The Leader Price List
A compact price display shows subscription rates and sales figures with monthly and six month options. The list includes $2.00 for six months and $10.00 for fifteen dollars adjustments, with various regional pricing details.
06 Jan 1882
Page 1
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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1882
Page
1
A compact price display shows subscription rates and sales figures with monthly and six month options. The list includes $2.00 for six months and $10.00 for fifteen dollars adjustments, with various regional pricing details.
A former youth recounts a troubled life from a harsh home to crime. He reflects on a loving past lost to neglect and temptation, now facing prison and hard labor as his road over the road into confinement. He contrasts hopeful beginnings with a fall into crime and the sheriff notes.
A fragmented letter to the sheriff expresses bitterness about prisons and family, urging fair treatment and reflecting on failed morals. The writer asserts gratitude, claims personal responsibility, and warns that prison may be one station ahead of a troubled life.
A letter from Wurrr Texas urges wool producers in Northwest Texas to form county associations, hold monthly meetings, and unite against tariff changes. It promotes sorghum hay grasses and notes the need to coordinate district meetings and delegate representation. The piece also reports on G W Jones as Texas politics shift toward a Mahone-like movement and critiques Davis administration.
A. Stadenheimer of the Chatham Street clothing house tells a clerk his father Abram Brudenheimer, 83, has died. He asks for a newspaper notice about the funeral and mentions a counterfeit bill incident and a last lot of pants priced 24 cents, reflecting a chaotic scene in the shop.
The piece jokes about politicians clinging to power and realigning offices after death or retirement. It compares heirs to successors and recalls a quip about a young widow and an elderly husband. A playful remark about Texas handling its own affairs follows the dying man’s wish.
Noting their restraint and guidance, he likens preachers to brakes and pendulums that steady the nation. He praises them as rest for the weary, likening them to the Sabbath and to judges in law, and wishes they remain blessed in sickness or trouble. He warns against losing their presence.
The piece argues money has limits and cannot purchase education manners or a clear conscience. It asserts education and a well trained mind, good health, and good principles outweigh wealth. Wealth alone cannot purchase virtue or character. Church Union emphasizes the superior value of integrity over riches.
A Washington correspondent reports on November 1 that public documents were being packed into bags in a dark room under the House of Representatives. Laborers claim about 26,000 pounds of books are to be sold for waste paper at two and a half cents per pound, yielding roughly $500.
A New York woman identified as Maes. A. D. writes to Guitteau from New York during a visit with her daughter Mrs. Charlea Tol. She encloses a 3500 dollar check and expresses mock mercy while vowing harsh punishment for his actions. The Chicago Tribune publishes the letter dated December 5 1881.
A new car concept for the Southern Pacific combines grain transport and passenger service. After unloading grain, the cars convert into sleeper cars for the Gulf to San Francisco return trip, creating a dual use design.
Isaac Bassett the United States Senate doorkeeper marks fifty years in public service. He began as a page on December 5, 1530, following Daniel Webster’s recommendation.
News from the Texas and Pacific line recounts a daytime ambush by eight desperadoes on a party of six freighters near the Little Wichita river in Clay county. Wounded were Peter Ethridge and Albert Boland. cook Geo Armstrong died later. Desperadoes burned wagons and fled toward the Territory amid a cipher letter found on a captured overcoat.
A list of civic guidance urges town growth through practical acts. Announce affordable sale of land, donate property to attract business, attract residents, support local merchants, track expenses when traveling, speak positively about public enterprises, avoid prejudice against beneficial projects, praise locals to outsiders, reinvest surplus locally by founding a factory, and support the local newspaper with subscriptions and ads.
A San Antonio grand jury urges licensing of gambling houses as the prohibitory law is not enforced. The report argues licensing is warranted since the crime remains un suppressed and questions why other crimes are not treated similarly.
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