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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1901
Page
4
Munkveedge offers 40 acres near oil mill with city portion and farm improvements for sale cheap. Numerous houses, cottages, and lots across southern and western city areas, plus 14,000 acres of farm and ranch land advertised. Prices range from 450 to 1200 with extensive outbuildings, wells, cisterns, and yards. Weeklies noted for more details.
A mocked health column attacks fad diets claiming one food type fixes brain muscles or bones and argues a balanced diet supports all. It promotes Green's August Flower and other Dr Green remedies sold by Wilson Jenkins Drug Co with a refund guarantee if malaria or fever fails to cure. Bryan Texas druggist James advertises.
A residence on ten acres in the eastern city between the graded school and Allen Academy offers a six room house with a dug well and brick wall. It has a good orchard and is known as the Tucker place across from W. R. Saunders residence. Terms easy. Apply to Cliff A. Adams.
A 4x5 viewing camera with portrait lens, tripod, and complete outfit is offered for sale at a bargain for $25. The seller, M H Elam, will teach the purchaser to operate the camera and invites buyers to inspect work at Eagle. Address 268.
Philip Prinzel opens a short order lunch counter and restaurant in the rear room of Taylor and Cox’s saloon offering meals at all hours and inviting friends and the public to call. Also notes a quinoria cure claim and a Bryan Texas druggist advertisement.
Across dispatches from Sofia Constantinople and other towns a chaotic stream of sensational notes reports Miss Ellen Stone kidnapped in Bulgaria by Boucho and brigands. Ransom demands are described as exorbitant and unlikely to be paid while danger to the captive persists. Several unrelated local incidents accompany the item in the same bulletin.
Articles of incorporation for the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railway were filed in Burlington Iowa with capital of 100 million dollars. The new company aims to control the Burlington system and other lines across Illinois Iowa Missouri Wyoming South Dakota Montana Wisconsin and Minnesota. Life begins Oct 15 1901 and runs 60 years with Burlington as principal office. The old firm remains Illinois incorporated. the new is Iowa law governed a railroad becomes a railway company. A likely transfer of lines to the Hill Morgan syndicate is noted.
New York on October 17 reports all litigation over the will of Jacob Rogers settled. Robert W. DeForrest counsel for the Metropolitan Museum of Art said the settlement will allow the museum to possess the residuary estate valued above 5,000,000 dollars within a short time. In Cape Town on October 17 invaders reached the sea with 500 men advancing toward Hopefield and Saldanha bay as General French directs actions against them.
Cut His Throat in Navasota Texas Henry Sturge r of this county committed death by own action Wednesday by cutting his throat.
Brief items note the US apple crop at 23 million barrels, frequent famine riots in Austrian regions, and other scattered news including Hay returning to Washington, a bank in Tarkio run by farmers, and a series of local deaths and legal actions across several states.
Tickets issued for a round trip to Dallas from Septimeter 27 to Oct 12 with final return by Oct 14. Fare set at 5.40 dollars. Purchaser must sign original ticket and obtain Dallas agent stamp before return passage available. G. P. and T. A. Agent.
Advertisement urging sufferers of dyspepsia to use Rex Dyspepsia Tablets. Druggists refund money if not cured. Price 50 cents per package. Manusfacturers authorize refunds. Bryan Texas display by M. H. James.
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