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Newspaper
Brenham Daily Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1902
Page
3
A Philadelphia man advocates planting nut bearing trees in public squares and concrete to teach boys honor in troubled neighborhoods. He imagines the trees would belong to them, and damage to their own property would be avoided until ripe nuts are harvested under city supervision for a new festival.
A Parisian barber patented an electric safety razor with revolving blades and low current. The device was initially popular but patrons reported blue chins and scorching pain from electric burns. The barber now faces numerous damage lawsuits.
Medical journals claim sunshine rivals syrup of poppies for sleep, with Inudanum as the worst. The piece urges poor sleepers to spend hours in sun, noting many women unknowingly deny sun exposure by veils and sunshades, hindering strength, beauty, and cheerfulness.
Thousands of wild horels roam the Boboquavart country in Arizona. They descend from the mountains in bands, stampeding stock and tearing up water holes. They move in great crowds and after watering return to the mountains as if haunted. Each day they travel twenty to twenty five miles, leaving the range torn by saucer shaped hoofs.
Officials in Cape Colony order residents to curb cock crowing by night. No more than one male fowl of crowing age may be kept after the 18th inst. The prohibition targets nuisance caused by nightly crowing.
Mrs F M Smith wife of the borax king to build a phil anthropic institution for girls homes in ten cottages housing 100 girls. Homeless girls of all ages will form the colony and be cared for in the new facility.
Sale offers good black land hay at 19 dollars per ton. Sixty five bales available at home. Hay is short but nutritious and weighs about seventy pounds per bale. Buckhorn Texas contact Sam B Pier.
Fragmentary text describes a vessel found at seven fathoms depth, forty feet long, oak construction with iron fittings. References King Alfred the Great and historic sea craft, but details are incomplete and unclear from the damaged OCR.
Geneva now derives all public and private lighting and traction power from the Rhone river as it leaves Lake Leman, with massive unused potential remaining. Electric railways and lights are supplied by water falls, and heat and power can be further drawn from the source.
The New York Evening Post notes symmetric tree planting along East Seventy-second and East Forty-ninth streets. Neighborhood clubs formed under the Tree Planting Association drive street improvements and urban beautification. A key contributor is described as a single energetic woman.
In a Times pointer to the season, numerous bathing dolls appear as realistic tub dolls made of celluloid and Parian. The items are sold across price points from 10 cents to 2.60 dollars, with the full bathing outfit costing more.
The enormous salmon output of the season lets American canners flood Canadian markets. Canadian law bans traps, but Washington and Oregon permit them, enabling exports to Canada at 2 to 3 cents per fish, far below the 10 to 16 cents Canadians historically paid.
Announcement of sale of Hodde grocery business and opening of Aug Brockschmidt & Co on February 1 1902 at Alamo avenue and Douglass Street. New firm will run staple and fancy groceries serving local and country trade with Aug Brockschmidt and F Buckhorn as partners.
A fragment notes Kenna and Mayes in a local pastorate dispute. The item hints at an appointment, a holdover, and an ideal church arrangement without full dates or clear names. Readable details suggest governance questions within a small community.
Multiple brief notices include rental offers near Kent and Ewing place, a Jersey milk dairy power sale with calf, claims against Fritz Finke deceased for adjustment, tax payment deadlines with penalties, plant offerings in Brenham, and city fruit cake ingredients at Hacker & Wehrmann's.
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