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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1897
Page
2
A compendium of brief items from The Weekly Banner including comments on the Dingley tariff, 1898 cotton prices, cabinet bills for 1899, remarks by Geo T. Jester, opinions on Cuban home rule, and stray notes from Texas papers about ships, Mexico’s population, San Angelo pearls, Cumberland jury duty, and newspaper readership among jurors.
The Nash vile Christian Advocate warns that judgments about others reveal one’s own heart. It cites Isaac Taylor on perception and mirrors to urge self examination before criticizing a friend or acquaintance. It argues sneerers, liars, and those who claim others have a price reveal their own corruption.
The article argues European powers show the claim to foreign lands as civilization’s reach. Germany seizes a port in China and eyes adjacent regions. Britain and France dispute western Africa and the Nile valley, with Egypt and Suez interests, risking possible conflict.
Galveston health officer Dr Fisher urges residents to use the first dry cold spell to air rooms bedding and clothing. The Galveston News endorses the advice noting dengue epidemics last summer and saying open doors and windows can help prevent future illness. airing is harmless and potentially protective.
A vintage advertisement touts Hall's Great Discovery as a universal remedy for kidney and bladder troubles. It claims to cure gravel diabetes and seminal emissions, strengthens the back, and regulates bladder issues in children. Sold by mail for $1 or by local druggists. Brenham Texas listed.
Berxuas Texas September 7 96 after years of kidney trouble and back pain this reader says Hall's Great Discovery was the first and only medicine that gave relief Yours W Waterss Decisive testimonial to relief from a long illness and pain with a closing sign off
At a Fall River general meeting the Cotton Manufacturer's Association voted a ten percent wage reduction for mill workers, affecting about 20,000 operatives, to take effect January 1, 1898. Teresa Serdoz of San Francisco died last week at 550 pounds. Napa Journal notes her remarkable size and burial details. Stockton shipments reach 110,000 sacks of potatoes so far this season, with about 66,000 sacks of onions shipped to Eastern cities from central California. Southern California also sends large vegetable volumes east annually.
A Kansas City Commercial club lecture by Judge Peak described Switzerland as a government marked by honesty and patriotism. The speaker linked public virtue to soil and climate and asked whether Swiss restraint would persist in easier lands or whether Americans would rise to higher morality amid abundance.
An old advertisement touts a treasure alluding to a “Bradfield Regulator” with claims of a final remedy, promising happiness and healing through scientific pens and years of use. It notes a free book titled Before it is Born available on application from The Bradfield Regulator Co in Atlanta Georgia.
Taken up by H J Neiast Long Point Texas one brown stag marked crop off left ear overbit in right ear and brindled blotched with 310 appraisal Estrayed before W R Ewing justice of the peace precinct No 3 Washington county.
Monroe Williams, a Washington county negro under a cattle theft indictment, escaped custody last December. Sheriff Palm traced him to Waxahachie where Williams was jailed, then returned to Bellville with the suspect. He faces trial next month after a prior attempted assault on a colored girl near Waxahachie and a violent beating by locals.
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