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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1895
Page
1
Goucu and Hooks announce they have purchased the Mc Williams barber shop furnishings and goodwill and solicit local patronage at the same location promising to satisfy all customers with courteous service and attention.
Virginia C. Gardiner writes in the New York Independent that life offered Love Fame and Joy but the speaker rejects them. Life finally offers the gifts of duty and use, claiming them as the best. The poem reflects on fulfillment through service rather than personal appetites.
Mrs. Perry Thorne seeks country life for health and change while Perry wavers. They move into a suburban row with Mrs. Smead. A burglar scare ends in comic rescue as Perry returns on the train to find the library guest revealed as neighbor Mr. Smead.
In a divorce court exchange Mrs Smead accuses her husband of misreading directions while he quips about boxing the compass. Maud, Perry, and the Smeads brighten the scene as a train farewell hints at reconciliation and a new household arrangement.
Drowning of Julius Koehler at Cuero DeWitt county reported along with a fatal tree fall near Waco. A German peddler robbed near Reagan Falls county. In Atascosa a kin killing at Bluntzer ranch. A drunken worker run over near Seguin with body split. A San Antonio street car finds an infant girl baby with unknown mother. Triplets born near Sulphur Springs Faith Hope and Charity named. A Navasota minister’s cow calves multiple times with two surviving calves.
Mrs. Cook wins an injunction against her ex husband Hugh Cook. Judge Goodrich orders jail for violation. County Judge Jenkins grants a writ of habeas corpus. Expected interest from Waco lawyers and citizens as the case unfolds.
A violent tornado near Newton Kansas on Sun night wrecked four Newton houses and destroyed many farm buildings. At least twenty five people were injured and seven died. The report also mentions a London editor and a Perry Oklahoma connection, plus other local incidents including a fatal fall from a windmill and burglaries in nearby towns.
The city longs for a new morning paper as Waco loses Associated Press service and shuts down the Morning News. Business leaders seek capital to start a plant at once. Other items note El Paso rangers enforcing gambling laws, a faint hope for new cotton sales in Giddings, and local tragedies including a boy shooting another and a hand injury from a shotgun shell explosion.
A string of calamities is reported including earthquakes in Springfield Missouri and Laibach Austria, collapses at St Louis trench and a Chicago scaffold, drownings in Beverly New Jersey and Head Island Ford Tennessee, a fatal fall at Guthrie Oklahoma, and a bank closure in Cloverdale Indiana.
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