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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1902
Page
2
Portfolios note a Texas Poland China boar winning at Sherman for 500. Other items discuss election fraud rhetoric, canteen restoration campaigns led by Generals Wood and Corbin, and renewed calls to curb southern representation. Subscriptions rise as stockholders back the enterprise ahead of fall plans. Bryan Central Tex
Twenty four grading outfits operate on the Madisonville extension of the I. and G.N. with an average of two miles each. Completion is expected within about thirty days.
J T Odell, the engineer who was pulling the freight that struck the chair car at Lewis, has been placed under 250 bond to await grand jury action. He is charged with negligent homicide.
In Madisonville residents discuss enacting a cow law after a yearling, kept by four leading furniture men, damaged chairs and upholstery, demolished mirrors and frames, and kicked out a front window, narrowly frightening a passerby.
The War Department released General R. P. Hughes’s statement rebutting a Boston letter that charged the Eighteenth Regulars with burning Panay towns. Hughes affirmed insurgent records show the burning was by insurgents, while U S troops worked to save towns and rebuild, leaving Panay's roads and property intact.
Nov 10 crowds lined the Sandringham approaches as Emperor William attended divine services. Queen Alexandra, the Prince of Wales, Mrs. Chamberlain, and later King Edward, Prime Minister Balfour, Colonial Secretary Chamberlain joined in outside discussions.
The emperor of Germany and Mr Chamberlain paused for a quarter hour of private conversation before a church service. The royal party entered as the anthem began. The bishop of Ripo preached on ending race distinctions and achieving a grand brotherhood of man.
At noon Sunday the British, American and Chilean ships fired 21 guns in Panama to honor the birthday of King Edward. The event involved several national navies and marked the anniversary with a ceremonial salute.
George L. O. Perry, jailed in Cambridge on a murder charge, says Alan G. Mason pawned watches from Miss Clara A. Morton and Miss Agnes McPhee. Perry identified Mason in a jail corridor. Mason denied knowing Perry.
A mob gathered at Mobile central police station on November 10 to lynch Lewis Wyatt a Black man accused of assaulting Maria Constance a six year old white girl. The police chief calmed the crowd saying the law would take its course and Wyatt would be punished. The mob dispersed.
All machinists at National Steel mill in Mingo Junction walk out after presenting their wage scale which remained unsigned and a committee member was discharged. In Beaumont Texas, Josh Jones was found on a railway track with both legs crushed after claiming he was shot by a brakeman and fell from a moving train. he died.
Beaumont report states District Attorney Hightower nearly bled to death after a knife wound received during bear hunting. The item notes other brief notices: Arano in Bilbao acquitted for sending a Cuba Roosevelt note, a Rock Island bank burglary with unknown loss, and a mob killing of George Gant after assault on Irene Watson near Millersport, composed of men and women.
A hospital ward tale features Jane, a patient with a cough deemed a fake by a cautious physician. He finally labels her a bad case of hypochondria, sparking her plea for more remedies as she repeats requests the next morning.
A man preserves a newspaper clipping about a burglary to show his wife while the thief struck during a church visit. A friend asks for a copy, highlighting the clipping as a rare item the couple values highly.
Cicero Moke claims Lucy Brown who bore his child yesterday will not live with him after today because she has married him. He says he may have her do washing to drum up trade this morning. The Philadelphia Press records the exchange with Mrs Hauskeep reacting to the marriage claim.
A brief quirky exchange cites a casting call for Hamlet’s ghost voiced by Mr Stormington Barnes with the line All I want is a good live young man for the ghost. A Washington Star note and a Chicago News aphorism about youth mortality reflect period wit.
A Detroit Free Press item collects postal card replies to the question Why did you marry. Responses range from humorous to philosophical, with lines about companionship, getting even, luck, experience, and love. The excerpts reveal playful, varied motives behind matrimony.
Bunsen explains geyser eruptions as water sealed in a subterranean cavern heated by Earth's internal heat. Pressure from the standing column keeps the water liquid until its temperature rises enough to flash to steam, forcing the exit column upward and blasting the chamber contents outward. Stones or turf in the basin can trigger the disturbance.
The passage recounts a herbalist's income from love potions and powders for despondent lovers. It describes an old recipe steeping mistletoe berries in wine vinegar honey and bees in equal parts and promises dreams of destiny if taken before bed on specific nights. It notes lingering beliefs that midnight mince pies revive departed people and the physician.
The most notable act in English history was Sir Arthur Owen riding from Wales to Westminster to cast the deciding vote in 1701, enabling the Hanoverian succession. His urgent journey and narrow timing secured Parliament’s choice, shaping Britain’s Georgian era and the line of monarchs that followed.
Notes and Queries cites Guillandinus 1572 De Papyro with Americanorum tomatle and tomatle from Themistitan referring to tomatl and love apple. The note suggests misprint for Tenochitlan and links Aztec and popular names already in use by the 16th century.
Quoted Carlyle urging truth over cant and urging the strong to free themselves from sham beliefs. The note frames cant as a barrier to genuine worth and progress, insisting that real begin only when cant ends.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip frames anti appendicitis cures that claim peritonitis is a remedy. The joke likens beheading as a cure for squinting to critique reckless medical assertions.
The saying contrasts wit and judgment, noting wit fuels quick bright flames while judgment yields lasting impact. It frames wit as transient fuel and judgment as enduring strength.
The article explains plant growth from stems and root crowns, seed germination directing shoots and roots, tree rings signaling yearly conditions, and distinguishes thorns from prickles. It notes prickles protect vines and berries from herbivores while stems remain palatable.
French explorer M Charles Meissen noted in Siam a troop of small gray ants that travel in damp areas. Periodically a larger ant carries a gray ant on its back, acting as commander of the expedition. He likened it to using horses in a colony.
In reminiscences Mary Stuart Boyd recalls Bret Harte as unobtrusive and dedicated to his work. A society matron laments not knowing who sat beside her at dinner and questions whether knowing a person’s identity changes interest in the individual.
A Bombay man offers a bedstead costing 10 000 rupees described as a four cornered bed with gaudily dressed Grecian damsels who play banjos at the head and fans on the sides. A full length music box runs beneath the cot and plays twelve airs when pressed from the top. The mechanism includes sleeping or sitting triggers and dual damsel figures to lull the sleeper while the music plays.
A Banffshire youth holidaying in Aberdeen on the green with his uncle notices many kites aloft. He points to a kite higher than the rest and asks if he has seen one so high before, while his uncle responds with a Scottish quip about even higher kites elsewhere.
A Boston Transcript note compares Pingrey as a literary man who spends most of his time in the public library where Ilones says it is eighty quiet there and he can nap without being awakened.
A brief comic exchange portrays a doctor diagnosing a child’s upset system and a mother’s concern as Little Dot explains her foot asleep and people upset when they sleep at the wrong end. The playful dialogue reflects everyday domestic humor in a Philadelphia Inquirer excerpt.
The tale centers on Jimmy a lively road horse with ideas of his own. He sneaks into a tent to sneeze at revelers and enjoys startling timid visitors while scaring a nervous cousin with a feint bite. Despite mischief he remains gentle, pleasing himself with antics and quiet laughter after each deed.
A historical note describes varied foot shapes by nationality. It claims the Irish foot is flat and broad, the French foot long and narrow, the Scotch foot high and muscular, the Tartar foot short and uniform, and the English foot short and fleshy. It adds remarks on Russian, Spaniard, Teutonic, Scandinavian, and Arab feet with distinctive traits.
A Chicago man on summer vacation talks with a Wisconsin lake resort proprietor about land size and nearby property. The proprietor reveals another resort nearby and awkwardly hints at future ownership with a joke about a joint venture and a forthcoming October start.
Harper's Bazar reports a distinctive caramel note in French coffee from adding butter and powdered sugar during roasting. Three pounds of beans receive one tablespoon of butter and one tablespoon of powdered sugar, melted to coat the beans and trap aroma.
A German tale reports a dancer fainting after three swift dances. The officer explains the strain of happiness caused the collapse, and the narrator says he will depart to avoid further danger to her nerves.
The Boston Advertiser notes Friday as a luck-symbolic day. It links luck to odd numbers and doubles of odd numbers, highlighting six as double three and claiming the fore Friday remains doubly lucky.
Frank learns horseback riding as a listener asks about bouncing. He replies he bounces hard but stays upright, nearly at the same time, in a humorous exchange from the Little Chronicle.
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