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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1901
Page
7
The excerpt surveys shifts in industry and daily life with satire and brief notices. It mentions coal trade tensions between collier owners and unions, electric locomotives threatening steam, patent tonics like Hostetters Bitters, scientific curios about Portugal’s king and ichthyology, cycling among British bishops, and local philanthropy offering land for a consumptives home.
Multiple counties report rains and thriving crops while chinch bugs threaten corn and potatoes. Farmers ship cattle and hogs to markets in Kansas City Fort Worth and New Orleans. Wheat oats and cabbage prices noted along with large cattle and blackberry shipments and water rights in New Mexico.
A compact reflection on how the Greeks and Romans shaped the calendar. It notes that Greeks used three equal parts of the month while Romans divided it into three unequal portions, and suggests borrowing from the East for a week.
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