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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
3
Liquor dealers and allies push a nationwide education campaign to sway sentiment against local option laws. They oppose crusaders, hypocrisy, and prohibitionists, arguing the move harms workers and families reliant on breweries and saloons.
Commander Robert B. Peary gears up for another Arctic expedition set for July financed by the Arctic Club. The project aims to reach the North Pole with support from organization members.
The Travelers Protective Association launches a drive backed by over half a million traveling salesmen to press a congressional bill requiring railroads nationwide to replace wooden passenger cars with fireproof steel ones, retiring 10 percent of wooden cars over ten years. New York University’s School of Commerce to offer an evening course on industrial values for brokers and traders, with instruction on price theory, market fluctuations, and risk in commodities including cotton, grain, iron, wool, coffee, and provisions.
New York port records show 150 432 immigrant arrivals in January with 58 767 alien steerage departures. The previous year had arrivals about twice the departures for the same period.
President Roosevelt seeks congressional approval to fund an American exhibit at the Tokyo exposition aimed at surpassing all other nations. The move signals a push for stronger friendly relations with Japan and a display of American prestige on the world stage.
New York sources report leading hardware manufacturers reducing prices by about 10 percent on builders hardware such as locks knobs hinges and window trimmings due to lower copper and brass costs.
A bill introduced by Representative Chas E Townsend of Michigan to provide semi compulsory arbitration of disputes likely to interfere with federal rights has been favorably reported by the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce. It targets disputes that may hinder interstate commerce mail and military transport.
The United States cut 37,550,736 broad feet of lumber last year, with a mill value of 621,151,388 dollars. Shingles reached 11,858,260,000 pieces worth 24,155,555 dollars, and 3,812,807,000 lath valued at 11,490,070 dollars. Overall annual production nears 40,000,000,000 feet and total value exceeds 700,000,000 dollars.
In Memphis thieves entered the residence of Frank G. Jones on fashionable Vance avenue during a dinner party last evening and stole jewelry valued at 20000 dollars. No arrests have been made.
Justice Downing fixed March 2 for the trial of David L. Short and Morris A. Myers on forgery and perjury charges connected to a fraudulent will disposing of Marsh Rice's Texas estate. Patrick, serving life at Sing Sing for Rice’s 1901 murder, inspired the reference. Myers was a law clerk who witnessed the signature.
Macon Georgia Dr A M Spear was bound over on a prohibition charge after the physician admitted prescribing alcohol for a patient with grippe and claimed the remedy was for medical use. The case hinges on whether the prescription violated state liquor laws.
Three automobilists began a 22,000 mile overland voyage from New York to Paris. The first stage ends in Philadelphia before the party heads directly west toward Europe.
A large earth fissure appeared yesterday in Havestraw Nyack extending several blocks through the residential area and under the library causing considerable damage and widespread excitement.
Sydney Jones of Montgomery is under arrest after killing his paramour. Jones, a member of the 25th Infantry, was discharged without honor by President Roosevelt.
The American Red Cross society announces a general membership drive aiming to increase both annual and life memberships. Edward R. Johnston is appointed national registrar by the executive board.
A schoolteacher writes a sentence about a horse and cow on the board. A polite boy named Johnny points out the subject-verb and order error and suggests placing the lady first in correction.
A humor tale recalls a judge who orders a debtor to swear he is not worth five dollars and will never be, prompting the prisoner Johnny to quip that he is not worth five dollars at present. The judge concedes and moves on with the oath in a joking courtroom exchange.
A car on a country road hits a dog as a gunman and a sick dog traveler are found. The driver pays five dollars, claiming he was not hunting but going to shoot the dog, a terse exchange ending with apology.
G W Shelton of Oregon Indiana extols turkey profits and outlines breed choices with Mammoth Bronze Narragansetts White Hollands Bourbon Reds and Golden Bronze. He notes turkeys high market demand for holidays and gives three breeding rules selecting strong hens avoiding undersized birds and securing a healthy tom in fall.
The piece notes W. J. Oliver as the lowest Panama canal contractor bidder remarking there is a bright side to every outcome. It contrasts his comment with a joke about a rejected suitor and a humorous line about snoring from Mabel.
A Canton clergyman recalls Mrs McKinley as one of Ohio’s most charitable women with a tale of her aiding a colored woman preparing to marry. The bride says her new provider is her husband, who recently found her five new washings in the last week.
An absent organist and delayed start lead a devout gathering to test a hymn tune. A fervent sister attempted to reach a high note in Laban but faltered three times, prompting a pragmatic deacon to suggest lowering the pitch to five thousand to finish the hymn.
The Harvard president, famed for skepticism toward spelling reform, replies to a student seeking to alter his PhD to FD. He jokes that if insisted, the degree could be labeled simply as D, highlighting the clash between tradition and spelling reform in academia.
We offer choice single and double drivers and first class mules. Limited room to keep them. they must be sold. Visit Schwartz Bros in Schulenburg Texas to see and bargain.
An excited elector demands a yes or no answer at a meeting. The candidate deflects with a quip about questions that cannot be answered yes or no. The exchange escalates as the elector insists on a direct response and the crowd presses for clarity.
A few bushels of pure upland long staple cotton seed for sale early season. Short jointed and easy to pick with high yield reported as made bale per acre on upland in 1907. Contact L H Sorsby Texarkana Texas.
First class syrup with no sugar removed offered at 57 gallon barrels for 32 cents 30 gallon half barrels for 35 cents 10 gallon kegs for 40 cents and 6 gallon kegs for 45 cents Cash with all orders F O B Sugar Valley on G H and S A Ry Victoria division G H and T H Brown Van Vleck Texas.
Two young thoroughbred stallions aged 3 and 4, each over 16 hands, sound and for sale. Also three or four thoroughbred fillies aged 3 and 4. Very fine animals offered cheaply. For particulars address Bermuda Valley Farm Box 72 Schulenburg Texas.
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