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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1908
Page
4
The Eagle announces candidates for Democratic primaries with Rufus Hardy seeking re election for Congress in the Sixth District from Bryan Texas. The notice lists local campaign details and related editorial quips and advertisements from the era including Health Coffee promotions.
The piece surveys Republican delegate plans in Minnesota and Wisconsin, mentions William U'Ren's Senate bid, notes altered Wisconsin resolutions supporting La Follette, and discusses Prohibition and Kansas City political events. It also covers potential shifts to Democrats, historic convention attendance, and Kentucky politics including William C. Bradley's rise and 1895 gubernatorial victory.
Statistics from the Russian labor congress list 246272 members in 1907. The International Association of Fur Workers plans its Toronto convention next month. Louisiana factory inspector cites average wages of 4.50 for women and 2.50 for children. Multiple unions pause wage increases. Henry Fischer, longtime Tobacco Workers president, dies in Louisville. France pensions tobacco factory workers after 25 years, 150 for men 100 for women. Knights of Labor formed in Philadelphia in 1869 and 1878, aiming for unified workers. Melbourne conference links apprenticeship breakdown to factory system and machinery. Master Painters’ Association and forty firms involved in a new leadership building.
Mrs. W. F. Miller proprietor advertises rooms for rent at the Willis House at one dollar per day or five dollars per week. The notice offers affordable lodging with daily and weekly rates.
The Cincinnati local of the Brotherhood of Painters Decorators and Paperhang ers of America signs a two year agreement to employ only union men. In over forty Italian cities Switzerland and Norway night bakery shifts are ended and daytime bread manufacturing proves feasible, driven mainly by bakers unions advocacy.
The Presbyterian church at Cald well, destroyed by fire two years ago, is to be rebuilt. Weather and farming notes say corn is up and thriving, with early cotton promising gains if no backsets occur.
Notice announces candidate nominations for city offices in the Democratic primary must be filed with the chairman by 10 a.m. on Monday March 16. Nominations after the deadline will not appear on the ticket and candidates pay the primary expenses. Mo A Moore, Chairman Democratic Executive Committee, City of Bryan.
Miss Etta Priscilla Grove a Chicago schoolteacher staying in Long Beach had fasted thirty one days by Friday. She plans to continue a week or two more but limits sun exposure and long walks to five miles in shady streets. She reports increasing fatigue despite steady strength.
A cipher copy of the American state department used in private correspondence between Washington and U S legations was stolen from the American legation in Bucharest by a French employee who fled to Constantinople.
Denton Texas March 13 D Miller a well known farmer from near Roanoke was shot twice and likely fatally wounded just over the line in Tarrant county A neighboring farmer surrendered at Roanoke and was taken to Fort Worth for detention.
A fragment from Tribune discusses smoking as a character test as applied to cigars and pipes. It claims smokers reveal natural courtesy, selfishness, boorishness, and temperament, citing Kipling and housemates. The piece concludes that best men smoke ostentation and share tobacco, and a man whose friends do not join is to be cultivated.
The article explains methods used in China to preserve vegetables and meat for winter. It covers salt and sun drying of turnips, cabbage, and seaweed, plus a sauerkraut like process. It details Kinhua district hams cured in soy sauce brine, sometimes with nitrate, and pickled eggs preserved with mud salt and soy bean sauce.
The article claims Korea produces the finest papers in Asia using only manual labor. It describes pulping from the bark of Prussonella papyrifera and scraps, framed on bamboo, with stamping by foot, and the addition of tackpoul roots and seeds to increase toughness.
A humorous church scene unfolds as a black pastor exhorts against sins including melon stealing. A worshiper in back snaps fingers to remind him of his missing overcoat, prompting the preacher to pause and the man to depart in a rush.
A Bookman excerpt recalls Conan Doyle being warned by a stern head master after years of study. The master warned that Doyle would never amount to anything, a cutting assessment delivered in measured tones as the boy prepared to leave school.
In a Pearson’s Weekly fragment Thompson proclaims a hundred pounds in gold to Dixon while testing a yarn by repeating it until belief. The joke hinges on the narrator’s insistence and a planned self-convincing moment on Thursday.
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