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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1899
Page
3
Time table notes show train bound numbers with arrival times at Hearne. Entries list No 1 and No 3 arrivals around 3:53 a.m and 4:39 p.m, with No 2 and No 4 leaves and early morning times, indicating a station schedule fragment.
Daybook items report Lemp’s Culmbacher beer promotions at Exposition Saloon and Wooten Wells. social visits by Mr. Cole, Lam Benson, Lang, Burney Brogden, Mr. and Mrs. Turner. court cases include arson plea and forgery conviction in district court. auctions, insurance ads, and notices of marriages and arrivals fill the page.
Balances on hand in city funds show Tax and Fine overdrawn 2627.08, School 6353.83, Street overdrawn 487.02, Cemetery 45.69, Building and Street 351.15, Building 1660.91, Waterworks 551.17. Also mention Daughters of the Confederacy meeting and forthcoming election of officers, stray cow, mastodon bones found, and local ads for restaurant hours, a lost horse, a residence for sale, and other classifieds.
In Havana on September 25 Congressman R B Hawley announced the purchase of the Tinguaro estate in Matanzas, one of Cuba’s largest holdings. The 20 000 acre property and other coastal lands will be developed with about 1 500 000 dollars in improvements to yield an estimated 100 000 000 pounds of sugar. The investment targets virgin soil and extensive expansion across southern Cuba.
R L Ellison of Fort Worth buys the Rogers ranch in Beaver County, Oklahoma and the Childress cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle totaling 200 000 acres with 300 000 grazing cattle for Swift packing interests. Other notes include a mining railroad accident in Texarkana severing a worker’s foot, the death of explorer Stanley associate William Benny, two Chicago factory fires with heavy losses, and a fatal boiler explosion in Palmetto Georgia.
London dispatch reports General Lord Kitchener, governor general, planning an immediate expedition against the Khalifa following a Cairo dispatch to the Daily Telegram.
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