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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1919
Page
3
Nebraska's high court hears arguments over a law barring foreign languages from instruction below ninth grade and permitting languages in higher grades. Churches and parochial schools oppose the measure as a restraint on religious liberty and parental rights.
Paris reports complete returns from most districts show conservatives and moderates plus nationalist elements winning in the chamber of deputies. Mention of a bowel regulator ad inserted within the same item highlights fictional health copy.
Vladivostok reports a memorandum presenting Czeschoslovak positions on the Siberian situation. It accuses Omsk military authorities of tolerating village burnings mass killings and mass arrests of civilians and political dissidents. The note warns the world and holds the Communist authorities responsible for the violence.
Vice President E. J. Jenkins presided at the chamber of commerce gathering as trade extension topics were discussed including Turkey Day and efforts to broaden Bryan’s trade territory. Attendees supported pursuing ventures that bring outsiders to town, noting town benefits. The absence of the club president and secretary left no new business, but the session reflected Bryan merchants’ drive to boost local prosperity.
Berlin November 1 Hindenburg and Ludendorff will attend tomorrow's meeting of the subcommittee of the national assembly investigating responsibility for the war. Military authorities have provisions to forestall demonstrations as tensions rise in both reactionary and liberal camps.
In McKinney Texas on November 18 Negro cotton pickers earning six to fifteen dollars a day for nine hours refused to work unless farmers provide automobile transport to fields and back. A farmer offering wagon transport was rejected as unworthy. Advertised pay remains three dollars per hundred pounds with auto transport.
In Bangs district Brownwood Texas farmers spread hay and sorghum pulp over mudholes on roads between Brownwood and Bangs. Drivers report safer passage after treatment as timbers laid across mudholes supported only a single crossing before sinking.
Austin reports a blanket permit to transport intoxicating liquor by all Texas railroads under federal control will be issued when the form is approved by the attorney general and the state comptroller announces progress. Surgeons urge prompt first treatment with antiseptics for cuts burns bruises and wounds. Borozone is advertised as an antiseptic and healing agent sold by Jenkins' Drug Store and M. H. James.
Braos County Texas sheriff notes two real estate sales orders from 1919. The Mary Dorsey property Lot 3 Block 210 in Bryan is levied for City of Bryan. Hannah Nolan and Mannan Ngian parcels also listed for sale by public auction at the Brazos County Courthouse between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on the first Tuesday in December 1919, with publication in Bryan Eagle.
In Brazos County on November 3 1919 I L B Texas levied on Eva Lindsey estate for debt 26.62 plus costs. Real estate Lot 13 14 Block 8 Halls Addition Bryan to be sold December 2 1919 at Brazos County Courthouse for cash to highest bidder. L BE MOREHEAD Deputy Sheriff.
The State of Texas seeks forty nine dollars and two cents plus costs under case No. 7937. Eugene White is levied upon in Bryan Brazos County. On the first Tuesday in December 1919 between 10 am and 6 pm the Court House door will sell Lot 3 Block 35 in Bryan for cash to satisfy the judgment.
On November 8 1919 Brazos County sheriff L B Morehead announces the foreclosure sale of Henrietta McCall’s real estate Lot 4 Block 145 City of Bryan Brazos County Texas by public auction at the courthouse door on the first Tuesday in December 1919. The case No 7934 requires payment of forty three dollars and twenty three cents plus costs.
Brazos County court clerk reports a judgment for City of Bryan for 345.60 dollars plus costs against Willie Baker. A lot in Block 151, Lot 5, City of Bryan, Brazos County, is levied upon as the property to satisfy the judgment. The sale is set for the first Tuesday in December 1919 at the Brazos County Courthouse door in Bryan.
The State of Lexas rewards a sum of 32.75 dollars plus costs in a suit No 7940, tied to Charity Cooper Lot 9 Block 166 City, with a levy and order of sale dated the first Tuesday in December 1919, listing Charity Cooper as owner. L E Morehead.
The court in Brazos County issues a sale notice for the estate of Nancy Grays. On November 3, 1919, a levy was placed on the south half of Lot 5 in Black property and the first Tuesday in December 1919 is set for the sale at the courthouse door.
The sum of $21.46 with costs, in suit No. 7951, against Zelphia Anderson, was levied on Lot 6 in Block 68, City of Bryan, Brazos County, Texas. On the first Tuesday the house door of Brazos County will sell the property of Zelphia Anderson as ordered by the court and published in the Brazos County paper.
Cyrus Hogan samples a supply from Cole the grocer offering fresh fodder and feed options for daily use in poultry keeping across the year.
obscure ad fragment touts a product named Bromo Quizine with Grove’s box signature. reads as promotional copy noting influenza and colds and a claimed remedy.
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