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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1889
Page
7
A Riley poem recalls a missing boy, Wesley, whose absence changes the house. The speaker, a grandfather, longs for Wesley’s noise and calls him to return. The verse contrasts lively memory with quiet rooms as night falls and cattle, rooster, and neighbors fade into stillness. The tone is elegiac and nostalgic.
Horace and Herbert confront Beatrice’s situation with Sir Maingay noting Beatrice’s independence and a potential suitor, Frank Carruthers. The baronet defends his stance as the group weighs Beatrice’s future while Lady Lawson and Lady Clauson respond with gossip and charmed authority in this tense family scene.
Carruthers learns Beatrice concealed a secret child linked to Mrs. Rawlings and the Blacktown case. Mrs. Rawlings hints at Beatrice’s past and urges Frank to seek the young woman, reconcile truth with guilt, and consider her suffering. Frank departs distressed, resolved to find Beatrice and confront the truth.
Two men, Maurice Vervey and Frank Carruthers, hunt Beatrice who vanished with a boy and a nurse. Beatrice writes from London while Vervey plots silence to control his fate as Carruthers funds a new illustrated book with help from a forgery convict on leave.
Horace defends the Maingays as Beatrice leaves amid shame. Lady Clauson apologizes for Beatrice’s misstep, brothers accept. Beatrice held responsible, Lucretia claims it a freak. Beatrice cannot return to Oakbury as Horace and Herbert chide each other and gossip about domestic routines.
The article discusses visible star numbers from 4000 to 6000, telescope limits, and how many stars can be seen from various latitudes. It transitions to Atlantis legends, critiques medical bigotry, and cites Warner's Safe Cure, with assorted notes on cats, bull fights, loans, mail routes, and other odds and ends.
Advertisements claim Blood Balm Co. from Atlanta offers B B B as a universal remedy for rheumatism sciatica ulcers sore throat scrofula catarrh and eczema. Testimonies from J P Davis R Sauber E G Tinsley Jacob F Spender Charles Reinhard A Spink and others praise cures after several bottles.
A historical advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. S. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio as the only constitutional cure. It claims the medicine works internally to affect blood and mucus surfaces and offers a dollar reward for any failure to cure, with circulars and testimonials available.
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