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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1893
Page
12
An old style plea extols various tonics including Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Creole Female Tonic for stomach and nervous disorders. It promotes Salter's World’s Fair Winter Wheat claiming higher yields and extended seeding guidance, urging readers to mail 4 cents for a free sample and catalogue.
A broad report outlines unions across the United States and Canada forming and meeting from July through December in cities like Wallingford Boston St. Louis Nashville and Chicago. Delegates push eight hour work, apprenticeship plans, and wage standards while preparing for the American Federation of Labor convention in Chicago in December.
The article urges rye and clover as a fertility restoration method, describing hogs grazed in staged fields with a movable fence to boost soil and crop yields. It highlights rye and clover as complementary for digestion and protection, citing profitability per acre and long term land renewal. It then surveys maple varieties, praising sugar and bronze foliage, noting growth patterns, ornamental value, and suitability for city plantings and avenues. A reader asks about plum tree swellings caused by Taphrina pruni, a fungus, detailing symptoms and limited spread.
The column covers disease control in trees by cutting infected wood, tuberculin cautions on milk and meat from cattle, bee salt refreshment and hive upkeep, horse colt rearing advice, sheep management and wool costs, household tips on fabric care and ink stain removal, cape fashion lengths, jelly thickening agents, and dress trends. It also mentions poultry preparation and general farm practices.
A Washington Star writer observes a busy department store counter where a well dressed customer demands cash refunds for a silk remnant. The shopkeeper recalls thefts by shoppers and admits the "free lunch" counter is tolerated, with clerks only lightly admonishing culprits to avoid scandal.
A tale from Battersea park tells of Charley a traveling husband who returns home to bath the babies only to find the children belong to the next door family. His wife and the onlookers laugh as the misunderstanding becomes comic relief in a bustling neighborhood.
A historical sketch notes Mary Stuart as not beautiful, describing her hair and wig. It also lists Madrid as Spain’s largest city with 472,000 people, followed by Barcelona Valencia Seville and Malaga. Pall Mall in London is traced to an old tennis alley name and mallet term pall mall.
Catherine of Russia supposedly seated the ingenious peasant with a remarkable watch resembling a hen eggshell. Wound to pitch it plays religious chants with scenic effects in a current exhibition in St. Petersburg. Dr J A Munter Dallas ad handout pamphlets and social musings on faith and income in courtship. Brown's Iron Bitters advertised for many ailments.
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