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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1906
Page
3
Washington reports the Department of Agriculture is developing a new industry turning corncobs and cornstalks into alcohol at low cost. Experiments at Hoopeston show a ton of green cobs yields eleven gallons of alcohol and a ton of green stalks yields six gallons, supporting a distillery connected to a corn cannery.
Governor Laham appoints former State Senator Walter Tips of Austin as chairman of the state penitentiary board to fill the vacancy caused by General L M Oppenheimer's death. The note also covers legal filings in Waters-Pierce Oil antitrust suits and budget requests for agricultural college, including a lab and shops, repairs, and a steam heating plant. County tax rolls show 1906 valuation of $57,475,570, up 1,086,089 from last year. Charter filings for Farmers' Union cotton warehouses include Hutto Henrietta Granbury Lone Oak Willis Montgomery and Greenville. Attorney General approves Wichita Falls and Northern railway charter with $20,000 capital. proposed line from Wichita Falls to Lawton is 20 miles on the Frisco plan.
Fort Worth on September 26 reports the Holmes Castle at Second and Rusk streets sold to George Simson for 19 600 dollars. The notorious building once run by H. H. Holmes was linked to a string of murders in the early 1890s.
The text claims a figure took over a score of girls lives at the St Elmo hotel. It recalls Holmes who was convicted in Chicago for murder and executed, described as the modern Blue Beard for allegedly killing multiple wives.
A large group of nearly one hundred Slavs and Greeks paused in Fort Worth on Wednesday while en route to San Francisco to aid in rebuilding the city. The travelers, mostly tall Slavs and shorter Greeks, attracted attention with their striking clothing and heights.
The New York state Democratic convention enters its second day with Temporary Chairman Nixon presiding. The committee on resolutions advances a platform endorsing William J. Bryan and municipal ownership of public utilities with a local option clause, while contending with contested seats from twenty districts affecting sixty delegates.
The London Standard notes English herring fishermen are highly superstitious. Whistling is banned on some boats, milk and burned bread are forbidden, and the hare may not be named. Casting a dead hare into an opponent’s boat is a common punishment. Odd numbered crews are lucky unless a member has red hair.
The article notes Galileo Galilei’s 1581 identification of pendulum isochronism at Pisa and claims Arabs used the pendulum for time measurement as early as 1000. It frames this as a historical shift in understanding honors for great men.
Office in Taliaferro building opposite the Court House. gag Phone 37. Yave in office the ONLY set of Ab stract Books of Brazos County Land Titles.
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