Houston Daily Post notice page edition details and offices
Public notice from The Houston Daily Post outlines subscription rates, office locations, and authorized agents for circulation and collection. It lists foreign offices in New York and Chicago, and specifies that only named collectors may handle city bills and subscriptions.
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Eastern Business Office
Tribuire Building
New York
Ore Bering
Charree
Oy Sreinen
Ateny
Theodore Bering
Charles Lott
W. P.cearmel
A. AV. Palmer
Busines
Houston
Luder
Ua Gigo
Salisbury resigns as British prime minister. Balfour successor named
The Marquis of Salisbury resigns due to age and ill health after a long tenure as prime minister. His replacement is his nephew Arthur J. Balfour, leader of the Conservative Party in the Commons and first lord of the treasury.
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Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil
Marquis of Salisbury
the Garter
Great Britain
Lord Salisbury
Arthur J. Balfour
House of Commons
Ford
Treasury
Sumford
Robert Cecil
Cranborne
London Times
United States
Arthur James Balfour
P. C
Hertford
East
Manchester
Scotland
Ireland
Ifa
Mr. Chamberlain
Mr. Balfour
Southern Education Board and the Negro Controversy
The Post withholds judgment on the Southern Education Board while awaiting its full plan. It warns that Northern philanthropists aim to educate white and black children alike, a move deemed impossible and undesirable in the South given racial differences and white opposition. It cites Dr. Curry and Dr. Alderman and Edward Atkinson as critics of coeducation proposals.
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Southern Education Board
Baltimore
Ike Dr. Curry
South
Edward Atkinegon
Avernus
Bouth
Ita
Ais Hibernice
Op. Is
Nogroos
Debate on Negro Education and Segregation in the South
The author argues against Mr. Atkinson preserving white supremacy through separate schools and practical, industrial education for Black people. He criticizes the push for academic instruction in black institutions and urges focusing on farming and trades to improve livelihoods, calling out the Southern Convocation Board's alleged misinformed plans.
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Atkinson
South
Southern Convocation Board
Readers Should Study The Congressional Record For Full Legislation
A passage laments that newspapers omit full speeches and notes how the Senate and House proceedings are recorded hereafter. It cites specific calls for pension bills, amendments, and a Spooner exchange regarding compensation and travel for Porto Rico. The piece concludes by questioning why the public rarely reads this record.
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Congress
House
Fach
Jones
Virginia
South Carolina
Mr. Finley
Finley
New Jersey
Ms. McDermott
McDermott
Cooper
Wisconsin
Maryland
Mr. Schirer
Schirm
Minnesota
Mr Eddy
Pildy
Alan
Abraham Wark
Spooner
Senate
United States
Porto Rico
Texas Lumber Industry Shows Rapid Growth From 1870 to 1900
Texas lumber production and capital rose sharply between 1870 and 1900. The number of establishments grew from 324 to 647, wage earners increased from 1760 to 7924, and total product value climbed from under two million to over sixteen million dollars. Sixty four thousand square miles of Texas are wooded with yellow pine dominating the yield. The Kirby Lathner company and new enterprises aided post 1900 progress.
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Texas
Texan
Lumber Industry Bulletin
United States
Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Kirby Latoher Company
Wells backs uniform primaries end to Cockrell dispute
The announcement confirms Judee Wells favors uniform primaries, removing a stated quarrel with Mr. Cockrell and shifting the race to a test of fitness and propriety. Wells’ supporters say he has always stood firm on the issue and deserve credit.
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Judee Wells
Mr. Cockrell
Arbitration and political notes cross paths in era news
The column discusses labor arbitration between Texas and New Orleans workers and company leaders, favoring peaceful settlement. It notes the broader political climate with mentions of Roosevelt Cuba policy, the Spanish honor issue, and various local and national figures while highlighting cautious hope for an early, mutually satisfactory deal in Houston.
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Texas
New Orlean
Red
Houston
Longevity Claims Questioned in New Book by T E Youms
A new book by T. E. Youms, former president of the Institute of Actuaries of England, questions long age records in life insurance data. He finds few centenarians, cites Henry Jenkins and Thomas Parr as mythical, and argues longevity itself is the clearest cause of long life. Aging lore is challenged as vanity and exaggeration persists.
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T. E. Youms
Institute of Actuaries of England
Henry Jenkins
Thomas Parr
Roosevelt on competition and monopoly in American law
The text argues that competition is a natural force and monopolies harm society. It asserts lawmakers must protect competition through regulation. It cites President Roosevelt calling for broader antimonopoly legislation and notes Congress must act, possibly in a forthcoming short session.
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Roosevelt
China
Congress
The Control of the Next House
The piece argues that winning the next House would shape the 1876 and 1884 presidential contests, noting past House gains aided Tilden and Cleveland. It says Republicans hold power but face divisions, and Democrats would prize a House victory as a tide turner with two years to leverage. Both parties push to maximize campaign energy.
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Tilden
Cleveland
Congress
White House
President’s vacation pivots to campaign against trusts
The president plans a vacation pursuit not of Rockies but of corporate fortunes as a political campaign against trusts. The trip will include the attorney general visiting Oyster Bay to lead actions against trust power, framing the holidays as a hunt for the octopus vulgaris of business.
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AML
Pittsburg
Rockies
Titlefield
Nimrod
Oyster Bay
Trusts in Winter Fight and Summer Sleep
A editorial sketch argues the president’s tough anti trust stance may falter like a hibernating beast. It notes trusts retreat in summer but grow fierce when Congress acts in winter with hard bills. The piece compares current efforts to Mr Littlefield’s earlier measure and warns of harsher consequences.
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Prairies
Washington
Trust
Congress
How Did He Do It The Rev H G Jackson Lifelong Truthfulness Questioned
A satirical meditation asks how Rev. H G Jackson could claim never to lie, imagining his boyhood missteps and mischiefs to test the feasibility of a lifelong truthfulness and the burden on those who doubt him.
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Mr. Jackson
Thompson
H. G. Jackson
Houston Strike Hits 700 SP Shopmen in City
Local papers report a significant labor action with seven hundred Southern Pacific shopmen walking off in Houston. The move costs about fifteen hundred dollars in expected wages and prompts calls for amicable arbitration to resolve differences.
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Southern Pacific
Houston
Orange
Tribune
Notable Obscure Figures and Achievements Across Continents
Nathaniel H. Bishop, author and adventurer, dies at 65 in Glens Falls from apoplexy. Delight Sweetser Prentice in Japan wears a ring with a copy of the Rubaiyat. De Mattos, tied by marriage to England’s Dalton, is related to Stevenson’s circle and Jekyll and Hyde. Francis Rea McMilleh of Chicago, 16, wins grand prix at Belgium Royal Conservatory. E L Schlott, Berlin engineer, visits Chicago as American manufacturers seek German engineers. Over forty Berlin engineers join Carnegie and Westinghouse in six months per a quoted official.
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South America
Glens Falls
Delight Sweetser Prentice
Japan
Omar Khayyam
de Mattos
Mr. Dalton
England
R. L. Stevenson
Royal Conservatory
Belgium
E. L. Schlott
Berlin
Germany
Chicago
Carnegie
Westinghouse
Fragmented OCR Genealogy of Odd News Items
A collection of stray phrases mentions consumption cures in the last decade, Berlin housing for pauper lunatics, Alabama farm ownership by race, a Montreuil fright during a collapse, Victoria crosses to South Africa, a Genoa medium seance with garlic, and scattered notes about actors artists service medals and schoolboys.
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Berlin
Alabama
South Africa
Lord Leigh
Genoa
Eform
Why Not Philadelphia Tale Of Ticket Hunt On Lehigh Valley Train
In a Continental hotel lobby tale, Jack Nevins recounts a Lehigh Valley train passenger who cannot locate his ticket as conductors pressure him. The conductor questions if he sat down with it and suggests the man may have lost the ticket, provoking a humorous retort from the crowd.
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Jack” Nevins
Continental
Philadelphia
Lehigh Valley
Seiten
Snys
Haunting verses mix with stray vignettes in printed page
The text presents a collage of disjointed lines and captions mixing poetry tone with comic fragments. It references a haunted lover, a dogcatcher, a milkman, a shirtwaist sermon, and a disrupted Ohio congregation, all appearing as clipped pieces from a newspaper page.
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Ohio
Exchange Intervals and Humorous Clippings Across Papers
A collage of quotes and notices from various newspapers includes strike talk in Houston shops affecting 790 men, a social marriage announcement for Miss Garnet and James Herbert Rodgers, and editorials referencing prominent figures. It also parodies press behavior and jokes about aging, smoking, and public figures with scattered anecdotes and editorial asides.
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The
Post
Miss Garnet
James Herbert Rodgers
Vinton
Miss Peters
Kay Press
Louisiana
Texan
Vinton Herald
Percy Green
the Post
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