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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1901
Page
2
News nuggets report a deadly blaze in Joplin Missouri causing about $50,000 in damages. It lists various global and national items including political, scientific and cultural notes alongside a tragic Houston Texas fire death sequence.
Berlin reports officers from the General Staff and Admiralty on the island of Sylt in the North Sea trigger speculation that Germany plans a second naval harbor at the island’s north point near List. The Tageblatt argues a harbor or island could be feasible, offering a safe anchorage from Heligoland to Skagerack and Esbjerg.
Carl Weingren left for Denver after completing a major Montana mining deal for Bear Gulch Mining. The arrangement, worth nearly 2 million dollars, transfers control of all mining property town site millsite and water rights to a foreign syndicate. The option allows immediate in depth evaluation and potential construction of a modern treatment plant.
The Cunard line plans to equip steamers with wireless telegraphy and test its value. Marconi recently sailed on the Champania with reports he visited Montauk Point to set a receiving station there. Vernon H Brown & Co confirms the plan but adds details are unclear.
Master Douglas Reed 11 an adopted son of Major and Mrs. Joe B. Reed of Bryan drowned in the stock water tank east of the city while bathing with another boy. The companion could not aid the boy, and Mr. B. H. Franklin recovered the body. Major Reed, a noted grand lodge record keeper of the A. O. U. W. in Texas, mourns.
Reuters from Peking reports German forces crossed into Shan Si on April 23 via Kuk Nau and Chang Seng Liu passes in pursuit of retreating Chinese. French troops held the passes, Germans returned to previous posts by April 25. German casualties listed four killed and five officers and eighty men wounded. Chinese losses unknown.
W H Staley brought in a fifteen barrel light oil well on the West and Hanley tract. His crew will start a well on the Meyer tract Monday. Aside from Southern Oil Co two acres recently brought in, this is the first well finished in some time. Active operations resume as rigs, though in demand at Beaumont, are being started daily in the Corsicana field.
Thomas E. Ketchum known as Black Jack was executed at 1 21 p m after a night of armed guard watching the jail. Sheriff Garcia planned the 1 oclock death while crowds and cowboys gathered nearby. Ketchum spoke softly, exonerated others, and claimed no killings beyond three shots.
Tyler Texas April 27. The first solid car of strawberries for the season was shipped last night by express. About 500 crates sold to C R Pope at 1.20 per crate. The shipment is about a month ahead of last year. Another car may go tonight or tomorrow to Morroow. Warm weather has ripened berries quickly and demand for pickers is high.
Deals in Cattle Wharton Texas April 27 cattle sales brisk with good prices due to mild winter stock in fine condition. G A Harrison sold 23 young Durham bulls at 30 dollars per head to E B Rugely of Bay City and Sid Winston of Richmond. Cattle shipments frequent over the Caney Valley headed for the Indian Territory.
An advertisement claims high cure rates for kidney and bladder troubles and other women's diseases with Smith's Sure Kidney Cure. It promises a money back guarantee if cures are not effected and states the product sells for 50 cents at all druggists.
The cinematograph for the blind is a machine that passes reliefs under the fingers showing the same object in different positions. A blind reader feels motion of scenes like photographs on a luminous screen gives sighted viewers.
A Sheffield manufacturer angered by postal registration delays sends 200 workers daily to the post office to purchase penny stamps. Each employee wears red tape and is equipped with a sovereign’s worth of coins to buy a single stamp.
An advertisement claims deafness from catarrh can be cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. It states the Eustachian tube inflammation causes hearing loss and offers 100 dollars for any case not cured by the remedy and urges sending for circulars.
Samuel Gibbons of Hagdenville Kentucky is said to be the oldest mail carrier in the United States at 76. He has served sixty three years without interruption, starting in 1836 at age 11 during the Jackson era.
An advertisement urges readers to choose Wolfe's Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps over bitter patent medicines for malaria liver kidneys bladder cramps and general run down feeling. It claims the pleasant taste prevents nausea and provides strength and tone for the whole family with doctors recommending it and druggists selling it.
Fragmentary proverbs advise on marriage training, liver health, and self treatment. It touts Garfield Tea as a cure and mocks skeptics of the New Testament while promoting Wizard Oil for rheumatic pains and debt repayment as a remedy for bed impressions.
A garbled ad page lists refunds for PUTNAM FACELESS DYES with Monroe Drug Co. in Unionville MO and various quips and slogans about household goods and life, including Velvet Starch promotions and Kis-Me Gum. The jumbled lines reference prizes, bleaching blue, and enduring sayings about life and diamonds.
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