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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1907
Page
5
Northbound and southbound passenger schedules listed for H and T C and I N G N lines. Local notices include visits, illness recoveries, visitors from Dallas Houston and Marlin, marriage licenses issued, rent and sale ads, and people traveling to Austin, Galveston, Brenham, Wellborn, and Jackson Tennessee.
Local items include 10 cent candy at Walker's 266 and fresh bread at Texas Bakery with phone orders to Mrs. Otto Boehme. Auctions note 500 dozen J P Coats thread at Walker's. Land deals include 1200 acres near Wellborn by P L Ramsey and M V Smith. Hobson lecture on America as Peace-Maker. A M College lyceum tickets on sale. Several briefs mention residents traveling, selling Singer machines in Bryan, and a lost lap robe.
To the public the price of flat work will rise to two cents per piece starting October 15 due to higher labor costs and increased laundry supplies. Bryan Steam Laundry, 266 W. O. Hearn, Proprietor.
Fourteen thousand Holy Name Society members from Hudson and Bergen counties held a Sunday parade and open air meeting in Hoboken New Jersey to protest profanity. Each marcher waved a small flag bearing the order’s H N S initials on blue with white letters. The procession along main streets drew flag decorated houses and an impressive public display.
Paul Ebers a leading San Antonio citizen and owner of an art store was found dying after being shot five times in a bush in front of Mrs Clarence Barbe Ford’s home. His brother in law Paul Barbe was arrested after Ebers claimed Barbe shot him. The sobering case follows a divorce from Ebers wife. He also owned three West Texas ranches and served as a German army officer. The motive remains unknown.
Fort Worth residents watched over 20 000 people witness a prearranged headon clash of two old locomotives at the fair grounds. Both engines locked in a death grip as smoke and steam billowed, but no one was injured and engineers escaped in time.
On Sunday in Texarkana E M Sumner white man was shot dead on his front porch by Monroe Ballard a negro preacher Ballard barricaded in his home and opened fire when officers and a crowd moved to arrest him He died an hour later Both men lived in adjacent houses Ballard acted after Sumner urged landlord to evict him due to his race
In Battle Creek Texas on October 14 Fireman R M Hines leaned from a cab window and was knocked into the creek twenty five feet below He died thirty minutes after the fall.
On the San Isadore hacienda near Guadalajara a man a boy a mule and three oxen were killed by lightning and fourteen men were shocked by the bolt. Local authorities reported the incident as a severe electrical storm causing multiple casualties among workers and livestock.
TotThe leading Chickasha citizen John Pettyjohn has been stricken with blindness in Chickasha Oklahoma Territory. The report notes his condition as sudden and serious affecting his daily life and public duties.
Dr. J. P. Rice of Alpine was arrested in El Paso on a charge of arson as details from the October 14 report emerged.
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