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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1901
Page
7
A Chicago Record-Herald poem honors laborers as the article notes Alabama cotton workers earning 41 cents a day. It recalls battered hands, scarred by sacrifice, now offering prayers and memory of kindness. The piece praises humble labor and peaceful victories won by devoted workers.
The article analyzes Carroll D. Wright’s wage table showing daily pay differences for heaters, rollers, puddlers, and other workers across Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and other states, arguing tariffs do not fix a universal American wage scale. It compares U S and British wage trends, noting higher generally in prosperous nations and a rising then declining trend in the United Kingdom around 1900.
New England shoes fetch around 2.92 dollars daily for workers while German laborers earn 48 to 79 cents. The United States exports boots and shoes to Germany, with export value nearly doubling in 1901 from 1900, triggering German complaints over lower prices and higher quality from American producers.
William Pease of the Lake Seamen's Union in Chicago has been elected president of the International Seamen's Union of America. A German-born mariner who sailed on salt water at 15, he has served since 1897 as secretary of the Lake Seamen's Union and has long been active in Chicago labor groups.
The Pennsylvania Bureau of Mines reports 677 miners killed last year in that state. Labor groups condemn sweatshop methods watering stock and deceitful practices. The Utica Globe notes Birmingham Typographical Union council refused to abolish a rule expelling members for publishing falsehoods about others.
Investigations show Great Salt Lake in Utah fell fourteen feet in May 1865. The receding waters have exposed about 60,600 acres, roughly ten square miles, with the historic shoreline now nine miles beyond its 1860s position. The Civil War era was entirely water covered.
The advertisement extols Husteiner’s Stomach Bitters for fifty years of use curing dyspepsia indigestion biliousness nervousness and liver and kidney troubles. It promotes the product as a proven remedy and urges readers to try it.
The khedive of Egypt sent a mummy dating to two thousand years before the Christian era to Leo X. The pope accepted with humor and replied with an autographed letter acknowledging the gift.
An 1890s advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure promises a $100 reward for an incurable catarrh and endorses Cheney & Co. Toledo suppliers. It includes testimonials from West & Troax and Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists, claims internal blood action, and notes price per bottle with mail order.
Chauncey M. Depew now serves as director or trustee in seventy six corporations, with forty nine railroads. He acts as president of six companies and chairs six or seven others, making him the most connected figure in corporate boards nationwide.
Do You Eat Rice refers readers to request a Southern Pacific Rice Cook Book by sending ten cents in stamps to S. F. BR Morse, Assistant Passenger Traffic Manager, Southern Pacific Sunset Route, Houston, Texas, for a collection of two hundred rice recipes.
A Mobile citizen, once an inveterate tobacco chewer, reports success with a substitute cure. He stopped chewing tobacco and began chewing a pine stick, keeping the wood between his teeth during waking hours. He has not tasted tobacco in many years.
Advertisement notes Allen's Foote Kase powder tightens new shoes helping swollen hot feet and ingrown nails. Claims relief from corns bunions and foot pain with 25¢ retail and free trial by mail from Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy N Y. Also cites canned vegetable preservatives and lemon extract concerns with colored oils.
Brooklyn readers learn that Garfield Headache power is a quick cure for headaches, especially suited to nervous women, promising rapid relief and tailored to feminine needs.
The poet Austin Dobson, in early life, aimed to become an engineer and prepared for that career until his parents persuaded him to pursue civil service instead.
Advert reads Defiance Starch unavailable as grocer keeps stock for sale of 120 percent packages. Lie Nance Starch claimed superior to all others with 16 oz per package and price noted against 12 04 brands.
Germany reported exports to China exceeding 1.0 billion dollars last year while imports from China reached about 5.5 million pounds, reflecting a strong trade link between Berlin and Beijing.
An advertisement mix notes Defiance starch offering 16 for 0 cents and touts lasting use. It mentions rising demand for electrical ventilators in India and praises Piso’s Cure for Consumption. A Cripple Creek mine workforce figure, dye advertisements, andHamlin’s Wizard Oil touts are included along with oyster supply forecasts.
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