City Council Transacts Routine Measures Last Night
City council met to finalize routine ordinances and approvals, including standard administrative items and public works housekeeping. No major policy shifts or contentious votes were reported.
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Newspaper
El Paso Daily Herald
Location
El Paso, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1900
Page
5
City council met to finalize routine ordinances and approvals, including standard administrative items and public works housekeeping. No major policy shifts or contentious votes were reported.
City council approves transfer of a sidewalk contract from Nick Carson to R C Lowell for the city hall loop. May tax collections reported at 3450 77, fines collected 1406, and multiple utility and service bills approved for payment.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer piece a novice narrator endures a delicate moral about practicing etiquette in private before wearing a high hat publicly. His wife insists on the hat for opera week, leading to comic incidents from fitting to riding the car and an eye opening finale.
Uncle Eli presents a fable where a wolf tricks a flock of sheep by claiming a trick to perform. The sheep imitate him, break formation, and the wolf seizes a lamb. Moral: always assume danger is present and avoid false confidence. Narrator M. Quan.
A retailer promotes One Minute Cough Cure as the safe, fast remedy to prevent consumption from a cough or cold. It claims immediate results for throat and lung troubles and is endorsed by mothers and children, via druggist Fred Schaefer.
A Civil War reminiscence recounts a 14 year old drummer boy of a Connecticut regiment crouching behind a log in tears after his first battle at Spottsylvania. He protests fear while explaining soldiers may take his life or “drain” if captured.
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