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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1890
Page
3
A detailed account explains how skilled masons shape hard stone surfaces using axed finishing with steel slips, emery, and putty. It describes machinery like lathes wagons and rubbers for columns surfaces and molding, plus hand work for intricate carvings and paneling.
The article describes Cotopaxi as the highest active volcano still sleeping, noting smoke and rumblings from a crater about 8 000 feet beyond reach, and recounts bold climbs that fail due to its sheer slopes and deep snow. It mentions the Inca's Head rock on its southern flank and compares Cotopaxi’s grandeur to Vesuvius and other high American peaks seen from the road to Quito.
The fragment describes Gladstone as a fine looking, tall man with a mild pleasant countenance and an intellectual expression. It notes jet black hair neatly parted and a complexion indicating good health. The text blends obituaries and medical anecdotes from The New York Commercial Advertiser and Science, mentioning Dr Agnew and a nosebleed treatment, with Rothschild’s fatness by Dr Schwennin.
A New York Star observer recounts a man offering a counterfeit $20 at the United States sub-treasury on Wall Street. A clerk defaced the note per policy, prompting the owner’s outrage, while noting banks rarely deface counterfeits and may return them if taken elsewhere.
A noted indigenous poet returning from a Northwest lecturing tour admired an Indian brave. He observed the brave as dignified and physically perfect, riding a pony and chatting with a youth beside a Pullman train as it halted in a western town, savoring the scene over civilization’s triumphs over his race.
In Florida a frontier mother, Mrs. Darlyng, defends her two year old and servant girl from a panther. After a failed rifle shot she uses boiling water, then three rapid shots to kill the animal, saving her child as the panther tumbles to its death and its pelt is displayed in their sitting room.
The piece notes popular reading centers on novels, histories, biographies, and current manners, with poetry on love and effort. It discusses how books stimulate discussion and activity, then shifts to ad blurbs for Brown's Iron Bitters and Hall's Catarrh Cure, including testimonials and skeptical views on medical advertising.
A reader in New York Sun shares a personal practice of long daily stretches to improve posture, energy, and vitality. He notes improved carriage, darker hair, and renewed vigor, claiming multiple stretch sessions daily force blood and juices to where they belong and make him feel younger.
The passage discusses Lowland Scottish fairies and Brownies as omens before death, contrasting them with Highlands beliefs. It cites Murray's Magazine on ancestral warnings and superstition in noble families. It then notes a New York dentist Dr. Lambert's toothache cure using coins and ear contact, followed by a humorous quip from Texas Siftings about married life.
Advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a superior patent medicine that purifies blood and invigorates the liver. It claims lasting effects, appetite promotion, and fever prevention if taken early, urging readers to begin now when fatigue first appears.
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