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Newspaper
Houston Daily Post
Location
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1902
Page
4
The Houston Post lists offices at 1101 1103 1108 1107 1109 Franklin Ave Houston TX and outlines subscription rates advertising collectors and city distribution. It directs correspondence to The Houston Post and warns subscribers to report missed delivery promptly with papers to arrive by 6:46 a.m.
An inventory of the Fifty seventh Congress shows a billion dollar session with notable laws like the Philippine civil government bill and the irrigation act. Critics fault anti trust and tariff policies and predict a Democratic gains in fall elections as Republicans drift from platform ideals.
The Harvard alumni dinner in Cambridge featured a Roosevelt eulogy praising Leonard Wood Taft and Elihu Root. The piece questions the president's tributes, cites sun god imagery and critiques the figures' virtues, suggesting political theater over measured praise.
In praise of Consul Albion W. Tourgee now in Bordeaux, the piece imagines forming an epicurean order to honor culinary merit. It extols Bordeaux wines and pato de foie gras, while countering myths about diseased goose livers with vivid, satirical rhetoric.
The author pleads for consuls to adopt active, useful investigations like Tourgee rather than focus on dry statistical compilations in official reports. The text hints at improved cultural and dietary matters as part of national service.
A reader from Taylor Texas urges immediate economy and self reliance after rain ends a long dry spell. He stresses living within means, avoiding debt, building cash reserves, and planting fall gardens to ensure food and feed for stock through winter and into next year.
Respondents urge district residents to heed famine relief tips and extend help in other directions. They express hope all residents will make a concerted effort to implement the suggestions, trusting merchants will supply seeds without profit to aid the effort.
Editorial from the Charleston News and Courier argues Republican leaders fail to enact Cuban reciprocity due to Eastern interests and sugar beet protections. It traces opposition among 19 senators, notes Platt Amendment ties, and assigns party responsibility for unmet pledges to Cuba and U.S. farmers.
Eugene Field frames a nocturnal wind as judge of bad deeds. The poem recalls a mother's warning and urges children to confess after misdeeds. The wind speaks in eerie calls like Yooo and Yooaroo, shaping a moral tale through a haunting night air.
The Gainesville Register cites The Terrell Transcript quoting The Houston Post arguing Bryan and Cleveland clash on money policy and coinage. It says the Post supports free coinage while opposing bank currency and urges Democrats to unite for a harmonious future.
The Greenville Morning Herald notes the effort to rally all dissident party elements to a populist rest and criticizes The Post for resisting Republican money policies. It argues a small faction should not dictate Democratic policy for six million Bryan voters.
A compilation of humorous and pointed clippings ranges from a labor of parenting costs to raise boys to speculative notes on future Texas papers. It cites Navisota Review on parental investment, Arizona Kicker echoes, fruit pest control with Indy bugs, shifted murder trials in Galveston and DeWitt, Nat Q. Henderson’s political bid, and quips about General Smith and local editorials.
The column cites varied opinions on Ohio figures Tom Johnson and John R. McLean while citing remarks about Harriet Lane Johnston and King Edward. It notes Olney’s swift dismissal of a presidential boom and comments on Cleveland Bryan politics within the Democratic Party.
L T Van Cleve of Oklahoma City runs for congressional delegate on the prohibition ticket as the party’s first nominee in the Territory. The St Petersburg civil court awards Mile Sarkisowa $50000 after a railway accident knocked out five front teeth on the Transcaucasian line. Henry H Callen returns to Newark after fifteen years in South America with a renowned tropical butterfly collection. Adee returns to Washington after six weeks bicycling in Southern France. Palma’s $15 donation to poor Havana residents inflates to $600 in US reports. Prophet Dowie is guarded in his Zion enclave as a resident considers arrest rather than quitting smoking. William T Smiley of Cowgill marries Carrie Boison, a printer on the Cowgill Enquirer, after a brief courtship. Smiley will run the Kidder Dispatch and his wife will manage the Enquirer.
Dr Freer of Michigan reports a promising antiseptic for cholera and intestinal diseases. The British government seeks details as the claim spreads through medical circles. Cocoanut plantations flourish along Philippine shores despite typhoons. Palestine Syria area is bounded by 16 miles and 50 miles wide with 108000 square miles. A Halifax factory inspector recalls seeking a joiners planeing machine.
A lullaby scene unfolds as a mother and father cradle children, describe the night garden, and kiss the tender fingers. Brief verses follow about a parrot story, a villain, wild oats, a missionary joke, and two quick quips about airships and Santos-Dumont.
A Texas murder case involving A. E. Batson who killed six members of the Earl family near Welsh is reversed on a new trial ruling. The piece notes mixed reactions to justice, lynching, and critics of Texas law, with broad commentary on other regional incidents and figures.
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