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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1897
Page
2
The item notes two Boston poets have agreed to walk across the Atlantic Ocean using pneumatic boots. It also reports a floating dock sold by Spain to England for $1,000,000 is now submerged near Havana, with suspicions that Cuban forces sank it.
The Leesburg Virginia area reports a mysterious shower of ducks as the town lines claim prosperity is here. Local observers note this unusual rainfall follows earlier rains of fish and frogs in a historic sequence.
The editor argues that publishing the names of rejected suitors in wedding notices pressures the groom and shames those spurned, claiming it inflates the groom’s ego and shames others who boasted of being first.
The passage advises giving your best to others to inspire reciprocation. It cautions that rudeness or selfish treatment from you invites similar reactions and urges self-reflection when friends become careless or disrespectful.
Huntsville inmates start a humorous paper noting grammar and criminal wordplay with jokes about long sentences and syntax. A jail escape note mocks haste and a bad pen, reflecting inmates’ wit in the new publication.
A Havannah correspondent in the London Daily Chronicle argues Sagasta is too late and Weyler’s regime has driven half of Cuba into exile and the other half into resistance. He calls the central provinces a desert and says sugar needs English and American capital, urging U S intervention to end the inferno.
The Planters Journal urges teaching agriculture in public schools in rural areas, noting agricultural colleges graduate teachers and proposing fallback teachers aided by textbooks. It also critiques a Treasury plan for currency reform and cites views on “sound money” and bank notes, calling the scheme favorable to banks and critical of Bryanite positions.
Physicians note confusion in diagnosing dyspepsia as symptoms vary. An advertised cure by Browns claims success in many diseases of the stomach blood and nerves, offered by R E Luh druggist.
By virtue of an attachment issued from the district court of Galveston County Sheriff Teague Saturday levied on about thirty acres of land belonging to R. R. Anderson of Navasota to satisfy a claim of Wallis Landes & Co of Galveston for 1887.39.
The Brentham Oil and Manufacturing Co will power a large dynamo for a ten hour test starting Saturday night to verify its capacity for the lights specified in the sale. C L Warren of Sandusky Ohio will represent the maker with S A Hobson and C W Hobson of Waco Texas acting as agents on site. J R Cox from the Brentham plant will oversee the proceedings.
The Knights of Honor No 410 held elections and installed officers led by W Wilking reappointed as president with J R Williamson as secretary and D B Williams as treasurer. Guardian and trustees were also named among the new slate.
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