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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1900
Page
10
A sprawling antiquated column offers sweeping, caricatured contrasts between Chinese life and Western norms. It details faux etiquette, household customs, childbearing, dress, language quirks, and bizarre remedies in a speculative portrait of China and its people.
In Philadelphia a fountain at the Twenty first district police station on Thirty seventh street and Woodlawn avenue drew sparrows to its metal swan. After the swan was painted bright red the birds fled in alarm, held a noisy council, then returned, with bold birds testing the water while others remain cautious.
Southern Pacific settlements evolve as Britain annexes the Solomon Islands and the Pacific Islands company of London secures a two hundred thousand acre lease. The deal signals a shift toward fee-simple style rights and hints at a rising Australian trade role with Sydney as the company’s main office.
Cle ment Scott recalls Canton China describing a maze like city built on water with boats as streets and alleys. The foreigner is locked outside the walls, with curfews and gates guarding sections while natives live inside. Only tourists and travelers cross the barrier.
The article argues the Gulf of Mexico event ranks among the era’s most devastating tidal catastrophes. It compares to Norway and Britain coastlines, cites Lincolnshire’s 1571 flood, and notes earthquakes often accompany such waves. It warns Texas’s disaster may exceed past memory in scale and impact.
A historical overview explains how tropical cyclones form in the North Atlantic near the Windward Islands with sunset winds and latent heat driving development. It cites the Gulf track, high barometer deflecting storms, and Galveston’s exposure. The piece then shifts to Americans' love of speed, noting swift trains and ships, the Deutschland record, and Franklin's time is money axiom.
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