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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1900
Page
10
Public notice from Brewster County Texas seeks unknown owner and interested parties for lands in Alpine taxed for 1900. It details filing on September defined terms, summons to appear at the next district court term in Alpine to defend taxes and foreclose on delinquent land, with official seals and clerk attestations.
The State of Texas serves the heirs and unknown owners of Lot 2a Block 60 Alpine Brewster County in a delinquent land tax suit filed in District Court No. 189. The petition seeks recovery of state and county taxes for 1868 and directs publication in consecutive weeks to notify all interested parties to appear at the next regular term in September 1900 to show cause why judgment should not be entered.
Robert Crawford recounts his stay in Zanzibar where the sultan exhibited a palace full of clocks from many lands each kept at different times. The sultan adjusts island time by local clocks and even turns back the tower clock to eight when he wishes, effectively regulating time for the island.
An old farmer loses a pocketbook with a large sum at the station. A newsboy finds it and returns it, prompting heartfelt thanks. The farmer offers a quid of sour milk if the boy passes by his farmhouse.
The article recalls high prices paid for canaries and a famed Nor wick crested cock King of the Champions. It traces the canary’s European journey from the Canaries to Italy and Elba, then notes their breeding and rising popularity in cages. It also recounts a West Florida anecdote of Senator West facing an unlikely heckler.
A chaotic scene features a dozen ferocious steers stampeding until a half grown boy in a navy cap appears. His presence calms the herd as police and cowboys observe, puzzled by the boy guiding the steers away like lambs.
A lazy man with twenty helpers, a street corner writer, and a hotel life illustrates clever ease in earning income. The piece also notes infants dream before speaking, with signs of dreams seen weeks after birth and warnings to seek medical advice if infants awake distressed.
A short, observational piece notes that barnacles change with age from mobile larvae using eyes to settled adults attached to ships. As they age they lose eyesight, becoming fixtures on hulls where they cannot move or seek food, illustrating aging’s effect on function.
A snail paced race in Florence shows the fastest mollusk covering a mile in 14 days. A Charlestown gravestone in Burial Hill records Elizabeth Phillips Wile and Eleaser Phillips with a lengthy 18th century midwife tale and date details.
A garbled Chicago News item hints at a time limit and unclear debate over the phrase Emplover and O Toole. The readable fragments suggest confusion or satire in naming, with no clear event or outcome.
A New Orleans Times Democrat column recounts a man’s comic failed attempt to ride a St Charles avenue trolley gracefully. He crashes into a fat gentleman, a matron, and a rival conductor, losing his best girl and praising the streetcar curve as a social lesson.
Readings from the Philadelphia Record describe a curious urge felt by visitors near Niagara Falls to leap to death from bridges and observation points. Professor Lowe later offered an explanation involving electricity and magnetic earth currents. The piece also notes a habit of mixing French phrases into English and recalls a steamboatman’s tale of hearing the old Gen real Jackson song.
Walter Pulitzer in American Chess Magazine notes that Leibnitz and other great minds linked chess to mathematics and logic. He cites Euler Jaenish Proctor Andersen Steinitz and Lasker as figures who blend calculation with strategic play while acknowledging chess lacks the combative edge found in pure mathematics.
The narrator, a colonial traveler, recalls hiring a Hindu munshi in India who bitterly resented European arrogance. A simple task reveals caste norms as the munshi throws money on the ground to avoid touch, while the sweeper respectfully takes it, illustrating ritual purity rules and social distance.
In Boston a liquid air lecture drew crowds when a speaker spilled a dipperful on a girl, freezing her solid. The incident surprised observers and sparked talk about the extraordinary cold liquid air can produce.
A Buffalo lawyer and entomologist spends time searching for big and little bugs. A joke about snail Dodd Cound and Judge Byrnes description drew laughter, noting the lawyer’s famously slow movements.
A collage of snippets notes daily camp life with a cold bath jab and a wife’s playful jibe. A medical paper cites scarlet fever patterns in Asia and Africa. Julia’s banter about marriage reflects playful social insight. A real estate agent frets over buyers who demand perfection and distance to the city.
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