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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1909
Page
6
President Taft calls Congress into a special session on March 15. Lawmakers debate amending the constitution to set a new inauguration date, aiming for milder weather, with state legislatures urged to ratify. The discussion echoes prior weather woes on March 4.
Six Taft cabinet members take oaths in the White House cabinet room after 10 am with Chief Justice Fuller administering. Knox Hitchcock Meyer Ballinger Wilson Nagel join Wickersham Dickinson and MacVeagh arrival noted. Cortelyou to stay at Treasury until March 15.
Dr Lonnie Robson of Charleston South Carolina and a German National Guard unit member traveled to Washington for the inauguration. A Black waiter attacked Robson in a fashionable restaurant, breaking eyeglasses and driving lens fragments into his left eye. Robson lost the eye and the right eye suffered serious damage. the waiter fled.
Railroad officials put the total visitors at about 200000 for the inaugural ceremonies in Washington with more arrivals from the east than four years ago and fewer from the west.
Washington reports the senate adjourned until March 15 as Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin failed to have credentials arrive in time to permit his swearing in.
Ossining New York March 6 By order of court Warden Frist has removed Albert T Patrick from routine life prisoner work at the state prison He may access the law library and his cell resembles a law office The Appellate Division of the Brooklyn court gave him two weeks to file a brief while the court decides the motion for liberty
Harrisburg Virginia March 6 Captain Mayre Sibert who led the military company that escorted John Brown from Harpers Ferry to Charleston to be hanged is dead here.
George H. Hare mailed a huge tin lid to President Taft from Baltimore on March 6.
The page notes Cherokee snakebite practice using immediate knife work and water washing to remove venom, a Harlem matron’s bills joke from New York Press, and a Johnstown flood anecdote from Harpers Weekly with a grocer asking a debtor to pay. The items mirror human wit and survival lore amid disasters.
An advertisement touts Mi o na tablets as a scientific treatment for all indigestion and stomach ailments. It promises to stop sour taste, build up blood by improving digestion, and even aids seasickness, car sickness, and vomiting during pregnancy. The seller BE Jenkins offers a 50 cent large box with a money back guarantee.
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