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Newspaper
Houston Daily Post
Location
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1901
Page
4
The document lists the Houston Printing Company office details at 1701 1103 1105 1107 and 1109 Franklin Avenue with telephone numbers for Business Editorial Daily and Sunday and subscription rates. It names R M Johnston and G J Palmer as part of the office staff.
Notice lists multiple distribution points for the Traveling Texans paper across cities including New York Buffalo Chicago St. Louis Los Angeles Denver and Omaha. Vendors such as Charles Hotel News Stand Union Square New York Oliver & Harris Denver Harmiston & Kendrick Denver and Mergerth Stationery Omaha are named.
Boston Traveler notes C D Borden of New York exposed Fall River mills for aiming to cut operatives wages to provoke a strike. He urges fair discussion of necessities and warns against willful wage reductions. local mill leaders accuse him of upsetting the status quo amid labor tensions.
A colonial dispatch critiques Mr Chamberlain's defence of Kitchener's devastations in South Africa. It compares British tactics to American actions against natives and Indians, questioning motives, precedent, and moral justification. The piece argues to consider the wider imperial pattern and argues for consistency with earlier British conduct.
The passage argues that the American and English jingos share a common concept of patriotism. It claims both are convenient sentiments used to justify greed and covetousness behind political actions.
Broadside accuses subsidy promoters of planning to rush a bill through Congress to create a monopoly benefiting favored shipbuilders and ocean interests. It notes Senators Cullom Frye Hanna and Representative Grosvenor tied to the effort, with Maine's Hofield likely to steer the measure.
Reports indicate wireless telegraphic stations are being set up along the Gulf of St Lawrence as a broad expansion of communication infrastructure. The article notes concurrent global shifts in travel and labor interpretations, linking technology to regional development.
Home print scraps reveal a mosaic of humorous quotes and gossip from various papers. Bits mention the Tenaha New Era’s bold style, a Morston Port quip, fashion and flirtation musings, a Paris dress mishap, and timeworn jokes about editors, historians, and dating etiquette.
A fragmented survey notes Anna Tracy Morgan daughter of J Pierpont Morgan managing investments and law interests. Teresa Labriata becomes Italy’s first woman lawyer since Portia, studying at Rome University and lecturing with her father and brother. Mary Eastman appointed Smith College registrar, Ruth Donovan wins Oklahoma land lottery prize, and a guardian is appointed for the child heir of Judge Donovan. England sees a temperance figure Arthur Bertrand Russell backing a chair of renunciation at London University to counter Birmingham University’s brewing chair.
Frienidls of George G Vext of Missouri press a push to return him to the United States senate despite his announced retirement. Prof Sylvester Waterhouse resigns after forty four years at Washington University St Louis. Kerr, aging London official, plans pension dispute settle at thirteen thousand annually. Gogol anniversary memorial planned in Moscow on March 2 1602. Union County farmer B Weddington died leaving land to three faithful colored servants and giving rest to Methodist church.
Mrs. Allien, widow of Morse Lorillard, vows to accept a million dollars from T Suffern Tiles. The Lorillards will not fund obituary poetry about papa.
Washington observers foresee a split between Senators Quay of Pennsylvania and Platt of New York over the 1904 Republican nomination. Platt backs Governor Odell and Roosevelt faces rival factions. Quay backs Roosevelt, aiming to keep party unity. The looming conflict could shape New York and national delegates, with larger bets on Odell’s New York support and Roosevelt’s continued bid.
Fragmentary text describes historical railway conditions and traveler anxieties about long journeys. It hints at will making before trips and contrasts early train unreliability with later improvements, but the passage is garbled and local details are unclear.
Fragmented verses recount rural scenes of creekside days, rooks, robins, and catbirds. Nostalgic lines evoke childhood summers, nature sounds, and simple joys with scattered oddities and stray phrases.
A fashion item describes a graceful deep batiste gown with four tucked skirts and circular lines at the knees. It features black velvet ribbons, toupis, frills, and tiny crusted highlights, with a simple corsage and a sher white china crepe overdress trimmed in black bows and embroidery.
Instructions describe extracting perfume by steeping blossom petals in oil then pressing, aging with spirits for three weeks, and bottling. The piece also notes a vegetarian banquet menu and discusses cost saving, followed by a peach shortcake recipe concept and hints of seasonal dessert ideas.
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