Mrs McKinley’s Morning Drive With Cabinet Wives
Mrs McKinley drives daily from 10 to 11 with a friend. Court ladies, as cynics say, highly value the privilege of riding with the president’s wife with cabinet officers’ wives most often favored.
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1900
Page
5
Mrs McKinley drives daily from 10 to 11 with a friend. Court ladies, as cynics say, highly value the privilege of riding with the president’s wife with cabinet officers’ wives most often favored.
A Glasgow builder, hearing his workers did not start on time, visited at 6 30 and found joiner Malcolm Campbell smoking with his kit unopened. He paid Campbell four days and sent him away, then bragged to the foreman that he had punished the man for tardiness, only to have the foreman remind him the man was merely job hunting.
A London journal offered a prize for six old English words worth reviving. The winning list includes commorient meaning dying together and algate meaning at any risk.
Two members of the present congress began life as sailors. Both were born in New England, both ran away to sea, and both settled in California. One is Senator Perkins and the other Representative E. F. Loud.
Sixteen Yale alumni hold seats in the current Congress with five serving as Senators E O Wolcott W M Stewart T C Platt C M Depew and G P Wetmore.
A profile notes John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil heir, works intensely in New York. He spends long hours at his lower Broadway office and conducts business away from the public eye. The piece mentions a rumored offer of a million dollar annual salary for a manager to oversee his interests.
An inquisitive acquaintance asked the Duke of Devonshire about the day’s cabinet meeting. The Duke whispered that both Lord Salisbury and he are growing old and he cannot share any details, citing deafness and confidentiality.
Mrs Harlan preached at both services in the First Church of Christ Disciples Sterling Place Brooklyn the first time since moving from Topeka six months ago Her sermon at the evening service titled Dignified Humility reflects her years of missionary work in the area
The editor of the Star of Hope Sing Sing denounces as false the tale that the convict editor has been disposed of and that a citizen printer was assigned. He states the paper is entirely an inmates’ paper, edited contributed to and printed by inmates, a strictly institution journal run by the inmates in every branch.
D L Andrews of Nashua New Hampshire asserts he has developed a method to temper copper to steel like hardness. The eighty year old former West coal inspector says his secret could revolutionize science, has plans to sell a one third stake for fifty thousand dollars, and believes U S rights could be worth a million dollars.
The reported candidacy of General Holace Porter, ambassador to France, for the Republican vice presidential nomination has reached his emphatic statement that he has nothing to say on the subject.
Light in Siberia shifts to streets using incandescent and gas for homes remains rare. Many residents have never seen gas and view it as a relic of older times.
In the Northern District of Texas Bankruptcy Court for Waco a notice states Benjaman P Wilson of Brazos County has petitioned for discharge after bankruptcy adjudication. Creditors or interested parties must file written opposition with the Referee for the Waco Division by May 8, 1900. Office of Referee, Waco, Texas. May 1, 1900. M. H. Park, Referee in Bankruptcy.
Sealed bids to supply A M College of Texas for 1900-1901 are due by 7 p.m. June 4 at College Station for 2860 cords of merchantable wood and for pork beef and mutton with corn fed meat. A $250 certified check accompanies each bid. bids may be rejected. President L L Fostom (Fostuni) presides.
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