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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
7
A young poet offers a rough poem to an editor who authorizes immediate payment with a check. The editor allows corrections and promises more, but the poet notices the check is not filled in. The editor explains the check is given in rough form, inviting further edits.
A local Soviet in Voronezh touts a simple path to learning by posting brief news placards along principal streets. Izvestia proclaims that citizens can gain general knowledge while walking, avoiding years at a bourgeois university.
Mrs Bims falls in during a bridge misstep prompting a humorous exchange about her misfortune. The quip suggests a lighthearted view of a mistaken play leading to deep water.
An old advertisement touts GROVE'S TASTELESS Chill TONIC as a blood purifying and energy boosting remedy. It claims the tonic uses quinine and iron to strengthen the system, appeals to both adults and children, and notes its long history of use for malaria and general toning.
Vague OCR text references World famous Texas Ot items, 300000 acre land in Ford County Kansas, and wage promises with a Fort Worth address. Mention of commercial club in Dodge City and a builder in San Francisco area appears fragmentary with unclear context.
Washington. Telegraph and telephone companies once under government control since last August 1 are ordered to resume immediate operation for their own account by Postmaster General Burleson. Government oversight remains for a period pending final congressional action, with anti discrimination rules and rate terms preserved.
The list honors Texas servicemen who died or were wounded, captured, or missing in Europe. Names include Pvt Thomas M. Betts of Giddings killed in action and Lt John A. Mann of Dallas among those wounded, with many other Texans such as Pvt Jeffie D. Baleman Edgewood and Corp Orvil W. Ward Sonora noted.
A Cincinnati genius develops Freezone to drop on corns then lift them out by hand without soreness. A tiny bottle costs only a few cents at drug stores and promises to remove hard soft and toe corns and calluses quickly. The ad-style message touts painless relief and easy removal.
Governor Hobby declares the Mexican situation critical and asks Secretary Baker to call the First and Second Brigades of Texas cavalry into federal service and mobilize them at a convenient point to protect lives and property on the border.
Frank Winfrey and Henry Currey were killed when they ran to a blazing Winfrey barn in Cold Springs Texas on Saturday night. An unidentified shooter fired at them as they approached the burning building. Investigating authorities seek the killer and motive.
In what authorities describe as a red army crackdown, about three thousand peasants including women and children were struck or killed as revolts erupted in western Hungary near Oedenburg. The village of Kolnohof was burned.
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board asks Congress for a final appropriation totaling just over 600 million dollars to wind up the government shipbuilding program.
Chicago reports a nationwide strike order issued Saturday by the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America. Telegraph and telephone operators are to begin walkouts Wednesday at 8 o'clock in the morning.
In Texas Gulf Coast counties Galveston Harris Brazoria Chambers Hardin Jefferson Liberty about 75 percent of farmers signed cotton planting applications under federal supervision. Total 657 applicants covering 10 777 acres with Brazoria 3 992, Chambers 683, Galveston 1 573, Hardin 20, Harris 1 681, Jefferson 1 225, Liberty 1 600 acres. No infestation found yet though exams continue and more fields will be checked with about thirty extra experts in South Texas, Big Bend and Pecos Valley.
Paris reports Lieutenant Gasale set a new world altitude record, rising to 9500 meters or 31 168 feet on Saturday. The feat marks the highest ascent achieved by a pilot in a guided flight, underscoring France's aviation prowess.
Nicaragua appeals to Washington to deploy U S land forces to repel a threatened invasion from Costa Rica. The request underscores rising tensions in Central America as the two nations face military pressure and regional instability.
Maria White Lowell, poet and first wife of James Russell Lowell, privately printed a small 1855 collection of her poems after her death. One copy survives in the New York Public Library archives. Daughter of a Watertown farmer she impressed Lowell who wrote she knows more poetry than anyone he knows.
A Yuma Arizona restaurant posts a sign offering free board every day the sun doesn't shine. The writer notes that sunny days are rare in the desert, with rain being brief, so the sign would mostly attract only a gullible reader.
Cocoa is carried by hundreds of porters over long roads to the railway in the Gold Coast. The inland cocoa is moved in long lines of bags perched on the heads of carriers, creating a striking, continuous procession along the roadway.
Quote by John Brisbane Walker on courage as a key asset in business. Warns that courage gains value when paired with good judgment. highlights the untapped benefit of courageous leadership in management and enterprise.
A quotation describes a man, attributed to Talmage, as never more dignified than when he draws a spectacle case, reveals a lens, places it over his nose, and meets your gaze directly.
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable remedy to replace calomel for biliousness, constipation, and sluggish liver. It claims the product cleanses sour bile, eases nausea, and preserves health for the whole family, with a money back guarantee if results are not seen by morning.
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