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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1914
Page
6
President Wilson agreed with House and Senate leaders that rural credit legislation would be passed during the current Congress session. The statement came from Washington on February 5 as leaders urged swift action and a final vote.
Washington reports a joint action by State food officials and the U S Department of Agriculture leading to the seizure of damaged foods in Fort Worth Texas. The shipment from an Oklahoma firm included syrup vinegar raisins candy flour and other items totaling about fifteen cars. Dr J S Abbott Texas Food Commissioner and U S Attorney Wilson coordinated with Federal food inspectors to seize the goods pending court determination.
The seizure involved two carloads of unlabeled syrups offered as ribbon cane syrup but not that product. Also seized were 200 bottles of unlabeled vinegar alleged to be distilled and sugar vinegar compounds, 40 pounds of raisins, 40 pounds of chocolate, 40 pails of candy, and 200 sacks of flour said to be filthy and decomposed.
Following a speech by State Banking Commissioner Collier, bankers at the Fifth District convention praised the new currency law and formed a committee to urge legislative amendments to align state banking laws with the measure.
Census data for 1912 shows four wireless telegraph companies with a combined capital of 19 million dollars, employing 958 people earning 392,606 annually, and handling 285,091 messages valued at 669,158. Over a million dollars funded construction that year, with Texas hosting one company operating fifteen stations.
An advertisement touts a fake remedy named LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine promising immediate cold relief. It claims to stop coughs and headaches with a money back guarantee and features Druggists refund and V GROVE’S signature on each box.
In Washington on February 5, Frank P. Glass editor of a Birmingham newspaper lost his bid for a U.S. Senate seat by 32 to 31. The Privileges and Elections Committee had recommended not seating him since his appointment by Governor O Neal came after the seventeenth amendment establishing popular elections was proclaimed in full effect.
Mr. R L Smith known as Uncle Ran died at his home on Clayton Prairie near Smetana on Monday February 2. Born in 1831 in Washington County he was eighty two or eighty three and among Brazos County’s oldest settlers after moving there at age twenty two before Bryan’s founding. A Valiant ex Confederate soldier he served four years and was wounded in the hand.
Gardening season offers city workers daily back yard plots for pleasure health and food. A small twenty square foot bed yields radishes lettuce and greens while larger plots allow beets onions tomatoes cucumbers and more. Use well rotted manure as fertilizer and plant according to early and late crops.
Dallas, Texas February 6 The United States government exhibit for the Sixth Annual Corn Exposition arrives and begins installation. It fills five freight cars and is billed as the largest Washington exhibit for any exposition. The booth will show soil analysis methods three times daily from 20 000 soil samples and include a historic display of roads from Roman times to modern highways.
R A Long Kansas City lumberman started a Disciples of Christ drive with a 1 million donation to raise 6.09 million for global Christianizing effort. If funded, 2.5 million would go to nine colleges including Phillips College Oklahoma and Texas Christian University Fort Worth and over 2 million to church and missionary societies.
The obituary notes he was twice married and fathered twenty three children. He is survived by his widow and many offspring and is buried in the family burying ground near his home. Dr. M. E. Weaver of the First Baptist Church conducted the funeral services.
Police raided a Chinese rooming house in Los Angeles Chinatown and found three white girls hidden between the ceiling and floor. The girls, all claiming to be over twenty, refused to explain their journey or name a suspect identified as Young Yick who resisted during the raid. Juvenile Court officers will investigate to determine their ages.
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