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Newspaper
Houston Daily Post
Location
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1900
Page
8
A reader questions Paine rumors and the Britannica entry about his life. The Post answers inquiries on weather in Houston rainfall figures, postal class salaries, medical lore about a stone cure, home week, and details about Western States and Independence Day legal status.
Our advance shipment of New Fall Dress Goods has been warmly received by top judges. The collection includes Covert Cloth Cheviots Diagonals Whip Cords Granite Camel's Hair and more at 1.50 1.25 95c 70c. New Children's Hosiery offers garterless styles that end circulation restrictions and fit two ways, made from quality yarns with fast nonpoisonous dye. Sizes 44 to 9. Priced at 45c 50c and 30c.
A fragment discusses who bears party expenses and whether Texas was included in the Louisiana Purchase. It raises a historical query and provides a brief answer that Texas was not part of the purchase.
A Washington dispatch says President McKinley’s letter of acceptance, to be published Monday, presents a strong Republican case. It highlights imperial gains, Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines civil governance, plus tariff and monetary policy and the gold standard as central to national prosperity.
Poughkeepsie N Y September 7 Peter Austo was arrested today on evidence from a skeleton found two weeks ago at the bottom of a well on a Stormville farm formerly owned by a neighbor. The skeleton is believed to be that of a neighboring farmer murdered fourteen years ago.
The article reports that a skeleton was found in an old well at a Stormville farm once owned by Charles Brower who disappeared from his home on July 3, 1884. The farm, now owned by Austin, had the well reopened this summer revealing the remains. Austin was arrested but refused to speak, noted as a prominent local farmer.
General Jerrell Weismann Serrell, warned of perilous peritonitis, wed Miss Marion C. Roorbach of Staton Inland at the Hotel Clarendon. The ceremony, held by Rev. Samuel Tyler, occurred before a brief, solemn ceremony as the couple planned an October wedding but moved up due to the General’s illness.
A New York report indicates the plan to establish the First National bank under U S laws in the West Indian region will be abandoned for now. The Colonial Bank of San Juan Porto Rico is the bank in question with an April opening in 149 and capital of 1 070 000 of which 400 000 has been subscribed.
In Beeville Texas jurors failed to agree after three days and returned a hung jury in the case against the San Antonio and Areneas Pass Railway Company. This is the fifth hung jury this year and marks the eighth trial in the matter.
H. Et and W. T. Bommings of Austin Texas report Houston East and West Tex railway paid 177.46 today and a quarterly passenger tax of 17 748.91 with passenger earnings for the quarter ending June 40.
TEXAS ELECTRIKURE CO announces a thermo electric treatment marketed as a safe, non shock therapy using atmospheric oxygen to revitalize the body. Proponent claims 60 percent cure rate for curable diseases and urges adoption for health, vigor, and women’s vitality, citing scientific progress and historic medical breakthroughs.
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