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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1890
Page
2
The piece argues against wasteful purchases and urges readers to value prudence in spending. It contrasts cheap trinkets with worthwhile goods, urging savings for better items like books, art, and quality photographs, and emphasizes thoughtful restraint over impulse buys.
The summary catalogs a flood of Texas items from Laredo to Eagle Pass and Galveston. It notes river rise at the Red River and Orange, new charters for Fort Worth Belt Line and Eagle Pass smelter talks, bank openings in Luling, rail developments, cattle and sheep markets, floods and fires, political organizers, court actions, and a Rio Grande bridge celebration invitation to Governor.
A. J. Siler details a journey through northwestern Nicaragua to the Sambos stronghold. The article describes the tribe as fierce, largely ungoverned, and worshipping Rushika with a mix of mythology and superstition. It notes shamans, charms, and beliefs surrounding natural phenomena and disease, including a near massacre aided by a thunderstorm.
A Century article by a former Stanley officer notes Bakongo porters carry 60 to 100 pounds for up to 20 miles daily, with minimal food. Boys eight to nine carry about 20 pounds. Money is cloth, six yards of Manchester cotton. Transport to Stanley Pool costs five dollars per 65 pounds, up from one third five years ago due to Ivory trade stations at Stanley Pool.
The Table Talk writer argues life resides in blood and nerves, then lists wars from England to Mexico to illustrate humanity's violence. He cites totals of deaths about 4,913,000 and costs over 2,606,000,000 pounds, urging evangelists to civilize and Christianize.
A Taunton resident recites a neighbor who for years baked 1000 to 1200 pies annually for a three person family, with one member consuming more than two thirds. Quincey Stodder, a Hing ham native who died recently at age, was a fisherman for fifty two years and never shipwrecked.
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