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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1930
Page
4
A circulating petition on behalf of organized labor in Bryan claims about 50 percent of city union workers across crafts are unemployed. It urges prioritizing local labor on two new school buildings where work has begun, while cautioning against pushing wages beyond current market levels.
Senator Tom Connally urged ending the lame duck system to let November elected lawmakers begin their terms in January. He argued delays hinder timely action on current issues and noted state legislators seat changes occur earlier, calling for constitutional or procedural changes to improve government efficiency.
The Christian Science Monitor reflects on Chicago’s stance against rackets and gangsters, noting public reaction to Judge John H. Lyle and the electorate’s demand for stronger action. It highlights political dynamics, local vs federal prosecutions, and the city’s search for effective crime control amid rising taxes and corruption concerns. The piece ends with civic notices and a brief social reminder about Red Cross and an upcoming event.
New York dispatch describes editors wrestling with theft of story ideas and lifted plots, noting Poe and De Maupassant works reprinted, translators used, and writers accused yet often not caught. It cites incidents across magazines, with cases of affidavits, jail, and costly edits, and reflects on authorial misconduct and the difficulty of policing print.
The Bryan post office and all departments will be closed all day Thursday November 27 for Thanksgiving. P M Charles Myers issues notice. Daily Eagle wart ads offer services and urge readers to try stem for results.
The local American Legion Auxiliary will gather used toys and materials to aid the Bry an Girl Scouts in repairs before handing them to Good Cheer for Christmas distribution. Committees for the year were named at a LaSalle hotel meeting with Mrs. J. E. Stanford presiding. The annual Christmas party is set for December 19, with Mrs. Morris Sebastian as arrangements chair. 65 new members or reinstatements were reported toward a 106-member quota.
Mre. M. E. Wallace led a Woman's Club meeting program on Canada and Newfoundland at the club house. Miss Clem Lenair Richardson sang The Sands o Dee with Mrs. C. W. Simmons at the piano. Mrs. R. H. Seale gave a paper on The Spell of French Canada focusing on Quebec as a colonial and current French influence center. Miss Rogers offered a three minute talk on Quebec’s artful cathedrals and Thousand Isles along the St Lawrence River, plus notes on Newfoundland sealing and iceberg patrols.
A summary of talks covered the Canadian Royal Mounted Police along the coast and its patrol systems. Mrs. A Benbow led the remarks while Mrs. Thomas Lundin contributed on related duties and programs. Next week the group will discuss Holland including home life art and industries.
The city of Bryan has received a new 5 ton tractor and will systematically level and grade dirt streets for winter. Ditches will be opened and other necessary work performed to put streets in good condition.
Intend to marry filings list Elmo Horton Annie B Horton of Madison county and K R Davis Sara Newton Idhmeal Nelson Alphie Williams Samuel Hines Verna Hunter of Brazos county with County Clerk Jess B McGee on Wednesday.
A devotional note quotes Romans 12 2 urging believers not to conform to the world but to be transformed by renewal of the mind so they may discern what is good pleasing and perfect in God's will.
A selection of notes from 25 years past includes Hearst supporters accusing Tammany Hall of 30 000 illegal votes and 80 000 legal votes disregarded in New York, plus editorials on youth crime in Texas courts and lax home discipline. Deposits in Bryan banks total 1 017 000 dollars. Also mentions visits by Miss Lilla Graham Melinnis and Agnes Pfiefer kidnapping, a Rock Island train collector for a widow, a romantic English nobleman who wrote I Hang My Harp on a Willow Tree before Queen Victoria’s reign.
The text argues that a city thrives when citizens unite for better business and advertising. It traces a chain from merchants advertising to purchasing, production, employment, and earnings, ending with a call to resume business as usual to sustain the economy.
A reflective piece wonders how Ma Jenkins and her kitchen broom might have shaped a life if she had pursued a different career. It contrasts youth disdaining older people with envy of ordinary domestic skill. The narrator recalls neighbors Jenny, Ster, Bud and Joe as the salt of the earth and questions missed possibilities.
The Houston Chronicle editorial argues rural Texas education lags urban systems with seven month terms and many one room schools. It calls for renovation, higher pay, and consolidation to modernize facilities, library upgrades, and qualified teachers, noting a half million rural children lack high school access.
The piece celebrates aging through Ma Jenkins, noting worn hands stained by dishwater and the marks of service. It argues wrinkles and gray hair reflect life’s trials, not lack of beauty, urging reverence for elders and the lessons their years offer to younger generations.
Fort Worth Nov 26 Sam Louder 56 negro was jailed in Tarrant county on murder charge for admitting he shot Evans Johnson 22 Arlington night watchman who went to his home to arrest him for disturbing the peace at 5 am Johnson fired a pistol wound to hand and neck as he fled across the street to a car and collapsed dying Mohair style: The report notes the gun used was a German pistol.
Mrs Claude De Van Watts state president of the WCTU urges ending convict whipping as a penitentiary remedy at the state convention in Houston. The writer opposes abolition of lashes, arguing discipline at home and school prevents crime and predicts a push to build a modern prison hotel for inmates. The note credits LES AKERS with signed sentiment at the end.
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