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Newspaper
Dallas Herald
Location
Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1872
Page
1
Dolles Nov 11 1871 Guilott and Co advertise themselves as tin workers and harness makers in Erath County. The notice promises reliable labor and invites the public to seek their services, noting long experience and readiness to serve customers with practical tools and repairs.
Carrier Eugene W Swindells urges readers to support the Dallas Herald with friendly letters and gifts while critiquing tariffs and politics. He blends New Year wishes with social commentary on taxation race relations and the republic’s future, urging patience and unity as the carrier promises future greetings.
The piece details an oil painting of Bow er the bowie knife inventor by Neely, praised for lifelike detail. It mentions the Capitol museum in Washington and a Texas Legislature purchase offer of 500 dollars that wartime halted. It also references a picture of Governor J Pinkney Henderson and a political meeting about recent killings labeled unprovoked and barbaric. It notes a Japanese theater troupe planning in New Orleans.
The clipping notes that valuable company books were burned but essential maps survived for railroad work. It mentions iron in New Orleans awaiting shipment, a Sulphur bridge costing 34000, and a 8000 initial estimate paid. The rest recites anecdotes, literary praise for The Vicar of Wakefield, and a printer’s anecdote about reprinting an old Bible for a country woman.
A Southern paper denounces press coverage that lists attendees and details of ladies outfits at a ball in Austin. It argues such publicity erodes modesty, encourages ostentation, and harms young women by fueling public scrutiny and rivalry. The piece criticizes the Houston Telegraph for promoting fashion descriptions and calls for restraint.
A fragmentary 19th century poem praising a battlefield scene with a marching bugler and fallen soldiers. The text adopts a patriotic tone, describing sharpshooter fire, charges, and the burial of a fallen rider as comrades mourn and honor the dead.
A narrator sits by a murmuring brook watching a symbolic river of boats. The gilded barge labeled National Democratic Convention is outpaced by a daring steamship emblematic of reform, while Liberty appears on a riverbank urging the crews toward a hopeful upward current.
The article argues army expenditures of about 44 million dollars for 30,000 troops average 1 400 dollars per man. It questions the need for a large standing army in peacetime, cites no foreign war, and suggests army use for political policing, suppressing dissent, and enforcing order at home. It warns against imperial police roles and proposes downsizing to a minimal force for barracks work and crisis response only.
Taal A Setter from Eagle Pass notes that Pedro Naldez acting for President Juarez crossed into Piedras Negras, several shots fired, three killed. A skirmish near the town edge followed as Falegn’s revolutionary party challenged Joarer control. Reports mention ongoing violence, troop movements, and foreigner-friendly diplomacy amid river-border upheaval.
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