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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1887
Page
1
The Leader lists subscription terms: one copy for one year or six months for 1.90. Advertising rates show one inch ad costs 1.00 with each additional insertion at 0.
A Boston Transcript letter laments bonnet flowers as the villainy behind fashion, while Chicago masons and carpenters extend their strike nationwide. Builders form a National Association to resist the trend, signaling rising labor organization and broad occupational unrest.
A historical note argues Maine has one convict per 3500 people while Texas has one per 800. It claims if Texas matched Maine’s rate, about 650 convicts would be in state prisons rather than 2300, suggesting the license system funds 2150 convicts and costs transportation, countering claims that prohibition is not a state concern.
On June 4 Rocxwani voters rejected the local option by about 16 votes in an unofficial tally. Defeat is regarded as certain despite approximate figures.
The Fort Worth Mail notes initial doubts about L. Q. C. Lamar but credits him as the cabinet’s most productive member. It claims his department has returned 100,000,000 acres of public land to the people from railroads during the Republican era. It also mentions William Randolph Hearst entering the California Senate as a millionaire and cites Sanford and Faite as wealthier than many in the Senate with Hearst earning about 1200 dollars daily.
Violinist Emil Seifertz recounts encounters with four genuine counts in America, noting fallen aristocrats taking menial jobs like knife cleaning. He recalls a Russian count who cleaned knives in New York and others on railroads, saying noble bearing lingers amid hard labor. Separate brief items note prohibition discussions in Alvarado and enforcement of Sunday laws in Jefferson.
The Indianapolis News notes that immigration to the United States mostly goes to the territories and cites a Missouri rape case where a woman identified a suspect after being chloroformed. The man was bailed, then reportedly shot dead by the woman's brothers, illustrating why few immigrants settle in the South. The piece argues the region must civilize to attract newcomers and warns rapists to avoid the South.
The piece quotes a business man decrying the abolishment of the telephone girl claiming she is careless and impudent. He says delays and snappy responses frustrate him during important calls and threatens to quit the line over flirtatious talk and gum chewing at the switchboard.
Overton Texas June 4 Hon R Q Mills addressed Henderson on anti prohibition and declined to divide time with prohibition speakers in a brief political appearance for the day.
A vivid critique contrasts Siberian cruelties with Mexican peon slavery near the border, noting brutal abuses by some mine masters. It describes peasants bound by debt, ignorance, and the permanent peon system, with families living in misery while escaping reform is unlikely.
San Antonio man John Kinnieham reports catching a 2.5 pound crawfish measured at 28 inches with doglike teeth in its claws, a claim tied to a satirical wire service. The Inter Re publics note lists other fabrications and joke items from across Texas while New York sentences another woman to hang on the 24th of this month.
A Boston man asks a Nebraska native if the town has boomed. He recounts a burst of growth with two groceries a mile of sidewalk three eastern windows a drug store and five saloons in one year and a 30 percent rise in real estate yet notes social drift with two men speaking only to each other and seventeen backsliding from one church.
In Raven New Mexico on June 4 C P McMain urged Maxwell land grant settlers to arm themselves and resist the grant company attempts to enforce claims. McMain leads many followers as settlers oppose proposed sales or leases deemed unreasonable by the company. Those with long possession and improvements face exorbitant prices and a demand to move if offers are rejected.
The Dallas News comments on General William Sherman’s harsh language in Illinois, noting his bitterness and unforgiving tone. It suggests the South mistrusts Sherman’s hard line but acknowledges his appeal to a resolute North that could push him toward the presidency, while recalling the North’s earlier dismissal of Southern views three years ago.
The longtime Jesse James gang associate Dick Liddle of Missouri is dying from drink and dissipation in a Kansas City hospital. The piece notes the gang’s fate offers a moral, while contrasting the two Ford brothers who killed Jesse James and other gang figures like the Hites and Younger brothers, with remarks on train robbery and its profits.
A fragment argues that increasing egg and whisky bottle throwing correlates with more votes for the opposing side. It laments a lack of sense among some supporters and claims the tactic backfires, not advancing the promotive cause.
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