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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
6
Survivors describe last scenes aboard the Empress of Ireland after the wreck on May 30 in Quebec. Laurence Irving died saving his wife while Salvation Army Commissioner Rees stayed with his family. Chief Officer Steed and Captain Kendall perished aiding others as carpenters rushed to build a morgue.
Associated Press reports from Quebec recount silver bars sinking with the Empress of Ireland and guards patrolling Father Point to deter beachcombers. Sir Henry Seton Karr perished aiding others. Salvation Army Sergeant Fowler survived a lifeboat ordeal. Official death toll climbs to 964 as hundreds of women allegedly drown while dressing. Commercial Club notes follow with finances, county fair plans, and committee reports.
Secretary of Agriculture David F. Houston ordered bulletins placed in post offices nationwide announcing that Oklahoma seeks 15,000 harvest hands to harvest crops this season. The move aims to boost labor supply for farming regions nationwide.
The Brazos County regular teachers examinations are scheduled for June 56 and 6. The county examining board C. M. Bethany and J. M. Moore will conduct the tests at the West Side school in this city.
Southbound passenger train No. 2 on the Houston and Texas Central will arrive here at 2 19 p m and, under the new schedule starting May 31, will reach Bryan about one hour earlier.
Durbar the Second owned by H. B. Duryea won the Derby at Epsom as the lone American entry. The horse started at twenty five to one and defeated thirty rivals. Ada Rice, a militant suffragette, fired a blank pistol at a policeman, set his trousers on fire, and burned one leg before her arrest.
Chicago May 27 Edward Bomark and Marie Kiernan were killed when their motorcycle collided with an express wagon. The riders died at the scene and the driver of the wagon was not injured.
The club plans a vigorous campaign to support Bryan schools. Judge Maloney outlines bridge repairs and traffic plans at Pittsbridge. The education committee, with John A. Moore as chair, organizes the push and accepts free weekly newspaper space from The Bryan Eagle.
The cases of Bill Jenkins and Robert Taylor charged with horse racing were dismissed today for lack of evidence. Seven indictments were filed on the same charge, four pleas of guilty and three dismissals. The racing occurred on a country road near Wimola place, with Will Tillery noted as the indicting party and his buggy colliding with two horses.
Roy J. Grissom leaves tomorrow for Santa Rita New Mexico to join the Chino Copper Company. He resigns from Bryan Baptist Academy after this session and will be accompanied to El Paso by his mother en route to Los Angeles California.
Mrs Otto Boehme reported the season’s champion cucumber to The Eagle. The long green variety measured 19 and a half inches in length and weighed two pounds.
The elegant new Bryan and Central Texas Interurban car from Hall-Scott Motor Car Company arrives. J A Edwards arrives to train crewmen as the car awaits head light pilot wheels and cattle guards to be installed before a first trip on the new road next week.
An advertisement for a comprehensive sex education book by Winfield Scott Hall promotes truthful guidance on sex matters, marriage happiness, and social issues. It targets nurses, teachers, doctors, lawyers, preachers, social workers, and other readers with claimed scientifically correct content. The Miami Publishing Company markets the work from Dayton Ohio for $1.00 plus 10 cents postage.
Dallas May 28 A Democratic Prohibition Legislative Executive Committee meeting discussed securing a prohibition majority for Speaker in the upcoming Thirty fourth Legislature. Prohibition candidates would be pledged in advance to join a caucus at convening to back a designated Speaker, with likely consent from those elected.
Dallas May 29 Ed R Kane Texas Commissioner of Agriculture urged the Texas Gunners Association to create a cotton warehousing system for Texas and other cotton states. He outlined three aims: reduce losses from fire and weather, provide a free market to curb speculation, and standardize class and value. He proposed state backed, not built, warehouses with public weighing and official classifiers and uniform storage receipts to widen markets like bank notes expand gold commerce.
A collage of pithy quotes and jokes from multiple papers. Quick quips cover debt and end times, flies on Noahs Ark, spectator questions, and social humor. Classic one liners pair wit with everyday life observations.
A Louisville Kentucky letter describes Bettie Bullock in Catron praising Cardui the woman’s tonic. She details four years of severe illness and paralysis like symptoms. The husband reportedly bought Cardus and she regained strength walking two miles. Chattanooga Medicine Co. invites requests for guidance and a 64 page booklet.
Eight hundred head of Mexican cattle seized by customs officers near Sierra Blanca Texas will be bought by the government and used to feed soldiers. The cattle were being driven by the France gang of rustlers to sell in the United States when officers intercepted them.
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