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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
4
In Cleveland area the Lakeview school fire killed three children of janitor Herter. Firemen and volunteers search ruins. Coroner Burke and Collinwood officials investigate possible boiler explosion and origin near the stairway. A grieving staff member attempted harm against Herter.
Secretary Strauss of the commerce and labor department will visit Texas in the fall to meet Texas commercial bodies on expanding export trade. He announced the plan to Representative Gregg and Colonel Gresham on Thursday, following an invitation from the Galveston chamber of commerce for a Texas visit this spring.
Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Y. Sherman wed Miss Mary Estelle Spitler in Montrose a village near Effingham. She is twenty two. he is twenty seven years older. The couple planned trips to Colorado Springs El Paso old Mexico and Hawaii after the ceremony.
The San Francisco Chronicle describes native Japanese builders moving mortar without hods. A worker forms six pound balls in the street and throws them to a man on a ladder between ground and roof, who catches and tosses the mortar up to a roof worker.
A guest complains at the bar that the bill wrongly omits a charge for the staff’s weather prediction. He points to the extras and notes a miscalculation in his favor based on a foretelling of rain.
A brief dialogue features Mrs Radley and her husband debating why a nearby woman keeps staring at Mrs Radley. The exchange hints at curiosity and possible scrutiny in a social setting.
Dr Shoop of Racine Wisconsin introduces Health Coffee a cereal based substitute claiming to closely imitate real coffee without any coffee content. The product promises brewing in a minute and is sold by John M Lawrence & Co.
The Bryan City Council adopts an April election for mayor and two council members for two year terms and one member for the remaining year. Voting takes place at City Hall in Ligon on the first Tuesday in April, under city charter ordinances and state election laws. The ordinance is dated February 14, 1908, and signed by Frank Clarke and J.E. Butler.
Real estate ad seeks buyers and brokers for 322 farm lands in Wellborn Texas. Sellers Wilson and Erskine invite property descriptions and pricing proposals from interested parties.
For sale one half block end six room house in good neighborhood with brick cistern and shade trees. Price $75,900. Small cash payment terms easy.
Chicago police raid 76 Johnson Street connected to an attempted assassination case against Chief of Police Shippy. Officers seized a trunk of property believed to belong to Harry Goldstein, and containing anarchistic literature, taken to Maxwell Street station.
El Paso reports Wayne Brazle was freed on a ten thousand dollar bond after a preliminary hearing before Justice Lopez in Las Cruces on murder charges tied to Pat Garrett. Bondsmen are cattlemen and merchants of Las Cruces.
The Union Bank of Commerce of Rio de Janeiro has closed its doors. The move will seriously affect other banks as this institution was the principal depository in the city and held many small accounts.
The House committee on agriculture agreed to the agricultural appropriation bill totaling 11,431,416 dollars. The measure reduces departmental estimates by 1,420,431,415 dollars and exceeds the current fiscal year's appropriation by 1,984,056 dollars.
George M. Chapman auditor of the Chattanooga Southern railroad died here Wednesday night at age eighty. He served in railroad accounting and held a prominent post in local transportation circles.
Civil engineer and surveyor seeking engagement with T. R. Batte at 77 Office and residence available. Phone number 287 listed for contact.
Senator Heyburn, a Republican from Washington, spoke in the Senate on Wednesday in opposition to the Aldrich currency bill.
Philadelphia report notes on March 5 that Second Presbyterian Church is serving breakfast each Sunday morning to many worthy poor, continuing a charitable outreach in the city.
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