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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1906
Page
3
A stream of humorous notes and quips referencing fashion mishaps, jokes about coal strikes, theater industry quirks, and city life in Chicago. It riffs on hats, spelling reform, notable figures like George Ade, Sarah Bernhardt, and Joe Cannon, plus comic bits about prohibition era mores and minor spectacles.
A man narrates his struggle to quit tobacco after promising his wife he would quit. He deposits his smoking gear, boasts of willpower, and finally relapses during a trip near Michigan before tossing out pipe and tobacco to reaffirm his resolve.
William R. Stewart argues in Technical World Magazine that the opening of the Suez Canal disrupted English trade hubs by shifting distribution to Mediterranean ports. The result was the breakdown of English warehouse power and merchant elite control, as steamers replaced sailing craft and the long voyage was shortened.
The London Answer notes Mr Bulteel’s lifelong belief in staying calm under pressure. A sudden fire at night tests his doctrine as he tells his wife to dress quickly yet keep cool, illustrating his application of his own advice in a crisis.
The passage contrasts merchants selling cargo after orders and cheap loans challenging established eastern traders with a subplot of Arctic Feather’s preoccupation over engagement and a burning building escape where a husband’s cool philosophy faces a humorous verdict from his wife.
A New York Press writer notes that large astronomical figures outshine modest sums, praising astronomy. Alpha Centauri lies 25 trillion miles away, orbits at 186,400 miles per second, and light from its flashlight would take 4 years 128 days to reach Earth.
Observers remark on a traveling scene in Pittsburg as a Brakeman jokes the tunnel is long while a passenger notes the stopover feels endless. The exchange captures a light moment during the journey.
In 1864 at Fort Leavenworth Kansas a wounded Eleventh Ohio cavalry private Huson is courted by a planned escape from a guard-house. An inmate’s planted pocketbook leads to his arrest and a treacherous plot by a Kansas regiment guard to aid an exit. Huson dies after being shot while attempting to flee.
The ancient firearm dated 1758 was unveiled on the Court House green of Elizabethtown with city leaders and members of the G A R present. Gen J Madison Drake of the Veteran Zouaves recounted its history and a tablet will be created to mark the presentation by Elizabethtown Chapter No 1 SAR.
A report from the American Tribune recounts the Mississippi squadron action near Nashville aboard the Black Hawk. Admiral Lee and part of his crew rode up the Cumberland on the Curlew with the Neosha, stores and a stove were destroyed by shellfire in the admiral’s kitchen, the cook injured. The engagement saw naval and land forces drive Confederate batteries from Great Bend with Gen. A. J. Smith, while auto ambulances for soldiers prompt army trials of power-driven cars for medical use.
The youngest general in the world is Sultan Ahmed Mirza son of the Shah of Persia and brother of the current shah. Born in 1891 he is only 13 yet a full Persian army general with a staff and command of troops used for play in a corps. Belgium has gone nearly seventy five years without war.
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