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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1891
Page
3
In a Boston Globe excerpt, M N B reflects on flower names like pansies and violets while imagining young women as those flowers and contemplating aging. The piece juxtaposes youthful beauty with looming old age, using Daisy Lily Rose and Violet imagery to provoke a somber meditation on time and perception.
A writer narrates his ardor for Marjorie, describing art filled evening with her cousin. The tale mixes romantic fantasies with a humorous subplot of Tom Grey and Dick Stokes as they maneuver love and jealousy at a New York fair.
A New York physician says constant gum chewing has caused weak minds in fourteen under treatment girls. He cites continual mouth movement and head strain as the alleged cause of mental weakness in these cases.
Plymouth firm Miah Corp operates three toy plants turning out vir gene vaccines. The expansion aims to meet rising demand and support public health efforts with pediatric targets and new hiring.
A traveler observes widespread American presence overseas with ads for Waterbury watches in Indian cities, sewing machines in Bombay and Calcutta, lamps for American petroleum, typewriters in China, dentistry praise, American circus advertising, and ordinary items like Connecticut clocks and canned foods reflecting homesickness and pride in American everyday products.
The New York Agricultural Experiment Station reports rising farm numbers and smaller farm sizes, less unimproved land, stronger purchasing power for farm products, growing use of machinery, higher farm asset values, stable or shrinking farmer debt, and a quiet rise in farming population intelligence alongside rural life changes.
A prison physician notes fifteen years approximates a lifetime sentence with few inmates serving beyond that. Pardons are granted yearly on July Fourth and Christmas to both white and Black prisoners, benefiting long-term convicts. the speaker endorses this clemency as a reform measure.
The fragment notes an estimate that only about 12 percent of Russia’s population can read and write, with a reference to 58 000 wheels for a population near 10 000. The text is fragmentary and lacks clear context or full attribution.
A former explorer recounts brutal practices in interior Africa including slave raids, ritual sacrifice, and mass killings. He describes a slave being tied, executed, and decapitated, with graphic detail, and laments widespread depopulation as villages are burned or destroyed and captives killed or enslaved.
A London graph recalls Count Tolstoi's near death during a bear hunt. He faced a charging bear, fired wide, then struck it in the head and was crushed by the beast before comrades scared it off. The tale contrasts with an American teacher's Fourth of July electricity prank on pupils.
A newspaper fragment notes the writer’s right hand paralysis from constant writing and argues for broader use of the left hand. It cites examples of artists and writers adapting, and urges early instruction in left–hand dexterity to ease right-handed strain.
In a fall scene, a farmer and his boy drive to a back field to harvest potatoes. The farmer, inspecting the area, realizes he never planted any, muttering that he forgot to plant them after checking for signs of potatoes. The anecdote appears in the Kennebec Journal.
A young Washington man moves into a boarding room once occupied by a medical student. While the landlady shows the space she opens a closet to reveal a skeleton. The man greets the skeleton as a longtime boarder Mrs. so often mentions.
An almanac notes the strawberry’s long cultivation in London dating back to Richard II era. It cites Shakespeare’s Henry V and Gloster in Holborn lines, plus an old writer’s quip about the fruit, as recorded by Newcastle upon Tyne Chronicle.
An Argosy noting rapid transit could save about five minutes per trip for 250,000 daily commuters. If each makes twelve trips weekly, that totals about 52 working weeks a year. The piece translates time saved into an annual economy of roughly 4,166 years in working time.
General Gordon resigned as private secretary to Lord Ripon in India, citing intolerance of high society’s endless dress and social customs. He preferred leaving rather than endure daily concerns over dress for dinner, evening parties, balls, and decorations.
A street girl accuses a post office clerk of not loving her as they pass an ice cream saloon. He protests that he loves her and mentions naming fourteen post offices after her last week, hinting at a comic or sentimental tale.
The London Truth dismisses a circulating tale about the queen visiting Berlin and inspecting Rothschild brocade. It labels the anecdote as one of many repeated royal stories from the past twenty years and notes its fictional nature.
Musical circles discuss a dramatic recovery of a high contralto singer once plagued by bronchial illness. They credit Dr. Catarrh Remedy and Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for all bronchial throat and lung affections. For nasal catarrh combine with Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Available at all druggists.
The piece notes ad rates: Century page ad at 500 dollars, a 'down to pivot' 400, while a yearly one column ad in the New York Herald ranges from 50 300 to 130 000 dollars. It suggests readers may invest two or three dollars monthly, thinking ads are extensive and liberal.
The California tech and Builders News advises using a gauge latch to mark hinge positions on doors of identical size. Place the latch so the top aligns with the door top and strike marks with sharp brads, then drive in. A bottom nail in the frame gauge marks adapts it for frame hinges. The gauge cuts measurement time and also works for blinds and shutters.
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