Graham Leader Chronicle Oddities and Notes from Texas
Graham Texas notes include a crippled Duke of Newcastle from babyhood, comic singer Paulous earning about 100000 francs yearly, Hart the new Boston mayor distributing cigars for friends, Lorp WotskiLex praising scar soldiers, and M Coqueliy praising Philadelphia as an intellectual hub. Cornelin noted as a comedian offstage.
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Paulous
Boulanger
Mr. Hart
Boston
M. Coqueliy
Philadelphia
Cornelin
Riper HaGGarn friends complain publishers profit from book
The fragment notes that HaGGarn received 250 for King Solomon's Mines while publishers earned 5 from the edition. It mentions EORGE W. Case with six children and a shy Lucy, plus quirky remarks about Cable and a bicycle loving Goutp and the duke of Westminster restricting brass doorplates in new leases to doctors.
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Riper Haggarn
Eorge W. Case
Lucy
Mr. Cable
Tar Duke of Westminster
London
Fie
Rural Life of Miss Jeannette Hatrorp Near Orlando
Miss Jeannette Hatrorp daughter of the President elects Private Secretary leads a quiet country life near Orlando Florida. She is pictured riding a hay wagon and managing a team of lively mules as she enjoys a simple rural routine away from city affairs.
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Jeannette Hatrorp
Orlando
Fla
Vice President Elect Morton Pays For Furnished Washington House
Vice President elect Morton pays a nominal sum for a furnished Washington house used during the inauguration week. He cannot access Prof Selle's leased residence until late March. In a letter to the Harvard Society of Baltimore Maryland Jos Russell Lowell says his health is not what it was and he must avoid excitement and fatigue, declining invitations to reduce risk of error.
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Morton
Washington
Prof. Selle
Harvard Society of
Miller
Blaine
Jenkintown’s Country Place Noted for Livestock and Orchids
Wannamaker's country place in Jenkintown Pennsylvania is praised for a fine cattle collection and valuable flowers. His orchids and rhododendrons are especially famous in the state, though he avoids flowery rhetoric.
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Jenkintown
Pennsylvania
Little yellow bees of Honduras yield sweet honey in hollow trees
A traveler notes tiny stingless yellow bees in Honduras building in hollow trees and storing fragrant honey in rough combs. He describes easy access to honey by hatchet, then shifts to an account of J D Beans in Lewiston clearing a boiling spring where a foot and a half snake emerged, followed by two frogs the next day. Malietoa the Great of Samoa is discussed as a revered historic figure and analogized to Roman emperors.
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Honduras
J.D. Beans
Lewiston
Mr. Bears
Malietoa
Navigator Islands
Malietoa the Great
Alietoa
Julius
Augustus
Nero
Cesar
Savea
Texas Legislature Schedules Segments of 40 Forty Day
Senate and House debates cover relief for Milam County land settlers and county tax issues. Bills pass on jail labor, road work, cattle inspection, and rail infrastructure. The Dallas city charter, bond requirements, and governor’s restoration to citizenship are debated. A medal presentation honors Miss Anna Dowling and Dick Dowling’s descendants. The rail commission bill dominates proceedings with mixed votes and amendments. The Christian Bible in schools remains a focal point.
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Senate
Milam County
Hood County
Asylums
Jasper
Newton
Tyler
Ingram
Railroad Commission
Dallas
Z. C. Collier
Thomas Colter
Willian Ramer
County of
Iron
Treasury
House
Houston
Anna E. Dowling
Dick Dowling
Texas
Hamblen
Gov. Lubbock
Miss Dowling
Savine L'Ssa
Jefferson Davis
Wirielt
Whatley
House Il
Llano Liveryman Fights Highwayman in Narrow Escape
In Llano Texas yesterday Sam Standenmier a livery man was stopped by a lone highwayman three miles from Llano. Standenmier did not yield at once leaped from his wagon seized the gun and wrested it away. The assailant fled and Standenmier fired but the highwayman was later reported dangerously wounded.
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iLlano
Tex
Sam Standenmier
Liano
Burnett
Llano
Standenmier
Thompson Sues Lee Chapman Over Breach of Promise
Miss Sarah J Thompson files suit in Hillsboro Texas district court against Lee Chapman seeking damages of 20000 for breach of promise in a slum action.
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HiLlsboRo
Tex
Sarah J. Thompson
Lee Chapman
Land Suit Decided in Texas Pasture Case
The great land suit involving 11,128 acres of pasture land valued at about $850,000 was decided Friday in favor of the defendants Capt. Mifflin Kennedy J B McCampbell John B Armstrong the heirs of James H Durst and some heirs of Jesus Garcia Ramirez after a weeklong trial in the district court.
Sheriff Takes Black Man Alford Lewis For Family Mistreatment
Terrell Texas March 9 The Gregg County sheriff arrived this morning and departed for Longview with Alford Lewis a Black man arrested charged with family mistreatment.
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Terrell
Tex
Gregg County
Longview
Alford Lewis
Cabinet of President Garfield’s nominees outlined
James G Blaine named Secretary of State and Gen Tracy Navy Secretary with John Wanamaker Postmaster General and John Noble Interior and Jeremiah Rusk Agriculture among others. The sketches note origins, careers and notable achievements of each appointee from Vermont New York and Wisconsin.
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Jeremiah McLain Rusk
Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Morgan County
Wisconsin
Vernon County
Wascomm
Twenty-nith Wisconsin
William T. Sherman
Vicksburg
Saikebatchie
Rusk
Bank Comptroler
Congress
Garfield
Paraguay
Urauay
Southern reform in quarantine to prevent yellow fever
A Louisville Gazette discussion recounts Dr. W Van Bibber of Baltimore proposing a national quarantine reform. He favors state funded facilities with interconnected houses and telecommunication to isolate and treat cases, reduce panic, and educate citizens on sanitation to stop epidemics.
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South
W. van Bibber
Baltimore
Ballimoys Academy of Medicine
War Bibber
Ohio
Board of Health
van Bibber
Commonwealth
Simil-Poe
Weil
Lewisville
Louisville
Comene Reial
Parish v New Mexico Mining Company Decision Issued
The Territorial Supreme Court in Santa Fe delivers its opinion in Edward J Parish versus the New Mexico Mining Company. The lower court’s ruling for the company stands in a dispute over a one half interest in the Ortez mine grant in South Santa Fe County valued at about $500 000. Parish claims purchase from Ne Carno, originally with Ortez as grantees, while the company argues Carno sold to Ortez years earlier. The case has been pending for twenty years.
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Gen Tracy
New York
Benedict, Tracy & Benedict
Gen. Tracy
United States
Court of Appeals
Marshland
Apalachin
Tioga County
N. Y
Woodford
Cheltenham
Oxmore
Kentucky Wilkes
Tracy
George Wilkes
Nobly
Missouri
John W. Noble
Interior
St. Louis
Lily
Leonora Halatead
Gen. Noble
Bric-Sbrac
Santa Fe, N. M
Territorial Supreme Court
Edward J. Parish
New Mexico Miiing Company
Parish
Carno
Ortes
Farish
Fatal Joke Ends in Train Shed Accident Near Cheyenne
Union Pacific brakeman Chas A. Ackard died after attempting a prank near a snow shed forty miles west of Cheyenne. He stood upright to scare a fellow crewman and failed to duck as the train approached, being struck fatally.
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Chyenne
Wyo
March
Union Pacific
Chas. A. Ackard
Here
Montreal Board of Trade approves Weldon extradition bill
The Montreal board of trade ecouncil approved Mr Weldon's extradition bill aimed at American defaulters.
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Montreal
Montreal Board of Trade
Negroes Moved From Gouldsboro to Moss Plantation
E C McGhee transported about 250 enslaved people from Gouldsboro to Ouachita parish for plantation labor. With excess, thirty nine men women and children were sent by Monday morning’s train to Goldmans Landing in Tensas parish to work on the Moss plantation.
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Ouacuita
Mareh
E.C. McGhee
Ouachita Parish
Gouldsboro
Goldman's Landing
Tensas Parish
Baltimore Chronicle reports Raine resigns Berlin post
Col Frederick Raine proprietor German Correspondent of Baltimore and consul general of Berlin by appointment forwards his resignation to Washington.
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Baltimore
Frederick Raine
Berlin
Washington
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