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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1885
Page
1
The notice lists subscription rates with a yearly option, six months, and various insertions. A price break for regular advertisers is noted, with obituaries and tributes charged at five cents per line. Local notices priced at ten cents per line.
Bodie Tins announces Royal Arch Masons meet after the fall moon each month with K P Baker as HH. P G B Jawell as secretary. Young County Lodge No 465 meets on the night of or before the moon with C W Jonson as W M and E Finnay as secretary pro tem. Adlphi Lodge No 61 meets Mondays with J T Cunrum as N G. Noon R 8 TWIN MOUNTAIN LODGE No 2202 Exalts of Honor meets first and third Tuesday nights. J W Graves dict, H J Martyn secretary.
The Limestone New Era reports that Texas prohibitionists aim to push a statewide vote on whisky prohibition by a constitutional amendment. Speaker L N Foster says prohibitionists want to submit the amendment but not disrupt the Democratic Party, and argue candidates should support the vote rather than the amendment itself.
A dignified remark notes that true pride spurs a person to betray a confidant who stood as the betrayer's closest ally. The line underscores loyalty and the sting of treachery within deep friendships.
A Texas note describes the 1863 return of Col Geffray’s pistol to Gen Rosecrans with praise for the Texas cavalry. The piece also reports Toronto interest in Louis Riel’s upcoming trial, arguing the indictment may misdefine treason if he is not a British subject.
Colonel Harris of the Dallas and Northwestern Railway toured Denton to survey three potential entry lines: Dallas to Little Elm to Pilot Point to Gainesville. Grapevine Roanoke Decatur. or Grapevine to Denton to Montague. Local officials pledged to brief company officers and consider Denton support for the project. A separate note mentions wood vitality and a rolling pin sprouting into a sugar-bearing sapling in Tennessee, reported by the Rittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
A large Decatur gathering at the courthouse urged securing a Dallas & Northwestern branch through the town. Judge J W Patterson chaired with H Hodges and E Dejennett as secretaries. A committee including C D Cates D A Holman J J Long and J W Booth will press Dallas interests to start operations, while Capt Harris surveyed a line from Olive Creek to Decatur.
The Dallas Herald notes the Dallas & Northwestern Railway is no longer a paper road with active work by its managers. The line is pushed toward assured success and Grapevine and nearby areas are urged to become more active.
Rev Father Dider of Baltimore visited General Grant in New York on July 9, 1885. Grant expressed gratitude for prayers from Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and all good people, noting his suffering and desire to meet in a better world. He signed the note with his name and date.
A wry southern remark envisions a universal bonnet that suits any church and always shows its trimmed side to the congregation, implying a clever fashion solution with broad appeal.
A quoted remark from Sam Jones criticizes a young lady’s piety tied to weekly indulgence by a “spider legged dude.” The tongue in cheek line expands to mention a distant “dittoed” man and a person who pays the gas bill, reflecting humorous social commentary.
A brief item mentions Alvarado Bulletin of Texas with a smokehouse in St. Louis, wheat and flour mills in Kansas, and stone quarries in Indiana, highlighting distributed industrial ties across states.
The apportionment of the school fund will be made July 15. The prorate amount is expected to be 35.75 more than last year's. The superintendent explains the law for creating schoolhouses: land donation, and citizens must raise at least the district's matched amount via voluntary contributions or a tax.
An old Black man in Kentucky signs himself Col. Henry Clay Jones. When questioned about using the title without right he replies. Yes, Shassah. But you are not a Colonel. Dat don't mean Colonel, boss, dat means colored.
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