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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1925
Page
2
The text recalls 1815 protests by English miners who carried coal to London to confront public officials. The magistrate ordered them to stop disturbing high officials, and they returned to work with the coal still in tow.
Haiti is essentially a one crop country with coffee exports worth about 10.4 million dollars in 1928 to 1924. Cotton and cottonseed exports totaled under 2.3 million dollars and sugar exports just above 600 thousand dollars.
During last year's Arctic expedition at a certain point the team could hear jazz music from London on a radio broadcast. The crew then pressed on to higher latitudes despite the harsh conditions and distance.
Two middle aged women describe relief from ailments during the Change of Life after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Mrs Elsie Ackerman of Convoy Ohio reports eight bottles restored strength and farm work ability, while Mrs Joseph Mayer of Litchfield Connecticut says the remedy eased sleeplessness indigestion palpitations and hot waves and helped her nervousness and digestion.
Cirrus tale from the Chicago Post reports that two circus alligators were released into Elk River near Howard Kansas after the show folded. The amphibians emerged to menace bathers, forcing them to scatter, as officials clarified the previously unseen reptiles had appeared years earlier and caused a sensational stir.
In Japan about 1,500,000 girls and women are engaged in clerical and stenographic work as a livelihood. Enrollment in business courses rises by about 30,000 annually, taxing public and private schools offering these courses for girls.
Mexico passes a comprehensive milk law detailing production transport storage and sale standards with special emphasis on milk for children. Officials promise stricter oversight and quality controls to ensure safety across all stages of the dairy supply chain.
A Hempstead area farm hand named Fritz McGee became a Texas icon after rescuing 75 people in a dramatic Brazos River flood. In one perilous night he used a single frail rowboat to ferry men women and children to safety across flooded bottoms, a feat praised as one of the greatest lifesaving efforts in local memory.
The Logas Motor Vehicle Around the World in a Log, a 22 foot long log car 7 feet 7 inches in diameter, traveled Cascade Locks Oregon on a world tour to advertise the Pacific coast. C E Cave and J A Nutter bore and hewed the huge Douglas fir body, equipped it as a modern apartment after 13 months of work, and sealed 8716 feet of lumber inside. The 14 000 pound vehicle includes electric lights water baths beds a kitchen dining area library and built in dressers. The team plans to head to New York via Salt Lake City Omaha and Chicago then continue to Mexico Central America and Canada before returning to Oregon.
Ten musk oxen from Greenland arrive by sailing vessel to Kjiholmen off Norway’s west coast for a summer acclimatization. They are valued for meat and zoo garden interest, but survival depends on adapting to northern European climate. Risk remains from potential overfeeding and harsh summer conditions.
A staff writer recalls an American girl left by her father at a famous London hotel. On his return he finds the bill lists 178 cocktails. The girl explains she ordered them to eat the cherries, as she shyly admits she never drinks alcohol. Each cherry-bearing cocktail cost 18 pence.
Food specialist Andrew Kennard of Boston reports he raised a litter of imported puppies on a diet of fruit salad containing oranges apples and bananas. The fruits were half their daily rations with the other half being approved dog foods, and the puppies showed rapid growth.
An air service carried letters between France and Morocco last February. The operation demonstrated rapid transcontinental mail delivery via airmail routes linking the two countries and highlighted growing use of aircraft for civilian correspondence.
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