Hearne Northbound and Southbound Time Table and Local News
Local news notes from Hearne include rental listings at Templeman’s House for rent, Miss Mabe visiting Dallas, and various residents visiting from Houston Dallas Marlin Navasota Wickson Wellborn and Edge. The rail time table shows northbound No 1 3 and southbound No 2 4 with arrivals and departures between Hearne and San Antonio. Special show tonight at the opera house features Dewey’s Paragraph and Edison’s Maniscope with school admission. General Stoddard leaves for Pittsburg Pa to attend Knight Templars meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hearne
San Antonio
D. E. Smith
Cottonwood
Karnes City
P. D. Smith
Opera House
Dewey
Edison
General Stoddard
Pittsburg
Knight Templars Grand Commandery
Grand Commandery
United States
Huge discharge of volunteer officers flagged in war dept order
The War Department issued a broad order granting honorable discharges to 29 volunteer army officers, including three major generals and 26 brigadier generals, with promotions from the regular army returning to their prior duties. The move reflects a 50 percent reduction in the volunteer force and follows campaigns in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
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Washinton
War Department
Volunteer Army
Regular Army
John J. Coppinger
Hamilton
Hawkins
Insect Drinker Butterflies Attract Males For Water
Observations by J. W. Tutt published in the South London Entomological Society report show butterflies and moths drink more water than their tissues need. Polyommatus damon females rarely drink while males feed extensively from puddles and streams, suggesting drinking has become a vice.
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J. W. Tutt
South London Entomological and Natural History Society
Tutt
Polyommatus Damon
Mr. Tutt
Letter From Santiago From Hood's Immunes
Mrs. Geo W Higgs receives a letter from her brother Hile Campbell in Santiago de Cuba. He reports 500 sick in his regiment, says he is improving, works feeding Cubans under Governor Wood, commands about 28 men, and notes high prices and heat. He plans to seek a furlough to return home and has learned some Spanish.
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Geo. W. Higgs
Hile Campbell
Hood
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba
Music From Heaven Bells and Chimes Decline
A columnist argues bells and chimes in churches are obsolete nuisances causing sleep loss and health complaints. He cites New York cases and suggests reviving a German practice of daily church summons by four trombone players from a tower three times daily.
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New York
Board of Health
Stuttgart
Children as Grammarians
Two young siblings anxiously awaited an uncle’s visit. The train arrived without him, prompting the mother’s comfort and a witty grammatical correction from the 5 year old who insists the word should be shooder rather than oughter.
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Ned Oughter
Oughter
Shooder
New York Tribune
New York Storyteller and Indian Buffalo Joke
London Sun cites a humor exchange about an American boy claiming never to have seen an Indian era buffalo. The item mentions an English firm in Sheffield with a 3800 year lineage in a single building dating to 1750. It also notes Jain fasting feats and Austrian city growth from fifty years ago to today.
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New York
Buffalo
London Sun
Sheffield
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Sam Sancer
Bryan
Miss Mabe! Board
Dal- Is
Templeman’s House
John B. Mike
Lillie Hanson
Houston
Ira Gooch
B. J. Haygood
Whittaker
Harvey Armstrong
Dallas
McClelland Place
Sue McClelland
Templeman & Son
W. W. Sangster
Navasota
J. W. Bandy
Madison County
J. M. Slaughter
John Payne
Edge
C. F. Moore
Dana
Laula Coulter
Beulah Powers
Marlin
Marie Mistrot
Seth Mooring
F. W. McConnico
J. H. Phillips
Wickson
Eagle
D. B. Knox
Gussie Kyle
F.C. Cain
M. & P. Bank
Nall
Michael
Millican
Mattie Smith
J. N. Goodwin
Wellborn
J. L. Bountain
F. C. Cain
Berwick Bay
Parsons’ Restaurant
G. A. Knapp
Calvert
Richard Bailey
J. N. Mustachia
Temple‘man’s
John B. Stetson
Webb Bros
Ponce
Porto Rico
Grant
Walker
Washington
William M. Walker
Lafferty
Camp Wikoff
War Investigating Commission
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
San Francisco
Pacific
Astoria
Ore
Pigeon Point
Morse
Professor Morse
Great Eastern
Atlantic
Fulton Ironworks
New Orleans
Klondike
Wynnewood
I. T
Morrow and Young
Ada
Joseph Murray
Fort Collins
Colo
Pribyloff Islands
Mr. Murray
Tyler
Tyler Foundry and Machine Company
Kaufman
Nat Airheart
Ira Keith
Kemp
Major Sayers
Fort Worth
Waco
Waco, Tex
É. F. Randolph
Madisonville
A.B. McSwain
R. B. Templeman & Son
The
Eagle and
Meteor
H. J. MacNair
Forum
Europe
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Santiago
Music From Heaven
India
Austria
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