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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1901
Page
2
Local notice from Snarr Bros and Pub’s and Prop’s in Alpine Texas details a community business update or listing likely concerning property or publication activities in Alpine with names of involved firms. The fragment notes a public notices context and multiple local business entities.
An official notes France will arm all colonial troops with weapons similar to those used by the home army. The year shows fewer marine disasters, possibly due to disappearing sailing weasels as steamers handle peril better. A hotelkeeper owns 4 000 match boxes and has furniture made from them by a cabinetmaker.
The census indicates New England and New York lose population while Ohio and Indiana rise slightly. Growth occurs in states farther west with healthy expansion in newer agricultural regions. Cities and larger towns must drive increases in older states. Both city and country grow in the newer agricultural areas.
A Marvard club of Japan dinner celebrated Min tester Komura returning from St. Petersburg en route to China. Minister Kurino from Paris attended, and Baron Kaneko was appointed minister of Justice. All were educated at Harvard, illustrating western learning spread and Harvard influence.
The piece recalls the founding of the national capital in Washington and cites an early letter preserved by the Library of Congress. It describes the city as well situated on the great post-road, equidistant from the Union's northern and southern ends and near the Atlantic to Fort Pitt. It notes the writer could not foresee future territorial extensions.
The Carlisle students represented college football with notable spirit and sportsmanship. Their games were as competitive as any, with clean play and unchallenged umpire decisions. Defeats were accepted with dignity, earning admiration beyond the gridiron.
whispers tell of a dead mother’s face on a white house pillar when the president learned of his mother’s death. former senate pages recall a shadow resembling Washington between Capitol pillars and the copper Freedom statue’s bell like Philadelphia’s. ghosts said to roam marble halls at night.
The article depicts a robin in the south during winter being fed China berries that intoxicate it, causing drunken behavior. Northern visitors learn of mass killings of songbirds for meat, with robins sold 20 to 30 cents a dozen and torched roosts by night, amid calls for protective laws.
Allen Ingree writes in Ainslee’s Magazine about the Zanzibar slave trade during the interwar period. The piece details dhow raids, sea-borne trafficking to Arabia, and the capture of Boran and Masai women, with Wakikuyu raids worsening the slave market and Arab intermediaries profiting from freed or enslaved individuals.
Berlin correspondent lauds American consuls writing up reports for manufacturers and notes three publication forms: advance sheets, monthly consular reports, and special reports. Mason, Berlin consul general, is praised. The piece contrasts English and German administration of consulates and urges Britain to imitate American efficiency. Science notes humans blink about 60,000 times daily, totaling about 19 million yearly and about 7,200 miles of eyelid travel in a fifty year lifetime.
Correspondence from Frances M Anderson and others extols Peruna as a cure for la grippe and its after effects. Letters claim rapid recovery and improved hearing and health after two to three bottles. Readers urged to write Dr Hartman for free advice if unsatisfied with Peruna results.
In 1857 Brussels introduced the Nolet system of electric clocks. About one hundred clocks were installed at various locations and connected to a central master clock, marking an early use of electric time service over forty years ago.
The country’s manufacturing potters plan a memorial for John Hart Brewer’s pottery development work. They aim to raise about 3000 dollars from roughly 100 factories with a five dollar per kiln contribution, with leaders possibly adding extra gifts.
The guide advises that on wide public stairs a woman and man should share the same step to provide mutual support. In ordinary home stairways with limited room, the woman should ascend slightly ahead of her escort and descend a few steps behind him.
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