Foundling left at army HQ wrapped in clothing
An infant about two months old was found in a large clothes basket on a gallery at army headquarters. A note offered care for one year for a price and asked the child be named Ethel Snyder. The officer handed the child to Judge Wurzbach, who sent it to the county poor house laundress. Detectives and Captain Hughes investigate the mystery of the child's parentage.
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Army
Ethel Snyder
Wurzbach
Little Foundling
Hughes
Mexican Items From Exchanges and Other Sources
The report lists diverse Mexican developments including July 1 tramway openings in Pachuca and suspension of discount by Mexico City banks. It notes telegraph links from Orizaba to San Geronimo Ixtaltepec and Chihuitan, a Paso del Norte payroll of 62000 dollars, and a high monthly death rate. It mentions planned scientific academy in Mexico City, yellow fever reports at Tepic territory, and privileges sought for wine and grape culture. It cites high military costs, debates on free ports, bandit crackdowns in Guanajuato, and the London Bank of Mexico selling retired nickel money with a 150000 dollar advance. It also covers the San Luis Potosi lottery, a 10-year government share in drawings, and a guano and lime-sulfate concession with exploration in six months.
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Paso del Norte
Mexico
Mexican Atheneum
Guadalajara
Santiago
Acaponta
Tepic
Leriche, Aljador & Co
Gonzales
Guanajuato
London Bank of
South America
Liverpool
San Luis Potosi
Gervasio Vegambre
San Luis Potos
Mexican National Bank
Whitmore and Umbrella China Trees in Texas History
The piece recalls Hon. George M. Whitmore of Tyler Texas as a wartime prisoner turned reconstructionist and first Eastern Texas Republican congressman. It mourns his death and defends Republicans from harsh charges. It also extols the umbrella china tree noting its Introduction by Texans, hardiness, and prominence on Galveston Island as a favored shade tree.
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George M. Whitmore
Tyler
Smith County
Texas
Reconstruction
Congress
Republican Party
Galveston Island
la Fitte
The Russian Czar and John Bull Beer Exchange
A Roxbury Advocate remark frames a clash between Russian brewing and British taxation. The Czar offers Afghan beer humorously while John Bull resists the beer tax that allegedly harms the nation. The dialogue satire links foreign beer to national strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
John Bell
Roxbury
Literary storm brewing over Gail Hamilton book delay
A fragmented note from the Omaha Herald mocks a literary scene. It mentions Gail Hamilton soaking her pee in sulphuric acid while awaiting Cleveland's book from printers and quips about Opera Pustf cigarettes that do not stick to tips.
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Gail Hamilton
Iss Cleveland
Omaha Herald
Opera
Flag presentation to San Antonio public safety items inspires praise
At the armory, the San Antonio public safety items received a flag from a committee of ladies led by Miss Jessie Newton. Edward Dwyer of the company thanked donors as the flag, four feet square with gold braid and a star, was presented. A telegram from Philadelphia announced Houston Light Guard won first prize, then dancing and an elegant lunch followed into the early hours.
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San Antonio Rifles
Viends
Jessie Newton
Mrs. Matlack
Lottie James
Lizzie Reed
Ida Elliott
Kate Aubrey
Lula Moore
Fannie Howard
Fannie Newton
Nellie Fuller
Ida Vance
Minnie Duerler
Fannie Simpson
Jessie Weir
Emily Sterling
Iva Harn
Kila Tobin
Madeline Bradley
Kate Carothers
Sarah Reed
Edger
Edward Dwyer
Lone Star
Recorder's Court Session Sees Multiple Fines for Drunkenness
Y O Rourke fined five dollars for beating and striking. Several women Misses Key and Emma West fined five dollars each for vagrancy due to drunkenness at the White Elephant restaurant. Walter Coilly, Vicente Saucedo, and others faced fines for drunkenness, fighting, or disorderly conduct. Some cases were dismissed or continued, with fines ranging up to twenty five dollars for exposure and other offenses.
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Y. O'Rourke
Misses Key
Emma West
White Elephant
Walter Coilly
H. Peffer
Plone
Vicente Saucedo
J. M. Quarley
J. M. Handly
E. Miller
W. B. Forbes
J.grane
Forbes
Grane
Wilke, Fradder and Myers
James O'Neill
Pancho Martinez
Alexican
W. Bart'v
Isabel’ Skillman
Henry Carmon
Jane
Posa
Liza Williams
J. C. Berry
Paul Vance
Thomas Ramos
Louis Molina
Luciana Rischer
Jim Moore
Brenham Plans National Bank Expansion In State News
State items report Brenham to host another National Bank, Grayson County to vote on prohibition again, a mastodon skeleton found near Dallas, a jail escape recaptured, and a big Bastrop railroad meeting with shares subscribed. Other notes cover crimes, drownings, and local incidents across Texas towns.
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Brenham
Robert McNutt
Consistency as Hypocrisy in Dana’s Defense
The Baltimore American quotes the New York Sun on consistency being a shield of hypocrisy and a glory for fools, noting Mr. Dana disparages consistency while frequently practicing it in his actions and writings.
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New York Sun
Dana
Baltimore
Amercan
Curtain Falls On Stage Life In Empty Silence
A poetic meditation on mortality and transience describes actors and pageants fading from the stage as death calls, leaving behind relinquished crowns and jewels. The curtain falls signaling life’s end and the need to pass beyond.
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Erst
Reading Danger for Tom in Detective Stories
Mrs. H. Anne Poole warns Good Housekeeping readers that cheap detective tales invade boys pockets with titles like The Madman of the North Pole and The Boy Mazeppa of the Arctic Seas. She argues such stories corrupt taste with crude slang and graphic crimes and urges mothers to replace reading with wholesome alternatives to shape young minds before their appetites form.
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L'Am
Madman
North Pole
Mazeppa
Arctic Seas
Tom
New York
London
H. Anne
Ie Poole
Good Housekeeping
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Weet
Moses
Pachuca
City of Mexico
Orizawa
San Geronimo
Ixtaltepec
Chihuitan
Secretary of Public Works
Louis Luller
Pacific Isles
Lower
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Emerson
Soledad Street
F. W. McAllister & Bro
S. Alamo ST
Cor, Villita
San Antonio, Texas
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Soledad Stop
A. Dollar Store Building
Cohen
Main Plaza
Thomas Goggan
Galveston
San Antonio
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Superior
Pittsburgh
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E.F. Redfield Co
General Agents
Fort Worth, Texas
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G. W. Ward
Old Place
North Flores Street
Toures
Deaty
Mateyr
A. T. Monror
Gaverston
John Bull
Recorder's Court
State News
George F. Macallister
Paint Rock
George Bird
Dan Wyatt
Claude Jackson
Hearne
Jackson
Wyatt
John C. Anderson
Milam County
Lee Lovelace
Rogers
Bell County
Lovelace
Anderson
Bastrop
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Stiffei
Alestet
Elgin
Vines and & Liguieres
Marie Buzard Anisette
Absinthe
Edoard Pernoud
Vermouth Neilly Pratt
Curacoa
Benedictine Fate Benedictine
Emanuel Abrahams
F.smeets
Commerce St
Southern Hotel
Mail and Military Plazas
James P. Hickman, JR
J. N. Groesbeeck
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J. W. Bradi HY
Real Estate Exchange For
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Labatt & CO
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