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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1891
Page
2
A collection of editorial jottings touching on social reform ideas, patent law quirks, jury reform in Mississippi style, and reflections on industry. It discusses humane treatment of the insane, cotton and wool mills, Indian affairs, rail inspection tech, and critiques of the McAllister class.
Texas towns report new banks and mills, bridges, and hospital plans. Word lists farms expanding cotton and wheat crops, factory and waterworks projects, and arrests. Officials in multiple counties tackle courthouses, roads, and public works while crime and accidents are noted with cautious reporting.
General roundup of distant crime and events over the past week. Mentions settlers in the Cherokee strip, railroad depots in Jackson Mississippi and Selma Alabama, a mad dog incident in Hamilton Ohio, gold discoveries in Brown County Indiana, storms and damages in Jeffersonville and Utica Indiana, Florida strawberry market prep, a steel-rail project in Clinton Mississippi, a switch accident at Milesburg Pennsylvania, and a new electric street car line plan. Also notes outbreaks of poisonings in Revere Massachusetts, a wreck near Hagerstown Indiana with multiple casualties, and various political and legal items across states, plus meteor sightings and financial schemes and other scattered incidents.
The 1889 Texas legislature opens with Senate debate on concentrating higher courts at Austin. Senator Johnson argues constitutional and practical grounds for branching, cites other states, and warns against disunity. House considers county financial publications and appeal costs as sessions proceed.
An observer notes a unique practice where villages allocate a field for strangers. The king's wife cultivates and preserves this food, while the stranger receives the best hut and royal hospitality. Some become part of the tribe, others travel to seek sustenance as strangers. No beggars exist. the circle of aid moves between villages.
The piece argues against portraying the founding fathers as old. it notes Washington was 43 at the Revolution and 57 at the first presidency, Jefferson 33 at independence, Hamilton 32 as Treasury Secretary, Madison 23 on the Virginia Committee of Safety, and 29 when Hamilton and Madison helped write the Federalist.
Harry Moss, a Philadelphia newspaper man of the cen genial year, leaves a will filed in Elkton Maryland with peculiar burial instructions. He requests his body dressed, placed in a sapling pen with mink-proof roof and corked water bottles, left for forty days and nights before any burial, or possibly not buried at all, beside his father in Bermuda graveyard.
The unknown land west of Puget Sound teems with bear elk and black tailed deer across Clallam and Jefferson counties. Until last summer no hunter’s rifle echoed there, making this region a sportsman’s dream as access improves.
Short, sharp complaints on safety and behavior in city life. Notes warn of unloaded guns, muddy crossings, loud walkers, and crowded sidewalks. Bits critique policy, heaters in cars, and the misuse of public spaces amid a tongue in cheek survey of daily hazards.
A child asks why fish have scales while a parent offers a puzzled, incomplete reply about settling disputes and weights. The text appears as a garbled quotation with missing context and names.
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