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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
6
A long moral piece on married life urging harmony and mutual care. It mixes advice on finances, patience, gentleness, and discretion in public, with reflections on affection, faithfulness, and avoiding wrath. The text also notes real estate and economic optimism in San Antonio, with hints of labor and political shifts among Black voters.
City development accelerates as J H Kirkpatrick notes San Antonio spends eight million dollars on improvements this summer. Four major structures rise including a $1,000,000 hotel on the Mahncke site and the Gibbs building at Houston Street and Avenue.
The article notes a heavy influx of Northerners into Texas this season with an estimated two hundred arriving in groups and individuals this month. A group of nearly one hundred arrived in two Alli son-Richey cars from Kansas City and moved to Victoria area via rail. Land buyers are drawn by Texas fruit crops and low market prices, seen as a major asset attracting settlers.
In San Antonio a new movement weighs negroes joining the Democratic primaries on July 25 and voting the Democratic ticket this fall. Reasons include the Brownsville incident and the prohibition fight, with some Republicans hoping a negro issue drop will swing Texas voters toward Republican gains amid Democratic dissension.
Immense irrigation schemes expand in Southwest Texas around Brownsville with twenty six plants under construction to irrigate about half a million acres. San Benito, American Land and Irrigation, and Harlingen lead, with extensive canals, locks, and power plants. Sugar cane farming thrives as mills operate and a $500000 Brownsville plant nears completion. Rio Grande valley cane wins St. Louis prize due to climate longer season and superior saccharine content.
A Dallas News column imagines Uncle Sam issuing a rubber currency to cover monthly expenses. It envisions stretching new twenties to pay for bon-bons, movies, fashion items, and charitable offerings, joking about inflation and the absurdity of price shifts.
Dr G T Spearman lists treatments for syphillis scrofula ulcers enlarged glands systemic poisons rheumatism and related disorders. He claims rapid noticeable improvement within a day and offers cures for kidney bladder urinary troubles nervous debility hydrocele skin diseases and cattarhal affections with a guaranteed piles cure and a sample offer. He provides address Mason Building Houston Texas and invites 200 for sample.
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