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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1880
Page
1
The Galveston News and other Texas items report on state conventions, local politics, business notes, and public developments. Topics include the Georgia and Texas party activities, newspaper moves, factory and manufacturing updates, school funding, and local elections with emphasis on figures, places, and emerging public debates.
The Pennsylvania convention shows General Grant must endure a hard fight to secure the party nomination. His friends say he would not seek it otherwise and would only accept after a contest. Sherman and Blaine remain in the race, each unwilling to yield as Grant enters the lists on his own account.
The New York Mail estimates no cheers for Cameron Grant victory with Pennsylvanian and Conkling backing. It predicts a ratified ticket as editors discuss Harper and Harper’s Weekly, while a Boston clerk Anson D Stephenson inherits $50,000 from a dying fiancée.
On General Moltke's staff serves a captain named Buon Von Munchausen.
Taber and Wait advise against early discouragement when progress is slow. They urge steady training of mind and restraint to curb impulsive ambition. The message emphasizes patience, disciplined study, and faithful daily work to be ready for future great opportunities.
A lengthy meditation on self control, friendship, and the costs of excess ends with a note from New York about brewers seeking a one dollar per barrel price rise due to ice scarcity and higher hops malt and wages. The piece contrasts personal discipline with social obligations and warns that betraying trust frays bonds and empties hearts.
A garbled meditation on love, sin, loneliness, and restraint. The text freights aphorisms about original sin, fear of standing alone, and the paradoxes of desire and temperance, mingled with cryptic lines about dependance and postponement.
A distorted fragment describes a betrayer marching through a street and a milder man deemed to have committed a fearful wrong. The text hints at rejection, public scorn, and complex emotional reactions without clear names or events.
The document records a divorce petition filed in Washington County Texas by a plaintiff alleging cruelty and drunkenness by the defendant. It details years of alleged threats, assault with a deadly weapon, and denial of chastity, with a request to dissolve the marriage and court proceedings to compel service and appearance.
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