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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
5
A Sunday school fundraiser event hosted by the Alexander Community will be held Friday night at the Alexander school house. The tacky party and street carnival will feature up-to-date fortune tellers with a prize for the tackiest dressed couple and admission is 10 cents.
In line with presidential proclamation and Texas governor orders merchants and bankers in Bryan will close and suspend all business for the day. A Thanksgiving service will be held at St. Andrew's church and a union service at First Baptist church, with public invited to attend and give thanks.
Mr. F. M. Law, cashier of the Park National bank of Beaumont, is staying with friends in Bryan, formerly assisting in the First National bank here. He recently left Fort Worth infirmary after illness. Castro sails from Venezuela seeking medical treatment in France, while Vice President Gomez faces uncertain leadership in his absence. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Cunningham of Abilene visited, and Mrs. O. M. Ball of College Station travels to Austin for a two week stay with her sister.
A congressman compares political tricksters to two penniless men who offered their bodies for dissection to a New York medical college. The men claimed imminent starvation and asked for a price, noting Philadelphia paid $40 for bodies. The dean hesitantly considers the unusual proposal.
A salesman T A Satterwhite promotes Singer sewing machines as the best choice, noting wide availability in every town and city in the United States and urging buyers to choose a reliable, replaceable part machine.
The Silliman House formerly Hamilton House will open for guests Monday November 9 at 32 per day with special rates to regular boarders. Service first class. C F Terrell proprietor.
George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the Republican national committee, released a list detailing 12,330 contributors for the recent campaign. The total contributions reached $1,579,578.27. Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati led donations with $110,000, followed by the Union League of New York contributing $34,777 and the Union League of Philadelphia.
The document lists Phia 22500 Larz Anderson Boston 25000 Andrew Carnegie 20000 J P Morgan 20000. The net amount received and disbursed at New York and Chicago headquarters was 1 035 368 03. In addition to above there was collected by the national finance committee in the several states and turned over to the Republican state committee for use in their own states 620 150
New York police say Joseph Montifiore Meyers claimed European capital backing of 200 million dollars. He traveled to Pittsburgh seeking funds, secured an option on Col J M Guffey oil property, and was charged with larceny of five bonds worth 4500. Meyers touted connections with prominent people and dined with financiers to push plans.
Memorial services in Memphis honored the late United States Senator Carmack who died in Nashville weeks ago. The large crowd filled the seating and many were refused admission. Speeches were delivered by Congressman John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, Mayor James H. Malone, Thomas B. Turley of Memphis, and other friends of the senator.
Attorney General Bonaparte petitions the Supreme Court to issue a writ of certiorari to the Seventh Circuit to review its reversal of Judge Landis in the Standard Oil antitrust case. He argues the court of appeals lacked jurisdiction when it received Judge Landis's decision and upheld a $29 million fine.
In New Orleans on an early Monday, the corpse of a negro roustabout was found, raising the death toll from the Mississippi river packet Carter disaster to nine. The Carter exploded near Bayou Coula, as crews continued to recover missing crew.
The shah has definitively decided the people shall not have a constitution and a proclamation to that effect was posted in the mosques in Tehran.
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