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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1890
Page
6
A fragment from Good Housekeeping contrasts a grand blue sprigged china tea set with ruined shards. The closet holds beauty and loss as Grandma’s cherished pieces shatter, and the family faces healing with cement rather than restored porcelain.
Grandper Whittaker proclaims a mission to escort the boys and girls to town to view his grandson Jackson Jefferson perform. The party travels through a village to a large theater house, with grandper proudly announcing their arrival and the family preparing for an evening of new culture.
A rustic tale unfolds at a country theater where Jackson Jefferson visits with a fiancée. Grandfather disrupts the performance to defend his kin, tramps threaten, and a misread scene turns into a comic misadventure. The crowd laughs as a formal apology closes the evening.
A report by O T Crosby compares electric street railways with horse and cable power. The study covers Washington, Richmond, Cleveland, and Scranton showing an average motive power cost of 5.09 cents per car mile and detailing cost components such as interest, attendance, machinery, and line. The findings emphasize electric railways as economically superior and backed by user praise.
An 19th century style notice urges recognizing liver pain as a warning and using Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters to regulate the organ. It claims relief from bilious symptoms, boosts digestion, cleanses the bowels, enriches circulation, and protects against malaria, also aiding rheumatism and kidney issues.
An old advertising line emphasizes Castoria as a remedy through decades of family life. The chant links baby illness, childhood crying, adolescence, and motherhood to the same remedy. The phrasing evokes vintage product promotion and traditional parenting memories.
A satirical note on a short man lengthening himself with a plug hat contrasts with medical vanity as doctors fail to treat weak kidneys. The prose warns of uric acid buildup and needlelike pains while praising Dr Bull’s Sarsaparilla as a remedy once doctors abandon hope.
A testimonial praises Mothers Friend as essential for childbirth from Mrs. C. Mcourne of Iowa. The Bradfield Regulator Co. of Atlanta Ga. offers further details and druggists sell the product. The notice also advises avoiding trenching around trees to protect root systems.
An advertisement extols B. B. B. or Botanic Blood Balm as a cure for scrofula and blood ailments with testimonials from Emma Griffiths and Mittle M. Tanner. It repeats praise of the seal fleet and urges Hunt's Cure for skin diseases with a money back guarantee. It also touts self‑sufficient farming of pork and beef.
For bronchial affections and coughs Brown's Bronchial Tracies have proven their efficacy through years of use. A fashionable Parisian night drink is hot boiled milk with sugar and orange water. For sore eyes use Dr Isaac Thompson's Eye Water sold by druggists. A saying about stealing mentions a dollar with eleven dollars implied.
Wyoming's capital Cheyenne is described as a wealthy, rapidly growing city with Union Pacific shops costing 6 million dollars and 200 workers. The note promotes low realty prices and investment options including land options and staged payments. Also mentions Bull's Sarsaparilla testimonial and a quip about unmusical men.
The article argues that a citizen may wear any clothes and speak any language in his home and do as he pleases unless it conflicts with neighbors or harms the public. It cites Boston, Washington, Maine, and Kansas to illustrate differing limits on acts like swearing and alcohol access.
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