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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1903
Page
2
A group of three criminals halted a 100 person picnic in Oklahoma last Sunday and seized a cash collection of $800. The report notes the crime amid other city and region happenings including upcoming Taylor fair dates.
A man enters the county at the San Antonio crossing on the Navasota river with several hundred guineas and releases fowls to eat boll weevils in local cotton fields. The birds quickly clear the pests and rid the field.
The Brazos County Farmers Institute held a banner meeting at Steep Hollow with 20 to 30 Bryan attendees. Dr. W C Finley opened with prayer and Prof Sanderson spoke on the boll weevil. Mr A W Buchanan urged intensive farming and the Central Texas Fair reps promoted their interests.
Classified notes offer Mason fruit jars at 30 to 40 cents, plus a push for a new five room house with bath and cistern near a graded school. Also ads for car service, train meetups, and mill-remnant sale with assorted inventory and prices.
The ad from Hot Kutter offers fruit jars at 35 cents per dozen for quarts and 45 cents per half gallon, plus 5 cent paper tacks, 5 cent bulk tacks per pound, 15 cent tumblers, 25 cent lamp chimneys, and a 15 cent coffee mill. The seller vows to stay firm against dry goods stores underselling.
W. J. Coulter offers to buy paper stacks at full count for five cents each and large tumbler parts, lamp chimneys and burners at25 cents. He states willingness to buy in small lots and vows not to stop his racket department to appease hardware men.
A jumble of names lists buyers and sellers in Houston Waco and Galveston as Emory mill remnants go on sale. Deals include fresh shipments of Sincerity coffee and hot butter quart jars, with mentions of price cuts and reminders to order Breakfast Bell when coffee runs out. Rentals and green ticket mill remnant sales extend for a few days with low prices on Egyptian tissues.
The Bryan Eagle will award two round trip excursion tickets from Bryan to Boulder with side trips to Pike's Peak or Cripple Creek. Coupons from Eagle papers and local merchants grant votes, based on ten cents spent, with 20 votes per yearly weekly subscription. Contest runs May 14 to July 23 with weekly counts and Sunday announcements.
A fragmented merchant directory lists coupon merchants and various trades such as gents furnishings hardware leather goods and hardware stores. Names include Dry Goops Wagner Brandon Parks Waldrop Clarke Fountain Lawrence Bryan Bryan Clarke Fountain Tyler Haswell Caldwell Harder Franklin and others.
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