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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
2
Southwest Texas farmers increase alfalfa planting after high forage prices. Last season yielded about a ton per acre with roughly sixteen dollars per ton, with six to nine cuttings possible. Sheriff John Closner notes strong returns as alfalfa improves soil, requires little irrigation, and helps restore land after cotton.
An advertisement by Dr. F. B. Hayes, a Neurologist in San Antonio, promotes a drugless system for treating eye and nervous disorders. He guarantees results or refunds, claims 12 years of use elsewhere, and states ninety percent of troubled eyes need no medicine. Consultation is free. full correction promised with a unique glasses method.
In a saloon the tramp recounts a life wrecked by drink. Once a husband with a home and ambitions, he laments losing wife, children, and status, saying alcohol swallowed his good impulses and left him a homeless, ruined man. The Chronicle.
A Yorkshire farmer declines attending a neighbor's funeral of the third wife because he has never hosted a funeral or responded to such civilities himself. He explains it would feel awkward to accept invitations when he has nothing to offer in return.
A blacksmith, under mortgage, turns from the social glass after joining a temperance society. His wife, inspired by sobriety, tends a rose garden and fruit trees on their lot for the first time in five years. She hopes the produce and home ownership will bless their family as strangers no longer envy their cottage. The tale ends noting their pretty dwelling.
A collection of poems and reflections praising kindness over criticism, resilience in defeat, and the valor of those who persevere. The verses celebrate boosting others, enduring hardship, and the enduring appeal of noble souls, ending with news that the famous Hope diamond weighed forty and one half carats has reportedly been sold to the Sultan of Turkey.
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