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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1906
Page
7
Alfred Schufner, a Black man, was lynched at 10 o clock yesterday in Calhoun for attempting to assault Miss Olive Chambers. He fled after screams, was captured miles from town, confessed, and was hanged on a telegraph pole. A bold warning note was posted on his body. The mob acted quickly and quietly.
A dynamite blast wrecked Mrs Mary Freeman's five room L shaped house in Corsicana Texas at 2 10 am. The parlor area and bedroom wardrobe were damaged while windows and chinaware shattered. No one injured. Bloodhounds failed to trace suspects.
An enormous rush of water twelve feet high slid down the Coahuila Pacific line in Mexico, washing away a bridge over the Agua Naval river and causing serious damage. Monterey readies for the International Geological College meeting next Wednesday. Delegates to Republican conventions have returned home.
Jeff Locket Lon Weaver and Jim Johnson were charged by Justice Rowland with theft over 50 dollars and arrested in Waco. They will be brought to Fort Worth by the deputy sheriff for alleged complicity in a trunk robbery from the baggage room at the depot.
Madisonville cotton pickers command up to 1 per hundred as rain fears threaten possible losses amid full gin operation. Chesterville reports a fine rice crop with ample yield, though acreage trails previous years. Shreveport merchants meeting across Northeast Texas and Northwest Louisiana reportedly adopt a unanimous plan.
Mrs. Egbert Sheldon of Woodville Connecticut reports a year and a half battle with sores on her baby boy. After two months using Cuticura Soap and Ointment the child’s sores disappeared and he became healthy again.
Describes extreme leaf sizes of palm and other trees from the Inaga palm of the Amazon and talepot palm of Ceylon to the cannibal tree of Australia and umbrella tree of Ceylon. Notes leaves used as shelters and canopies. Ends with an advertisement for Hunts Cure itching relief at 50 cents.
A testimonial extols Hunt's Lightning Oil as a standout emergency remedy for cuts burns sprains and pains. The speaker claims confidence is never misplaced and calls it the grandest remedy now obtainable.
The well preserved body of a young woman was found 16 to 17 feet deep in a waterlogged slit of the Priddy lead mines in Somersetshire England. Her hair remains in the original plait. Five large blue and green glass beads lay beside the corpse, hinting at grave goods from antiquity.
Italy cultivates 1,250,000 ounces of silkworm eggs annually and yields 110,000,000 pounds of cocoons worth about 30,000,000 dollars. Lombardy supplies half of the total, the Venetian provinces around one fifth, and Piedmont about one seventh.
Fremont Morse and L. Netland lead the Alaskan boundary commission with nine men each to survey a strip of the boundary at Yakutat Bay.
A New York bar figure mocks Carlisle after Mullins versus Jenkinson appeal, saying Carlisle need not worry about his own reputation, but Carlisle replies he is concerned only for the Supreme Court’s standing.
A notice highlights Castorta safe cures for infants and children, praises X rays for ringworm treatment reducing need for one institution, and claims Cheatham’s Chill Tonic rapidly cures malaria. It also notes Danish lifeboatman Christian Langer, 83, who saved over 600 lives in 48 years before dying at Harboe, Jutland.
A provocative remark notes that many married women under forty know a man they might marry if their husband died, reflecting social expectations and attitudes toward marriage and reputation in the era.
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