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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
3
A Chesterton poem fragment from The Commonwealth London calls for humility amid war and pride. It asks to shed class creed and reject anger of idle kings. The speaker pleads for living grass laughter from the lowly and a faltering war stance tonight.
A Christmas Day scene opens with distant child singing and the message Christ is born bringing peace and joy. The poem contrasts winter chill with warm praise and ends with festive wishes for a brighter year. Book News items follow, including a quip about blame and a Chicago Record Herald reply.
The Democratic Committee selected Denver as the site for the next national convention with July 7 as the meeting date.
New York financier E. H. Harriman reportedly secured an agreement with the Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee separate control of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific rail systems. The accord aims to divvy management while preserving linked operations.
A St Petersburg hearing probes General Stoessel in connection with the siege of Port Arthur. Evidence centers on accusations of mismanagement and strategic errors during the prolonged battle.
A fragment notes support for the General who pursued the only course open to him. The passage implies decisive leadership and resolve in wartime strategy. No further details available in the readable text.
A senate committee reports favorably on the bill introduced by Senator Culberson concerning publication of donations to the campaign fund.
Washington Senator Overman of North Carolina urges a national exposition of manufacturers to promote trade with American republics. He would have all the state’s manufacturing industries represented. Lampasas The Austin Presbytery including twelve counties is in session.
Sola Bulgaria reports the famous chief Sarafoff was killed at his own door by a Macedonian. He allegedly led the plot to abduct missionary Miss Stone to obtain ransom for financing revolutionary activity against the Turks.
General Funston arrives at Goldfield and warns he will declare martial order at the first disturbance. Several men have begun work at the camp as tension rises.
Two gaunt tramps peered through a railway station window while a telegraph operator worked the key. One mutters to the other to report a pair of empties moving east, a brief glimpse recalled from Harper's Weekly.
A star actor insists on real food for a banquet scene, prompting the manager to threaten supplying real poison in the death scene, as reported by the Boston Transcript.
L A Ransom argues in Cotton Seed Oil Magazine that cotton seed meal and hulls can feed over 1 million cattle year round and 250,000 cattle with hulls for a year. He says using meal and hulls would support a large South farming industry, reduce export waste, and spur packing houses locally.
Professor Eckles of the University of Missouri argues that quality cows yield far higher profits than raising calves. He notes many farmers focus on calves while the milk from cows remains the key income, with average Missouri cows producing milk worth about $50 annually at the creamery.
A Mississippi College farm study reports about 50 Missouri farmers gaining 50 to 100 dollars per cow yearly from dairy, excluding calf sales. Milk income is paced by 60 hours of milking annually at a low rate, while a college herd yields about 95 to 100 dollars per cow from butter, milk and calves, showing results from proper timing and methods.
The Ladies Home Journal push for warmer hospitality in churches risks overdoing welcome practices. A Western pastor learned this when a fair haired Swede visitor told him she already had a fellow. Congregationalist.
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