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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1900
Page
7
When telegraphs arrived in Norway bears misread posts as beehives and woodpeckers bored into poles. Natal birds adapted by nesting on wires with side doors. A Brazilian bird built earth nests on wires, parrots bridge currents and break porcelain insulators, spiders weave webs causing telegraph confusion.
In a Southern Illinois town a Chicago man recalls Selectman Watkins who long served and aged, then died of pneumonia as another Selectman Lindsey lay ill. A friend visiting Lindsey heard him say Watkins would not die this time and that they would have to shoot him on judgment day.
A passenger train in Arizona derailed and rolled into three feet of muddy water at the river bed. Passengers scrambled from a jammed rear car amid broken glass and injuries as a woman's urgent demand to exit echoed through the wreck.
The playwright Henry Guy Carleton gave his wife a copy of one of his plays with vows of love. They later quarrelled, divorced, and the ownership of the play is now weighed in New York courts as a property dispute.
Miss Katharine Gridley eldest daughter of the late Captain Gridley has begun life unaided by seeking employment when adversity came. She accepted a responsible post at Miss Browns school for girls on Fifth Avenue and has shown a reserved yet energetic character, preferring books to capital society and earning respect from students.
Mrs Adolf Ladenberg stands out among equestriennes in the country. She outrides men in Meadowbrooks, jumps hurdles, and performs other feats. Beyond riding she excels in tennis, dancing, rowing, driving, conversation, and music. Candy seems the sweetest at Christmas time.
An assortment of vintage ad blurbs promotes Bakers Breakfast Cocoa as inexpensive per cup and produced by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Also featured is a recruitment call for The Humanitarian Home and Sanitarium, a stamp information request, a job-claim line about work while at play, Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic with a “no cure no pay” claim, and unrelated phrases about turkey fortunes and career “positions.”
Advertisement touts Cascarets as a modern laxative with five million boxes sold last year. It includes numerous testimonials from readers across the United States praising relief from constipation and related ailments. It urges purchase at druggists and provides company contact details for samples and a free booklet.
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