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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1885
Page
7
The Illinois lower house advanced a bill regulating Chicago stock yards charges for yardage, freight, grain, hay and related supplies, setting per head limits and requiring actual weight sales, with fines from $100 to $5,000 for first offenses and higher penalties for subsequent violations. The item also notes historical figures and unrelated global economic facts.
A satirical Q&A from Prentice Mulford lists editor duties from writer to pressman, proof reader to exchange reader. It mocks editors love of language, the vanity of contributors, shorthand reporters, and the belief that many can write for newspapers, noting trivial tasks and the lure of pay and fame.
In the New York Mail and Express report the soda water trade readies for summer as factories push to meet demand. Operators discuss marble dust, carbonic acid gas, plant safety, and the expansion of fountains from Coney Island to the south. Factory output runs year round, with thousands of gallons filtered daily and hopeful forecasts of a record season.
A country publisher in England creates a ten compartment post card to help letter writers by prompting sections like Date Excuse for delay and News Love to and Signature The piece notes US wood use for matches railroads fuel and ties totaling about 14 million dollars annually
Nevada to build a state printing office surf-bathing begins in San Diego Mor mon church membership 79886 skating fever reaches Sandwich Islands. Ostrich egg meals five rough notes. Nineteen metals worth about 1000 a pound. Tennessee farmers behind in work. United States controls most corn. Mississippi fruit frost. Wood cooperage value 833714770. Pleuro pneumonia in cattle near Marietta Pa. Poplar at White Fern Tenn. yields 10000 feet lumber. 250 disabled Confederate veterans in NC poorhouses. Jacksonville merchant sells 10000 marbles in three weeks. Thirty thousand writers on 1500 daily papers. Blue seal on letter equals love. Manitoba farmer uses telephone for 13000 acres. Massachusetts bars woman preacher from Nantucket marriage. Some Americans plan Europe summer trip. Colleton County woman boasts 49 dozen eggs in ten weeks. Glaciers in Alaska number about six hundred. Baltimore to get electric railway with third rail. Tom Nast satire mocked by Western lumbermen. Gen Jackson earthworks near Chickasawhatchee Ga. 1818. Delaware peach shipments 1867 1884 total 58064 car-loads. Evaporators in Delaware Maryland green market gluts. 1885 crops large. Hattie Ketchum 5 addicted to tobacco since age 2 wind colic as infant. Train stops cost money 350 daily trains 7000 extra stops yearly. Each stop 42 cents losses near 80000 yearly. Mobile fishing smack loses catch drifting into red water. 1700 fish preserved. Water color discrepancy may be due to drift timber. Mobile Bay had fish die in 1878.
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