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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1916
Page
8
A.W. Buchanan eulogizes Dr W F Proctor state agent for the farmers cooperative demonstration work. He describes Proctor as Texas’s great, selfless leader whose death ends a pivotal era and urges successors to carry on his unfinished work with dedication and mercy.
A committee chairman at a teachers institute delivers a fractured speech with repeated malapropisms about school and workhouse. The audience giggles as he struggles, then recovers briefly before losing consciousness, leaving the room in a hushed, uneasy silence.
Washington weather notes anticipate multiple major disturbances from Jan 30 to Feb 3 and Feb 4 to 8 with warm and cool waves, heavy precipitation, and a very severe blizzard in mid February. It warns of widespread cold, gales in the South, and a February thaw, urging preparation. Farmers are urged regarding grain sales and frost damage was criticized for late government notice.
The February Woman's Home Companion offers guidance for traveling women noting 50 000 disappearances in the US annually. It advises contacting Travelers' Aid Society before and after arrival, relying on uniformed officials, arriving by day, carrying emergency funds, avoiding unsolicited information, not trusting strangers, avoiding risky work offers, and staying out of dangerous city areas at night. The item closes with a humorous exchange from the Boston Transcript.
A Texas Cotton Seed Crushers Association committee urged A and M College to offer a course to train men as oil mill superintendents and managers. Conference with college officials suggested the program could adapt from the mechanical engineering curriculum with a small modern oil mill added for hands on instruction.
An excerpt notes capacity limits in a field, with a stated aim to engage machinery men. The text mentions efforts by millers to attract skilled workers and capitalize on productive expertise.
Friends of former Senator Joseph W Bailey wired from Dallas urging him to run for the United States Senate. No formal action was taken by any meeting or conference, and R M Johnston of Houston said Bailey will likely not enter the campaign.
No additional bodies were found in the Otay Valley flood district as of early today, keeping the known dead at thirty four. Rescue work continues with clearing weather, and food and clothing are concentrated here and forwarded to the flood districts.
An official statement reports 24 dead and 27 injured after a Zeppelin raid on Paris Saturday night. Air raids triggered alarms, lights went out, and residents sheltered as 30 French planes pursued the airship. A bomb tore through a street and subway, injuring no one.
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