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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1900
Page
2
The Shiner Gazette notes that in Annapolis Maryland women paid taxes and voted for the first time. of 679 total votes only 22 were cast by women. The piece also mentions issues around Glasgow Exhibit floor-space planning and trolley systems harming trees with cables touching branches causing decay.
The article notes Collis P. Huntington, after buying out associates in the Southern Pacific, becomes sole owner of a system including ferries, terminals, river and ocean steamboats, and 7600 miles of railroad with securities valued at 350 million dollars and annual gross earnings of 60 million. In Spokane a claim about elk teeth sale at 1000 dollars for 400 teeth highlights rising value due to scarcity. The piece contrasts prices from 14 years ago when a Montana man paid 80 dollars for an 800-tooth headdress, and last year a 280-tooth head sold for 200 dollars.
Italian archaeologist Sig Constantino Maes says 3,000 bronze tables recording Rome from foundation to Vespasian lie buried in the Ostia marsh after being moved there from the fire of 69. He urges draining the marsh to recover the treasure. A Chicago physician meanwhile touts a self made noise proof residence designed to block street noise with zigzag perforations and rubber seals.
A study by Capt. Dousmais of the Greek Engineers challenges the traditional Pharsala site for Pompey and Caesar’s battle. He asserts the decisive clash occurred near Karditza, about fifty miles northwest, overturning centuries of local history.
The piece notes Germany’s steady business growth and planning gains while highlighting rising charitable gifts to schools libraries and charities. It stresses corporate and private-sector responsibility in wealth use and urges recognition of German-made goods alongside praise for social benefaction.
A Century Magazine short story author coins two political slang phrases. Weasel word dulls the meaning of adjacent terms much like a weasel eats an egg. The stained glass plank mirrors shifting voter perception, seen differently through a window before it's opened.
The bulletin covers Oil excitement at Keene, a Holiness camp in Scottsville, and Sherman pledging aid to India famine sufferers. It notes taxes paid by the Postal Telegraph Cable company, a baby found near San Angelo, and a death near Marble Falls. It reports rail earnings taxes, courthouse bond approvals, and deportation orders for Chinese nationals.
Shanghai reports 20000 allied troops with 170 guns moving toward Pekin aiming for August 12 arrival. Washington says advance will continue with American leadership and possible war if Morisson dispatch proves true. Waco sees a strike by fifty three students over a white instructor’s assignment.
El Paso notes 100 pounds of ore from the Santa Eulatia silver mine near Chihuahua received by the insas City Smelting and Refining. The ore runs fifty ounces of silver per ton with 55 percent lead. The Hearst estate owns the mine after three years of work, including a 1300 foot shaft and 1300 feet of drifting at a cost of $100,000 Mexican money. The mine plans to produce thirty tons of ore daily, all refined at the local smelter.
Commander Benjamin F. Tilley reports an instrument of cession signed by Tutla chiefs and U S government transferring Manua Tutila and adjacent islets to the United States to form the district of Tutila with defined latitude and longitude bounds.
Florida health officials confirm two yellow fever cases in Tampa as of August 3 and warn the infection may be widespread. Dr. Porter orders quarantine on travel to and from Tampa and directs notices to South Gulf Coast health officers and railroad agents to curb movement until control measures reach Tampa. Authorities believe the disease can be confined to the city.
Dickinson Texas August 3 The early mail train killed nine head of horses at the Galveston end of the Dickinson bayou bridge yesterday morning. Some were carried to the middle of the bridge before they were finally dropped.
An explosion under a Dallas streetcar at South Harwood near St. Patrick's church frightens a large crowd as the car is damaged but intact. Police have no arrests and officials blame dynamite. union motormen deny responsibility and call for investigation.
The State Farmers' Alliance will hold its annual meeting in Nacogdoches August 7 and 8. Local preparations include securing Westhill Institute, hosting over fifty visiting delegates, and opening the grove near the institute for free entertainment. The county alliance with about twenty sub-alliances plans a two story business house on West plaza and operates a large cotton yard weighing substantial cotton.
A Denver Resurvey car fatally struck an unknown white laborer about 11 pm on Broadway between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets. The man, about 45, lay with his head on the track. no papers were found. The motorman halted the car as the wheel rested on the victim’s head.
Austin August 3 1900 The secretary of state reports about 1600 of 2260 corporations have filed affidavits swearing they are not trusts or connected with trusts. Those failing to answer are the corporations previously regarded as trusts.
General Algustoff led the assault on Hung Hun on July 30 relieving Novo Kijevskoye and Postja posts. Many guns were captured and Russian losses numbered two officers and six men killed with four wounded.
An advertisement claims catarrh inflames the lining of the respiratory tract causing pneumonia grip colds and fevers. It asserts Pe-ru-na cures the underlying system weakness by targeting catarrh and insists most problems are due to catarrh that only this remedy can reach.
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