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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1920
Page
2
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The State Press weighs in on Joe Taylor and cartoonist John Knott, joking about sizes and rumors. Editor Rountree faces publish or censor questions as the piece hints at humor and controversy, with implied weighty digs at management and audience.
Sam Jones urges church comfort as public good and calls for action to avoid cold or heat. The Bryan Eagle notes the A M Bulletin on past church sleepiness and praises modern church ventilation, brisk preachers and democratic theology. The piece concludes with a reminder the minister should monitor the sex ton for comfort.
The piece rails at industrial decay and calls for real workers from farms to save the world from famine. It contrasts proper pay for workers with parasites in industry. It criticizes Washington for deplorable conditions and accuses politicians of cheap politics.
The Houston Post notes a forecast sugar may reach 20 cents by June, but argues strikes short hours and reduced production drive the rise. It laments global instability and says the world is not producing enough, blaming cowardice for not facing the truth.
A critic notes that about half of divorces granted in Remo and Chicago may be fraudulent. The Pickford Moore suit highlights deplorable conditions. Houston is called a leading divorce city in the South, with no fraud charges yet.
The Houston Post notes high skunk skin prices at 9.50 and warns that Attorney General Palmer’s promised wolf hides may underperform. It argues that failure will end direct payments, though implicit costs could rise up to a thousand percent in future indirect charges.
The document lists William Gibbs Mc Adoo of New York for president and William Pettus Hobby of Texas for vice president as the proposed ticket. The text indicates a United States political context with two prominent figures and their states.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gregg and Mrs. Albert Hanneman and daughter Miss Lillian were visitors in the city today from Pitts Bridge.
A wry note suggests prices may rise to 100 dollars per bushel only if oil field workers return. Until then the speaker urges patience and cheerfulness.
The Eagle voices strong opposition to U S government support for any warring European nations. It argues America should stop aiding abroad and focus on self sufficiency to avoid prolonging conflict.
A Monday night talk at the Farm Boys Club and Steep Hollow, hosted by HH of the A M College, emphasized a farm youth with initiative as the future big achiever, noting a rising trend in the United States toward self-starting individuals.
A fragment suggests a new calomel tablet touted to remove nausea and danger from calomel. Mentioned are powder, wireless telegraphy, carriages, colorless iodine, and quinine with a nausealess variant on sale at stores for biliary constipation and indigestion.
Robert Needham, a Joliet burglar, has returned to the scene of his earlier crime. Police report details remain unclear as investigators review the incident and potential charges.
The fragment argues that preventing others from working and starvation are morally and legally wrong. It urges more production to save the world and states money alone does not ensure human comfort.
A brief note from the public affairs office in Washington expresses gratitude for the opportunity to compete and acknowledges the chance to achieve a favorable outcome. The message frames gratitude as a step toward success.
A fragment reflects on Houston deposits at 91 million and a flippant remark about wealth. The narrator quotes a speaker reveling in money and planning leisure, ending with a boast of having 13 dollars and a limousine.
A correspondent reports Amarillo plans a White Way guaranteed by June 1. The city is described as exceptionally cold with June nights likened to December elsewhere, recalling Canadian anecdotes from Kamloops to Medicine Hat about extreme cold.
The text notes Mayor W. A. Miller in Bryan where he was elected vice president of the A. and M. College board. It mentions a weather remark and a reference to Medicine Hat affecting his mood, presented in a nostalgic, light tone.
A mass meeting at the BAP Tabernacle organized a Young Peoples Federation for Bryan Texas. Mrs A J Buchanan presided with Oak McKenzie as secretary, a nominating committee named officers including Miss Margaret Zuber and Joe K Lawrence, and an advisory board from several churches.
Local leaders urge Kurten community youths to attend a 3 PM Saturday rally at Brazos County court house in Bryan to learn contest details for a free trip to the state fair. Banks donate 900 dollars to fund three boys from Brazos County, with enrollments planned across several towns including Edge Millican and Wellborn.
The New York Sun Herald and Dallas Galveston News report a growing presidential boom for Vice President Thomas R Marshall described as serious. The Eagle questions the word and notes Marshall as a close friend who presided at his own election in 1917, arguing none today witnessed such an event and that harsher outcomes have occurred in the past.
The Waco News Tribune notes Jim Ferguson, barred from Texas governorship, is a constitutional political orphan. It suggests a wordplay on Henry Clay with a one letter change to express a stance akin to “rather be right than president” and ends with a cryptic remark attributed to Charley Culbertson to Judge Gaines.
Ripley M. Easters of Kurten died at his home Wednesday afternoon after a long illness. He was 29 and survived by his wife, three young children, his parents, and four sisters. He was born and raised in the Kurten community.
Rev. Sample will fill his appointment here next Sunday afternoon and hold prayer meeting Sunday nights. Sunday school meets each Sunday. Ben Bond and family visited Steep Hollow church and called on daughter Mrs. Barnett who is very ill. Beals host Sunday guests. Mrs. Will George and family spent weekend at Whited home. Jessie Bond visiting sister at Steep Hollow. Floyd Richie Ed Beal called at Whited Sunday afternoon. Richie family and Lauren Richie shopped in Bryan Saturday.
May 10 issue notes few attendees at Friday social due to threatening weather. Reports Sunday birth to Mr and Mrs Ben Francis. Graduation exercises set for Monday night and a three act play “Single Life” to be staged May 15 with a long cast list from Tabor community.
Mr. J. W. Coulter is reported qruitzer again and his son W. J. Coulter, now aboard the Pacific voyage around the world, has been cabled at Yokohama to return at once. Mr. Coulter was somewhat better today.
The Trinity River is above flood stage in Dallas lowlands with the bottoms flooded and the river still rising. Interurban service between Fort Worth and Dallas is suspended temporarily as rains in the upper regions are expected to swell the river further.
John Wood of Lyons Burleson County died at Bryan hospital after a days long illness. The body was prepared by the McCulloch-Gordon Company and shipped to his home along the southbound Houston and Texas Central line yesterday afternoon.
An accidental shot from Dave Haile struck Jim Shempoon on the head but caused no serious injury. The incident prompted concern but left the gentleman unharmed and unstunned.
Galveston Texas May 10 What is said to be one of the fish ever captured in tropical Atlantic waters measures 28 inches and was taken by S H McDonald master of a fishing boat near the Campeche Banks off Mexico The fish has not yet been classified and is among the largest flying fish reported from the Atlantic Ocean officials say The Smithsonian Institution displays a 16 1 2 inch specimen as the largest Atlantic flying fish and a Pacific example is 18 inches long.
The American Party relocates its state headquarters from the Provident building to Temple Texas the home of Former Governor James E Ferguson a presidential candidate. Mr Hudson will run national and state campaign offices and the Temple office opens tomorrow with heavy mail and telegrams following Ferguson’s presidential announcement.
Chief C. E. Jenkins of the Bryan Fire Department received a 15.00 check from Levy Bros, formerly of this city and now in Houston, for appreciation of the department’s splendid work two days ago in the wareroom of B. H. Knox.
Brazos County Extension Service calls all boys and interested persons to a Bryan meeting to discuss the Texas Farm Boy Special educational tour planned for August. H. H. Williamson notes topics include itinerary details by the Extension Service and Texas Chamber of Commerce, with potential Detroit to Niagara Falls or Canada routes and a Lake Erie boat option. Banks in Brazos offer prize trips, led by First National Bryan, City National Bryan, and First State Bank Bryan.
County Clerk H O Ferguson lists nine marriage licenses issued in the past week. Couples include John D. Kernodle Jr and Ida Welch Wipprecht, Riley Thurman and Mary Davia, Clarence Robertson and Lizzie Penson, James H Vasquez and Carmel R Cacoi, Joseph J Andert and Clara Vesmirovski, Charles Thomas and Lizzie Jade, Henry Stanfield and Georgia Coleman, Henry Arnold and Liddie Marriott.
Civil docket lists trial dates from May 17 to June 15 with case numbers and parties. Notable entries include First National Bank of Bryan against Charity Cooper and against Commonwealth Fire Insurance Co, amid multiple against Allen Smith and others.
Navasota Texas May 13 The mosquito and malaria control drive has progressed with director W. E. issuing a notice urging citizen cooperation. The local population is actively supporting the program to curb mosquitoes and prevent malaria.
Mr and Mrs E A Peters of Harvey visited the city today. Mr and Mrs E L Myers and Mrs L M Haste of Wellborn were in Bryan today shopping.
Dallas May 3 Former United States Senator Joseph W Bailey declares he will stay in the race for governor to the end. Luther Nickles campaign manager for anti administration Democrats cites overwhelming Saturday precinct rule not reflected by the convention popular vote and reiterates Bailey's stance.
New Bedford Massachusetts May 3 Many textile workers joined a general strike reaching about twenty thousand operatives at thirty seven cotton cloth mills after loom fixers were ordered to operate more looms than before The strike follows earlier protests in support of the textile council which ordered two days of walkout.
Boston May 7 Governor Coolidge vetoed the 2.75 percent beer bill saying its passage would be hypocrisy and would bring no beer. He warned that acting on it would be treated as crime and said he opposed legislative deception.
In Muskogee Oklahoma on May 3 rescuers recovered thirty seven bodies from wrecked houses after a severe storm that demolished the town overnight. Reports from Talequah say twenty bodies were taken from a single building as a special train with doctors heads toward Talequah. Peggs lies fifteen miles from Talequah near the foothills.
Temple Texas May 13 Associated Press secretary A L Ward of the Texas Swine Breeders Association warns that hog production has not kept pace with population growth and urges higher quality, better feeding, and efficient, registered animals. He notes demand from Europe and Germany credit and stresses cost awareness and cooperation with livestock groups statewide to improve pork quality and sales.
Mrs FE Jenkins Mrs Lee J Rountree Mrs T A Pool Mrs J M Reed and Mrs G C Calahoun plus Rev P T Ramsey returned from Navasota where they attended the Woman's Missionary Conference for the Navasota district Rev Ramsey preached the opening sermon and delegates praised the conference and Navasota hospitality.
Mrs Sadie Peckham and her brother A J Robertson left for a few days to visit their brother W H Robertson in Bryan. The Navasota Examiner Review notes Mrs Peckham has returned to her home after a pleasant visit to W H Robertson and family.
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