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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1905
Page
6
The red cedar is praised as a versatile evergreen ideal for formal northeastern gardens. It can be trained into standard bay tree, dome, pyramid, spire, and arch shapes, rivaling arbor vitae, firs, and spruces, and even mimicking Swiss pine with mature tall trees.
A reader recalls a moonlit night and views a loved one’s portrait, speaking aloud as if it could answer. The meditation blends longing, fear of loss, and memory as the Chicago Chronicle notes.
The court heard the case of Charles Martin charged with counterfeiting. Martin, nearly blind and once a street beggar, confessed to making bogus coins to support his family, aided by his eight year old son. He urged the court for leniency, claiming dire hardship and responsibility for his children. The jury found him guilty and the judge sentenced five years, with a possible presidential pardon petition.
The composer Reginald De Koven mocked a foreign musician’s lack of honesty in a humorous vignette. A brigand chief questions the man about his works and demands an aria from The Pink Stocking. The aria pleases the brigands, who release him, and declare they never exact tribute from a colleague.
A dated verse recounts a fading romance as time changes love. The speaker laments how May memories and vows have drifted, asking why the relationship altered and whether gods smiled on happier days. The poem ends with a farewell to a loved eye and a closing door.
A. J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, praises farmers’ good year yet recalls a Cheseybrook neighbor who remains a chronic pessimist. On meeting the old man, Cassatt pressed that this season offers reasons for hope, but the man scoffs and cites spoiled hay for calves as his sole objection.
Old church in Cireggio near Omegna undergoes repairs and cleaning revealing six frescoes by Grandeénzio Ferrari. The frescoes are praised for fine color and represent a prime period of Italian art, described by the London Globe.
A 19th century infection defense narrative recounts U S public health and marine hospital service efforts against yellow fever in New Orleans and ports. It details quarantine ships, port inspectors, and the shift from disinfection to mosquito control led by Surgeon General Walter Wyman and field officers.
The Brooklyn Eagle notes pen and ink as the most effective for flower drawings, offering vigor and versatility for illustration and botanical memoranda. It advises beginners start with simple subjects, leave out details, and master light and shade to avoid flat, crowded results.
It is estimated that Ambassador Whitelaw Reid will spend about 500000 dollars during his term in England on a social and diplomatic campaign. Dorchester house, the endow mansion, costs at least 75000 dollars yearly to maintain and West Park will add 25000 more. Additional expenses include elaborate entertainments, opera, and continental trips, pushing total costs toward the sizable figure.
A banker urges a young man to invest in a saving fund using compound interest. He asserts that one cent placed at the start of the Christian era would now be worth over $209,000 with compound growth, while simple interest would yield only $1.15.
In a local primary exam a committee member quizzed pupils and a boy nicknamed Patsy Bolivar offered seven days in a year, then corrected to a list of weekdays, declaring seven if there are others never heard of. The exchange is recalled from a New York World report.
Randolph R Freeman prints The Submarine at Indio on the Southern Pacific line calling it the low downdest newspaper on earth. He notes an office 212 feet below and uses coral strand undertow and McGinty in departments. Another Mojave sheet is The Needle's Eye from Needles.
Two brothers aged 65 and 70 quarrel playfully on a country home porch about who has traveled more. The elder claims life experience and travel, while the younger asks where he has been. The elder snaps that he has been to Easton, Allentown, and Bethlehem, and the younger concedes the elder has “gotten around in the world.”
In the first act of Mrs Leffingwell's Boots a young architect nerved by his plight tears up dinner cards to hide his anxiety. The moment, performed in silence, draws a sharp comment from a young woman in the orchestra, exclaiming his tears as the tickets are destroyed.
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