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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1890
Page
2
A collage of observations on poverty, governance, education, mortality, and social reform. The piece cites hunger for practical knowledge, measures of burial space, new transport dreams, and debates on women’s roles and public service, paired with remarks on Zhao and Western China.
The weekly Texas recap notes Crockett academy enrollment, grain yields near Midlothian and Nevada, pecan shipments from Ballinger, new bridges and depots in multiple towns, a $10,000 Cameron opera house plan, a Buffalo Bayou iron bridge in Houston and railroad grading on Corpus Christi and South American line. A fatal accident near Arthur City, fires, ore and oil prospects, and growth in cotton and wheat across several counties are also described.
General Boulanger returns to Jersey while reports flood in from Montevideo Perth and Aylmer Quebec. Disease outbreaks, bonds bought in London Berlin exceed 1 million dollars, and Koch curative lymph moves to curb extortionate charges. Portugal appoints a new finance minister and France’s budget shows large debts. Parnell faces criticism and a Killarney deputation seeks labor relief from the guardians board.
In central Indiana at the Night Owl settlement a famed character Uncle Billy Waymire resists revival efforts by the Methodist preacher Old Abe Maggerty. The preacher confronts Billy with a faith centered on divine rescue rather than human persuasion, sparking community gossip.
A Californian describes vast flocks of wild geese covering seventy five acres in Colusa and Tolo counties. Geese feed on wheat stubble then green sprouts, ruining winter crops. Markets ship birds to San Francisco, while ranch herders patrol fields to ward off the birds all season long.
In central Africa elephants pull up young mimosa trees, invert them to feed on roots, using tusks as crow bars when needed. They cooperate with others or work alone to uproot stubborn trees, leaving inverted trunks with branches buried in soil. The note also cites persistent human superstitions and table legends.
A New York Sun note describes a Broadway car where nine passengers wear spectacles including four men three women a young girl and a boy A man enters raises his glasses and eyes sweep the car as others smile The conductor with gold rims adds to the shared sight gag and an elder jokes that all are in the same basket.
A Chicago-Pust-like note savages exhausted nature as it strains to create illnesses for invented cures, reflecting a satirical take on medical industry and human excess.
In a memory of early schooling a girl named Sadie Smart, lacking formal education, receives home teaching before entering the Normal school’s School of Practice. She confronts phonics and spelling challenges, learns about double letters, and attempts a reading passage about John sleeping as the sun rises.
The article details alligator nesting in mud and grass with many white eggs and cannibalistic young as a risk to population. It notes varied diet including pine chips, preference for marsh wallows, accidental baths during snipe shoots, and long land migrations between water sources. The animal is wary but can sleep soundly at times.
Lucy, newly back from Vassar, converses with her fiancé Henry a Washington county farmer about biological theory. He answers affirmatively noting Jessie often has the trait but always recovers in time. Pittsburg Dispatch.
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