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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1900
Page
1
Brief items report yellow fever in Havana unrest in Ireland and Spain unrest in Colombia and Transvaal, a hanging in Cieburre, Georgia cotton crop by a Black farmer, a 13 foot sawfish in Galveston, a perfect bull’s eye record at LaPorte, and public notices on education nominations and elections.
Bic agents struggle to induce Kiowas and Comanches to accept allotments under the newly passed bill. King Humbert of Italy was assassinated Sunday, described as one of the century's best monarchs. His son Fernandino will succeed to the throne. An American soldier was killed by a Filipino last week, prompting the 40th Infantry to kill 84 Filipinos, many confined in a house.
Lord Hamilton reports 365 million spent on famine relief in India with no end in sight. He notes government receipts will not suffice and promises an appeal to the royal exchequer to raise further funds.
The Texas education ethic is to elevate mind and character. Critics question dancing at the State University and its value to virtue. The Baytor shift is noted as drawing away potential students, prompting calls for legislative scrutiny of funding.
A collage of editorial snippetes comparing McKinley and Stevenson, noting trust power at home and war abroad. It quotes Jacksboro News on Stevenson as a statesman and altgeld on prosperity, and Dallas News on farm prices and farmer voting tendencies in the era.
EK L Godkin former editor of the New York Evening Post calls President McKinley and his circle the most dangerous set of scoundrels by which any civilized country has ever been beset. The Johnson County Review notes the strong accusation.
The El Paso Times laments the absence of Cycclone Davis as vice presidential nominee pairing with Spectacular Teddy. The piece imagines a grand, if fanciful, campaign with Teddy riding a broncho as Cyclone pursues in a hot air balloon.
A letter to the editor argues that banks print paper money by congressional authority while Bryan is labeled a repudiationist for proposing silver money. The writer notes Demetricy used similar authority eighty years ago and questions why not again since Congress currently forbids it.
The club furnishes a place of amusement for young men to play billiards and socialize, offering respectability over saloons. It keeps some widows and women from loneliness by providing social dancing with men from outside the town and serves a Sunday night refuge for a modest element in society.
Cattlemen are urged to apply for financing through the Chicago Livestock Commission Company offering lending services in Chicago St Louis and Kansas City. Address Ireland Hampton Ageoul Henrietta Texas. 45 3m cow.
The article lists current party tickets including Democratic Bryan and Stevenson, Republican MacKinley and Roosevelt, Populist Barker and Donnelly, Fusion Populist Bryan and Towne, Prohibitionist Wooley and Metcalf, Socialist Labor Harriman and Hays, Social Democrats Debs and Harriman, DeLeon Socialists Malloney and Remill, United Christians Swallow and Wooley. More parties are expected to respond, leaving the list incomplete.
The Pueblo Courier laments a skewed American society with 70 million population listing 60 000 preachers 90 000 lawyers 85 000 criminals and ten times as many non union criminals 1 000 000 tramps and 127 000 professors 9 700 actors and 9 300 designers and inventors It argues money making outpaces human development.
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