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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1885
Page
6
A playful challenge spells B B E E I I N N O O R R R S S T T W and hints at Brown's Iron Bitters as a tonic. The piece urges readers to share the pun with a neighbor and to buy the advertised iron supplement at a drug store.
A garbled set of clipped quotations includes a mock warning about nitroglycerine, a boastful young fencer who defies punishment, a Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph line about Bangs, and a wife’s supper quip. The items read like a collage of late 19th or early 20th century newspaper snippets with sarcasm and insult.
An English magistrate ruled that a waiter's dress clothes are his tools and must be paid for by a benefit society after a London fire at the Japanese Village destroyed his suit. The society resisted, fearing precedent, but the judge upheld the claim as essential to the waiter's function.
Wasuine Cox son of Senator Frye of Maine recovered from a severe chest cold after using Red Star Cough Cure. He publicly endorses it as prompt pleasant and safe. Dr. Cox calls it the best remedy and notes it contains no opiates or poisons.
The English Daily Sportsman reports electricians making butter by passing current through milk with electrodes. Small butter pearls form on electrodes, rise to the surface, are kneaded into a fast cheese and butter, with risks of sparks during storms. Cheese production via electricity is also described.
A poetic excerpt describes a forthcoming figure called the Coming Man who evolves with energy divine. He blends science and religion, pursues truth, and pairs words with deeds, guiding ethical acts through logical results of active love, as cited from The Current.
Pem Oaks rises from a forced ascent in Pig & Gray to head book-keeper but falls into madness after a clash over a newspaper joke. Carrie Igman loves him while her father, Pigman, keeps the peace until Oaks is found insane. A New York dispatch and a dramatic recovery bring marriage and a partnership.
Fragment from a plea for trust and consent. The speaker asks for assurance and approval, expressing reliance on capability and honesty and offering to provide consent in return.
In Maine the Penobscot region sees a good gum year as lumbermen harvest spruce. Gum sells to firms for refining often with resin adulteration, boiling with bark and wax, then setting into thick sheets. Best gum comes from the largest trees though origin is not fixed, and loggers carve mini barrels as gifts for return trips in spring.
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