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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1889
Page
9
The Farm and Ranch warns fruit tree salesmen in Eastland and West Texas are selling a pear called Bulldog that promises blight resistance and endless fruit buds but is a fraud. There is no pear proven to resist all diseases or frost. no plant can keep budding after crops die from cold.
A satirical column portrays Senator Saulsbury of Delaware as a charitable but eccentric figure. It recounts a crude letter involving a pair of pants, a flood relief committee, and marital jests. The piece includes other sensational snippets about immigration, a Bourbon Indiana preacher, and a medicine advertisement mix.
Palo Pinto county has been joined in a suit in the District Court of Wichita of trespass to try title to a league of school land sold by Palo Pinto county some eight years ago.
At noon in Ventura California a man named McCarthy recently released from the county hospital entered Collins and Sons bank during a lunch break. He demanded thirty thousand dollars with a claimed dynamite package and a six shooter but fled with about four thousand only to surrender after a local sheriff secured a shotgun. Police recovered all but twenty dollars lost on the street.
Yellow fever was reported in Sanford Florida by the board of health president. Surgeon General Hamilton of the Marine Hospital Service noted precautions are in place and no danger is expected. The item also covers Denison Texas investors, a motor line prospect, a street railway purchase, a large excursion, and a political note on John Bright Jr.’s parliamentary election.
A Detroit Free Press note tells of a café style coincedence at a post office desk as a couple joke about writing to spouses. Simultaneously excitement grows over the Bellartesian well at Waco with visitors and a crystal clear, supposedly healing water. Industrial optimism rises as Eastern capital flows into the South to develop regional resources.
An old page fragment touts a salve claiming cures for cuts and sores with money-back guarantee and 25 cent price. It lists seller J Se Ryus and references Quinney HE and a Texas Spring Palace exhibit with a tall Texas steer, flora and fair scenes. Mentions MissouriPacific and Harrison motto.
Iris reports a Portland shoe maker pledged to give each qualifying recipient one hundred sacks of flour and one hundred bashels of meat if found in Portland and not keeping a dog drinking ram or using tobacco. No claimant has appeared yet to claim the gift.
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