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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1904
Page
4
In Graham Texas the January 8 1904 issue lists local races for County Judge J E Simpson District and County Clerk Geo H McLaren Sheriff John B Crain County Treasurer W R Jordan and other names. The page also surveys national politics from Parker vs Hearst to Bryan’s role and mentions Gen Wood letters and World War era sentiment.
The Pansma Message argues Panama already recognized and that Senate inaction cannot derail the canal. Roosevelt defends his course, warns against opposition, notes Fenanme recognition, and asserts the United States must work with Panama to secure the canal.
The Christian party plans a national convention in St. Louis on May 1 to nominate a presidential candidate. It comprises opponents of war who govern their lives by the golden rule. It is uncertain whether the gathering will meet indoors or under an umbrella.
The message warns that a Colombian guerrilla assault on Panama could turn the canal into an expensive adornment for Uncle Sam, framing the strategic threat in stark terms of cost and defense.
The Massachusetts Democratic convention backs Richard Olney for president while the National Convention may meet in New York. The piece notes Asian affairs with Japan, a January 4 banquet for Mayor McClellan, and Tammany Hall support. It praises Consul Skinner's Abyssinia travel and wealth.
About five hundred prominent Democrats crowded a New York banquet Monday night honoring McClellan, the city’s new mayor. Senator Hill delivered a brilliant speech attacking Roosevelt and his administration, urging readers to note the critique for the party’s future.
The article notes the cremation of Herbert Spenser or his body, his wish to burn some views, his earlier anarchistic statements 30 years ago, his later recantation and faith in democracy, and England's refusal to grant Westminster Abbey burial, a source of shame to the nation.
An advertisement warns that Groves Chill Tonic contains only iron and quinine with no cure promised. The note emphasizes tasteless formula and price of 50 cents, promising no payment if not effective.
J. E Morrison & Co announce the gin will close for the season on Tuesday January 12 and request all parties to bring in their cotton by that date. They urge customers with seed at the gin to call for them at once.
The orange originates in India and spread via Arabia and Persia in ancient times. It was once deemed cursed in Mohammedan tradition and later cultivated across Oman, Syria, and the Levant. By the sixteenth century it reached Europe, then the Spanish colonies, and finally Florida and the Americas, improving in size and flavor into a premier fruit.
A correspondent reports during a violent thunderstorm the nightingales kept a constant chorus, seemingly trying to drown the thunder. Amid the cannon-like thunderclaps, readers found the birds' music a singular, soothing contrast to the storm’s roar.
Chicago man holds a handwritten list of unusual Maine names once noted by the late Thomas B. Reed. The list includes Back Smith Hassasiah Jones Liberty Brown Calvary Thomas Hopestill Waters Bana Bullock Kilah Manley Galen Kirk Summer Allfiend Generous Pascal Uzza Fellowes Zophan Harum Diodamia Gilmore Mesbach Carson Cotton Milken Piiam Sproull Leluva Dickson Barcillai Sawyer. These men were personally known to Reed.
Dean Farrar recalls a dinner where Charles Dickens defended absent singer Sims Reeves who was ill. Dickens announced Reeves could not perform due to an "unfortu nately amusing and highly facetious cold" and faced laughter, prompting anger from Dickens in the chair.
Public Opinion compares insect strength to human effort, noting that wings limit lift while legs provide surface force. It cites examples from a fly lifting a match task to an oyster raising fifteen kilograms, illustrating why humans cannot easily match tiny creatures in brute power.
A New York paper notes oysters may yield a pearl only if not in season and that pearls emerge during spawning. It links out of season oysters to cheap eateries and notes upscale restaurants rarely feature off season oysters. The piece suggests seasonality and public taste influence oyster trading patterns.
The piece recounts how bedstaffs or bedposts kept clothes from slipping, stirred straw under mattresses, and beat feather beds. It cites a Tudor scene where Sir John Chichester accidentally kills a servant in a mock skirmish with a rapier and bedstaff. It notes Wright and playwrights using the term twinkling to mean quick action.
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