Post Item notes and local items from Bryan 1908
Bryan Texas November 10 1908 reads like a collection of notices and opinions. It mentions canneries in Texas counts and a canners association, local politics and Roosevelt Taft opinions, a legal indictment of H Clay Pierce in Austin, and a road law movement with Walker county urged to advance. The Eagle thanks Mrs Floy Dansby for roses and recalls a poet's memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Clay Pierce
Austin
Marshall
Matagorda
Col. T. J. Anderson
Bryan Cr Ted
Brazos County
Floy Dansby
Walker County
Huntsville
Post-Item
Notice of posted premises forbidding hunting
This notice informs the public that the premises are posted as required by law and hunting or shooting is forbidden. Trespassers will be prosecuted. Issued by Seale & Capps.
Politics to Rear a Nation Wary of World News
The article notes Taft’s decisive presidential victory shifts focus from national news to varied events. Upcoming weeks feature tariff hearings in Washington, labor league meetings, canal advocacy, Gunness farm trials, Lamphere and Patrick cases, the prison ship monument dedication, Cuban elections, the North Dakota battleship launch, Standard Oil probes, and renewed factory activity as mills reopen nationwide. Taft will stay at Hot Springs and attend the prison ship monument dedication in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News of the World
William H. Taft
United States
Washington
American Federation of Labor
American Prison Association
Anti-Saloon League
Southern Cotton Growers’ Association
Massachusetts Bay
Rio Grande
Texas
American Civie Association
National Municipal League
Gunness
la Porte
Ray Lamphere
Nand
Standard Oil Company
Cef
Powder Trust
Rain
Gompers
Washine
Teheran
W. H. Tatt
Hot Springs
Taft
New York City
Brooklyn
Galveston News
Farmers Union Sets Reward Over Night Rider Threats
The Randolph County Farmers Union in Pocahontas Arkansas offers a 25 dollar reward for the arrest and conviction of any member involved in night riding or posting threats to burn or harm people or property, following a letter found at County Judge White's yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
Ark
M. White
Randolph County Farmers’ Union
Commission on Country Life Seeks Texas Farm Information
The Commission on Country Life will meet in Dallas on November 20 to gather information on social, sanitary, and economic conditions on Texas farms. They request specifics on farm homes, schooling, returns from products, transportation and postal services, cooperative efforts, renter livelihoods, farm supply, hired labor, banking and credit, sanitary conditions, and social improvement activities. They also seek the single most important action for country life betterment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission On Country Life
Dallas
Texas
United States Postal Service
Republicans Win House Control in Sixty-First Congress
Final returns show Republicans will control the new House by a 45 seat margin, 218 Republicans to 173 Democrats. States with solid Republican delegations include California, Connecticut, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Republican Congressional Committee
House of Representatives
House
California
Connecticut
Kansas
Maine
Michigan
Montana
New Hampshire
North Dakota
Oregon
South Dakota
Utah
Washington
West Virginia
Wyoming
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Nevada
South Carolina
Texas
North Carolina
Sixty-first Congress
Virginia
Indiana
Nebraska
Spirit of Unrest Among Brazos County Farmers
The article argues restless migration stems from inherited wanderlust and economic hopes. It cautions Brazos County farmers considering relocation to West Texas or other states to scrutinize motives, noting droughts and boll weevil risks and advising staying put if current farms are productive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazos County
West Texas
Coleman
Runnels
Candy pulling funds boost school improvement drive
At the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W Blanton on Cottonwood prairie a candy pulling was hosted Friday night by the School Improvement club recently formed in Blanton and Cottonwood districts. A large crowd attended, a small admission fee was charged, and funds were raised for schoolhouse improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W Blanton
Cottonwood Prairie
School Improvement Club
Blanton
Cottonwood
Notice to Hunters in Bryan Pasture Prohibited
Warning to all persons not to hunt or trespass on J. W. English pasture southwest of Bryan. Any found there will be prosecuted. Also mentions Texas Bakery run by Mrs Otto Boehme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Texas Bakery
Otto Boehme
Wanted at once for Mrs Cliff A Adams position
A newspaper item seeks a reliable worker for Mrs Cliff A Adams at 284 28 with instruction to apply promptly for a respectable wage in a domestic service role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cliff A. Adams
Also Mentioned on This Page
Morning Eagle
THE
Eagle Printing CO
Bryan, Texas
Holison
Roosevelt
France
Germany
Iter
Ryan
Seale & Capps
Farmers’ Union
J. W. English
Buchanan-Moore CO
C. E. Bullock & Company
Opera House
W. C. Fountain
Smith Drug Co
Martin & Locke
Wellborn
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