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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1893
Page
4
The piece contrasts Wall Street power against Cleveland bonds and local resistance to enforcement in San Antonio. It notes watchdog pressures on Fort Worth and Dallas clubs, reports German elections shifting toward reduced army influence, and jokes about President Cleveland’s expanding girth and self starvation for relief.
An ad promises Hill's chloride of gold tablets cure for tobacco morphine and liquor habits costing one dollar and usable in tea or coffee without the patient knowing. The piece also includes a dubious battle-description paragraph extolling a general’s leadership and a list of patent remedies for lameness and cough sold by local druggists.
An old newspaper article recounts the Peter Meigs murder case from Grim es county with Dec 9 conviction and Dec 12 life sentence at Huntsville. It notes the paradox of circumstantial evidence and suggests a pardon or damages while contrasting Ferry’s separate conviction and shared prison fate. It also references pension fraud critiques and Gen Slocum’s figures as a broader editorial aside.
The town uses about 1000 kegs of beer monthly and the county about 2000, totaling 24,000 kegs yearly. At $2.50 per keg the cost is $60,000. The Herald omits breed expenditures at New Braunfels but impliedly small than the beer bill.
Ex soldier Gen H W Slocum argues pensions drain national wealth, comparing U S costs to European powers and detailing veteran enrollment and pension figures. The piece also recounts President Cleveland at the Whitney supper resisting pledges to party leaders, promising to write a public letter exposing pressures if needed.
A compact collection of printer jokes compares printers to other men in the world. It notes their supposed liberalism and conscientiousness through wordplay about setting type and justifying work, with additional quips on religion and danger.
A veteran lobbyist recalls a case of attempted bribery in a state legislature. He describes offering a thousand dollars, a reforming official who refused, and later public denials and a favorable vote. The anecdote ends with a jab at journalism and a note about a remedy sold by The G Graham Drug Co.
Col J S Evans recalls an Arkansas farmer who kept trained rattlesnakes that played Dixie. The snakes followed his regiment, circled at night, and even rattled the tune in battle. Evans notes the tale’s veracity and the farmer's family now living near Concordia.
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