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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1906
Page
4
The bloc expands beyond cotton to regulate wheat pricing. Originating in the South, it gains members nationwide and aims to apply lessons learned from the Grange and the Alliance to avoid past disintegration.
Dallas excursion sales for Free Mason event on Oct 22 29 and Nov 1 2. Dallas fair and races sales Oct 12 28 with leave Dallas Oct 29 at 5.95. Train passes Bryan Oct 20 1 38 pm and Oct 21 12 46 am round trip 8 60 limited through Oct 22. Haircut shampoo singe massage price rise to 35 cents starting next Monday Oct 22. children 25 cents. y. E Grice P L Winter.
William Bell sold a bale of cotton here at 18 1/2 cents per pound in Dekalb Texas on October 20 with buyers and market activity noted for the day.
Storm in Cuba destroys 160 tobacco barns. In Ennis and Ardmore cotton shipments rise while Lake Charles mill workers oppose unions. Paris resident Mr. Schaf dies in his yard and Hettie Killingsworth, 106, dies in Paris after sixty years there. Accidents claim several lives including a horse killed by an electric wire in Texarkana and a woman found dead near Lampasas. Train wrecks occur near Pecos Valley Texico and Mineola.
Earl Dockery, identified by his father Silas Dockery of Asheville Oklahoma, is the murdered railroad worker found Oct 4. Wages were $120. reward totals rise as W H Dockray adds $250 and citizens put up $1,100, with Governor Lanham urged to add funds toward a $2,000 total.
An OCR fragment lists north bound train times with 1 38 PM and 12 46 AM for the 400th bound train at 3 40 PM and 2 48 AM, indicating a timetable snippet without full context or station names.
In Pennsylvania politics, the fusion gubernatorial hopeful is charged with criminal libel, highlighting a heated campaign season and legal dispute affecting the race.
A $125,000,000 capital effort advances a late movement to gobble up the earth and its fullness, uniting five large syndicates under a single scheme.
The article notes Japan plans a world’s fair in Tokio for 1912 promising the greatest exposition yet. Buildings are designed to eclipse Chicago and St Louis, with anticipation of 15 000 000 European and American visitors and the rise of the “Yankees of the East.”
The National Farmers Congress proposes reallocating money used for free seed distribution to finance seed purchases from foreign sources. The funds would support seed trials at national experiment stations to assess value and utility for domestic use.
Anna Gould and Castiello Van derbilt, American heiresses who gained husbands and titles overseas, reportedly find life far from a dream. Press coverage suggests such stories might spur young women to pursue marriages for wealth, fueling a booming matrimonial home industry.
A man named Williams was seized by Atlanta authorities for feigning insanity to gain access to asylums. Records show he had been held in nineteen different asylums nationwide before an attempted repeat in Atlanta failed.
In Palestine the Skidoo Skating Club counts twenty three couples as members. The text suggests Col Campbell could exploit the skidoo craze to handle office seekers by a simple mechanical device showing the number 23 to demonstrate results, especially in tough cases.
The Farmers' Union founded by Newt Graham in 1902 in Rains county Texas expanded over four years to about a million American farmers in many states. It now has 150 organizers with large memberships in Texas Georgia Arkansas Oklahoma and other states.
In Montgomery Alabama on October 20 a ten year old white girl Callie Belle Cain was nearly assaulted by Herman Thompson a black porter. He was identified captured and spirited to Wetumka by a deputy sheriff. Nearby citizens gathered 200 at the jail then an incendiary speaker was seized and jailed.
E G Thiel a thirty five year old German patient at the north Texas insane asylum killed himself by tying a shirt around his neck and to a window grate Thiel died from strangulation after being left alone briefly He had been brought from Fortyth and had no known relatives
Gainesville Texas October 20 Rev J A Stafford presiding elder of this district for the Methodist church conducted a quarterly conference at Greenwood forty miles away by long distance telephone. Stafford could not reach Greenwood so he established a phone link and presided as if present with rulings carried out by the conference.
Charles Parker believed from Garrison was killed at Cummings mill Wallisville on October 20 while replacing a belt on a pulley. A jumper became entangled in the shaft and was pulled into the machinery, tearing one arm from Parker and severely injuring the other limbs.
Former U S senator Joseph Ralph Burton starts a six month term at Ironton Missouri. He travels there with his wife Mrs Burton who will stay in Ironton until his release.
Richmond County grand jury indicts Thomas W. Alexander former Augusta cotton factor and clubman who was arrested Sept. 15 in Pittsburg on embezzlement charges.
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