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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1885
Page
6
A collage of humorous vignettes and homey dialo gue exchanges from a Chicago Ledger page. Jests span wit about a smart man a dog and a flirtatious pair to fruit tests and a child’s circus sympathy. Local humor and everyday quips fill the page.
A critic questions the idea of being perfectly miserable and cites a melodramatic scene as an extreme form of suffering. The Laramie Boomerang’s railway note then observes freight peculiarities on trains crossing the continent with oysters, eggs, wagons, emigrants, and occasional notable passengers like generals and presidents.
Z Hough compares two figures of misery from tragedy in The Current: a demon like Iago as unpitiable and beyond sympathy, and a man like John Randolph whose life bears wounds from fate and sins of his fathers. The piece weighs mercy versus despair and the moral balance of life.
A new bakery project in Moscow aims to slash local bread prices by about a quarter. The venture, funded with 400000 roubles in shares, will cost an estimated 250000 roubles to build and install steam ovens. It plans to bake 65000 kilos of rye and wheat bread daily in five ovens and dispatch to forty shops across the city.
A childless couple finds light when a young girl joins them, only to face imminent loss as their ill infant battles illness. The story follows the fading sunlit calm, the physician’s cautious hope, and the looming shadow of death as the baby’s life hangs by a thread. The parents cling to faith and memory in a glooming household.
The Chicago Evening News notes cocaine sold at 4000 a pound six months ago, now 3000 a pound with expectations of 2000 within a year. It cites Germany as a former sole producer, with new factories in New York Boston and Philadelphia. It claims American cocaine outperforms German and links production to coca leaf salts and eye surgery uses.
The article discusses sweet-potato cultivation across the United States, noting northern adoption after New Jersey and Ohio, and southern yields. It explains planting timing, soil depth, and heat requirements, and gives a detailed hot bed method for sprouting slips, including materials, frame construction, packing, and daily bed care.
A German inventor devised a metal collar around the trunk forming a dish at the bottom and a weather protected upper screen. The two halves join by pins and are filled between with hemp or cotton saturated with tar or petroleum. A corked opening releases glycerine tar oil poison to deter insects for the season.
A consular observer states Venezuela lacks true industries with most consumption sourced from imports. Some items like matches soap and sugar are produced domestically but not for export. Buckwheat usage in western Faes is declining though a large population relies on it. Reports note large trees in Indiana territory and a Green Bay strawberry yield record.
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