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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1907
Page
3
North bound and south bound timetables from H and T C and I and G N rail lines appear with notes on local visits, births, visits, and short notices. The page lists residents traveling to Dallas Navasota Austin and Fort Worth plus society items, sales, and church notices for Bryan and surrounding areas.
An old style ad fragment promotes a free sample at J M Lawrence & Co. It urges quick action and promises a favorable experience at the store.
Austin reports show Rock Island earning about $68,000 per mile while spending 70 percent of revenues on operation. Texas Central averages $5,000 per mile with 65 percent for operations. San Antonio and Aransas Pass uses 56 percent for expenses as distance from coal fields grows. Palestine reports a reign of terror by a nocturnal unknown terrorizing the Negro community with pistol shots and ominous disappearances.
Labor Day parade in Dallas on September 2 featured four divisions led by bands and many uniformed participants. Events at the fair grounds included addresses and amusements.
Raw City Oklahoma September 2 Mrs Prudence Newhinney of Ray City dreamed her son Joseph M Shields employed in the railway mail service out of Tacoma Washington had been killed in the performance of his duties. She wrote to him but a telegram arrived saying he had been killed the day before and the body was being sent to this place.
An ad promotes Preventics cold cure tablets by Dr. Shoop of Racine Wisconsin. It claims Preventics are harmless, no quinine or laxative, and effective if taken at the sneeze stage to halt colds or grippe, with emphasis on early use and sending for free samples and a booklet.
In Lufkin Texas on September 2 a Black man, name not given, was killed twelve miles from the city. Bob Preston posted bond following the incident.
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