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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1891
Page
6
The passage discusses the moral basis of wealth, citing Jay Gould and Jim Fisk as symbols, notes poets earnings and cheap labor versus production costs, critiques English upper middle class manners, argues trust hostility is economically sane, and defends electricity safety amid broader social commentary.
The article argues women live longer and commit self endangering acts less often while burdening the public purse far less. It cites weakening male vigor, smoking as a factor, and warns that lenient treatment of crime breeds more crime until courts enforce duties. It notes lawyers fees influence gubernatorial decisions.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch quotes Professor Sage on how Greeks honor ancestors by naming children after gods and heroes. The text then shifts to geopolitical tensions, noting Russia, France, Italy, and Germany, and suggesting war risks hinge on state discretion and national interests.
An 1860s Army plan considers forming Indian companies led by white officers to address recruitment gaps and test discipline, language and character requirements. Navajo and other Arizona New Mexico tribes may join infantry. enlistment would be two years with separate quarters but standard service terms. If successful, Congress could expand to include 1,500 Indian recruits amid overall shortages. The move echoes British use of Indian troops and scouts, aiming to improve morale and military readiness.
A letter recalls a cow named Bossy attached to the 57th Illinois during the Civil War around Shiloh and Corinth. The animal supplied milk to soldiers, shared in hospital coffee, and vanished after October. The writer seeks any comrade who knows Bossy’s fate.
Four iron and steel plates four feet square, lacquered with anti fouling and anti corrosive coatings, arrived in San Francisco from Japan for US Navy testing. The plates will undergo a three month salt water submersion trial to evaluate application on White Squadron ships. Observers report Japanese warships show smooth, intact lacquered bottoms with no barnacles after long tests.
George Clutch of Columbus Indiana owns a brass button from a private soldier. Inside the button a surgeon at Libby prison concealed a note promising money for escape. The plan zastos succeeded when the note reached Mrs Gallaher and concealed funds aided J F Gallaher’s escape as a key tunnel participant.
Dispatch bearer George Piatt argues the government should place monuments where Regular troops stood at Gettysburg. The 6th Cavalry, detached for left flank reconnaissance, faced Jones's Brigade and another cavalry force under Gen Heverly. The regiment lost 10 officers and 232 enlisted men and left many unknown graves in Gettysburg Cemetery.
Confederate prisoners recount their journey by Erie Railroad to Johnson's Island in Lake Erie on parole. Guards at car doors guarded visitors during the trip while the men were subject to public curiosity and restricted access at stations.
Waynesboro battle account recalls G L Camp Co G 92d Ohio describing December 3 camped near Kilpatrick’s HQ shells from rebels. Cavalry charged next morning, six mile pursuit, heavy rebel losses, rebels attempted a hill stand but fled as infantry pressed.
The war department plans to station a colored cavalry unit from the Ninth at Fort Meyer as a reward for recent Indian campaign service. Fort Meyer will be a haven of rest and guard of honor to the President during formal ceremonies. Troop K of the Seventh Cavalry will also be rewarded for gallant conduct at Wounded Knee with a period at Fort Meyer, relieving current troops around May 1.
A former U S Army officer who met General Sherman in New York weeks before death quotes Sherman criticizing ongoing talk and inaction about a Grant monument. He recalls Grant would have preferred a plain marble slab as grave marker and laments memorial fuss, saying a simple white marble tombstone suffices for any soldier.
Carrie and Maude Eames chase a mountain lion after it kills two horses on their ranch near Bob Creek Nebraska. Their tracking, the stakeout, and dramatic haul end with the 600 pound beast slain by Carrie’s rifle and a triumphant return to stock duties. The story winds to a moral about workers who fill gaps and finish jobs.
The North American Review notes that flying machines may become possible and even probable. Yet it argues the world has little practical use for them beyond curiosities and spectacles. most people will remain earthbound, with gravity and material limits keeping humans on the ground.
The passage urges resilience and acceptance of life’s pains and burdens. It notes people struggle against harsh realities and that much effort spent resisting trouble could be used to fix things. Readers are advised to bear their share and persist despite disappointments.
Florida, famed for fruit and winter health resorts, is highlighted for its vast arable areas. Overflow lands around Lake Okeechobee are being drained by a big drainage project, with canals and dredges creating passage for steamers from Charlotte Harbor to Kissimmee City as reclamation advances.
The Lewiston Journal explains that waist back buttons began for service rather than ornament. They were used to lift the coat’s rear for easier access to a sword and to avoid drapery during duels in times of formal dress, leaving a vestigial trace in modern tail coats.
A Maine school teacher wrote her name on an egg in Sidney. The egg’s inscription reached a Massachusetts merchant who pursued correspondence. He visited Maine, and the couple became engaged and married, following the unusual start.
A humorous exchange has a puzzled man confessing to using new beard pomade that makes the beard reappear as soon as he passes the second cheek, prompting the child to question his progress and plans for the morning.
A scientific note claims the juice of a single pineapple can dissolve ten pounds of tough beef, challenging the long held belief that a shark’s stomach can digest anything. The finding suggests pineapple may aid digestion and even assist those with dyspepsia.
Rep Culberson of Texas offered a wart cure involving opening the wart to bleed, placing a grain of corn on it, and feeding the corn to a goose. He claimed the wart disappears after the goose eats the corn, saying the method has never failed.
Joseph Eggleston Johnston, one of the five fall Confederate generals, is profiled as a pivotal rebel commander whose tactics, strategy, and wartime statesmanship shaped the southern war effort. The account covers his Virginia birth, West Point class of 1829, service in Florida and Mexico, later Confederate command, and postwar career in railroads and politics.
The article asserts morphine is a familiar poison and prussic acid the most rapidly fatal. Scientific tests can detect poison in food water and the body after death. With proper examination and inquest, most poisons are detectable by organ lesions or toxin extraction, dispelling the notion that poisoning is a perfected art.
Ancient coins serve as the only authenic image of Cleopatra as archaeologists note a bust on a coin series showing Queen Cleopatra the Divine the Younger on the reverse and Antony the Dictator for the Third Time on the obverse. The coin’s poor workmanship may understate her looks yet other coins in the same series share the same aquiline nose strong chin long neck and narrow shoulders.
A terse dialogue cites publishing versus burning notes with phrases about burning them up. Col. Percy Yorger is mentioned discussively, and a decision is framed around whether to publish in book form or destroy the material.
A sensational New York report introduces Lone Wang Sha a Chinese god in Mott Street whose calf may be hired and auctioned his keepers profit from offerings and sacred seeds. The god has risen in price from 2400 to 24000 and may reach millionaire status, with Ong Hong Tong as current holder.
A London correspondent describes Mrs French-Sheldon’s planned voyage to Africa noting the hardships ahead. A unique palanquin designed with bamboo frame and aluminum wire weighs 110 pounds and holds an interior that includes a transformable chair bed, lockers, wash-basin and writing desk for comfort on Central Africa roads.
A Western railroad claim agent recounts a curious case where a man claimed $10 for a cow killed by a train. The claimant signed as Attorney for Claimant and, posing as a justice of the peace, awarded himself about $10 plus costs. The company did not pay, and the man was described as a regular Pook-Bah.
A well known New York doctor cites a patient who drank a bottle of beer nightly to sleep. His home remedy for insomnia is to eat something light if the stomach is empty, then return to bed and sleep. Milk is preferred to beer, but light food aids rest.
A reader notes hotels and office buildings often skip or rebrand the thirteenth room or floor. The practice aims to avoid superstition and prevent placing tenants in the numbered space, with some claiming customers fear the number and will not lease there.
An 1860s courtroom scene shows Peter Ragland pleading that poverty and a kindly white woman inspired him to snatch a purse. Ragland explains he thought the money offered was medicine for his sick daughter, while the judge ultimately frees the defendant after the woman admits possible complicity.
A light anecdote on a Boston train shows two gentlemen in adjacent seats. An elderly, stiff man asks for help with his overcoat and reveals he is sixty three, nearly sixty four. His fellow traveler claims to be seventy one next birthday, doubting the older man’s age.
The passage surveys John Adams as a Unitarian, Goethe's Faust early work, colonial settlement patterns in New England, Faneuil Hall history, 17th century trading posts in New Hampshire, Italian fan culture, and the 1680s William and Mary overthrow of Andros with Massachusetts' restoration as a royal province under Sir William Phips and a new charter.
A Cincinnati merchant asserts that thirty years of giving to charity have not improved the lot of any one person. He notes that among fifty individuals he befriended over fifteen years none has made any effort to escape want. The remarks reflect skepticism about charitable outcomes and personal responsibility.
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