Cotton seed oil mill sought with inducements offered
Beaumont aims to sponsor a cotton seed oil mill and will grant substantial inducements to parties willing to erect it. President Paramore of the Texas and St. Louis railroad has accepted Pine Bluff Arkansas citizens’ proposal to locate the road’s machine and car shops there. The Sherman Iron Works reports handsome iron columns for Denison Greenville and Gainesville ready to ship. A sign-reading incident and a kidnapping scare in Dallas are noted, with storms damaging Wharton and a cyclonic event described. Demorest's Monthly June edition discusses foreign migrants and republican-ism concerns.
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Paramore
Texas & St. Louis Railroad
Pine Bluff
Arkansas
Sherman Iron Works
Denison
Greenville
Gainesville
Demorest’s
The Flux of Nations Immigrant Influx Through Atlantic Ports
A historical note on vast European immigration to America, predicting 900000 to 1000000 new arrivals this year. Germans and Italians flood New York ports, with farming migrants moving to Chicago via St Lawrence and the Great Lakes routes. The piece contrasts modern mass migration with ancient Barbarian invasions, highlighting steam and telegraph aided relocation using modern transit.
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Atlantic
New York
Italy
Atlantic Ocean
Chicago
St. Lawrence
The
Lakes
Grand Trunk Railway
Europe
America
First Livestock Imports to America Through History
The Irish Farmers Gazette details early importations into Virginia and New York from 1610 to 1625, noting cows, a bull, ewes, rams, and horses. It recalls De Soto’s Spanish horses and suggests massive growth of livestock by 1739 and 1879 with hundreds of millions of swine and cattle across the United States.
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United States
Irish Farmers’ Gazette
Virginia
Ireland
New York
Dutch West India Company
North America
Florida
Cabeca de Vace
Texas
Prairies
de Soto
Flanders
France
America
London Company
Britain
Sun Heat Heating System by Professor Morse at Essex Institute
Professor E. B. Morse of the Essex Institute describes a sun powered heating method using a blackened slate under glass on house exteriors. Heated air rises between slate and glass driving cooler room air out bottom and drawing in fresh air at top. Demonstrated in Morse's Salem cottage with strong potential for churches and schools in cold regions.
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E. 8. Morse
Essex Institute
Salem
Fatherly caution on stock moral test in a parlor tale
A father responds to his child planned to test his honesty about stock. The boy asks if a ten thousand dollar Wabash preferred bought at eighty could be dumped on an Elmira buyer at seventy to profit before September. The father reproves the moral risk and warns of consequences and curiosity.
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Dallas
McKinney
Wright
Mr. W
Kansas
Elmira
Sylvanus
A Vanderbilt Son Claim Reaches Texas Bootmaker
A Beaton street boot and shoe maker named W. Saner is revealed to be a Vanderbilt heir, a son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, after years of mystery. He traveled from America to Germany and back, evading authorities, and now plans to visit New York with evidence and an invitation from a reputed mother. He is about 25, has saved roughly $3000, and has drawn attention for a possible family likeness to the Vanderbilts.
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Beaton Street
W. Saner
Saner
Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
New York
Commodore
Lichenstein
Germany
Sauerman
America
Berlin
Paris
France
London
Philadelphia
Nashville
Texas
Sauer
Corsicana
Mr. Vanderbilt
Central
M Quad of the Detroit Free Press
Charles B. Lewis, famed as M. Quad, stars in a Detroit Free Press reputation as the paper’s humorous columnist. He is recognized nationwide for his wit under the M. Quad byline, a signature persona of the newspaper.
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Charles B. Lewis
Funny Man
The
Detroit Free Press
United States
M. Quad
Inertia and Motion in Everyday Experience
A discussion of inertia explains that objects at rest stay at rest and moving bodies keep moving unless acted on by external forces. Examples include rocks, earth’s rotation, a horse pulling a load, and a rider in a moving vehicle illustrating forward and backward motion due to inertia.
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Earth
Strange romances test a poor baker and a fickle wife
Gotlieb Weins from Hoboken loved Katharina Schmidt but could not marry. He sent for her to join him, yet she wed a confectioner with better prospects. Grief drove Gotlieb to madness, wrecking his life and business. Demorest's Monthly June issue.
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Gotlieb Weins
Germany
Katharina Schmidt
Gotlieb
Hoboken
Katharina
Demorest
New Railroad Aims to Link Kansas City to Gulf and Lumber Regions
Sabine Pass and Texas Northern Railroad plans a rail line from Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico to connect Beaumont and the Southeastern system, tapping vast long leaf pine timber and coal lands near Wachita County. The project, backed by R H Parks & Co and R Hibbard, cites three million dollars capital, 1400 acres at Beaumont, and rapid cattle car trials showing low shrinkage and strong cattle welfare on the six day journey.
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R. H. Parks
R. H. Parks & Co
Bankers and Brokers
New York
Sabine Pass
Texas Northern Railroad
R. Hibbard
Southern
Kansas City
Gulf of Mexico
Sabine
Neches
Wachita
Arkansas
Sabine River
Louisiana
Texas
Tyler
Marshall Texas
Iron Mountain
St. Louis
Cluff
Beaumont Mills
Marshall
Iran
Boomerang Publishing Faces Debt Over Worm Lozenges Ad
In a mock earnest note the Boomerang laments insolvency risk from a proposed one year electrotype worm lozenge advertisement. The agent demands multi column space daily and guarantees, with a peril of forfeiture if Vermitage mix is omitted, threatening a debt and possible mortgage.
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Boonerang Publishing Company
New York Live Stock Express Announces First Trip
Mr. 8. P. Tallman, president of the New York Live Stock Express Company, releases a statement detailing the inaugural journey of the company’s cars and the early progress of the venture.
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8. P. Tallman
New York Live Stock Express Company
Texas life and railways described by Colonel Murphy visit
Colonel Charles J. Murphy, a former Civil War officer, discusses his Texas life in Brownsville. He notes a growing population, rising land values, fertile crops, and a network of eight railroads crossing the Rio Grande. He also mentions plans to deepen Galveston Bay with $250,000 and Brownsville’s 30,000 residents.
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Charles J. Murphy
Rio Grande
Texas
Washington
Congressman Young
South
Emery
Brownsville
Missouri Pacific
Texas Pacific
Southern Pacific
Mexican National
International
New York
Texas & Mexican
Sunset
Matamoras
Monterey
Bay of
Galveston
United States
Emeralds on Wisdom and Hypocrisy in Plain Talk
The speaker argues true wisdom comes with gravity and humor with pathos. They claim one great man at a time suffices, criticize hypocrites as worse than infidels, and state ideals are mere smoke from ideas while honesty remains a principle and honor a refined sentiment.
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Young, Palo Pinto
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Tom F. Brim
Graham, Young Co
J . P. Orr
Law & Real Estate Agt
Throckmorton, Texas
R Hollingsworth
Graham, Texas
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Side Square
D* BR
N. Paice
Graham Texas
Ryus’ Drug Store
Drury, M. D
Doug
North Oak Street
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Yous Meisterhans
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Sikes
Weatherford
Mammy Sikes
Jeryus
Brick Drug Store
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Houston
Benketeras
Nacogdoches
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Shreveport
Marshal, Texas
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John V. Farwell
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A. ©. Babcock
Mathias Schnell
Rock Island
Illinois
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Capitol
Wharton
Fifth Michigan Cavalry
Department of the Missouri
G. M. Dodge
Fort Leavenworth
Mississippi
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Texas Railroad Building
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Boston
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