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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1899
Page
2
The article reprints W J Bryan’s remarks from a New York interview on the Chicago platform, stressing humanity, the nation’s vital principles, and the fate of defeat versus triumph for the masses who build the country’s wealth and honor. It notes the personal stance on presidency and serving the nation.
The News 1899 crop review covers 417 reports from 153 Texas counties and 18 territories. Cotton acreage falls 7.9 percent from last year while overall crops rise: corn up 5 percent, wheat up 15 percent, oats up 1.9 percent. Cotton late. diversification expands as farmers grow gardens and sell eggs and poultry.
The Texas farming scene embraces a broad shift toward crop diversification including wheat oats sorghum sugar cane and many vegetables while livestock gains grow with more cattle and hogs. Advertisers urge constant effort, noting advertising sustains business health as the H T C depot at Bryan nears completion and inspires regional pride.
The Galveston News reports a prison census showing about 5000 convicts under Texas prisons at Rusk and Huntsville. Harris County holds the largest share. many counties have none. Details include foreign-born counts, ages, offenses, sentences, and a minority of female inmates kept on a Huntsville farm.
A devotional exhortation extols the Bible as divine guidance and eternal reward. The text shifts to a personal vignette of Moruri, noted as clever, with a scene of a smart girl and her lover and niece in a room as a child asks for a kiss, prompting Aunt Gertie to correct grammar with humor.
Houston and Galveston special train leaves Bryan at 1 58 a m on June 4 1899. H and T C will sell round trip tickets to Houston 1 75 and Galveston 2 00. Good to return on or before 9 20 a m June 5 from Houston and Galveston on trains leaving 7 30 p m June 4 and 7 00 a m June 5. W S Wilson Agent.
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