14 Apr 1882
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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1882
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text shows pricing lines and monetary values with unclear context. No identifiable people organizations places or events are readable to summarize a specific news item. The readable numbers suggest an advertising rate or catalog snippet rather than a complete article.
Baptist Elder W T Compere, pastor, holds services on the first Sabbath of each month in the Presbyterian Church. Cumberland Presbyterian with Rev V Butler as pastor holds services on the second Sabbath each month in the Presbyterian Church.
The account details Jesse James murder in St. Joseph Missouri by Charley and Robert Ford. The two brothers lured James to a stable setting and fatally shot him as he prepared for a Platte City raid. Mrs James witnessed the aftermath, and the attackers surrendered after confessing.
A Demorest's Monthly item recounts Betty Bowman, daughter of a San Francisco washerwoman, who meets General Corona in Mazatlan. He elevates her to high life, sending her to school, while Corona rises in Juarez era ranks and becomes Mexican minister to Madrid. The stairway encounter frames a tale of ascent through romance and ambition.
A wealthy father tests his daughters with a vow to fund their future only if they learn to provide for themselves. The sisters learn to cook and sew, host a dinner with family and friends, and proudly present self-made outfits. At the end the father awards each daughter a $25,000 check, pleased by their obedience.
Kate Southern, jailed for the 1876 murder of Narcissa Cowart during a country dance dispute, was pardoned by Governor Colquitt. The case followed a life of flight to the North Carolina mountains, a death sentence reduced to ten years, and broad public sympathy across the nation.
A Louisville leather house explains that it has no traveling agents yet ships to Mexico and Oregon. They claim $1000 spent on advertising yields more orders than a $4000 yearly agent, urging business leaders to embrace advertising for quicker profit.
Harper's Weekly recounts a ram in a regimental camp being lowered to a tiger's cage for dinner. The ram charged, the tiger awoke, and the ram killed the tiger, leaving keepers unable to retrieve the animal. The tale adds other sensational animal anecdotes from Calcutta collections.
A moral reflection urges truthfulness and kindness in daily conduct. It warns against mean actions and emphasizes self-correction, upright living amidst poverty or plenty, and fulfilling one’s duty in one’s station in life.
Mr. J. L. Ewen of Ewen & Small reports that Galloways from Scotland died after arrival. He notes the loss is not just financial but due to the disappointment of the cattle failing to survive. The Crysdale stallion, also imported then, remains healthy and active.
Judge Advocate General Swain reports to the Secretary of War advocating a modified sentence for Sergeant Mason. He argues Guiteau could not have been killed by Mason since Mason fired without such possibility, challenging the assault with intent to kill charge. The recommendation cites precedents.
The text notes Luther’s line about youth and later success, then argues his remark misses a modern truth as an office-holder could save 25 000 per year from 3 000, implying riches now differ from his era. It frames wealth and achievement in a changing context.
Hal Gosling of the Castroville Quill is an applicant for the U S marshal position in the western District of Texas. The note praises him as an honest faithful and intelligent gentleman and predicts victory if President Arthur selects him.
A man hooked on tobacco asks his wife in an opera scene what part of the performance he resembles. Her witty reply: he is the over-chewer, delivering a light, humorous quip in a domestic operatic moment.
An old man in Little Rock tells a touching tale in a coin shop. He explains his mutilated coins held memories of his daughter Mary and her son John, whose watches and a silver quarter linked to family tragedy. He plans to buy a shroud for his dying wife, leaving with the bundle and keepsakes.
A busy editor hosts villagers pressing for a town pump while he writes on eu silage for green picket fences. The group talks loudly, he asks for low voices to spare a smallpox patient next door, and in leaving he muses he will succeed in journalism.
A colorful regional survey describes each state’s girl as a distinct kissing style. Maine adds a gum-chewing native flair, Massachusetts favors Greek influences, New York mimics Wall Street, New Jersey offers fiery Jersey lightning, Delaware soft peaches, Maryland rich and juicy terrapin stew, Virginia hospitality, Ohio all‑inclusive drive, Louisiana like sugar cane, and North Carolina sticks like tar.
An eastern paper recounts a western girl who attended a funeral to flirt with the mourners. The tale emphasizes social flirtation at a solemn event and reflects regional storytelling quirks.
An Iron ton Ohio physician reports treating his own small-pox with lemon juice. He drank lemon juice diluted with water then sucked the remaining juice from rinds. Within twenty minutes he felt cold and weak, saw lesions fade, and slept well. After 36 hours his skin showed no eruptions and he declared lemon juice a specific for small-pox.
The St Louis Republican reports on new gambling tools such as back patterned cards revealing faces at certain angles, loaded dice resembling real dice, a half dollar sized spy reflector, and strippers that assure wins. It notes the bug device to withdraw specific cards for tailor-made hands and warns players that professionals may exploit these devices in gaming houses.
The duties of a genuine editor are many and varied. He must call, glean, select, discriminate, decide, foresee, observe, grasp, explain, elucidate, inflate, boil down, be, do and suffer, with many districts still to hear from.
In Illinois an annual estimate shows rats consuming and ruining about 100,000 bushels of corn. The debate centers on whether to continue corn farming or control the rodent problem.
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