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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1923
Page
2
Local editorial quotes a provocative Georgia headline while criticizing critics and urging action for peace. The piece contrasts strong statements with calls for public responsibility, reflecting interpaper tensions and editorial voices of the era.
Editor Robinson notes strains to keep state and federal constitutions intact while the Bosque remains uncontested. Meanwhile, floods along the Brazos cause significant damage across the region as authorities assess the impact.
Editor Sam Miller notes a Mineral Wells woman sent a dollar to an ad offering a cure to broken marriages from golf. She received a printed slip promising to keep her husband playing with him every day.
The Dallas Times-Herald notes Judge Pippen's remark that love should guide government but politics remains shadowed by Judas kisses. It recalls messages sent to Dallas from Commoner T. G. Collins and Commodore George Clark Purl during the recent Texas Legislature session.
Brazos County commissioners decide to discontinue dipping cattle after neighboring counties stop tick eradication. The move follows a trend with adjoining counties ending the program, and Robertson County faces added hardship as it borders Brazos to the south.
The Groesbeck Journal criticizes the Legislature for slow publication of legal matters. It says a bill was not enough and urges newspapers to have a more effective way to collect costs, suggesting a hands on approach to collect accounts.
The Palestine Herald notes Sam Miller of Mineral Wells pushing Governor Neff to call a special session to make it a capital crime for a man with whiskers to wear perfume. The piece warns the Texas Sam Club faces a crisis and must act at Galveston in June or perish.
Preparations are under way at the A and M College of Texas to entertain Secretary of Agriculture Wallace who will tour various Texas points in a few days. He may pass through Mexia on the way to or from College Station and could spend a brief interval here, making this one of the few oil field areas he will visit in the state.
The Texas Transcript notes farmers in Alvin ship berries while Mercedes and Harlingen push cabbages and carrots to northern markets. A Mercedes grower sold eight dollars of carrots, resold in Chicago for two hundred eighty six dollars, illustrating overhead and inefficiency fueling business stagnation.
Colonel George Tucker cites the legislature’s one hour session as the state’s best in history. He argues the idea reveals the folly of shutting down churches schools banks courts factories and markets, urging resistance to such drastic proposals.
S. W. Adams argues that mankind reaches greatness through reclamation and labor. He cites ancient civilizations and postwar recovery in Europe to claim Texas’s flood restoration as a defining national mission and urges collective effort to rebuild and advance.
The Houston Post cites the Nashville Banner asking who is a Democrat and recounts Bryan’s 1896 Chicago convention moment. It notes New York Governor Hill’s quiet return to Woolworth’s Hudson River roost and the country’s anxious days before November. The New York World asks if he remains a Democrat and receives a firm yes after five days.
The Cameron Commercial Club hosts a strong battery of orators at its annual banquet on Tuesday night. Congressman Luther A Johnson and Bryan legislator Lee J Rountree headline the event. Johnson, from Corsicana, recently returned from Washington and is praised as a notable speaker.
Beckwith arrived in Bryan from Canada with the body of A. B. Carr for burial at Bryan City Cemetery after Carr died in Canada about a month ago. The report recalls wartime taxes and prices in Canada, and mentions Beckwith’s travel to Toronto Guelph and Durham and a remark about diamonds possibly worth millions.
Funeral services for Miles Derden Chance were held at 10 30 this morning at his sister's home. Acting pallbearers included R A Harrison Charles Hudson M L Parker Allen Carr W A Withers J M Gordon M B Parker George G Chance W J Coulter. Honorary pallbearers were Curt Oliver Jno Ettle C M Bethany G S Parker M H James Stewart Boatwright Hal Saunders T A Adams and George Brandon. Rev King Vivian of College conducted the service due to illness of the Methodist pastor H C Willis.
In Olympia Washington robbers who took $30,000 in stamps face no postage due fear as investigators trace the case. Authorities pursue leads from the ambitious heist at the state capital.
The Galveston News notes the recent cold spell battered catfish that had hoped for spring, leaving fishermen to pity the beleaguered fish near Pirate Island.
The piece argues overhead and inefficiency ruin business success. It urges conducting business on a true business basis to remove handicaps on the road to prosperity.
A quotation emphasizes the newspaper as a town’s best asset far surpassing cheap advertising schemes for public good, highlighting the value of solid journalism.
Sam Miller of Mineral Wells and Sam Harden of Richardson prepare for a June reunion in Galveston. The pair will sail the blue ocean in search of mermaids, under the watchful gaze of Texas.
The Bryan Eagle invites Bryan and Brazos County residents to support constructive measures for the public good as it dedicates itself to upbuilding the area and promoting general welfare.
Registrar Finley reports enrollment at the A and M College rising from about 1,000 in 1916 to 2,156. With curtailed appropriations Texas boys seeking an education are living in borrowed Federal government tents.
The Saturday Mineral Wells Index arrived Monday without editorials. The note suggests Sam Miller may be absent for an annual leave or at the depot to meet Sam Harben of Richardson en route to the Panhandle Press Association.
The Kosse Cyclone argues fast driving should bring a jail term to deter speed maniacs. It says speeding endangers others and would reduce fatal accidents while saving gasoline by removing reckless drivers from the road.
A Dallas Times-Herald passage reflects on aging politics with nostalgia for earlier days and contrasts it with the lively past centered on Coney Island. The voice questions whether readers remember the spirited era and its connections to youth and public life.
An exchange argues households should treat local merchants as essential and affordable, noting merchants reduce prices and prevent mail order houses from gaining control. The piece credits home merchants with keeping costs in check and serving the community.
Officer Offa Williams rounded up seven white youths in a downtown Main Street building around midnight. Chief W. S. Martin says they were ordered to appear before Judge McGee at 9 am to answer craps shooting charges. case postponed to 9 am Tuesday as the boys plan to contest.
Chief of Police W S Martin took Sam Palermo to Huntsville to serve a one year penitentiary sentence after Palermo pled guilty in district court to transporting intoxicating liquor.
Edith L. Andrews food specialist from A and M College led a salad and dressing demonstration at Dickinson schoolhouse attended by about sixty women from Dickinson Hitchcock Arcadia Alta Loma Friendwood League City and San Leon. She shared twenty three recipes and distributed twelve recipes to each attendee, the final event in a two part series.
Unframed photographs vanished from the Eagle office reappeared two days later in handsome frames ready to hang. They were in the possession of Mr. J. E. Covey who knows what an unframed picture needs and is thanked for the considerate deed.
Mayor Haswell appeared downtown to throw the opening pitch at the Buff-Aggie baseball game at College on Tuesday afternoon. He claimed credit for striking out President Bizzell who hoped to hit a home run off the mayor’s high ball. Bizzell said he could not reach it and let the matter rest.
Mayor Haswell sent word of a high ball at the Aggies vs Buffs opening game. President Bizzell received a different high ball, reflecting changing times. The mayor’s gesture is praised as making the world safe for democracy with no damages. On with the battle.
Joseph J. Cahill of Smetana Brazos County citizen died at 5 05 am March 22 after flu and bronchial pneumonia. Funeral held at Mrs S M Cross home Bryan with burial in city cemetery. Survived by wife Georgia Blackstone five children Curtis Cahill Minnie Cahill Evelyn Cahill J J Cahill Jr Ernest Cahill and brother James Cahill.
Two Bryan residents, both white, fought in an alley behind Joe Groginsky's Dry Goods Store. Officers picked them up around seven with Chief Martin, and by nine they stood before City Judge Gee, each paying fines totaling eight dollars and twenty cents.
Fire alarm sounded this afternoon at 3 30 for a blaze at the home of Barney Goolsby a negro barber on North Main Street. At press time the extent of the damage had not yet been learned.
Advertising copy touts Liquid Borozone for rapid healing of torn flesh cuts burns or sores. Lists prices 30c 60c and 1.20 and notes availability from all druggists.
A bloc in the 88th Texas legislature plans to trim the general appropriation bill for the special session called by Governor Neff, targeting the University A and M College and other state institutions amid a projected $41 million total with a near $6–8 million annual tax shortfall. The plan follows a regular session that approved about $7.74 million in appropriations with no new tax measures.
Gabe Cazell receives a letter from Jim Edwards of Beaumont praising his singing at the district meeting luncheon at the Crosby House. The note credits Cazell and other Rotarians from out of town for helping the conference succeed and expresses lasting appreciation.
Funeral services for A B Carr who died in Canada and arrived in Bryan on the morning train were held at 9 20 Sunday from Mrs M D Parker’s home with Rev S Moylan Bird officiating and interment in Bryan City Cemetery. Active pallbearers included H A Burger and Mayor Tyler Haswell among others. out of town mourners from Houston Dallas Montgomery Galveston attended.
For sale full blood Plymouth Rock cockerels at 1.00 each Eggs 75 cents per setting J F Thomas College
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