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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1902
Page
3
Reports from Fort Worth and Washington mingle with global disasters as markets fret over cotton prices. Roosevelt escaped a deadly electric car crash. Martinique volcanic tragedy claims hundreds. A Santa Fe wreck injures about twenty near San Angelo. The Gazette and Galveston area papers sell at $1.50 yearly.
Trustees of Cuero school sue to settle a prize piano contest in court. The suit declares the full piano value will be spent regardless of which side wins. editor bets on B R Buron carrying Fayette county in Ninth District race. loss could bankrupt the Yorktown News plant.
Fayetteville Tex Sept 4 John Holub a Bohemian farmer who lived about two miles away was buried here today. He died around noon from poisons taken the previous evening. Despondency from crop failure and heavy debt is given as the cause for the rash act.
The Houston Chronicle warns the Fort Worth convention may be one of the most boisterous in history with National Committeeman Hawley eager for power and possibly aiming for Texas governor, aligned with the gold democrats as a strategic move.
The piece notes J Pierpont Morgan's hesitation to act on the coal strike after his European trip and cites The New York World suggestion that Morgan advised as to a path for a settlement. It recalls a presidential election two years earlier when Morgan advised and a ten percent wage rise followed, arguing the public need for a settlement now.
At the Ninth district Democratic headquarters in LaGrange Texas the Burgess quartet a group of young men has offered to assist in the campaign through DeWitt and Victoria counties Their offer was accepted and the quartet will accompany Mr Burgess during visits to those counties Also Hon George F Burgess will speak at Ke Campo Wharton County on September 15 at 4 PM and at Iney Victoria County on September 16 at 4 PM
On Wednesday August 20 a 20 gold certificate bill disappeared on the road from Mrs R Geilhorn’s place to Shiner or in Shiner. A $5 reward is offered for its return to the Gazette office in Shiner Texas.
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