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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
5
Time table lists arrivals for Lockhart and Yoakum branches with trains 46 4 42 and 41. A Gazette notice invites Shiner ladies to a weekly billiard and pool parlor event starting April 8 at 8 PM with escorts, signed J KOMIAROVSKY.
Community notes report Lone Tree School closes April 16 and an April 20 departure for Europe by Mr. John Herdick Jr. Local visits include Fannie Nedbalek and Mrs Joh Peter near Yoakum. Cattle buyers Lewis and Jake Turk and Hochheim residents Mr. Wagner and son Willie appear in the week’s snippets. The writer ends with hunger and a request for corn bread.
Mrs Eoan Wilkins leaves after a two week visit with her mother Mrs Sam MecMurrey and heads to Galveston with little Jim McMurrey who will spend the holidays by the sea. Trespassers on land of Ann Ritz south of town will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Two story residence on South Main Street with four lots offered as a bargain if taken at once. Apply to John Niemeyer in Shiner Texas.
A reward is offered for the return of a small gold watch with leather band. Return to the Gazette office for suitable compensation.
Several good milch cows are for sale through Gerhard Siems at 87 31 Shiner Texas. Contact for details and pricing.
A testimonial from W. H. Maupin of Fort Worth praises enrollment at Tyler Commercial College in Texas. The ad touts higher salaries, year round work, and guaranteed placement with mercantile and railroad firms plus Civil Service exams held at the school. It promotes the college as America’s largest commercial school with a vast employment bureau and invites readers to request a 162 page illustrated catalog.
Public notice urges residents to bring surplus cash or buried funds to stop interest on notes and accounts. The terse ad emphasizes grease to run machinery and money to run business, citing C Li Wins.
The list records subscribers who have handed in remittances since the last Shiner. It notes ongoing contributions and marks those who fulfilled payments in the period.
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