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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1896
Page
2
The text compiles assorted excerpts and musings including political chatter, social notes, a patent medicine advertisement, Whistler and Whistler related gossip, gossip about the Duke of York, Vanderbilt divorce notices, and miscellaneous editorial commentary on money, markets, and manners.
The sermon urges young men to pursue toil and discipline, urging them to resist temptation and embrace religious principle. It uses Elisha and Tyre parables, cites Crecy and personal anecdotes, and calls for clear life plans and steadfast virtue as the path to lasting success.
Uncle Robert William Quimby of Lewiston recalls extreme heat on a small volcanic island named Johns Biscuit off Cape Gracie in Honduras. He describes a dry spring, a hut with four dried sailors, a note dated 1846, and a bottle cast adrift, suggesting the men died of heat and dehydration long ago.
The article describes Browne as a physician and early authority in zoology and botany of Great Britain. It notes his curiosity about fossils, anatomy of horses and whales, and his coining of commenalaty. It cites his notes on a spermaceti whale and comments from a biographer about his exceptional mind.
Two young men on an Oldtown trolley wagered five dollars that one could make six of ten passengers yawn without speaking. A full car watched as the first man yawned, followed by a chain reaction. Fourteen of nineteen passengers succumbed to the yawns within minutes.
A Kentuckian party in Washington queried a district congressman about a former neighbor named Colonel. The congressman lamented the Colonel’s poverty and joked that the man who never gives anything away even lacks a corkscrew to borrow, illustrating the former neighbor’s dire straits.
A London article praises Saratoga Springs as less exclusive than Newport or Lenox and more representative than Long Branch and Manhattan. The two grand hotels with vast verandas and enclosed garden courts dominate the scene, drawing diverse visitors.
Robbie Murden a 9 year old from Ko komo Indiana constructs a toy locomotive on an acre circular track. The T engine resembles a real locomotive with whistle bell and all attachments. The boy sits in the cab pedals with feet to power the train and carries four passengers per ride earning a penny each trip. The depot features a ticket office waiting room and modern conveniences.
The Moravian church reports 150 mission stations 400 missionaries and 93 000 converts in heathen lands with $559 000 raised by native Christians last year. Efaie island’s last heathen are being gathered after 23 years of effort. In Tientsin 150 Chinese converts were baptized in 20 months under Rev Hopkin Rees. The American Baptist Home Mission Society plans no salary appropriations beyond 1896 unless receipts rise. Geelong Australia shows vast growth in the Yarra Street Wesleyan society with 550 members organizing clubs and a busy program including cottage prayers 208 sessions 78 open air services 4251 visits and 2488 loaves distributed. Juniors funded a slum outing 150 bouquets and 500 visits.
A fragmentary editorial voice laments the theater hat conflict described as a battle across northern prairie to southern sea. The piece speaks with vigor and venom about oppression, New York truth, and restrained wrath amid cultural feuds and public unrest.
A vivid scene depicts Gabriel performing a triumphant trumpet blast as chess players fail to hear, while his body shows many injuries and wear. He revels in motion and goal scoring, exulting with dancing, shouting, and a sense of joy despite pain.
The wheelman asks how fast the run felt while Whielwoman replies she went so fast she lost her breath. The exchange captures a playful race moment with a light tone.
A lawyer reassures a burglar of a fair trial while anxiety reveals fear of justice. The scene contrasts a confident claim with the thief’s pale reply as social power and bold phrases surface. A mother pressures her daughter about an ambitious suitor and wealth.
A letter from Bernard King of the National Military Home Leavenworth Kansas praises Peruna for recovering from a cold that progressed to catarrh and bronchitis. He credits the tonic with rapid improvement after one bottle and urges others to seek the illustrated 64 page book on chronic catarrh from The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company Columbus Ohio.
A speaker, described as an innocent old lady, asks Wilyum to bring living pictures from the city. She laments bare walls without portraits beside the paper and mentions a traveling husband, urging consideration of adding pictures to the parlor.
A man questions Coleridge about whether an ass spoke to Balaam. Coleridge calmly replies that he believes the story true and says he has been spoken to in the same manner.
A reader reports sending a quarter to a man selling lessons to perform a handspring trick. The promoter instructed the debtor to ride a cable car backward, prompting skepticism about the promise and the advice given.
A satirical advisory piece warns readers about dangerous home experiments to induce rheumatism by exposing oneself to cold wind after layering sealskins in winter. It contrasts doomed outcomes with anecdotal follies, then pivots to a quack suggestion about cold cures and a joke about widowers and religion.
Rural Spain and Italy have not yet displaced tinder box fears while a Kansas prisoner charged with murder invents a corn husking machine. New Madrid Missouri reports 1350 squirrels hunted in three days on Little River. Texas Cedar Bayou homes suffer a kitchen bolt of lightning rupturing a range. London schools add 1 cooking room per building with 30000 girls studying domestic arts. Printing presses struggle to print life size ballots under law. Boston to St Louis long distance line reaches 1400 miles, twice Europe’s top span. Railroads show $2.5 million earnings gain by Sept 1, excluding cotton trade surge since September.
Brace Struck a frast the frat thing. Bloom What s he doing now. Brace He went to Africa as a missionary. Bloom How did he make out at that. Brace Struck a roast the first thing. Up to Date.
The Great Methodist school at Southwestern University in Georgetown Texas plans a new building project valued at fifty thousand dollars.
A Washington Times item recounts a breach of promise case with humorous exchange. The plaintiff accuses the defendant of carrying a lock of her hair to California, while the defense jokes it was for a wake. The judge comments on the practical joke.
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