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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1891
Page
3
The piece contrasts medical belief on consumption as a germ disease with social satire on 19th century fashion. It notes germ theory explanations of coughing phlegm and bacteria, then shifts to a humorous urban vignette about etiquette, dress, and the ritualized behavior of fashionable women, including walking, gestures, and sleep. Also includes a correction about a Parker County sheriff misidentification.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a universal blood purifier. It claims to cure pimples eruptions and scarlet scrofula, restoring skin to lily whiteness. The Worth's Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo sells and guarantees the remedy with money-back refund.
A traveling observer records tenant farmers on Lord Sanders estate in America face high rents and eviction threats. The narrative contrasts Irish displacement with new American settlement, praising the Farmers Alliance movement and urging fair land taxes and use rights to curb landlord power.
The narrator describes traveling through Wisconsin Minnesota and into Dakota noting growing towns and prosperous farms. The duke highlights Dakota as prolific for post offices education facilities coal discoveries and reduced sickness while railroads erase the desert image of the Great American Desert.
J W Powell argues in Century on river irrigation. He details Shoshone River headwaters in Wyoming and Idaho, its reach into Washington, and potential reservoir sites storing over 2,000,000 acre feet. He envisions irrigating up to 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 acres with large canals and efficient water rights.
In Edinburgh a known grumbler named Sandy Black starts a quarrel at home over dinner. He rejects boiled and roasted chicken, demands the right dishes, and erupts at his wife for serving what he did not approve. The scene ends with him shouting about gifts received without his leave.
An Atlanta printer, desperate to reach home, crawled into a vacant Birmingham stock car. Night fell as he slept inside a corner, awaking to a drove of mules that kicked and bit him. He rode one mule for a day and night, enduring a terrifying, grisly journey that left him fearing for his life.
An Englishman introduces a machine aimed to make hanging painless for the condemned. The device uses a brass clamp with a double loop and an iron crescent resting on the shoulders. When released, the rope pulls and the neck is snapped, causing instantaneous death.
A thief stole a pair of shoes from a policeman in Sedalia Missouri during a night incident. The officer was reportedly asleep at the time and awoke after the theft, prompting an investigation by local authorities.
The article describes creating a Washington Bureau of Claims led by John Wedderburn to handle losses from Indian depredations in Humboldt County California. Petitioners complain of high attorney fees and urge Congress to allow fair commissions. It also reports a violent clash at Merewood Virginia between strikers and armed guards, with deaths among rioters and injuries to deputies.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars for a catarrh cure, claims F F J Cheney Metcalfe is honorable, lists West Texas and Kinman as wholesale druggists, and mentions Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally and sold by all druggists at 75 cents per bottle. The note oddly adds a line about a tug boat and a chiropodist.
The text touts Brown's Brow Bitters as a premier tonic that rebuilds the system purifies the blood and strengthens muscles. It claims relief for dyspepsia indigestion stomach disorders and nerve weakness with endorsements from Miss Oct 16 165 and A T Shallenberger Co Rochester Pa. It cites testimonials including V A Anderson about curing chronic fever and malaria-like poison claims and notes renewed vitality and improved digestion.
An 19th or early 20th century advertisement promises easy income from making money and sending orders to the Standard Silver Ware Co. Bases St Hooton Mas. It touts profits of 680 per month and 40 in a week, with a closing moral quip about not inviting the devil to dinner.
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