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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1893
Page
11
The general assembly of the Pesbyterian church denounces U.S. Army morals, citing a mixed commission report condemning enlistment of sons of Christian families. It flags gambling, liquor in post canteens, barracks architecture disadvantaging soldiers, Sunday work, weak chaplain presence, and limited chaplains as issues needing reform.
The fragment presents a playful exchange about winter's harshness and ingratitude, contrasting cold skies with the holly’s cheer. It evokes a playful tune and Shakespearean phrasing, hinting at a scene of rustic merriment despite the season.
A dying wife recalls her eight year Sacramento wedding while the doctor and nurse tend her. She fears leaving her two children to Henry, the city husband who once provided luxuries. She hopes he will take the children after her death as she slips toward sleep.
The scene centers on Auntie Tilford and Mrs. Butters tending a dying mother, placing a photograph on her breast as the children mourn. Bud and Gwen cling to hope of their father while a mysterious woman accompanies him, transforming the emotional mood of the household and the children's expectations.
An old time medical advertisement presents Dr Hathaway & Co as leading specialists for men and women offering cures for night emissions weakness impotency gonorrhea syphilis female weakness barrenness and other private diseases. It touts mail treatment free consultation and step by step stamp production details.
The text describes insect breathing not via nose or mouth but through two main internal tubes running along the body. Branches extend to limbs, antennae, and claws. Each main tube draws air through nine or ten spiracles on the body sides, entrances protected by a hair fringe to keep water and dust out.
Tacoma residents report the whistling well has begun operating again after two years of inactivity. They say before storms it vents air that smells gaseous and that looking into the shaft could risk suffocation for a passerby.
A new substance named valzin is being manufactured in Berlin under patent protection. It is claimed to be 200 times sweeter than sugar and devoid of objectionable saccharin properties.
A tall seven foot by four foot automatic information device has been installed outside a Melbourne railway station. It promises reliable data on diverse topics and operates by touch button. A list of top city hotels appears, another yields a theater playbill, and others show omnibus routes and cab fares to places of interest.
The text claims the human skin has about two million sweat glands connected by ducts totaling around ten miles. It notes blood carries millions of corpuscles, the retina contains about 30 million rods, and the brain’s gray matter contains at least 600 million cells as calculated by a German scientist.
The tailless cats of the Isle of Man perplex scholars. Some say they descend from the Spanish Armada wrecks in the Irish Sea. Others note a tailless Japanese breed, raising the question if Spaniards could have brought tailless cats from Mikado land.
A new mineral discovery near the Arbuckle mountains in the Chickasaw Nation south of Guthrie Oklahoma promises immense asphaltum beds rivaling Trinidad. The find is described as of very high quality and vast quantity, capable of paving western cities.
A long rural feature discusses permanent pastures on different soils, seeding mixes, and the value of clover and grasses for sustained growth. It covers pasture management, top-dressing, and the need for thick turf to avoid fall losses, plus horse feeding practices and bone use for poultry. It also cites advice on potash, manure, and crop nutrition, with broader farm notes on livestock and miscellaneous household tips.
The passage lists famous figures with associated ages or eras: Dante at 9, Tasso and Mirabeau at 10, Comte Voltaire Pascal at 13, Niebuhr at 7, Edwards Bossuet Pope at 12, Goethe before 10, Victor Hugo Fenelon at 15, Handel and Beethoven at 13, Mozart at 6. It contrasts with the view that Wellington Balzac Humboldt Boccaccio Newton Walter Scott were backward pupils.
Kansas recorded 10 145 marriages last year. A notable fact is that 6789 of these unions involved colored people, more than half of all marriages, while the state’s Negro population is about fifty thousand in a total of around one and a half million. Three marriages had grooms over 80, and in five cases the brides were over 75.
In the southern Indian Ocean between 20 and 50 degrees east, a cold Antarctic current exerts greater influence than maps show. Its effects appear to extend northward with unusually low temperatures, icebergs drifting north, and unusually low water salinity.
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