21 Jun 1899
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Newspaper
El Paso Daily Herald
Location
El Paso, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1899
Page
1
The Daily Herald explains carrier delivery areas in El Paso Texas Juarez Mexico and at the El Paso smelting works. Rates are fifteen cents per week or sixty cents per month. Subscribers missing issues should call at the office or telephone No. 115 for prompt attention.
Rates of advertising in the Daily or Weekly Herald will be made known upon application at the business office. Those who prefer can have a representative call to quote prices and make contracts for space. Call telephone No. 115. Classified advertisements ten cents per line for first insertion and five cents for each additional insertion. Special rates for five hundred or one thousand lines of local, to be used in one month, upon application.
Advertisers must submit copy for ads to the business office no later than 10 am to ensure proper changes. The notice stresses early submission to avoid delays and keeps a strict cutoff time for processing.
The article notes widespread strikes over higher wages, mostly in mining and city transit, with few among railroads. It argues strikes reflect robust demand, that prosperity is real, and that workers strike at peak conditions to secure larger labor shares while opportunities persist.
The article argues the currency standard is unsettled and the banking system fails rural west and south communities. It predicts reforms within years to expand issue banks with lower capital to supply farmers and small merchants without crop liens, addressing inequitable value distribution.
The article argues that great trusts with watered stock will mainly harm gullible inventors and investors. It contends that common stock serves as bait, earnings not shared, and predicts trusts will eventually collapse as in past speculative schemes.
A dispatch recalls prospectors venturing to the Klondike seeking urban comforts. They found scarcity and hardship, reporting meals of beans and bacon and only ice for dessert, after craving Delmonico’s like city life.
The speaker argues any attempt to buy Ireland would cause a bigger problem than the Philippines. England would not part with the Emerald Isle easily, as royal family members could lose positions. The idea is deemed impractical and undesirable.
Commencing Sunday June 11 the Queen & Crescent Route will add an cafe dining car from Atalla Alabama to Radford Virginia on the New Orleans to New York summer service. Passengers may order meals à la carte and pay only for what they order with appealing scenery along Chattanooga and the Cumberland Ridge. Through trains from Shreveport Monroe and Vicksburg connect at Meridian for this service.
The clipping reports widespread live stock movement and market activity. It notes about 1000 head of horses shipped from Midland in three months, large wool and cattle shipments from Holbrook, and 8000 sheep this week. Prices and futures are discussed, with drought affecting Cheyenne and Texas herds, and cattle numbers in Texas and the United States highlighted. It covers hog marketing, rail shipments, and the wool market amid trust fears, plus notes on cattle stock and breaking methods for colts.
General Galleni, hailed upon his return by France after three years of pacification work in Madagascar, rose from captain of marines in 1875 to influence Ahmadou on the Upper Niger and Senegal. His patient negotiation opened Timbuctoo access, and in 1886 he quelled the Bambarras and struck a blow at Samory.
Arkansas mourns former governor Baxter as a friend recalls a life of stark contradictions. He left home and state as a noncombatant, was arrested by friends as a traitor, escaped prison, then returned as a ruler and master, a non party man drawn to Republican politics and ultimately aiding the Democratic party to power.
Thomas A Scott guided Andrew Carnegie early in his career as a telegraph operator in Scotts office showing frugality and industry. He also selected Frank Thomson from Pennsylvnia railroad engineers and set him on a challenging path he would master.
El Paso Grocery Co promotes Pillsbury's Best Flour as the best in the world, highlighting a strong endorsement and shopper appeal for the product.
The Southern Pacific is the only line to California points offering through coaches to California without change. It runs tourist sleepers El Paso to Los Angeles and San Francisco, pullman palace cars direct to those cities, and buffet cars for meals on board. Seventeen hours shorter to Los Angeles than other lines with no nightly car changes. El Paso Daily Herald announces this for travelers seeking rest on the Pacific Coast.
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