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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1891
Page
2
A collection of sharp observations by Graham Zeader touching on Sunday newspapers reported sermons, the moral basis of wealth, labor costs, electricity safety, and social behavior. The essay cites figures like Brown ing Swinburne and Lord Tennyson, critiques trust and competition, and muses on crime, law enforcement, and international tensions affecting Europe.
Hallettsville plans an oil mill while Hamilton seeks an artesian well and Cuero builds an electric light plant. Uvalde ice plant machinery arrives. Johnson county crops look strong. Rockport markets cabbages. Alvarado canning factory abandoned. Urban projects include Houston bagging plant, San Augustine courthouse nearing completion, and Mason vault installation. Ballads of weather and harvest run through Baylor, Fisher, Rockdale, and Wilson counties as mills, roads, and schools rise.
Notes from foreign crimes and general week’s doings report assassinations and shootings in Wisconsin New York and Missouri dynamite deaths in Indiana and Ohio abductions attempted in Carrollton and Oklahoma hunger and drought impacts in Kansas and Louisiana high school funding and imperial World’s Fair planning updates along with parliamentary actions in several states and incidents across the nation and abroad.
The column advises on timber claims and planting trees on waste land, noting which species sprout well and how to set young plants. It recommends using nursery stock over seeds for long-term benefits and outlines spacing, thinning, and cultivation needs for groves. It also highlights geese as a profitable poultry venture with feathers eggs and market value.
The Iowa Homestead urges farmers to cure pork for sale locally to save on freight and middleman profits. It favors improved hog feeding, selective breeding, and neat meat presentation to boost marketability. It also discusses horses and geese management, urging quality feed and shedding practices for better returns.
The article notes potatoes can be processed into starch to stabilize markets and as a hardenable material for buttons. It praises testing new seed varieties to boost vigor, warns against corn feeding breeding sows, and offers practical kitchen and housekeeping tips from canning to soaking vegetables and sewing fabric.
The piece mocks a change in advertising from lofty ads to direct street selling. It notes vendors now greet customers, use simpler language, and promise bargains like two cent stamps for custom orders and cheap hats. It mentions products such as Bump's Swipes and Rinx Roller Pads in a humorous tone.
In early Rome the annual import of lions from Africa averaged 400 for nine years and included leopards tigers hyenas elephants buffaloes and countless serpents. Eight thousand men worked in Africa for several years to trap wild animals for Roman spectacle.
Uncle Sawback enters a lamp shop claiming to return a supposed planner lamp. The dealer questions the device while Larry Ann struggles to produce any usable note, exposing a faulty purchase.
A description of the Christ image in the possession of Sir Louis Lady, an aged relic from early colonial Virginia brought by a maternal ancestor Colonel Robert Davis. The satin painting, now yellowed and fragile, is housed behind broken glass with a blackened wooden frame and a fragile hanging ring. The inscription portrays Jesus Christ with noble features and a tender, persuasive bearing, praised for virtue and compassion.
The Boston Gazette offers guidance for young men courting. It warns against overpraising a potential wife, lying about finances, or pressing too hard at a first visit. It suggests observing a girl's family, pace, and temperament, and avoiding dramatic declarations or hostile endings to evenings.
A paragraph from Stanley's In Darkest Africa notes Emin Pasha’s observation that chimpanzees in Msongwa forest steal fruit at Mswa station using torches at night. The author remarks this surprising use of fire marks a clear line between humans and animals.
A Wall Street man claimed he called on his elderly next door neighbors, Mr and Mrs Green, who had just returned from the country. A thirteen year old servant answered the door and stated they were married when asked if they were engaged.
A brief wry observation notes that some men, after ten years of marriage, ponder how many other women they might have married before the chosen partner if given the chance. The remark frames marital reflection with a tongue in cheek tone.
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