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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
6
The Hutchins guest house on 205 Garden Street offers southeast exposure and gulf breeze cooling for a comfortable summer stay. Mr and Mrs Hutchins personally attend guests in a pleasant shaded setting with clean rooms, open balconies, a riverside park, and inviting dining and reception spaces.
Captain Laflin reports a whale bit and twisted the Alaskan cable connecting Seattle and Sitka, pulling the line tight until the whale drowned. The Burnside hauled the carcass and recovered a mass of whalebone as the government wire suffered a severe twist.
During a heavy storm in Guthrie Oklahoma on June 14 lightning struck the home of C A Marr injuring Marr and his wife. Their daughter and a young man were in the parlor when the strike hit the steel springs of a sofa sending a jolt through the young man who was severely injured. The young woman escaped unharmed.
William J. Steinbliner a 28 year old East Fifty first Street police officer and Miss Mary Schroeder 23 were married after a romance begun fifteen years earlier. He later became a policeman, and they reunited when he halted runaway carriage horses in February. The ceremony took place at St Johns Catholic Church Brooklyn with a police platoon attending the reception at the bride’s mother's home.
The poem portrays a roving, carefree man whose heart roams across hills and open doors. He finds simple joys in nature and everyday scenes, a gypsy spirit unbound by weighty cares, moving along with typical wanderers' ease.
In Morrisville Pennsylvania on June 14 the Rev. E P Ferry and Rev. Asa Ferry nearly drowned when their canoe capsized on the Delaware River. A large shepherd dog leapt into action pulling one man to shore and then guiding the other to safety as the preachers struggled and nearly perished.
Rigdon Johnson of near New Harmony, Indiana, relies on a six foot black and white chicken snake to exterminate rats and mice on 260 acres. He reports no rats or corn losses since the snake took refuge in the barn and granaries and allows it to remain unmolested.
A dated item from San Antonio Texas on June 16 1909 records local events or notices in a concise regional register. Details are sparse but place and date anchor the brief item.
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