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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1903
Page
3
Henderson, Freeman and Fowler announce a new Milam County Abstract and Loan Office offering prompt abstracts of burned and current records and connections to multiple loan sources. They advertise low rate land security loans and options for large or small sums.
A new display of hats arrives with a beautiful millinery line and the prettiest hack hats Cameron has seen. Shoppers are invited to visit and see for themselves, with a promise of purchase once views the collection.
Trains carrying through sleepers for St Louis and free chair cars for Dallas depart Cameron at 1:50 am. Trains with through sleepers and free chair cars for San Antonio depart Cameron at 2:10 am. All five units connect at Waco. A A P routes to northern points. Rates and information available from agents J Startin A E Weymouth Geo F Lupton. San Antonio Texas.
Reep and Bavuknicur publish highest cash prices for eggs butter chickens green and dry hides and beeswax at their market. Local buyers monitor these rates for pricing signals and supply decisions in the trade.
An old advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic noting its plainly printed ingredients iron and quinine. It promises “No Cure, No Pay” and lists the price as 50 cents.
General Miles praises a Civil War regiment for its fearless dash as shells rained. The raw troops held line while their youthful commander rode out, waved his sword, and cried move up, do you want to live forever, a scene Miles deems a specimen of utterly abandoned courage.
A terse notice from W. K. Dickinson invites buyers to sell fleshy yearlings, dry cows, and 2 and 38 year old steers. The offer implies a livestock trade intention with no additional details.
Advertising copy by H A Tisdale of Summerton DC testifies that after twenty years of piles and failures from doctors, DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cured him. It touts healing properties with antiseptics and emollients for piles sores cuts eczema and skin diseases. Thomas Moore.
Daily buyers seek Bucklen's Arnica Salve for burns cuts and sores. It claims to cure eruptions salt rheum boils corns and warts with a rest cure on earth. Available for 95 cents at Thomas Moore's drug store. Carriage and sign painting offered. Jim Coleman.
A senate speech by Senator Doliver angrily claims he is weary of being led by Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island. Aldrich has dominated Republican colleagues for years, and Doliver notes the strain as a near betrayal to resist that leadership.
In reply to Senator Doliver of Iowa, Senator Aldrich asks what the Dingly law reciprocity provision means and whether it implies surrendering U S industries to the greed of western agriculture and manufacturing interests. The exchange highlights the reciprocity clause’s interpretation.
The Philadelphia Record reports the sugar lobby in Washington approves Cuban reciprocity only if sugar duties are not cut for five years. It notes the people's elected representatives, the government’s diplomats, and final treaty decisions rest with concentrated interests.
Monday before last the banks of OC. N. Fleager & Co. in Jacksonville failed to open. United States Marshal Geo W Eason took charge and found 10 cents in the vault. Forged notes in large sums appeared, liabilities may exceed 150000 with few assets. A New York bank lost 10000 and a Houston bank suffered as well. Proprietors escaped. no safeguard protects private banks.
Senator Scott of West Virginia predicts Roosevelt's Cuban reciprocity plan will fail. Some Republican senators push the treaty as an excuse, arguing it would interfere with the Dingley tariff act, which is itself criticized for lacking integrity. The claim seems aimed at aligning with powerful interests.
Washington correspondent reports that Roosevelt views Taft as a rival to the 1904 nomination and thus supports Taft remaining civil governor of the Philippines. Wood may be sent to the Philippines while Taft loses a bid for the supreme bench and may retire gradually from the Philippine governorship.
A 30 day loan arrangement is set with Mark Shuffield and a call to arrange repayment. The matter specifies a 30 day term and requests direct contact to finalize terms.
Last week three German warships bombarded the Venezuelan fort at San Carlos. The battery returned fire and the commandant declared he could hold out indefinitely after the second attack.
Backstrom advises rotating chickens into bare vegetable plots to reduce predatory insects in spring. He recommends plowing, refeeding the flock, and keeping them longer, then burning leftover stalks to deny hibernating insects shelter. Early manure spreading helps freeze pests twice.
An auction sale of town lots at Maypeak has been postponed. Details on new date and venue were not provided in the readable text.
The Chicago Chronicle questions why coal tariffs were quickly lifted for consumers while meat and wool tariffs remain. It notes cattle and swine duties per head and per pound, plus wool duties ranging 50 to 100 percent, urging equal consideration for all consumer taxes.
Mr Grosvenor of Ohio and Champ Clark of Missouri debated election figures showing Democrats could win in 2004. Clark argued few thousand vote shifts in key states could alter the presidency while a Maryland Republican asked if lawmakers would act. Clark replied that Republicans would be in the treasury up to the armpits.
The article notes conflicting reports on Southern Pacific engines switching to oil and back to coal due to fire box wear. It also mentions a proposed 200 foot obelisk on Cape Cod as a possible world landmark memorial to future mariners.
In Brittany, a highly centralized region of France, the bishop of Quimper reports 110 parishes lack any child able to receive French religious instruction and another town has only twelve of 150 who understand French. This prompted rumors that the French premier ordered priests to stop teaching in the Breton language.
In Sydney and Melbourne a strict rule prohibits drivers from exceeding a walk pace near any church during Sunday services. Fines were common in the past but have become rare as locals and even horses seem to slow down during church times.
A former Philadelphian now in Chicago who visits friends in town wrote a single line 450 feet long on telegraph tape to fulfill a promise of a “good long letter.” He began at one end and continued to the wooden center, using thin white tape paper from ticking machines.
Albert Chase died at the National Soldiers' Home in Togus Maine on Saturday. He was sergeant of the guard at the Washington Navy Yard bridge the night Lincoln was killed and he detained Booth for a time before Booth escaped. Chase received part of the Booth reward.
The article discusses whether George Washington qualified as a millionaire. It cites Paul Leicester Ford’s view that Washington was worth 530000 dollars, not counting his wife’s property, which included Curtis holdings of land near Williamsburg, city lots, enslaved people, and bonds estimated around 20000 pounds. Patsy Curtis’s 1773 death increased the estate by about 10000 pounds.
A New York correspondent notes W. d. Washington, a civil deputy inventor, bears a striking facial resemblance to George Washington. Artist Funk painted a portrait after Washington posed in colonial attire, with most observers mistaking the living figure for the Father of His Country. Washington has been involved with notable sociological movements in New York.
A South African correspondent details how Boer commander Kritzinger exploited his English to mislead British troops. In one episode he rode a charge claiming Marl Marshall’s Horse pursued him, delaying a blockhouse advance. Another night he rode in an English captain’s garb guiding a silent crossing.
The Worth Division of the International and Great Northern Railroad has been postponed from Thursday February 6 to a later date. Announcement will be made by the company at the I and G N depot in Maypearl.
Minister Wu Ting-fang is at work on a book about his impressions of America. He will publish the first volume in England for U S circulation and later print a Chinese edition. He declines interview about the coal strike to focus on writing.
The text treats consumption as a weed to weaken lungs and advises early treatment. It promotes Scott's Emulsion as the best lung fertilizer, with fresh air and good diet as essential parts of the remedy, urging prompt action before the disease worsens.
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