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Newspaper
Houston Daily Post
Location
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1902
Page
14
The Houston Post lists subscription rates and delivery rules, with city officials authorized to collect payments and handle city bills. It outlines postal handling, foreign offices, and contact instructions for correspondence.
The Galveston platform is concise and principled covering twenty planks with two national matters and the rest Texas focused. It promises a clean progressive Texas administration, rejects evils, and urges faithful support and obedience from voters and officeholders alike.
In a regional education debate the board faces criticism over perceived aims toward negro education. The North infers fusion of races from the board’s statements, while proponents push for separate industrial education for blacks and white schooling. Prof. Himes advocates clear, separate aims to avoid misinterpretation and racial tension.
Prof Himes of Louisiana State University responds to a Post editorial about Mr Atkinson and the Southern Education Board. He defends the board’s aims, denies northern philanthropy dominance, and urges increased funding for public schools and higher enrollment while outlining district work under Superintendent John McNedsoa in Calcasien parish.
A Welsh Run reader replies to a Post editorial on unbelief. The letter argues belief offers happiness and moral guidance whereas unbelief relies on fear and empty hopes. It cites Burns and St John and ends by affirming enduring faith over doubt.
A long rant urges the courts to punish killers and expel murder from Houston. The piece links city pride, community duty, and the need to curb violence, urging decisive public and legal response to stop such crimes. It also notes political condemnations of army abuses and calls for reform.
The Post questions Roosevelt’s motive in reviewing the Smith case while acknowledging his sincere efforts. Jeasny investigates natural enemies of mosquitoes, seeking a bird that could curb them. The text hints at broader debates about policy versus politics in governance.
The Texas and New Orleans Railway Shopmen strike ends with a negotiated settlement praised as practical arbitration. Both sides concede, with a 2 per cent wage hike and a 6 per cent raise, while leaders and managers are commended for patient, fair conduct amid the dispute.
Debates show Bailey and Hogg not always adversaries and note clashes at Galveston and press factions. Roosevelts review of Smith court martial raises questions of American image. Labor strikes in Baltimore and harvest needs contrast with political friction and Penfield remarks call for measured response.
The writer cites a Post editorial on the Bankruptcy of Unbelief and Spencer’s question to believers. It argues doubt fuels progress, claims unbelief increases human happiness, and asserts moral action stems from outcomes and natural law rather than creed.
A essay contrasts happiness for believers and unbelievers, arguing both face life risks and losses. It cites Spinoza and the poem urging a fearless, tranquil approach to death, with remarks attributed to Joan G. Parmer of Welsh Run, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Preston B. Plumb donates a site for a Carnegie library in Emporia, the council approves despite a mayoral veto threat. Patrick T. Kenneally, oldest peanut vendor in New England resorts, marks 25 years at Salem Willows, blind yet accurate in serving 1g,000 bags. Other items note Mrs. Simpson’s drowning rescues, Bishop McQuaid’s anniversary, and Dr. Von Holleben’s Washington farewell with secretary Hay.
A jumble of science scraps appears with notes on biology, physics, astronomy, and travel. It references binding rates, sound speed, light, planetary data, hospital modernization, and an international pedestrian route from Berlin, all in disjointed, fragmentary form.
A jumbled collage of quoted opinions and satire from various papers mocks political figures and events. It references General Birt on the Philippines, King Belward, and Roosevelt, plus remarks about Grover Cleveland and a deteriorating national mood.
Eastern paper promotes John Pierpont Morgan as a supreme Republican nominee for president in 1906. The editorial lauds his education, business mastery, international influence, and ability to advise presidents, arguing he surpasses Hanna Fairbanks Spooner and others as a statesman and financier.
A fragmented passage blends a nature lyric about a sea and winds with a drift into a religious voice claiming gods own voice among pines. It shifts to a business line about money and life with a mock dialogue about theft and profit. The text includes garbled stanzas and stray lines about writers block and quips.
A jumble of fragmented notes reports on interviews exchange chatter and real estate mentions. It cites Loom shoes, a real estate editor selling a cow, salary debates in Houston officials, and political commentary on Democrats Republicans and figures like Beveridge Aguinaldo Funston and Tracey. The tone mirrors a busy rural paper compiling stray town opinions.
A Denison Gazetteer note recalls beer shipments through St Louis and quick transit. A Whitewright resident announces quitting The Houston Post after criticizing army treatment, while Texas officials discuss Galveston News advertising and state rail lines.
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