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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1901
Page
2
The Daily Eagle explains paid space for obituaries and private notices. It states obituaries and society items limited to a few readers require charge, while notices come from personal request, note, or phone, with publishers reserving space for broader items.
A Park Texas resident near Texarkana reports water on his land has turned into oil. The belt shipment is likely express prepaid. Marlin plans a summer normal starting July 1 with conductor A D Wallace. Palestine also sets a summer normal opening June 9 with conductor D C Lake.
The piece humorously notes bugs of all kinds entering homes as lamps are lit and gives thanks for screens that keep them out, praising the inventor of window and door screening for protection against pests.
The market panic swept through New York as fortunes shifted rapidly. James R. Keene and associates are credited with winning 22 million dollars while millions loaned on the floor at 20 to 60 percent. Speculators faced large losses, shown by a dollar sign and nine-digit figures.
Mrs Martha J Zulch died suddenly from apoplexy at her Bryan home yesterday morning after breakfast. She was 62 years old and left 11 children, seven surviving, including W L Zulch and Dr Julius Zulch. She moved from Willow Hole to Bryan nine years ago and was long a Baptist member. Embalmed remains to be interred at Willow Hole cemetery Sunday at 2 PM.
News from yesterday says workers boring a deep well at Wootan Well struck an oil gusher spouting about sixty feet above the ground. Local officials and drillers await developments at the site.
The Havana dispatch says the constitutional convention will reconvene to discuss the Washington commission report. Supporters back accepting the report and the Platt amendment as understood, with a majority aiming to adopt the electoral law for October elections. A dispute over bonds payments persists among members.
For sale. Both of my places. See me at once. Wm. A. Dodson. Take your pressing cleaning and repairing to Parks Waldrop's tailor shop all work done promptly and at reasonable prices. 139 Mr Hansbarger timber inspector of the I. & G. N. railway was in town yesterday looking at some gravel land west of town.
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