Parker-Astin Co Advertises Heavy High Wheels
Parker-Astin Co sells high wheels weighing 500 pounds and warns buyers away from light flimsy machines. The notice claims Oliver and P. O. have stood the test.
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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1914
Page
6
Parker-Astin Co sells high wheels weighing 500 pounds and warns buyers away from light flimsy machines. The notice claims Oliver and P. O. have stood the test.
An advertisement touts the largest stove plant in the world offering smooth grey iron heaters fully guaranteed. It features square and reservoir models with Colonial Pattern Jewels. Prices span from 14 to 60 dollars.
Miss You Ware thanks Bryan friends for relief after an accident and praises Dallas and Bryan kindness. She recalls Tolstoy and memory of home, hopes to visit Bryan again, and sends love and best wishes to old friends who saved her spirit through pain and care.
Rev H Swearingen outlines Ananias virtues amid vast faults praising his willingness to align with a despised sect and to give much of his possessions to the common fund. He notes Ananias shared in the Spirit’s compelment yet failed to stay wholly dedicated, ending in grave guilt.
Plymouth England January 17 Associated Press reports no trace of the British submarine A-7 which sank in Whitesand Bay yesterday. Destroyers with long cables combed the bay from dawn for hours but did not even touch the vessel.
An early report from Brockton Massachusetts says four residents died in a North Main Street apartment fire with five others injured from jumping from the building. Fire crews battled the blaze and rescued several occupants.
An advertisement promotes a laxative bromide quinine product named after E. W. Grove claiming to stop cough and headache and cure a cold in one day with a money back guarantee if it fails. The box bears E. W. Grove's signature.
Associated Press reports in Austin that Sam Sparks, an anti prohibitionist, will announce his candidacy for Texas governor tomorrow and is noted as the fifteenth candidate in the race.
Fr. Worth reports that during Rev. Morris testimony the defense objected to incendiary testimony about the church fire. Judge Swayne overruled the objection.
Health officer Hunnicutt confirmed a small pox case amid suspected chicken pox in the negro section. Four more cases were found with three already recovering. Quarantines and fumigation planned. officials warn on laundry as a transmission risk. Two suspected robbers Henderson and Reed had trial waived. Reed bonded out, Henderson remanded. Local residents Bullock and Buchanan visited the city.
A fragmentary poem by Sarah Beaumont Kennedy appears in the Mem phis Commercial Appeal. The verses imagine a future meeting in sunlit hills where dreams are fulfilled and hearts unite under distant, hopeful imagery.
Paris Texas January 17 Colonel J G Dudley aged 65 died here today He was a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee in 1894
In a famine stricken district of Northern Japan hundreds of girls were sold into slavery. Children collapse in schools as farmers suffer hunger and subsist on sparse meals including soup made from straw leaves rotten potatoes and scarce animal meat.
Anderson County won its case for the return of G N general offices from Houston to Palestine. The railroad will seek a new trial or appeal to higher courts.
Ten thousand of Kagoshima's population remain unaccounted for after the earthquake and eruption. Refugees recount using boards to shield themselves as rocks and lava threaten the islands. U S Navy Blue Jackets rescue natives amid lava flows and pumice covered bays.
Berlin reports a German wireless firm won contracts to build a wireless plant in Mexico City for President Huerta. The company plans a small radius system and Huerta foresees fighting over the cities where he will employ the wireless communications.
Mexico City war office says General Mercado who evacuated Ojinaga will be court martialed by the first federal force he encounters if he comes back to Mexico.
The Groginski family horse was accidentally killed in the city pound yesterday morning after being placed with mules. The animal allegedly collided with a buggy axle while attempting to escape, the impact piercing its chest and causing instant death.
Hamburg Jan 1 The German steamer Acilia sank near Tierra Del Fuego with the loss of all aboard numbering ninety eight.
Mr. J. D. Ganter manager of the Bon Ton Cafe announces a thorough overhaul and remodeling. The cafe is repapered partitioned attractively and under Mr. Ganter’s supervision all food is prepared to high sanitary standards. The manager invites patrons to see the improved service and surroundings.
Secretary Bain of the South African Trades Federation holds Labor Hall against police as crowds gather. Officials report entrenched standoff with potential for renewed clashes in Johannesburg on January 14.
J T Newcomb posts a notice warning trespassers on a goat ranch near Kurten. The owner states violators will face full legal penalties under state law.
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