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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1906
Page
6
Real estate broker invites landowners to list parcels with him. He claims access to customers for large tracts from 1100 to 10 acres and offers reasonable charges, stating that combining land with his buyers benefits both sides.
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and Tommy Burns battled twenty rounds at the Pacific Athletic club in Los Angeles, ending in a draw. Bloodied faces and a brutal exchange marked the contest though no knockdowns occurred. Referee Jeffries kept the action orderly as the fighters pressed until the final bell.
Two Chinese brides married in Mexico to prominent San Francisco merchants won an appeal over entry denial. The Department of Commerce and Labor ruled they, being wives of American born Chinese, could enter the United States. They left for San Francisco to join their husbands after admission.
Austin November 29 Judge Brooks overruled all exceptions and demurrers in the Waters-Pierce Oil Company case to amend petition of the state. The court also overruled motions to suppress deposits by Assistant Attorney General Lightfoot in the north. The deposition of J P Gruet taken in Austin was held under advisement for decision Friday morning.
A minor quake at Monahans Texas on Wednesday night lasted about thirty seconds and toppled lamps clocks and furniture. Large cracks appeared in the earth and advisories indicate a sizable region felt the tremor.
Guthrie November 29 discussion focused on who may spend the 100000 congress appropriated for printing daily records and binding permanent journals. Debate centered on authority between the convention and Territorial Secretary Filson as disbursing officer in the enabling act. President Murray announced several standing committees.
Cambridge Mass November 29 Rev William Howe a centenarian and the oldest Baptist clergyman in the world died at his home in Cambridge Mass He lived to be over a hundred years old and served as a clergyman for many decades in the Baptist church.
Berlin reports a catastrophic factory explosion near Welten Westphalia wiping an area off the map. About 300 killed or wounded and fifty dead in the blast. The incident dominates the dispatch as authorities assess the vast casualties and damage.
The Evening World reports the woman who accused the tenor Caruso, calling herself Hannah Graham, has been found. She is Mrs. Stanhope, wife of Abram Stanhope, a baseball player, who says the insult by Caruso was intentional and that she did not know the man at the time.
Mrs. Stanhope testifies that she was pressured by officers to file a complaint against the singer. She recalls a heavy elbow and a deliberate insult at the Central Park Zoo, where she first identified Caruso and faced intimidation about naming herself to Magistrate Baker.
H W Sumners of Dallas former county attorney spent two days in New Orleans gathering information on the cotton future contract trade. His mission centers on the bucketshop system and may influence Texas action on future legislation to abolish trading contracts.
A divorce was granted to Mrs Britton Davis in El Paso on November 29. Her husband was a son of former Texas Governor Davis and formerly a lieutenant in the army. Mrs Davis is from New York and Davis currently resides there. He had sought a divorce in New York a year earlier but failed. He managed a Mexican mining and cattle company led by president E B Morgan of New York.
J V Sheen of Saint Jo Texas died November 25 at age 105, claimed to be the oldest man in Texas. Born in New Orleans on June 9 1801 he served as a drummer boy under Andrew Jackson at New Orleans in 1812. He worked hard his entire life and picked 100 pounds of cotton daily this fall. He was twice married and had six children.
J. M. Peters invites interested parties to gather at the Court House on Friday November 30 at 2 p.m. to discuss the price of the crop of turkeys. The note expresses optimism that a satisfactory price is near and encourages attendance.
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