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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1915
Page
5
The readable parts show a damaged newspaper fragment with partial words and no clear event dates names places or actions to summarize into a coherent notice or story.
The city welcomed many guests from Benchley, Kurten, Reliance, Steep Hollow, and surrounding areas. Seeps of travel include J. W. Mathis, T. B. Martin, R. H. Seale, W. Harris Jr., and numerous others on daily business. Local events include Bryan High hosting a basketball game and depot work near the International & Great Northern line.
A long list of visitors and residents appears from Bryan and surrounding areas. Names include J B McIntosh Calvert Ruth Ponder Valley Junction and many others visiting on personal business, hosting relatives, or staying with friends. The column notes farm sales and local notices plus agricultural extension talk urging farm women to unite for community development.
Bradstreet's report chronicles 1914 as a year with fewer than 1 percent of concerns failing, the best showing in 33 years of data. The study notes the era’s prior high and low mortality points, with 1893 near fifteen per thousand and 1906 at six and a half per thousand, while the total number of firms exceeds 1.7 million across all sectors.
The $155 million cotton loan fund ended with its central committee and Federal Reserve Board members outlining future steps. Applications from Southern producers totaled $28,000, while overall fund exposure reached $101,036,1 from 487 banks 185 firms and 17 individuals across 64 cities in 19 states and DC. The fund’s impact lay in assuring a dependable support source, aiding a buying surge that pushed cotton prices up and boosted December exports compared with last year.
Director Youngblood urges the Thirty-fourth Legislature to appropriate 148000 for the Texas experiment station system for 1915 16. The pamphlet outlines the need to support the main station at A and M College and eleven substations, noting Texas spends far less per farm than Ohio.
Federal and state funding totals show Ohio with 411000 plus new items for 411,674 dollars while Texas spends 89,590.07. Illinois, New York, Iowa and Missouri follow. The bulletin explains the station’s purpose to help farmers with scientific methods, equipment and facilities, including greenhouses and laboratories.
Brazos County Development Company transfers jot 4 block 48 Oak Grove Park in Bryan for 200 dollars. Jesse Garrett transfers 30 acres in the John Williams league Brazos County to F J Cahill for 75 dollars.
Prices from the market include eggs at 1ic per dozen, butter 25 cents per pound, hens 3.50 to 5.00 per dozen, fryers 2.50 to 3.50 per dozen, broilers 1.50 per dozen, cows 4 cents per pound, calves 5 cents per pound, steers ic per pound, hogs 5 to 1 cent per pound, oats 66 cents per bushel, corn 1.07 per bushel, prairie hay 12 per ton, alfalfa 20 per ton, remuda hay 13 per ton, green hides 8 cents per pound, dry hides 10 cents per pound, and cord wood 3 dollars per cord.
The Bryan Weekly Eagle and The Semi-Weekly Farm News offer a bundled subscription for twelve months at 1.75, with both papers sent to the subscriber's address. The rate requires subscribing to both papers, delivering state national and foreign news, market reports, and farmer oriented departments.
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