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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1906
Page
5
Train schedules for Tam E Lockhart branch and Waco Yoakum links are listed. Local notices report visits, shipments, oil ads, health beverages Vim-O Red Seal, a vaudeville show, illness, travel plans, cattle shipments, and a rail era job ad seeking a traveler for a $250,000 firm with $1072 yearly pay.
Local notices report rail expansion plans through Lava County, rainfall shortages across South and West Texas, and irrigated crop concerns. Businesses tout Vim-O drinks as dope-free, rail service rates proposed by Southwestern Telephone, and livestock sales. Court and election notices, new officers for St Joseph Verein, and local commerce updates fill the page.
Farmers and country butchers urged to sell hides as the open season for butchering begins. A. Carnes & Co promises highest market prices and strictly honest weights, seeking repeated business from sellers in the local market.
Lost between the Methodist parsonage and the postoffice or between the postoffice and C L Williams home. Finder should leave the bill at this office to receive a reward. Also a local ad for Hallister's Rocky Mountain Tea claims cure for rheumatism. Mr and Mrs C J Jaeggli and children spent a week in New Braunfels visiting relatives.
Draughon's Practical Business Colleges, a chain of 27 schools, announces a special coffer offer in this issue and invites readers to read the detail.
The white men's primary at Shi ner passed quietly with 293 votes amid notices of Terrell law but no poll tax receipts required. Noble won sheriff and Bagby county attorney by solid majorities, while Trautwein led Koerth for commissioner. Panniwitz chosen for justice. ad shows Baby Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea as a sponsor.
In Shiner in early May Dr Frank Kent performed a painless eye operation on a boy with crossed eyes using only a few drops of cocaine. The procedure lasted minutes and the child was cured in five to six days. A grateful parent praises the specialist in eye ear and throat diseases and notes the doctor’s reliability as stated by Gonzales Reformer editor.
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