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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1905
Page
4
An advert promises insurance for warehouses stocks machinery and corporate property plus life coverage in top companies at lower premiums. It argues life insurance is crucial since fire risks are common but life coverage protects individuals.
Forty Ohio monuments to soldiers who fell at Vicksburg were dedicated in the National Military park. The ceremonies were well attended with Gey Herrick and an Ohio staff party present.
About 150 Union veterans from the state and the First Ohio National Guard were greeted by Governor Herrick while Governor Vardaman of Mississippi reviewed the procession. Herrick delivered an address that faced strong cheers for his remarks on the blue and gray family quarrel. Ohio visitors enjoyed a barbecue and camp fire after the program.
Mack Murray a prominent Roswell contractor and his wife and six children are believed drowned in Lincoln county New Mexico after a cloudburst swept canyons along their overland trip to Capitan. A message to William Prager from Capitan relayed the tragedy.
In Chicago on May 23 a stampede of shorts pushed the May corn futures up six cents to 63 cents, with chatter that traders had cornered the option. Urgent demand came from those facing larger losses, and prices jumped from 63 to 59 cents before correcting to 57 1/2 cents.
Butler Missouri May 23 a suit filed in the circuit court over bees that wander into a neighbor’s yard and walk on clean clothes on washdays. Abraham Hauf owner of several bee stands faces Mrs Altrum’s perpetual restraint request. Fresno California May 23 the Cumberland Presbyterian general assembly received a greeting telegram from the Southern assembly in Fort Worth and sent responses to the Northern assembly. Service in memory of departed ministers was held Monday night.
May 23 report states the general assembly of the Presbyterian church adopted a proposition for separate presbyteries in old regions with only one dissenting vote. The plan would allow negroes and foreigners to have their own presbyteries as part of church reorganization.
Temple Texas May 23 A twelve year old Negro girl Bertha Henssley was killed by lightning while watching an electric storm near a window. The tragedy occurred during a severe electrical storm in Temple.
A cyclone struck northwest Haskell County Texas on Sunday destroying fourteen houses. Two children of Will Tounds near Marcy died and Mrs. Tounds was found unconscious and likely to die. Several residents were at church during the storm, limiting fatalities.
In Austin on May 23 state Health Officer Tabor led local officials from many counties in the railroad commission hearing room to review sanitary measures. They urged screening homes and using kerosene or fish oil in water to deter mosquitoes and heard a talk on teaching preventive medicine in public schools.
Four miles south of Columbia Tennessee a Louisville and Nashville passenger train derailed after crossing a bridge with two rear Pullmans left intact. The cars plunged into seven feet of water. Mrs. J. I. Drakeford of St. Louis narrowly escaped drowning.
Edgewood Texas May 23 Deputy Sheriff J P Du Bose arrested Jim Lane Rube Lane Sam Gross and Jim McGee all residents near the Sabine river nine miles north of Edgewood for violating the game law by taking fish with a net. Each posted $100 bond.
Lexington report states Rev. Ben Birz staff former chaplain of the Confederate home and Morgan soldier who resigned to preach in the mountains is dead at Pewee Valley aged sixty five. He entered the ministry after the Civil War and was known across the south.
Miss Margaret Jalonick of Dallas Texas a nurse who had been missing from St Luke s Hospital in New York since last Wednesday has been found at Niagara Falls. A telegram from her father George W Jalonck notified police of the discovery but gave no details.
Reports from Port Arthur claim 100 Japanese boarded the Russian hospital ship Kazan under Tokyo orders declaring it a war vessel. In London, Henry Smart faced church officials who rejected jiggy music after Mozart then altered the organ, ending with Jump Jim Crow as he played what he liked.
The London Chronicle extols a brisk daily walk or horseback ride as the most efficient exercise for busy professionals. Walking activates many muscles, improves circulation, expands lungs, and aerates blood. horseback riding is a curative aid for sluggish digestion and overall inactivity.
The text traces platinum from early notices in Darien gold ore to modern recognition. It notes prohibitions on export delaying spread to Europe, then 1750 investigations of its properties. In 1901 Berthelot reportedly found an alloy of gold and platinum in a box once owned by a seventh century B C Egyptian queen, suggesting Nile deposits as a source.
A London Chronicle excerpt describes frog gathering for markets in France. The frogs are sold by the hundred and eaten only as hind quarters, classed as fish. A fisher entices croaking frogs by placing one in a glass vessel dipped in a brook, whose croaks summon others.
A New York Press excerpt discusses waiters as skilled earners when tipped well noting German officers in hotels earning ten dollars daily and arguing waitstaff dignity boosts earnings. It contrasts social views that serving is menial with the potential for respect and higher pay. Alfred Bunn tale leads to Malibran calling him Good Friday for a hot cross bun quip.
The text discusses bed sores arising from immobility and remedies such as daily whisky or brandy to protect healthy skin and a paste of white or egg with powdered alum for commencing sores. It then ponders oddities in language about clothing order and shoe versus stocking terms.
A shrewd businessman complains he may need Dr Burroughs for a couple of weeks to collect a $100 debt. The remark is quoted from the Philadelphia Press.
Kathryn says Reginald’s father believes piano lessons are too mentally exhausting for him. Reginald retorts that the strain affects others in the house, not him, in a playful Chicago News exchange.
In Milwaukee Sentinel speech, Mrs. Black and Mrs. White discuss a man reputed to be worth a million in assets and carrying a million in insurance, reflecting local chatter about wealth and security.
A reflective note urges constant self discipline and continuous effort. The speaker emphasizes persistent work and personal growth as the path to future success, warning that opportunity arrives unpredictably.
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