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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1901
Page
5
A collection of maxims exploring forgiveness, timing, knowledge, and action. Topics include the prudent fear of danger, the cost of generosity, the limits of wealth, and the value of honest speech with friends and foes. Several lines suggest humility, restraint, and mindful living.
A reflective piece argues against debt before seeking forgiveness, condemns the dominance of money, notes reformers leaving the church, questions the morality of Christian nations, and contrasts healing through work with hospital costs, suggesting labor as a path to fulfillment and critiquing plutocracy.
Washington July 22 A naval court of inquiry may be convened to examine Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley's conduct before and during the Santiago battle. The Navy would pick three senior officers, possibly including George Dewey and Ramsay, to ensure an impartial verdict. If Schley seeks libel action, facts may surface in court. A restrained approach is preferred to avoid injuring the service.
United States customs nab three men including a Mexican official and an El Paso tailor in a large contraband cigar plot. A dealer agreed to receive 15,000 Victor de Colon cigars monthly from Juarez, with the first shipment due last night.
Charles J. Swasey of Fort Worth received a letter from PF. 8. Wrenn of Minnehaha Arizona showing interest in Oro Mining company stock. The firm shows capital stock of 500000 with Swasey as vice president. Wrenn notes gold from the mines as highly valuable. Wrenn, formerly Galveston resident, lost much property in the September storm that devastated Island City.
The July 22 strike by brewery workers cripples all city breweries as Joseph Proebstle of Houston directs the action for the National Union of Union Brewery Workmen. The Central Trades and Labor Councils plan a special session to endorse the strike and call a general boycott of eight local breweries, with forty one unions in the central body aligned.
Major F. H. Bailey reports from Houston that Lamar Cotton Oil plans a modern fuel plant with National Supply Company of Chicago handling installation and Waters-Piere Oil supplying Beaumont fuel petroleum for 5000 to 7000 barrels, ready before the next crushing season.
In Tien Tsin July 22 Europeans warn rapid trouble may recur. China is seen as unbowed and unrepentant if Hung Chang uses a blunt tone toward a provisional government member and signals readiness to press the new regime. Cautious calls urge curbing telegraph wires.
A Albemarle dispatch reports John Smith and Joel Smith, cottonseed and fertilizer operators, have sold two plants to a joint venture that will combine their Georgia operations in Athens and Albemarle at a price of 62,000 pounds.
Mary E Dickinson surprised six men in Jack Bachelor’s place in Leavenworth Saturday night and used a hatchet to smash a policy wheel causing hundreds of dollars in damage.
The Transmississippi Commercial congress debated resolutions on forming a separate mining department and a commerce department in the president's cabinet. It urged river and reservoir projects, arid land reclamation bonds, and federal support for rail and harbor improvements. St Paul won the next congress on the first ballot.
W R Miller, a Chicago Metropolitan Elevated station night agent, was shot while resisting three armed robbers who demanded the day's receipts at 2 AM. Miller fired back, the robbers escaped, and Miller suffered multiple bullet wounds to arm and leg. Police arrived too late to catch the assailants. This marks the fourth attempted robbery against Miller within a year.
Dre Mc Collum and Dittabrant of Luling with one or two unnamed partners sink a shaft six miles east of Luling in search of silver gold lead and other minerals. Ore samples show 65 percent iron 2 12 percent silver with notable lead and some copper according to Dr Dittabrant.
Bay City Texas announces a new rice mill project with J Marks of Crowley and W T Goode of Kansas City forming Bay City Rice Mill Co with 50000 capital. They buy a 300 by 300 foot ground near Cane Belt depot to erect a 4 by 208 foot warehouse and later complete a full mill to back a large cash market.
The American Federation of Labor and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers discuss arbitration of the steel strike. The Federation and the Civic Federation may assist, with Theodore Shaffer and Samuel Gowers among the leaders named on the arbitration board.
The Missouri River eroded its banks eight miles south of Leavenworth and now spills into the Platte, widening the Platte bed and risking a permanent transfer of Missouri land to Kansas. An island five miles long and up to two miles wide has formed as waters diverge.
Dallas water supply grows more critical as daily use falls from 7,000,000 to 5,000,000 gallons. Planners add 500,000 gallons daily, install a boiler at Browder Springs in City Park, to feed the main pipes starting today or tomorrow.
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