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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
2
A small southern town church hosts a famed minister. The local preacher introduces Rev. Mr. H- as having prepared a splendid sermon on The Devil, promising the audience that he is full of it.
A grieving widow and a neighbor debate erecting a monument for a husband. The neighbor imagines a memorial, while the widow reveals she found letters he kept in his pockets, hinting at unshared memories.
A playful chat reveals Maisie has two sisters. she bragged of two half sisters to bluff, but the narrator knows the truth via fractions. The exchange highlights a clever math boast among children and a teachable moment about accuracy.
A visitor speaks to children about a boy viewed as selfish in youth. He contrasts the boy’s neglect of the future with a warning that today he stands before them as a man. The anecdote emphasizes consequences of wasted time and the importance of responsibility.
A nervous foreigner asks a streetcar conductor to explain why the car is slow. The conductor relays that the car ahead is behind, and the man repeats the phrase with growing astonishment at the unfamiliar grammar and humor. The exchange ends with the traveler returning to his seat.
A bashful servant writes a ardent note to his beloved and receives a sharp reply. The card mocks his passion with a light hearted antidote stating he should take an antidote for his feverish declarations.
A physiology class dialogue uses a familiar example as Johnnie explains how the human body adapts to changing conditions. He notes his aunt gained fifty pounds during a rest period and her skin did not crack, illustrating resilient adaptation.
About 400 workers, largely women, are employed in the flag making department at the Brooklyn navy yard. Some operate electrically driven sewing machines while others perform hand embroidery tasks.
The cost of producing flags depends on country size with powerful nations paying less. South American flags are among the costliest, Salvadoran flags priced at 52.50 dollars, while the president's flag is the largest at 36 by 19 feet. Over 10,000 flags were made last year using about 150,000 yards of bunting and more than 25,000 dollars in value.
The navy will load two submarines, the Porpoise and the Shark, aboard the collier Caesar in New York and move them around South America to San Francisco within months. The Caesar is expected to depart New York around March 1 with the transporting ship. President Roosevelt plans to retire from public life on March 4, 1909 and has not decided his post presidency plans, including a possible Alaska bear hunt or an extended big game trip.
Engineers building the Westward Pacific railroad near Salt Lake City report massive salt beds eight miles wide and forty miles long. Depth is unknown, with holes only reaching six to eight feet, yet bottoms rarely reached. Salt is said to be 98 percent pure and commercially priceless. Beds lie near the Great Desert’s west end about 120 miles west of Salt Lake City.
The United States Steel Corporation receives credit for a record 25 000 horsepower engine, built by Allis-Chambers at West Allis near Milwaukee and destined for Carnegie Steel in South Sharon Pennsylvania. The two largest castings each weigh 118 tons and the full engine weighs 550 tons. It is operable by a single engineer. A horizontal tandem rolling mill engine, the machine is described as easily controlled like a sewing machine. ST. LOUIS is also reporting resumed work on the St. Louis and Oklahoma railroad, a 300 mile line expected to cut travel distance to Southern Oklahoma Texas and Mexico by more than 100 miles.
The Pennsylvania Steel Company plans a 3000 prize in mid March for the crew first to couple the overhang to the middle section rising above Blackwell's Island. Similar work remains on each overhang, giving Manhattan and Long Island shore gangs about equal odds. Each gang has 150 men.
In January 165 432 immigrants arrived at the port while 58 767 alien steerage passengers departed. The prior year period saw arrivals double departures.
Detroit and Lake Erie steamship rates rise 50 cents each way. Duluth routes see a 10 percent increase. This year meals and berths will be billed separately from transportation on nearly all lines.
Melena Montana National Wool Growers Association with about 800 members promotes plans for wool auction sales in the United States modeled after London sales.
The six months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Page died yesterday at 4 oclock. Their four year old child died the evening of the same day.
4 few bushels of pure upland long staple cotton seed for sale early short jointed easy to pick. Made bale per acre on upland 1907. L. H. Sorsby Texarana Texas. Our Poland-Chinas won every first prize at Central Texas Fair 1907. Write for prices J G C Permecky & Sons Menardville Texas.
Dr W C Rountree invites patients to his Mineral Wells sanitarium offering cure for morphine whiskey and tobacco habits with no charge until cured. Also promotes land investment near Snyder Scurry County with 18 000 acres of prairie land for sale at 12 60 per acre and up.
The seller offers several young jacks sired by an imported Catalonian jack, 16 hands high, three to five years old, sound and vigorous. They are offered at prices reflecting current financial stringency, with correspondence and inspection invited. J B Whithselle, Corsicana, Texas.
Classified note offers Spanish ced peanuts for sale at per bushel. Contact Jas A Davis of Mr Pleasant Texas for details. Also mentions a single life insurance policy and directs to Bos 154 Bonham Texas for particulars.
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