55 a m 12 50 p m. The readable bits suggest a timetable fragment with incomplete lines and garbled labels.
Local items report Lemps bottled beer selling well at 163 Lemps. People visiting from Calvert Reliance and Cameron. Fresh cantaloupes peaches eggs and saddle horses for sale. Name mentions include Jno B Mikes Ira Gooch Miss Josephine Clarke and Judge W G Taliaferro.
Miss Jennie Howell returns from Virginia to Roanoke and visitors drop in from New Orleans and Virginia. Picks of wares include Pickles and preserves at John B. Mike's and 3000 Bravos county scrip offered at 92 cents on the dollar. Updates on schools and teachers, a wallpaper dealer, and crops seen needing rain. Sand storms hinder daily trade but town anticipates street sprinkling soon.
Allen Academy board met yesterday at 5 pm with L L Melonis presiding. M Parker elected vice president. committees on Building and Repairs Finance Rules and General Management appointed. Finance to collect 50 percent subscriptions to buy a site. building committee authorized to act on site purchase. Site priced at 1850 with Rev A M Stewart purchasing old Dr Mitchell place with six acres.
Washington reports a final agreement on six new cruiser designs the Dover Des Moines Chattanooga Galveston Tacoma and Cleveland authorized by Congress on March 3 The designs improve Raleigh type protection with wider action radius at two knot speed sacrifice and better crew comfort and dry dock independence They resemble the Atlanta class in displacement but offer higher freeboard twin screws and advanced features reflecting a 15 year evolution in U S warship design with electric auxiliaries submerged hull sheathing high pressure boilers and noncombustible construction material.
Paris reports General Zurlinden agrees to provisional release of Colonel Picquart jailed over national defense documents. Du Paty de Clam arrested after attempts on suicide in prison and further prosecutions looming for Mer cier and others. Separate dispatches note Dakota troop orders to quell tensions with northern Cheyenne and White settlers on Tongue River.
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