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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1901
Page
7
A collage of promotional lines and moralizing phrases. Mentions Hamlin’s Wizard Oil Co offering a free song book and a drugstore selling oil that stops pain. Also references Russ’ Bleaching Blue for white fabrics and Kis-Me Gum with a note about jealousy and hope.
A Montreal reporter dubbed Rudyard Kipling red-haired and squint eyed, calling him a pompous figure. An English commentator counters, affirming the gist but finding Kipling not red haired, not squinting, and not pompous.
Observations of the new star in Perseus indicate it contains hydrogen sodium helium calcium magnesium and coronium. Spectral line shifts show the star is receding from Earth at a low velocity.
Llewellyn Powers, former governor of Maine, won a congressional seat replacing Charles A. Boutelle. A veteran politician since 1864, Powers is described as a lumber king owning 175000 acres of timber land.
The Po in North Italy extends 360 miles with mouth deposits driving rapid coast advance. A former Augustus era seaport now lies eighteen miles inland from the Adriatic as the shoreline gains land.
The new code abolishes old courts and creates a new system with no jury trials. Spanish remains the court language until 1906, though Americans fluent in Spanish are eligible for judgeships.
A compact note discusses Eve not as the first literary woman but as the author of original sin, framing her as a pivotal figure in mythic and literary discourse.
The municipal ownership group in St Louis, which earned 30 000 votes in the city election, should activate in state politics. The party would rename from municipal ownership to public ownership if the plan matures and remains socialistic at its core.
An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as a rapid remedy for cancer blood poison pimples boils ulcers scrofula eczema rheumatism catarrh and more. It promises purified rich blood and offers a $1 drugstore price with a free treatment and repayment by mail from the Blood Balm Co. 62 Mitchell St Atlanta Ga.
Congress allocates 300000 dollars for preserving forest lands. Employee salaries are fixed at 3 dollars per day, with an additional 3 dollars for livery and traveling expenses.
Powder eases tight or new shoes and relieves swollen hot sweating aching feet ingrowing nails corns and bunions. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25c trial package free by mail Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy NY.
The German Emperor through East Prussia designates 100000 marks from the bicentennial celebrations as a fund to educate boys who are no longer under parental care.
George W. Carroll of Beaumont Texas who made a fortune from Texas oil has donated 60000 to Baylor University Waco Texas to finance a science building and promises additional gifts if the initial amount proves sufficient.
A Western Canada travel note extols vast game, elk wapiti moose and marsh birds, with prairie life and farm produce nearby. It notes settlement ads for lands through Canadian government agents and contrasts colonial youth volunteer rates from New Zealand Canada and Australia for African campaigns.
A compact set of maxims on human conduct covering manners, temper, marriage, opportunity, and societal roles. The author notes that deceit can mislead, artificial humidity in cotton factories failed, disguise hides emptiness, and mutual interests strengthen marriage while opportunity enables a girl to marry.
Fire started by safe blowers at Jasper county treasurer J. B. Faircloth's office destroyed 15 buildings on one street. Cash stolen from the treasurer and post office losses total in the thousands, with total damages around 40 000 dollars and possible 100 000 feared. Sheriff Brown pursues incendiaries as Gulf Beaumont and Kansas City rail line nears completion. In Washington, Mrs McKinley remains weak with no material change to her condition and President McKinley stays by her side.
A Tehuantepec isthmus blaze on a coffee plantation killed over seventy people who could not escape the flames. The fire destroyed coffee, banana and orange trees and plantation buildings before a tropical rain finally halted ten days of destruction.
William T. Haute a 24 year old machinist and second lieutenant of Company 8 First Colorado National Guard drowned in City park lake yesterday afternoon in full view of about 5000 spectators. Haute could not swim as the boat with two companions swamped and help arrived too late.
In Garland near Dallas a monument to constable Pate Bain, burned to death December 3, was unveiled before five thousand Dallas county residents in the rain. Bain, murdered after being drugged and robbed, is memorialized by a plain Texas marble shaft. Eugene Faulkner faces death. W M Reno and John Chapman receive life terms. The Knights of Pythias erected the shaft with an oration by R E L Knight.
Chicago federation of labor urged prayers from Presbyterians and all denominations for the eight-hour workday. A telegram to the Pittsburg synod was prepared urging a nationwide prayer campaign to support the eight-hour movement amid tensions over union labor.
In McKeesport Pennsylvania a collision between a United Traction line trolley car and a Pittsburg and Lake Erie rail train left nine people seriously hurt, possibly fatally. The injured include a 3 month old child of James Montville, Edna Fey aged 6, Tony Jordan, James Smith, and Conductor Irwin Montgomery with possible spinal injuries.
Erie, June 3. Hugh Walters Michael Findley were killed and Bruce Hazlett fatally injured when their rig was struck by a fast Lake Shore mail train while crossing tracks at Northeast east of Erie. The men had gone to Findley’s Lake New York and were returning home.
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