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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1905
Page
6
A collection of observations on society and travel centering on etiquette and everyday life. It notes perpetual daylight in summer and darkness in winter, hospitality habits, tipping norms, and respectful courtesies. It also includes a humorous anecdote about Charles Mathews and a bottle of sherry bought from a street merchant.
John Hay tells an intimate friend that the most impressive aspect of writing is the critics extracting things from his printed work that he never placed there. He adds critics need excuses for living, like the rest of us.
Crockett recalls that a Scotch firm rejected his first volume with a courteous note reading No. 396b. Decades later, when the same publishers sought another manuscript, he asked them to refer to that prior letter marked 396b, asserting long memory of the exchange.
London Queen recalls carving as an art once taught by itinerant masters who visited households to instruct ladies. They grouped with portrait painters, likely kept from polite tables, and demonstrated terms for breaking and preparing game as part of a broader knowledge of carving.
A crab species known as the fiddler hides in creek bank burrows each autumn and enters a winter dormancy. Eye stalks fold away and the large claw rests inert while legs tuck in, waking in April to clear burrows and feed with the small claw. Females use both claws, feeding twice as fast as males.
St. Petersburg November 4 The imperial manifesto signed by Emperor Nicholas grants free pardon to political criminals of various categories and to participants in strikes and contract breakers. It covers those imprisoned awaiting trial and appeals to those convicted over ten years ago to be released to Siberian colonies with residency options after four years.
Reports from St. Petersburg to Rostov on Don describe anti Jewish attacks and revolutionary violence. Fires in Theo Josia Kostroma and Saratoff burn many, with 34 killed and 189 wounded in Rostoff on Don. A Warsaw mass meeting calls for general strike cooperation.
A Southern Pacific coast line limited crashed into a tourist train at Santa Margarita station, injuring nineteen. Among the injured is nine year old Elsie Blackmore pinned in wreckage with severe arm injuries and possible fatal internal trauma. another serious patient is Mrs. M. P. Martin of Ottawa, Iowa.
Pillaging has been largely stopped by troops and student militia in Odessa on November 4. The city remains dangerous for civilians, with streets resembling a military camp. Student units pursue rioters who fire revolvers in defense.
London reports describe plunder and murder in the Jewish quarter as an emperor's constitutional move sparked clashes. Cossacks and dragoons fired on demonstrators in front of the town hall, hundreds injured, mob violence in Odessa suburbs, and attacks on crosses and Christian emblems seen as rioting spread. The British consulate in Kishineff is reportedly riddled with bullets amid ongoing unrest.
In Memphis on the Trotting track Dan Patch the champion pacer equaled the world record without a wind shield covering the mile in 1 59 1 4. Driver Hersey sent the black horse to its best effort as splits ran 38, 59 2, and 1 29 1 4 at three quarters with a final 1 49 1 4.
The Madison Square Garden event drew nineteen contestants for the United States typewriter championship. Paul Hunter of New York won $100 with 2,099 words in thirty minutes, Rose Fritz of New York earned $50 with 2,084 words, and May Carrington of Springfield, Massachusetts posted 2,004 words for third place.
Seoul reports a grand celebration at Japanese headquarters Friday for the emperor's birthday with elaborate entertainment for foreigners as well as Japanese and Koreans.
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