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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
2
The city’s rapid growth is highlighted by modern park and hotel developments. The Hutchins model family hotel on Garden Street offers refined accommodations for unattended ladies and visitors, overlooking the San Antonio river and near business district noise yet quiet. Visitors arriving by car or streetcar can be dropped at 205 Garden Street.
Guthrie Oklahoma June 7 Arthur Wise a clothing clerk and Mrs Caroline Heyman both of Oklahoma City have been notified that they with A J Wise of Little Rock Ark are heirs to one from or 40 000 marks. The will leaves the sum to Mrs Heyman and Mrs Frank Wise of St Louis mother of the Wise boys. The heirs seek their share and the letter fails to specify which portion goes to American legatees. Other reports say 40 000 has been willed to American relatives. Miss Bamberger received her fortune from a California gold hunter brother who later returned to Germany with about 100 000 and left a large part to Miss Bamberger who was 80 at death. Mr Wise of Little Rock is a civil engineer for the Rock Island railroad.
The American Federation of Labor executive council will consider immigration restriction at its June 15 meeting. The Central Federated Union committee on immigration was ordered to confer with the AFL and draft a plan to curb foreign influx. William A. Coakley, chair of the Central Federated Union immigration committee, spoke at yesterday’s session.
Kansas City reports identify the manure pile as the chief breeding place for the typhoid fly. Health officials urge covering manure with lime and removing it weekly to curb the fly population and protect public health. The hospital and health commission notes complaints about unsanitary livery stables and manure heaps, calling on stable owners to clean up to aid the crusade against the fly pest.
An eighteen year old girl Miss Ray Sacher of 130 South Second street Williamsburg was committed as an insane patient at Kings County hospital Brooklyn after attempting to leap from a window in a bid to reach her dream of world class piano status. Parents restrained her until police arrived.
In Rome on June 7 Mgr Sardi the apostolic delegate at Constantinople drew attention to Vatican views on Turkey's new order. Though the Young Turks promise liberty for worship, observers fear two trends under the constitutional regime: nationalist suppression of foreign privileges and anticlerical currents influenced by French-educated Young Turks.
New York officials report a new alloy treatment for steel rails and car wheels that purportedly makes rails last 4.5 times longer than standard Bessemer steel. President W C Brown announced that 101000 tons of steel track ordered by the New York lines will be treated, with an estimated $56 saved per ton after treatment costs.
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