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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
2
A Denver Post sociology chair claims facial and skull traits reveal criminal tendencies including murderers and swindlers. The text links large features, baldness, hair color, and asymmetry to criminality and warns readers to judge by appearance.
Uncle Rastus explains that a ferocious prize bull in Virginia had its horns cut by a veterinary surgeon. He watches from a stable and then proudly thanks the doctor for removing the horns. He adds he is too old to climb trees and too young to die.
An underground pipe locator uses an electrical vibrator, induction coil, and telegraph receiver. A battery energizes the pipe at accessible above ground points, and the detector coil senses the surrounding electric field to induce a stronger sound as the coil nears the pipe.
Mrs Bacon notes blind horses never mistake their diet and follow their nostrils to proper food. Mr Bacon agrees it's a good rule for humans to follow their nose, highlighting practical wisdom in daily life.
The dialogue notes the vast number of dry goods stores in the United States with 180000 shops and 27000 department stores while Mrs. Crimsonbeak jokes that some women still find little to do.
In a humorous aside, Gray quips about unseen flowers with the line from a classic poem. The response counters with a playful claim about Smith's chickens detecting blooms underground, showcasing local wit and banter.
In Baltimore the police court keeps a pet fly named Pete that spends the winter in the courtroom. The Recorder's office notes Pete perches on the judge's desk and even on the nose of Judge Preston during sessions. The staff affectionately calls the fly the court fly and credits it with disproving the idea that flies have short lives.
In Cleveland a motherly seamstress Mrs. BE Benson opens a Bachelors Mending Bureau to repair holes, rents, and torn clothing for bachelors and absent husbands. She guarantees discreet repairs, with invisible stitching, and notes many men will marry to avoid public mendings.
Women of Windsor Park on the South Side protest the transfer of South Deering garlic line cars to their route. They fear garlic odor from the cars and plan to petition officials while trying to mask the scent with cologne.(Local color and names: Windsor Park, South Deering line, President Busby, Miss Jane Hinman, Mrs. John C. Conners, Mrs. Frank Edwards.)
In Philadelphia hundreds of colored boys gathered after a prank ad offering a pony care job. Fist bites and scuffles broke out at the doorway as professors and students tried to manage the uproar. Police were summoned to eject the invaders.
The Texas Midcoast Industrial Congress completed its second quarterly session in Cuero and adjourned. Arba Johnson discussed dairying and Holstein cattle, while Prof. Williamson urged boys and girls clubs, aided by federal and state cooperation. Resolutions praised intercoastal canal events and youth clubs, and Freeport was named for the next meeting.
Marquette residents who knew Theodore Roosevelt testified in his libel suit against George A. Newett that the former president was not a drinker and was notably temperate in intoxicants. They recalled meeting him on the Nile after his African hunt and accompanying him in political campaigns.
Two arms and ammunition shipments believed destined for Mexican rebels were captured at Valentine, Texas. United States Mounted Inspector O. C. Dowe announced the seizures, recovered from points along the Texas border.
Falfurrias Texas J 8 Donahue loaded the first car of watermelons for the season of 1913 marking the start of the market.
The Senate directs the Judiciary Committee to investigate a Washington lobby’s influence on pending legislation, focusing on the Underwood tariff bill. It must report within ten days, naming lobbyists, methods, bills targeted, and any senator with conflicts, inviting President Wilson to provide relevant information.
After burning from last Saturday the Standard Oil gusher at Trees City was put out on Wednesday. Steam from fifty five boilers directed at the blaze cooled the oil and gas, stopping waste and the flow. The operation may have cost about 100000 dollars with an estimated 20000 barrel capacity.
Death stalked a veterans parade in Chattanooga Tennessee as three aged soldiers died while renewing war friendships. The decedents were Robert Nolen of Houston Texas B F Moore of Fuqua Texas and G W Mullenix of Londale Georgia.
President Wilson on Thursday transmitted to the senate a list of nominations including a consul at Manchester England William H Robertson of Virginia a consul general at Halifax Nova Scotia Evan E Young of South Dakota and a solicitor of the department of labor John B Densmore of Montana.
Brigadier General Caesar G. Alix, head of the French army in Morocco, announced a decisive French victory over a large Moroccan force believed to include the entire Moors. The report was dated Thursday from Paris.
President Wilson sent to the senate the nomination of Cato Sells of Cleburne Texas for commissioner of Indian affairs. The nomination comes as the administration seeks to fill the post with a trusted adviser in federal policy toward Native tribes.
Washington assigns Texas members to house committees. Beall on Judiciary, Buchanan on Post Offices and Post Roads, Burgess on Rivers and Harbors, Callaway on Insular Affairs Patents and Expenditures in Interior, Dies as Railways and Canals Chair, Eagle on Banking and Currency, Garrett on Military Affairs, Gregg as War Claims and related panels, Hardy on Expenditures Navy and Fisheries, Henry as Jules Chair, Rayburn on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Slayden on Library, Smith on Frigation and Arid Lands Accounts Election Committee No 3, Stephens on Indian Affairs Invalids Pension, Sumners on Public Buildings and Census, Vaughan on Foreign Affairs, Young on Agriculture. The delegation hopes for caucus ratification this week.
Washington reports Treasury Secretary McAdoo privately announced a distribution of ten million dollars in new federal funds to be deposited in national banks. Of five hundred fifty nine active depository banks as of May 1, allocations totalled one hundred eighty one thousand five hundred dollars across six hundred seven banks in forty eight states plus the District of Columbia. Several banks refused interest payments including National City, National Bank of Commerce and Chemical National of New York City and others in New London Conn Savannah Ga Buffalo Wy and San Francisco.
In Colombia, Captain Longoria led constitutionalists and was killed after a brutal hand to hand fight with federals. Twenty two constitutionalists and six federals died in the clash. Longoria reportedly killed many federals before being shot seven times and dying. He swore vengeance after a relative Pancho was executed a month earlier for alleged Carranza spying. After the fight, Carranza troops moved from Hidalgo to Colombia, with no further clashes reported.
John L. Wortham resigns as Texas secretary of state effective Monday and retires to private life. He is succeeded by Senator FP C Weinbert of Guadalupe County.
The first silo in Lavaca County, near Yoakum, has been completed by T. J. Allen. The 45 ton capacity structure sits on the Shiner road about two miles north of Yoakum.
Roads committee and commissioners court met Saturday in Smithville Bastrop County to receive bids for road construction in the Smithville road district following a recent $100000 bond approval by voters.
Richmond Masons start building a handsome two story brick structure on Clay avenue. The second story will be used by the lodge for meetings and related activities.
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