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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1913
Page
13
A collage of playful quips and quick vignettes covers baseball tribulations, jokes about hats and parasols, taxes, aging, and odd domestic anecdotes. Notable lines reference a German banker on the run, radium cancer treatment costs, and mischiefs around widowed or misfitting fashion.
The remark notes how some women feel resentment when accused of being overly well dressed. It questions how feminism progresses while addressing the idea of modern women being forced to relearn basic skills like spelling.
The passage notes baseball becoming more scientific and expert fans receiving prearranged calls. It mentions Paris having one birth per thirty families, implying Paris as a poor site for a baby carriage factory. It also references a Seattle judge involved in a divorce case and a prospective marriage.
A court scene reflects seasonal influences as a juror is taken from the jury box. The incident underscores how external factors intrude on proceedings and court concentration during the term.
A man suffered a throat wound when a bomb exploded inside a barber shop bar. He reportedly complained about not getting his shoes shined before the attack.
The new steamship carries lifeboats for 5250 people though officials say a ship should not need them. The remark highlights blunt safety requirements versus ideal maritime practice.
Attorney general opinion by Judge C M Cureton says Waters Pierce Oil Company cannot be granted a Texas permit under any former charter or name. It reviews the Pierce Oil fight from 1897 ouster to 1900 readmission and dissolution and concludes that Virginia charter with proper affidavits cannot overcome state law to transact business if owning Pierce interests or related properties.
The attorney general answered questions from Amarillo and others on liquor fund evasion prosecutions, Sunday movie operations in Sealy, county officers’ pay, dual office holding, and county clerk duties. It also covers county treasurer compensation limits, and fixed percentages for school fund handling.
The May 1 count from the chief clerk of the criminal record office lists 4 044 convicts on hand at state penitentiaries, up 38 from April 1.
President Wilson and his family will attend Central Presbyterian Church in Washington where Rev. James H. Taylor serves as pastor. The decision comes during the presidential family's residence in the capital.
The national forest reservation commission approved the purchase of about 93,000 acres of mountain land spanning Virginia Tennessee North Carolina and West Virginia in a decision announced Wednesday.
The Texas Supreme Court affirmed a suit by Palestine and Anderson County to keep the International and Great Northern Railroad machine shops and offices from leaving Palestine. Offices already moved to Houston and New Orleans. injunctions and appeals shaped the outcome. The decision notes obligations to the public and sustained bonds tied to the shops.
Washington announces that all fourth class postmasters earning over $180 annually must compete in examinations to keep their posts. About 50,000 incumbents previously covered by executive orders will also be tested. President Wilson and Postmaster General Burleson aim to extend classified service to second and third class postmasters within a year, possibly needing Congress action.
Wednesday's rule confines filling offices to those paying $180 or less as determined by inspectors. The civil service commission will draft and announce the governing regulations for the new order as soon as possible.
In Laredo Texas the Del Alamo hacienda and adjoining ranches including San Francisco Santa Cruz San Juan San Patricio and Javeli change hands for 3 500 000. The Milmo estate owners the property since the 1860s and T A Coleman of San Antonio purchases it. The tract covers 1237 acres across Coahuila and Nuevo Leon with 26 500 cattle 57 000 sheep and goats and 1 500 mules and horses involved.
Lieutenant Gran reports Scott and his companions died from exhaustion not starvation on their South Pole return. The bodies were found peacefully in their sleeping bags with Scott last to die, buried beneath a snow cairn and a cross. Fuel and food shortages amid storms ended the journey, and Scott’s charts and records are in possession, with plans to attend the Royal Geographical Society meeting.
Two hundred lives were lost in a train disaster Thursday at Den near the Sinaloa Sonora border. State troops say the 250 federal soldiers aboard were not killed by stealth, and insurgents fired into the train causing a car of dynamite to explode. Only fifty passengers escaped, with others wounded as troops moved from San Blas to Alamos to reinforce the Gulf port defense.
Four hundred Japanese residents of Sonora state offered their services in arms to insurgent governor L I Pesqueira. The offer was refused as Mexicans only should participate. Fifteen Japanese formed the committee that met in Hermosillo and claimed the group were armed farmers and mechanics. The Yaqui Indians attacked Cruz de Piedra but found the federal garrison had deserted.
El Paso dispatches describe Parral as surrounded by about three thousand constitutionalists with daily skirmishes at federal posts. Parral harbors over fifteen hundred soldiers and heavy artillery. Insurgents aim to force surrender after a thirty day food supply runs out. A second insurgent force advances on Chihuahua City while the Mexican Central railway is destroyed further south hindering the federal column from Torreon.
Novelist Alice Maud Meadows accidentally drowns on Mayday at Red Hill near London while attempting to rescue her dog. The writer began publishing at fourteen and produced works including The Infatuation of Marcella An Innocent Sinner The Moth and the Flame and many others.
Friday nominations list several Texas postmasters including S. A. Roberts Blooming Grove E. T. Oliver Caldwell E F English Cameron Laura V Hammer Claude S R Haynes Deleon W A Chancey Hondo W G Carpenter Kerrville W J Kivlin Kingsville Marion P Gillis Rosse Charles C Porter Meridian H L Brooks Pearsall Bessie Peterson Port Lavaca J S J Gober Sanger W B Smith Shamrock J T Fulcher Thorndale 8S P Tarrant Aransas Pass W J Harkey Palmer Calvin C Davis Iowa Park J M Harbin Lapaloma Nona L Simpson Lees.
Caldwell Texas farmer J Earl Porter sowed oats in one field three years ago. The sequence produced a big oats harvest, then sorghum cane in fall, harrowing, a second oats crop, another cane crop, and a final oats crop now ready for harvest.
Miss Nina Boyle and Miss Anna Munro, militant suffragettes, were jailed for fourteen days after preferring imprisonment to paying a five dollar fine each following an attempted Hyde Park meeting.
The department of insurance and banking granted a license Friday to the British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company of Liverpool.
A bolt of lightning struck oil tank No. 800 at the Texas Oil Company's Amesville plant Wednesday, destroying the big tank and burning nearly 1,000,000 gallons of crude oil valued at about $65,000.
Reports from ranches west of San Angelo say high waters last Sunday near Merizon drowned many sheep. One rancher lost more than 200 sheep in the flood.
In Lufkin Texas the local option election across Angelina County resulted in a prohibitionist landslide with thirteen of sixteen boxes carried. The decisive vote endorses prohibition across the county.
President Huerta issues a decree ordering a first army draft in Mexico starting June 1 to fill vacancies when voluntary enlistments fall short. It covers all Mexican males aged 18 to 45 with certain family exceptions. Draftees serve three years with the colors and three years in reserve.
In a four minute executive session the senate referred George W Guthrie democratic state chairman of Pennsylvania and former mayor of Pittsburgh as ambassador to Japan to the foreign relations committee for consideration.
In La Paz Bolivia General Ismael Montes was chosen president succeeding Wr C Edoro Villazon who has led the republic since 1906. The appointment occurred Thursday ending Villazon’s tenure as chief executive.
Lawrence Kansas and Burns Montana women report relief from ailments and regularity issues after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Testimonials say headaches backaches dizziness fevers and weakness improved, with one woman praising renewed strength. The makers cite thousands of such letters as proof the medicine works.
In a village chat, Mr Brown jokes about sleepwalking as a rotten habit. Young Smithson admits he suffers from it and asks for a cure. The humorist prescribes odd treatment: one box of tintacks to be scattered around the room at bedtime.
A playful exchange unfolds between a duke and the heiress, noting years of separation and the cresting cost of living as a comic quip shifts toward reluctant affection.
A N H man credits Grape-Nuts for ending years of discomfort after meals and colic. He reports improved weight and the ability to eat normally, noting he now weighs 30 pounds more and can eat almost anything without pain. The advertisement attributes the cure to Postum Co. and promotes reading The Road to Wellville.
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