Daily Eagle May 24 1899 Bryan Texas editorial clippings
In this Bryan Texas issue the Daily Eagle prints a contemporary editorial snapshot. It includes a protest about the lack of cotton mills in the local district despite near world leading cotton production and questions freight costs. it also reprints a fragment from the Navasota Review about freight parity and a Bell County Democrat quotation on medieval Italian trade networks.
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Mexico
Navasota Review
Texas firms credit advertising for year round success
In a Houston Post resume, Mistrol Bros. & Co. with twenty three Texas stores says advertising pays. They credit country newspapers for their success, claiming printers ink drives business across the state.
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Texas
Houston Post
Mistrol Bros. & Co
Printers Ink
Oakwoods Sun
Brazos County Singers Call for Choir Delegates
The Brazos County Musical Convention urges every county choir to organize and join. Some chairs were unrepresented at the last gathering. delegates should bring credentials and song books. The convention meets with Reliance choir on the third Saturday and Sunday in June.
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Brazos County
Reliance Choir
BE. Wuirrinneton
Paul Jones Monongahela Rye Praised by Nagle Community
Mr D B Knox proprietor of the Merchants and Planters saloon and Mr Walter G Wright traveling salesman for Paul Jones Co of Louisville thank the Nagle for a bottle of fine Paul Jones Monongahela Rye. The famous brand is now on sale by Knox.
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D. B. Knox
Merchants and Planters Saloon
Walter G. Wright
Paul Jones & Co., Distillers
Louisville
Nagle
Paul Jones
Knox
Exchange Hotel Arrivals List of Notables
Notable arrivals listed at the Exchange Hotel include W J Moore Myers Searcy Williams from Dallas Jacques Dur from St Louis F Zweifel from Galveston BT Gillespie from San Antonio A B Matthews from Chicago C W Carr from Houston H Zander from New York W P Herms from Dallas Wade Dent from New York H D Harrison from New Orleans H W Christian from Dallas and L Murphy from Calvert.
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W J Moore
Myers
Searcy Williams
Dallas
Jacques Dur
St. Louis
F Zweifel
Galveston
BT Gillespie
San Antonio
A B Matthews
Chicago
W_Carr
Houston
H Zander
New York
P Herms
Wade
Dent
D Harrison
New Orleans
W _ Christian
L . Murphy
Calvert
Colored School Closing Exercises Announced
The Daily Eagle notes the city colored school will hold events May 24 8 30 p m a concert for the piano fund admission ten cents May 25 8 30 p m graduating exercises with Principal E L Blackshear Prairie View State Normal School May 26 10 30 a m to 1 p m primary and intermediate exams open house visitors welcome except for the concert all events in the assembly hall free to all A H Coldwell principal
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The
Daily Eagle
City Colored School
Piano Fund
E. L. Blackshear
Prairie View State Normal School
A. H. Coldwell
Local gallery owner warns against unauthorized photos
Notice states pictures taken in the gallery will not be sold without permission and warns that anyone taking pictures afterward will be liable for indemnity. Willis & Coleman, 156 Photographers, and Lon Johnson claims the cheapest samples of wallpaper and moulding at Bryantf Pickles and preserves. John B. Mike's sells General Arthur cigars at the Exposition saloon.
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Willis & Coleman
Lon Johnson
John B. Mike’s
General Arthur
Listening to the Preacher Why Hearers Must Engage
Ian Maclaren argues in the May Ladies' Home Journal that listening is hard work. A sermon must be reasoned through with attention and mental effort from both preacher and listener to avoid dullness and disconnection.
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Ian Maclaren
May Ladies’ Home Journal
Knights of Pythias gains in membership and assets
Henry Miller reports at Dallas session that the order added 431 members and increased subordinate lodges cash by 7911.40 with total assets rising 14478.19. By June 30 1898 membership was 14132, reaching 14160 by year end. Expenditures for relief and benefits totaled 30644.77. Texas leads in members and insurance carried.
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Henry Miller
Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias
Dallas
Relief of Brothers
Texas
Losses in Two Wars Compared
The War Department memorandum compares Spanish War losses to those in the first year of the Civil War. It notes 267,000 troops in the Spanish War (May 1898 to April 1899) with 6,190 deaths (2 percent). Civil War first year mean strength was 276,371 and 19,159 deaths (6.5 percent).
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War Department
Spain
Englishman Edwin Manderson Missing in Civil War Era
A Prairieville resident recalls Edwin Manderson a young Englishman who stayed in the county for months, then left and is thought to have joined the Confederate army. No one in Prairieville knows his fate. readers with information are urged to contact the Kaufman Sun for his relatives.
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Edwin Manderson
Prairieville
Kaufman Sun
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