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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1908
Page
3
A collage of brief items from Bryan Texas papers. Mentions San Antonio winning the baseball pennant, debates on banking deposits, cotton seed value, a sarcastic jab at Debs, and local business ads. Includes remarks on farm advice and local journalism quirks.
The Edge Land Company unveils Lakeview near southern Bryan and Finfeather Park as a surveyed addition to the city of churches and schools. Promoters tout drainage, scenic views, proximity to Bryan College electric railway, and access to Bryan public schools, A and M College, and Cedar institutions.
The Bryad Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Company rebuilt its mill and repaired machinery for the season. The plant will open Monday with about forty employees and offers farmers high cotton seed prices, low cost fertilizers, and sale of cotton hulls and meal to townspeople. The operation benefits farmers, merchants, and the city through oil sales and jobs.
New York social and business life centers on luncheon clubs and fashionable eateries with District figures noting the rise of merchant and professional networks at midday. The piece highlights cloak models led by Miss Alice Christal, Bronx movie crowds and ticket controls, a rare albinic terrapin at Bronx Park, and a looming 1908 city school budget of 33.75 million dollars with big salary raises and expanding facilities.
In Rock Island, Colorado County, San Antonio plans to market a peanut crop of 150000 bushels at about sixty cents a bushel from 4000 acres. Farmers fatten hogs and feed cattle with peanuts, while new peanut oil experiments with African peanuts may boost Texas agriculture. Consul reports from Bordeaux highlight France’s oil trade and forecast peanuts becoming a major staple after corn and cotton.
The Spinners' International Union will meet in Boston next Thursday. The carpenters at Virgues Porto Rico have formed a new union. Penal and reformatory institutions have invested 4 1/2 million dollars in convict machinery. Convicts in Alabama Florida Mississippi and Virginia are pressed as state profit. German ironmasters threaten to close iron works over wage cuts. The Scottish Trade Union Congress backs old age pensions and compulsory intervention. The Bricklayers and Masons International Union reports 64 557 members in good standing. Chicago precincts will be politically organized for the coming election by the Chicago Federation of Labor. Union leaders favor Gompers policy to defeat opponents and elect friendly candidates. ward organizations are forming.
Eighty acres adjoining A&M College land on the west near Providence church known as the George Platter place. Also 190 acres including Double Sulphur springs on the Navasota River.
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