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Newspaper
Houston Daily Post
Location
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1902
Page
6
The Houston Daily Post lists subscription details and delivery assurances. It notes traveling agents and offices for the printing company, with a strong emphasis on authorized distributors and notification procedures for missed papers.
Eastern capital seeks Texas investments as many mills report orders ahead but warn against false promises. The piece argues Texans should fund ventures at home, resist special concessions, and trust Texas laws to foster legitimate enterprises for shared profits.
Testimony on brutal twelve hour day pay of 1.57 for firemen and 1.26 for other laborers, six days a week with every other Sunday night shift. Rev Hussle condemns inhuman conditions and wages, warning such toil corrupts citizens and society.
The passage argues anarchism stems from a fundamental threat to the common welfare beyond capital and labor disputes. It warns that a responsible government must address this disease at the vitals or face serious consequences to political health.
A critique of President Roosevelt and the Spanish American War era argues that true greatness lies in justice fidelity and stable purpose rather than military power. It emphasizes self development, national restraint, and cautious policy, warning against militaristic vanity and urging sober citizen deliberation.
A collection of jumbled phrases references sidewalks law homestead citizens and political digressions. Mentions turkey Christmas dreams of citizenship and Buffalo Bill tours with a satirical tone. Contains stray lines about taxes strikes and international maneuvers with garbled names and events.
The notice chronicles Cooper’s birth in Caldwell county Kentucky on May 30 1850 his move to Texas with his family to Woodville in Tyler county and his legal career from clerking at sixteen to forming the firm Nicks Hobby Cooper. It notes his political ascent including Tyler county clerk and state legislature elections.
The subject, after serving in the Eighteenth legislature era, was elected president pro tempore of the Senate, later appointed collector of internal revenue for the First district of Texas by President Cleveland, and repeatedly re elected to the Fifty third through Fifty seventh congresses, winning 25 777 votes to 336 for J B Wallace socialist democrat.
Editorials from the Herald to the New York Sun quote Grover Cleveland urging tariff reform and trust smashing while warning against expediency. Writers note his steady stance, amid mixed reactions, with Appleton and Toledo papers commenting on his influence and practical politics.
A compilation of terse editorial takes from Texas papers criticizing politicians, media, and business practices. Notes call for backbone in officials, warn against corruption, praise agriculture, and urge state ownership of water plants. Authors include Yoakum Times Denison Durald Cumby Rustler and others.
The San Antonio Chronicle cites lines from Poe and Markham on the Coliseum and New Republic while noting a northern electorate flocking to the same old ticket amid monopoly talk. It reflects on political behavior and literary references in a clipped press item.
A Greenville Herald note recalls a man who lacks time to read papers and stamps a hurried message in the corner of an envelope while sending a letter.
Humorous verse fragment in dialect notes cold night scene with chickens turk turkey and a speaker wishing Thad split wood. A joke about a Hungarian diet asks What is the Hungarian diet and answers Limburger garlic and beer.
The fragmentary text shows a sudden strike ending amid jumbled dialogue about legacy and action. A character notes a Kropp cannon works inheritance while another urges making a noise in the world, reflecting a tense shift from idle caution to bold change.
A Pennsylvania farmer awoke to strange noises and found two men drunk and asleep near his cider mill. The odd scene ends with a humorous note about carrying a bear for a hunting trip, and references a presidential hunting plan.
A collage of anecdotes and quotations from Denison and Houston papers recounting scandals, strikes, oddities, and local color. Topics include a bankrupt named John Sullivan with a brewery creditor, a shell of jokes about a drummer and a maid, Houston oyster formaldehyde rumors, a streetcar strike, and rural oddities about giant radishes and a china-connected hole.
Fragmented notes praise a Texan carnival as a masterpiece amid festivities and water troubles. Mentions Claridge and side shows, with the Houston Post described as the era’s leading paper in a bustling, if murky, 19th century-tinged reflection.
A reader quotes a debate over Mr Jones and Rev Sam Jimes on Abraham Lincoln as orator and man. The piece discusses Lincoln’s character, qualifications, and legacy, contrasting Jones’s defense with the writer’s own assessment, citing Gettysburg and Webster as benchmarks.
The Houston Post issued a monster seventy six page Sunday edition with heavy advertising and strong coast country readership. The Texas coast and Houston area benefit from the paper's energy and enterprise and the Southwest publication scene looks bright.
Judge Miller in Lake Charles fined four men row each or three months in jail for carrying pistols. Mayor Langham in Beau Month fined a man 207 for the same offense as authorities crack down on pistol toters.
The Galveston murder case of Virgil Gallaher, who killed his mother in 1897, has been moved to San Antonio for trial on change of venue. The transfer follows a request by the defense and will be heard in the new venue.
Fragmentary text describes the seventh of eight trial proceedings, mentions numerous witnesses in Galveston, notes a reversal and venue change, and hints at ongoing fidelity to due process amid a matricide case. Also references local publications and scattered remarks on other 19th century topics.
Fragmentary text hints at Roosevelt aiming for a treaty or accord involving Colombia and McKinley era terms. Mentions Colombia seeking a bargain and references to patching or expressing eight points. Context appears historic but obscured in garbled OCR.
A fragmentary row from Sherman Courier and Denison Herald notes scattered items including a Kosse Cyclone reference, a Paris News comparison, and remarks about Tom Johnson's politics. The text mixes terse phrases and misread words with no clear event or outcome.
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