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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1915
Page
3
A special Western Union wire was installed today in the Bryan Cotton Exchange. A booth was built in the exchange rooms to serve members and cotton buyers, replacing prior reliance on external telegraph transmissions.
A humorous exchange about truth detection ends with a punchline on marriage. The Houston Post quips that an instrument to tell when a man lies is seen in marriage, tying to telegraph operations and local Western Union use.
Hon. Louis J. Wortham editor of the Fort Worth Star Telegram accepts invitation to address the fair. Secretary H L McKnight of the Commercial Club reports the invitation as part of the fair committee plans. Wortham, a leading state journalist, will deliver on the second day of the fair, October 14.
The Federal Reserve Banks report improved national business conditions. The Dallas district shows noticeable improvement from August. Texas cotton crop is estimated not to exceed 3,250,000 bales.
The first apportionment for the current scholastic year is expected to be no more than 25 cents per capita. Policy favors applying funds to the existing deficiency of one dollar per capita carried from last year, not paid until tax collections improve. Austin, Tex., Oct. 1.
Marshall Texas October 1 damage estimated at 7000 dollars from a fire that gutted the paint and coach shop store room and several cars of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company. The fire is believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion.
The Federal court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston will open next Monday October 4. Brazos County residents J. A. Myers W. L. Cross C. H. Mathis T. K. Lawrence and W. G. Reynolds have been summoned as jurors.
Roscoe Knowles suffered cuts on Main street Saturday afternoon in a difficulty but doctors report the wounds are not as serious as first feared and he is able to be up again.
Secretary of State Lansing began US probing to pick the Mexican faction best suited to govern. He heard Luis Cabrera Carrancista finance minister and Roberto Pesquiera adviser. Viillistas are set to be heard next week.
Al Butler, special agent for Sells-Floto Circus and Buffalo Bill's Original Wild West, touts a one day stand in town on Friday October 22. He boasts of star attractions, a clow n lineup, acting animals and a grand parade led by Buffalo Bill, urging townsfolk to attend circuses morning parade.
A reflective line on human imitation and virtue from Shakespeare notes that some of nature’s journeymen create men but fail to shape them well. The quote critiques shallow impersonation of humanity and moral failing.
The committee in charge of the sale of the $560 million Anglo-French bonds will make public the program late today. Known details include a sixty day underwriting life and deposits held with subscribers until needed, then withdrawn.
W. W. Harris Jr. has recovered rapidly from appendicitis surgery at Fountain Sanitarium and plans to resume his position at the Bryan Cotton Exchange on Monday October 4.
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