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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1898
Page
2
The Thornwell Orphanage in Clinton South Carolina houses 175 children with teachers and matrons in a village setting. It receives orphans from any state without denominational bias and relies on voluntary gifts for support. Dr. Jacobs leads the orphanage and offers information to curious readers.
A request to Kipling to write on The Man Who Hugs Like a Bear follows a collection of local briefs. Notes mention a Chicago man with ten wives arrested for vagrancy and commentary on the tobacco trust affecting Texas drummers, plus several local business and editorial figures in discussions and social minglings.
A note extols assembling proper ingredients for a correct prescription urging readers to visit Brun mel's for reasonable pricing. The fragment hints at pharmacy advice and affordable options.
Dry weather precedes the election as Ada Turner visits Clarace and Nora Thomas. Sunday singing graces the Thomas residence and D H Smith and P D Smith return from Madison County where they picked cotton. Rev J M Bullock to preach next Sunday at Cottonwood. an owl meeting at the Cottonwood school house drew seventeen candidates. Adolph notes Nov 8 1898.
The note mentions cool weather and cotton harvest nearing end, good neighborhood health, and visits by Webb George to Grimes county for school, Tella Gannaway in Alexander neighborhood on Payne Prairie, sermons at Concord by Beal and Edgar, Will Landres family from Williamson county visiting Edge relatives, Tom Carter recovering from illness, W H McMichael visiting Bryan, Eta Parker of Shiloh dining with Laura Moore, and a reference to Peck's Bad Boy.
Fergus Falls Minnesota reports a hold up five miles west of town by eight armed robbers. They boarded the express car, blew open safes, and forced the crew to aid the theft while a guard kept the engineer and fireman at bay. They escaped south after about two hours with uncertain haul. Two suspects remain in the city. alarm sent but no arrests yet. In Havana yellow fever cases cause further deaths among U S quartermaster staff.
Tom Robinson, a Black man, was sentenced to death for criminal assault of a 12 year old girl. His motion for a new trial was overruled and he gave notice of appeal. No date for the hanging has been set.
The list names city officials led by Mayor C. A. Adams and includes legal and civic posts such as Marshal T. P. Boyett, Clerk G. W. McMichael, and Sheriff T. C. Nunn. It also lists church denominations with pastors and service times including Baptist Finley, Methodist Cochran, Presbyterian West, Christian West, and Catholic Father Pelnar with Masses at 8 and 10.
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