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Newspaper
Mexia Evening Ledger
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1899
Page
4
A narrator recounts using a Chicago card to pacify an assertive passenger on a London to Warwickshire trip. The ploy backfires when a purse is misplaced, leading to a mistaken arrest and a dramatic turn as the missing bag is recovered.
In a crowded Willesden Junction carriage a scatterbrained elder misreads a passenger as a thief while a niece exposes the joke behind a tiresome Johnston. Scoble and niece share a conspiratorial laugh at the aunt’s confusion as the pair flee toward Greencroft.
The narrator recalls escaping a tense farewell with his clever niece and aunt, choosing to stay a week at Greencroft. He returns home convinced he can improve, and by the end he is engaged to be married. He even begins calling Mrs Scoble aunt to soften the memory and mark his triumph.
A Chicago broker recounts backing a female client’s modest wheat bet with margin from his own funds. He defends saving her investment despite losses, only to receive accusations of robbery. She vows to halt trading with women, claiming they demand unreal odds and overvalue profits.
The famed Mam moth tulip poplar on Poplar Hill near Easton ends a century and more of standing life. The tree, once 250 feet tall and 20 feet in diameter, faced repeated lightning strikes and storms, with climbers using its height to view Sharpes Island lighthouse. The farm named for the tree belongs to Mrs Edmund Law Rogers, linking to early colonial Plater grants.
A Mendicity Society report notes London has fewer beggars than rival capitals, with about 70 000 professional mendicants spread across a population of six million, implying a smaller, less formidable presence than in earlier generations.
A brief extract discusses female intemperance in England and social drinking trends. It then presents W. G. Hole’s poem addressing a mine enemy, recounting a dramatic confrontation over faults and finally recognizing shared humanity and charity.
The Medical Temperance Review of London reports a sharp rise in female drinking across the British Isles. It laments women frequenting public houses and procuring spirits, warning that maternal drunkenness will corrode future generations and blame doctors for reckless prescriptions contributing to dipsomania.
Mr. de Montigny the Montreal recorder in retirement argues alcohol abuse causes nearly all crimes. He cites a yearly 6,000 offenders before the recorder for liquor connected cases and notes crowded gaols as well as crowded asylums and reformatories. He links separations and horrible crimes to drunkenness.
The major declares no saloons in Madison county Missouri while Alexis I vows the same this year Iowa prohibitionists adopt Indiana district evangelist system Geauga and Harrison counties Ohio still report no saloons La Salle Illinois arrests fifty saloon-keepers for Sunday openings and about seventy San Antonio druggists indicted for alleged liquor sales by grand jury
Judge Bank of Keokuk rules liquor in original packaging is tax exempt while Judge Porter bars the Edelweiss resort from beer garden license. Prohibition groups push actions against cigarette licenses and flag ads as Brussels talks yield little. Wesleyan announces a saloon abstinence pledge for tuition aid recipients affecting many students.
A hat maker in Indiana has formed a company to breed Belgian hares. The site houses 300 hares in a fenced tract with plans to raise up to 1,000,000 rabbits annually. The piece notes the beaver’s near extinction and laments reliance on European and Australian fur.
Mr Labouchere recalls Uncle Paul as an honest yet rough man with strong principles. He warmed his feet with boots off in company and showed discomfort at a low dress, while leaving the opera box after balking at the ballet. He wondered about Paris and was seen with Joubert and another Boer who shared his views.
James McClune of Martins Township became enraged by taunts at a Sunday school picnic in York Furnace and discarded a stash of gold coins valued at $160. While chasing pranksters he mistook coins for stones and hurled away twelve $10 pieces and eight $5 pieces, leaving no coins recovered.
The London Telegraph notes a new system in Fulham workhouse where inmates over 65 with good conduct are separated into two wards for the aged and deserving poor. About sixty men and many women are chosen, many lifelong parish residents and ratepayers, to receive privileges like extra leave, a garden, and a smoking room, while dietary norms may relax with board approval.
An exploration of animal rain prediction by tortoises on the African coast and curious Australian reversals. The piece notes tortoises retreating before rain and mentions Australia where seasons invert and trees shed bark, swans are black, and a climbing perch leaves water to climb trees.
The article reports J E Caldwell achieving radiographs in under a second, with one image captured in about 0.0002 seconds and another in 0.406 seconds. Using efficient tubes, a 117 volt Edison supply, an induction coil, and a calcium tungstate screen, negatives on celluloid film yielded bright results.
London correspondent reports John Chipperfield the longtime lampman and later lamp inspector at Tilbury railway station has died. Dickens befriended him during frequent travels to Tilbury on the Sound railroad and wrote him into Mugby Junction in All Year Round.
A Rhaiadr youth finds a gold ring a gold armlet and a gold necklet while fox-hunting on Welsh hills. Mr Reed of the British Museum calls the pieces distinctly Celtic and at least a millennium old. Under treasure trove law the boy receives the antiquarian value less 20 percent.
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