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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1897
Page
8
The Weekly Banner notes a new California grain harvester with a 52 foot front that reaps threshes and sacks 180 bushels of wheat per hour. Other items mention ground broken for Aransas Pass depot in Yoakum and T H Wahrenberger’s Cuban tobacco on two acres yielding 800 and 200 pounds per acre.
Prof Snyder of the University of Minnesota argues fall plowing preserves soil humus and nitrogen by slowing nitrification, noting the process continues late in fall and year round in the South, and that timing avoids interference with next year’s water supply. The Texas Stockman and Farmer adds hogs require lime from wood ashes when grain is scarce, and young stock need grain or by products for inorganic growth materials.
Two masked men with Winchesters robbed Holekalhe's saloon in Comfort Texas last Friday night at 11:30. They lined seven or eight patrons on the sidewalk while one robber covered them and the other took money and valuables from the till and patrons before fleeing.
The piece describes yellow fever fear in an infected Southern town with signs of panic, militia cordons, and quarantines. It contrasts historic fever terror with today’s lower death rate while noting business continues at infected points in Galveston and Houston.
President Schurman defended President Andrews of Brown University amid recent controversy. He argued absolute academic freedom overrides majority rule, urging professors to pursue truth and present both sides without corporate interference. The address spans support for free inquiry and rejection of coercion in education.
Rufus Sanders reflects on the perilous path of life and racing labor. He notes that fortunes rise and fall, and even when conditions seem favorable a washout or crash can occur. The message emphasizes hardship and risk in a blunt, moral tone.
A Missouri wife has sold her husband to another woman for four thousand dollars. The piece notes that he must have been a good husband to fetch that price and contrasts with many men who would bring far less in an open market.
E J Schall of Meyer Bros Drug Co. in St Louis extols Chamberlain's Pain Balm after treating his son's badly lacerated hand. He calls it unmatched for wounds sprains swelling and rheumatism and a household necessity. Sold by BR. E Luho.
Christmas on the town calendar looks uncertain as theaters and circuses face delays amid ongoing yellow fever concerns and public health fears.
Heavy rains hit Oklahoma and Indian Territory but relief may come too late to benefit fall crops in the region, with concerns that the downpour arrived after critical growing periods.
A Chicago Record editor, famed for declaring the more a man has the more he desires, is noted as the father of two sets of twins.
The 13th annual fair of the Gillespie County Fair Association is held in Fredericksburg. Exhibits are reported full and very fine, showcasing a range of entries and community participation.
The Confederate camp at Hillsboro organized a drive to free Mac Stewart from a Mexican prison. They collected 356.75 and forwarded the funds Tuesday to O. C. Drew in Houston, custodian of the Mac Stewart fund.
A row of satirical quips on money gender and manners. Jokes note that mean men are rich by some, a divorced woman becomes a widow but cannot avoid grass, and money talks with blunt grammar.
The piece condemns frequent surgical operations as overused and risky. It argues many procedures are unnecessary and fail to cure blood diseases or cancers, noting doctors err and cancer cannot be cut from the blood. The rhetoric appealing to readers’ common sense questions surgery’s primacy in treating deep-seated illnesses.
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