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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1913
Page
6
A nostalgic look at changes in rainy day attire over the past decade. Women shift from dreary outfits and old hats to bright, practical rainwear with plain hats, tailored suits, short skirts, and well designed raincoats and shoes.
The text notes a woman wearing a lively hat and a red or purple silk umbrella to add color on rainy days. She believes the cheerful accessories improve mood and help chase away the blues during storms.
A new soap tablet targets discerning travelers with compact packaging. Fifty tablets fit in a box under three inches square and include nickel tweezers for easy extraction. The tablets dissolve in water and cost about the same as a regular bar of toilet soap.
More than 400 hairdressers from London Brussels and Berlin gathered in London to hear a Paris expert forecast the season. The trend favors hair dressed upward toward a pompadour with simple styling and little or no chignon, avoiding flat brushing over the ears. The style is deemed suitable for Englishwomen.
Blue and white German china with Delft designs is described as good and durable for the breakfast table. A coffee cup and saucer are priced at 50 cents. An antique Copenhagen egg dish in the same line is highlighted as a square scalloped piece with eight cups held by stems.
A new washable shirtwaist style described as modeled after a shirt features a plaited bosom front and diskey collar with a black cravat. Available in white crepe de chine.
In Chihuahua State near Bustillos Villa’s rebels executed thirty federal soldiers as revenge for a failed ruse when two government trains approached. Federal forces suffered many casualties. 400 troops retreated toward Madera. Northern Mexico braces for clashes with constitutionalists in Saltillo Torreon Tampico Victoria and Nuevo Laredo with 3 000 rebels awaiting orders.
Ensign William D. Billingsley dies when a hydro aero biplane crashes into Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis after a gust capsizes the craft. Lieutenant John A. Towers clings to wreckage and is rescued, suffering severe pain but survives.
A growing movement establishes milk stations in many cities from Baltimore to Yonkers to supply mothers of bottle fed babies with whole, certified, or pasteurized milk. Stations are rooms with basic furnishings, run by a nurse with a physician on call, sometimes housed in stores or schoolrooms.
Buenos Aires considers a project to erect the world’s highest tower, surpassing Eiffel by 189 feet. The steel structure would reach 1,173 feet with a 1,000,000 candlepower lit statue atop. The design includes social facilities, cafes, restaurants, library, billiards, gym, wireless telegraphy, and a meteorological observatory.
An advertisement touts Vitalitas as a cure for indigestion rheumatism biliousness eczema and nervous debility. It directs readers to Vital Remedies Co Houston Texas and notes a line about time with a taxi outside mentioning a three dollar purchase estimate.
An old advertisement touts a prescription titled Six-Sixty-Six for malaria or chills and fever. It claims five or six doses will break the illness and says taken as a tonic afterward the fever will not return. The price is 25 cents.
A young reformer running for office pledges sweeping changes. He questions the current vacuum system and argues for modernization and efficiency to address persistent issues. Supporters rally behind the platform as opponents challenge feasibility and scope.
A circulating report from Laredo says many federal garrison volunteers in Nuevo Laredo are deserting and may join the Colombian rebels. Sixty desertions in three days, with some regulars also leaving. Carranza rebels are concentrating at Lampazos with over a thousand in camp and plan to attack Nuevo Laredo in a few days.
A historical note highlights a horse care product Hanford bal sam valued for skin conditioning and claimed to cure lameness. The text also mentions an advertising line for a Modified Sort and a quip about thinking men and attitude toward frivolous girls ending in a sentimental reply.
The advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a blood enriching tonic that builds up the whole system and strengthens the body to withstand hot summer conditions, priced at 60 cents.
New York reports Dr. Frederich Friedmann, the Berlin physician who claimed a tuberculosis cure, sailed for home Tuesday as his institute closed following a health board order banning the vaccine. It was not stated whether he would return.
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled the federal government not financially responsible for flooding over 100 plantations along the Mississippi due to levee construction. Claims sought about 7 million dollars for land loss.
A humorous dialogue portrays a barmecide feast where no waiter is tipped, underscoring the era’s humor about expense and scarcity without direct events or persons.
Buyers representing Eastern mills and commission houses purchased 260000 pounds of Ballinger county wool. Bids were accepted on the entire holding with the lowest price at 12 1/2 cents per pound.
Washington plans for a permanent government in the canal zone wait until the canal opens in January 1915. Secretary Garrison announced Monday that until then the zone government will continue with changes as conditions demand.
Wireless dispatches from the liner Admiral Farragut report the steam lumber schooner Riverside foundered off Cape Mendocino on the Northern California coast. The ship carried thirty six crew members who were all rescued.
San Francisco will host the Sovereign Camp Woodmen of the World gathering in 1915 after beating out St. Paul Minnesota for the Pacific coast site.
The Press Association of America concluded its Colorado Springs convention with Thursday elections. J. Clyde Oswald, editor of American Printer in New York, was elected president. The next meeting place selection was deferred to the national council.
Henderson Kentucky volunteers armed themselves and were sent to tobacco patches in Western Kentucky to stop night riding after the formation of a vigilance committee that now numbers about four hundred members.
Rube Schauer, sensational pitcher for Superior in the Northern league, was sold Wednesday to the New York Nationals for $10,000. The sale marks a major move for the Superior club and shifts a key arm to the major league lineup.
An old newspaper clippings pair sentence jokes and an advertisement for Dr Porter Antiseptic Healing Oil 250. The gag lines include a boarding house remark and a coffee question. New Orleans notice requires wrapped bread for fly protection.
A short promotion notes using Hanford's Bal sam of Myrrh with a quip about status. The copy implies male bravado and social climbing, but lacks clear event or person names.
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