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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1905
Page
7
An old ad claims Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has soothed children for over 60 years and relieves teething pain and diarrhea, marketed by Dingess at 25 cents a bottle. The report also mentions per capita school spending at 525 dollars and notes oak caterpillars stripping Cisco area trees, plus a claim for Dean's Ointment curing skin issues, sold at drug stores.
New Orleans dispatch notes 60 new cases and 112 total deaths from yellow fever as officials urge governor Blanchard to end drastic parish quarantines. Judge Gaudet reports brutality and detainment in St Charles St John and Jefferson. authorities plan militia protection for travel. Archbishop Chapelle nears recovery amid scattered new cases in Iberville and Calcasieu parishes.
Texas detention camp reports no new cases and most inmates are no longer contagious. Dr Faves, Texas health officer, says quarantine near Shreveport should likely be lifted in two to three days after talks by Dr Goldberger and others.
Sir Alfred Jones of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine reports acceptance of the city’s offer for the institute to assist during the yellow fever outbreak in New Orleans. Major Surgeon Ronald Ross and Dr. Rupert Royce will sail from New York on the Campanian then travel to New Orleans to begin work.
Lightning struck two 60,000 barrel steel tanks and several settling tanks causing a massive fire. The blaze spread to McKilip and Guffey tanks, pumping stations, and rigs injuring no lives but causing about 500000 dollars in losses, with Guffey Oil the hardest hit.
The weather bureau weekly bulletin reports cotton improving in Tennessee, western North Carolina, western Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, northeastern Texas and parts of Louisiana, while deteriorating elsewhere. Rust is common in east, central and western districts. boll weevils and boll worms cause damage in Texas and western Louisiana, with picking general in southern Texas and some central counties.
Federal Inspector Dr. Leslie J. Allen reports over 1000 cattle died in two weeks from Texas fever in the Cherokee nation. He rode through Vinita Claremore and Noweta noting frequent herd deaths, poor quarantine enforcement, and belief that whole herds may be wiped out. Three train loads were shipped west of El Reno Monday as cattlemen grow alarmed.
In Sterrett L T Aug 9 last Sunday night S Mowery was shot and killed near Viola Jeffries residence while entering. Viola Jeffries' brother in law C W Lee and her father W R Jeffries and M A Brepperl were held without bail. Miss Jeffries later arrested for alleged complicity.
A house blew down near Joe Hobbs, a boy, killing him. Eight miles south a farmer named Hines died when a wagon ran over him. Near Verden Chester Harned shot himself seriously with a pistol. The son of Mr. Pullman near Binger suffered severe burns from a gasoline explosion.
A switch engine crashed into a way car attached to an eastbound AT and SF stock train in Emporia Kansas. The way car carrying stockmen was demolished and several workers including A N Sanders Plodgett Missouri Kurt Internally and E P Singleton Colorado City Texas were injured and taken to Topeka railway hospital.
In Crowley Louisiana near Morse Lynn Moore a fourteen year old boy wed Miss Nettle Hoover nineteen by Judge F L Kelly. Both families well connected the groom was a schoolboy in knickerbockers last winter and his legal guardian consented to the marriage.
A September piece by Besperance Goodlove in the New Idea Woman's Magazine argues that educated women excel in stenography, secretarial, clerkship, and managerial roles. It stresses broad knowledge from school and life, current events, history, and literature as essential for women seeking to earn a living in the modern twentieth century.
The Texarkana Courier notes doctors say yellow fever is not contagion by direct contact but through a specific mosquito. It urges caution and avoidance of cases and mosquitos, reflecting fever era fears and remedies like Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry.
The penitentiary board plans to rebuild the machine shops in Huntsville after a destructive fire. The second line notes that patience with money yields potential prestige and glory.
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