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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1891
Page
2
The column argues for restraint in causing hardship to debtors and criticizes publicity seeking writers and public missteps. It notes Ireland’s census decline reflects emigration and aristocratic oppression, contrasts American opportunity with British snobbery, and asserts improvements in health and longevity through education and medical advances.
The text argues gambling versus legitimate business, promotes women physicians for county hospital, critiques ballots and suffrage, and warns against diversity undermining unity. It stresses economic fairness, scientific humane care, and preserving liberty under law while urging coalition stability and cautious immigration.
A broad Texas news roundup reports rains boosting corn and cotton in multiple counties including Haskell Hunt and Rockwall, with new oil mill plans for Weatherford and Belton, plus a massive Weatherford compress project. Damage from storms at Belton and Galveston, man killed by cave-in in Greer County, and various road, rail, and civic developments across Dallas, Fort Worth, and rural towns.
A wide ranging dispatch reports rumors of yellow fever in Brunswick denied, prohibition passing in Athens by 14, and claims of a meerschaum deposit near Sioux City New Mexico. Bank Examiner Drew ousted over Keystone bank failure. France orders wheat imports to Baltimore totaling 25 million francs. Multiple violent acts, accidents, and political moves across the United States are noted including killings, plantations crimes, floods in Sioux City and Bay area ship operations.
A string of brief items reports political resignations in the Dutch cabinet and shipping on the Danube, with Vera Cruz hit by yellow fever and Vieuna elected Chilean president. Other notes mention Empress Eugenie’s invitation, Bonn university enrollments, and criticism of Balmaceda. Reports include labor cuts in Berlin, Jewish emigration limits in Jerusalem, a Mexican asylum escape attempt, and naval torture accusations by Balmaceda’s critics.
A Missouri led Farmers Alliance convention adopts a lengthy set of resolutions denouncing sub treasury and railroads government ownership. The report criticizes leadership and calls for reform, with calls for a national convention in St Louis and support for A S Hall and W S McAllister.
Farmers favor two hour early and two hour late grazing to reduce trampling. Cattle spend daytime hours in a cool dark barn to escape heat and flies.
The text praises coffee’s dual nature as a stimulant and therapeutic. It warns against excess causing wakefulness and indigestion, yet notes coffee’s usefulness in emergencies, typhoid fever, spasms, whooping cough, cholera, and as a preventive against certain infections and malaria in hot climates. It contrasts coffee with other stimulants and mentions coffea Unfor tipplers as a cautionary group.
Passengers on the Essex line of the Boston and Maine Railroad are told of a remarkable relic at Orchard Farm near Danversport. A pear tree planted by Governor John Endicott in 1630 still survives in a hollow, ringed by a fence, though the trunk is split. Once part of a 300 acre manor, the tree is famed for blossoms and age though its fruit is said to be gnarly.
A fragment discusses animal aversion to salt, mustard sardines, and jelly compounds mixed with bone glue and artificial flavors. It notes bees and wasps avoid chemical sweeteners like saccharine, which tastes medicinally strong and irritates the system. It warns humans to beware saccharine's nourishment misleading the palate and posing danger.
A Detroit man asks a friend a riddle about keeping ten dollars. The friend answers ten dollars would remain if the other person asked for it, illustrating a playful linguistic puzzle in the Detroit Free Press.
Emersonia Dorchester recalls Olivinia Holmes and comments that she is not the recherché girl expected. Russellina Waldo asks what occurred while Emersonia notes Holmes wore spectacles today. The jeweler’s circular framing suggests curious social observations from the era.
A despondent shopper confronts a clerk about a sold-out remnant and proposes inviting a friend to dinner as a solution. The exchange underscores the clerk’s apology and the cloth shortage reflected in a brief cloak review dialogue.
In Crawfordsville during a heavy rain there was a rare sight as a mud turtle, as large as a man’s hand, dropped from the sky. The stunned reptile wandered for about an hour before being captured and kept as a curiosity.
A man named Jones of Card Wales is said to have patented a sewing machine without shuttle. The thread is supplied to two ordinary spools and sew by the aid of a rotary looper.
A London Punch line depicts a village girl offering to finish the baby’s care while the mistress directs a meal task and the young lady asks Jane what to do next, reflecting domestic priorities and humor.
A black bear approached Daniel Abbott's house in Anson Maine a few evenings ago. It looked in the sitting-room window and then inspected the pigpen and sheepfold nearby.
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