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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1913
Page
2
Swiss cantonal mortgage banks offer farmers loans with 4 percent interest plus annual amortization of one percent, allowing gradual repayment of a $10,000 loan. This method avoids large yearly payments and reduces foreclosure risk, though private lenders could offer similar terms. Foreclosures are rare with these banks.
The Magdeburg Association of Independent Merchants plans a one year course for women to train as shop clerks. Twenty hours weekly in customer service, decoration, languages, math, grammar, commerce, correspondence and bookkeeping with tuition around 19 dollars and materials about 5 dollars. The program aims to raise social standing and offer better prospects for educated girls.
A rugged Texan known for his money-making ways courted a town girl who later moved to Vancouver and married there. He recounts driving to the city, declaring his intention to quit her on the spot with a blunt, boastful tale of his dramatic single act.
Sir John Cockburn told teachers at the London Day Training College that forcing children to keep still in class harms mental development. He said learning occurs through the hand and eye and that prolonged stillness can cause deformity in children.
Representative Pujo quips about an obstinate financier described as the most obstinate man in Wall Street and perhaps the world. He jests that the man would not read a newspaper ad even if it says Dont This.
mayor Whitlock of Toledo discusses a Toledo heiress who wed a count. A friend warned she believed the count would not use money from bills, while she insisted he never thinks of paying his debts.
A Katy line southbound passenger train collided with four horses six miles south of Hailey Switch Oklahoma. The wreck at dawn left Mrs. Geo. Lewis of Kansas City dead and many others injured as the engine and most cars derailed. Dozens of travelers from Texas to Ohio were listed among the injured or dead.
A forty mile gale hit Chicago Saturday causing heavy damage and the loss of a yacht. The temperature plummeted from 91 to 44 degrees in about fifteen hours. Several boats were wrecked and occupants narrowly escaped death in the harbor incident.
Walter Burton, a prominent Black figure in Fort Bend politics during Reconstruction, died Saturday in Richmond, Texas. He served two years as Fort Bend County sheriff after the war and held one term in the Texas state senate.
George Brackenridge near Fort Sam Houston has brought in a well that flows several million gallons daily. It is the largest water volume known from a single well.
A week of favorable weather boosts the rice crop along the coast and leaves the Arkansas crop largely finished. Nearly all pumping plants are operating and most planted rice areas are flooded.
Austin Texas C Herbert Walker representative of the One Hundred and twenty fifth district resigns to accept postmaster appointment at Dalhart. Governor Col quitt accepts the resignation.
The Uruguayan senate on Saturday approved a treaty of arbitration between Uruguay and the United States, marking a formal sanction of the pact reached for peaceful settlement of disputes.
Palestine Texas reports the second car of tomatoes shipped Saturday to Northern markets earned growers $900. The article notes the success of the shipment and indicates continued activity in local produce trade.
An oil field was found Saturday at Somerset near San Antonio when a gusher well spouted an oil stream 140 feet high. The village lies eighteen miles southwest of the city and the discovery marks a notable petroleum find for the region.
Belizario Porras of Panama signed a decree prohibiting future naturalization of Chinese nationals in the republic. The ruling tightens immigration policy amid international scrutiny and related domestic debates.
President Wilson entered the Capitol's marble room to present a large slate of diplomatic nominations. With senators dispersed, he announced ambassadorial and ministerial appointments including Page to Italy and Gerard to Spain as Madrid's embassy status shifts.
Washington The senate on Thursday confirmed a list of Texas postmasters including P B McNatt Arlington J J Erwin Ballinger Minnie Burke Blossom W C Boyett College Station John W Person Colorado Sam K Hailey Conroe John M Hembree Cross Plains B F Mitchell Gainesville P H Clements Goldthwaite Shadroe S Tullos Grand Pr Wearye White Homilla rite C S Davis Ransets R K Me Closkey Rule W E Jenkins Smithville E B Barnes Snyder C B E Maxwell Strawn M Ezell Timpson S S McClendon Trybe Pope Allen Valley Mills Shaw D Ray Winnsboro.
Texarkana health officials report more than twenty five cases of infantile paralysis and appeal to Arkansas and Texas health boards for assistance to wipe out the disease. Local authorities seek rapid action and coordination to curb the outbreak.
The Southern Pacific, aiming at extensive system improvements including construction in Louisiana Texas and California, applied Thursday to the California railroad commission for permission to issue 30 million dollars in two year 5 percent collateral trust notes.
Mexico City reports the foreign minister has sent a protest note to the United States over Arizona’s anti alien land law. Rumor indicates three cabinet resignations may be submitted before week’s end.
The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday overruled the motion for rehearing in the Daughters of the Republic case against the state. It ends dispute seeking to restrain the governor from continuing Alamo restoration work under his plans.
Deputies chamber in Budapest witnessed riotous uproar as Premier Ladislas von Lukacs announced his resignation and his cabinet, with violence described as surpassing any seen in the turbulent assembly.
Chicago report states Jack Johnson the Negro heavyweight champion was sentenced to one year and one day in the State penitentiary and fined 1000 dollars for violation of the Mann white slave act on a Wednesday in court.
A flowing oil well was brought in Wednesday near Cedar Bayou and Goose Creek. The property belongs to the Bartlett Oil Company.
In Tampico Southern Tamaulipas about 300 Americans from 68 families urge U S protection through Consul Miller and Washington, saying they face repeated indignities and threats to life. They note lack of local protection and fear a sudden flare up, fearing to leave their property and lives exposed.
Senate action on renewing arbitration pacts was postponed after Senator Chamberlain objected that renewing with Great Britain could force submission of the Panama tolls dispute to The Hague. Italy and Spain pacts were ratified. Britain was held, others to follow. Uruguay and Paraguay legations were approved.
Clinton Giddings Brown was inaugurated mayor of San Antonio in a ceremony before a large crowd. He urged the board of aldermen to issue bonds totaling 3,350,000 dollars for necessary city improvements including projects long sought in the Alamo City.
Frank Andrews of Houston, acting as general attorney for the St. Louis Brownsville and Mexico railroad, had bond No. 29 registered by the secretary of state for 776236 dollars to cover extensions from Bloomington to Victoria and Heyser to Austwells as approved by the railroad commission.
Victoria County bonds to be serial, maturing in forty years with 5 percent interest. J P Pool county judge submitted district records to the attorney general. Total of 1400000 dollars allocated: 70000 for two road districts and 70000 for two drainage districts.
The senate lobby investigating committee on Thursday voted to broaden its inquiry into all organized efforts aimed at swaying any action pending before Congress. The move expands the scope beyond current targets to encompass broader influence campaigns.
President Wilson's nomination of A. E. Jacques to be postmaster at Wichita Kansas was withdrawn from the Senate on Thursday.
In Washington the Democratic caucus in the Senate stays closed as tariff plans are debated. Leaders debate shifts and possible amendments while two to three alienated senators may voice objections in public. President Wilson oversees fitness for offices and the party lines amid nomination disputes.
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