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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1900
Page
2
A terse miscellany recalls Dewey's logo, a Kentucky gift of blue crace, and U S Canal fortifications tied to Central American unrest. It notes Rockefeller's pledge to fund Denison University with matching gifts and mocks misprinted clippings amid political humor and fiscal chatter.
Admiral Dewey urged Congress to grant pensions to widows and dependents of officers who served with him at Manila Bay. The bills would provide 200 dollars monthly for Captain Charles V. Gridley’s widow, 100 dollars for Commander BE B. Wood’s widow, 50 dollars for Lieutenant Thomas M. Brumley’s mother, and 100 dollars for Captain Henry EB. Nichola’s widow. The piece also highlights Quincy Michigan church growth after a lone member resisted dissolution and helped preserve the Presbyterian church.
In Washington a division machine multiplies and divides with precision. A six figure multiplicand and large multiplier become a typed result after a few handle turns. The device promises emancipation from multiplication table tedium, though such hope is praised as premature.
The old Indian known as Strike-the-Kettle served as a scout protecting the United States frontier. Wounded in a fight with his own people he stayed to guard during a Dakota prairie fire at Standing Rock. Memorial Day honors honor and a missionary wife Winona laid a wreath on his grave.
Margot receives two letters amid a hot July day by the Thames. The wealthy Sir Peter proposes, but Cecil’s taunting note and a moral clash push Margot to face love, duty, and sacrifice within the Forrester household. Cecil reappears, urging honesty as Margot contemplates whom she truly loves and what her future holds.
A returning miner recalls the early Cape Nome placer fields where gold dust and nuggets were stored in improvised containers. Five gallon kerosene cans, soup tureens, boots, gas pipes and even stockings held gold with no strong-boxes. One miner used a stovepipe waistcoat to store gold and another a stovepipe joint as a dumping tube, netting about 90 pounds in a season.
A Chicago Lincoln Park animal house holds over thirty guinea pigs alongside rats and mice. Rats feed at grain cribs in the annex basement and roam freely while the guinea pigs remain in a corner cage. The not-open-to-public facility houses other small animals and highlights the misnamed origin of guinea pigs, linked to Guinea and South America.
Jubos harbor in Puerto Rico on the southeast coast is described as large and deep enough for ships of all drafts but needing better entrance. It has commercial value and strategic military importance, offering shelter and screening. A naval fleet could block European expeditions toward Cuba, the isthmus canal, or the Pacific coast, likened to Malta in the east.
A short aphoristic line notes roles of public figures, comparing a minister who pairs or joins and a policeman who peels or removes obstacles, framed as a quirky classification of duties.
Text warns consumers against cheap kalsomines and impostors claiming to offer the same product. Alabastine Co asserts its wall coating is a pure durable material mixed with cold water and denounces dealers selling cheap substitutes that may cause damage and legal risk.
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