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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
8
A historical essay discusses China's imperial religion system where the emperor serves as Son of Heaven and conducts rites for Shang Ti Confucian ancestors Taoist gods and Buddha. It contrasts monotheistic origins with popular ancestor worship and notes Buddhism arriving in 66 A.D. and becoming state-supported.
A one and a half inch firefly called the pyrophore provides cheap illumination in Brazil. One to read fine print, three to light a room. Used by peasants for night forest travel and by coquettes as a luminous accessory. When exhausted, dunk in water recharges. light returns. Scientifically named coleopter serricorn stermose elaterides.
An experimenter ran a current for a year through a copper aluminum composite conductor pressed together. After time, upon disassembly, no trace of copper or aluminum had migrated into the other, suggesting no material transport in solid conductors.
A citizen laments persistently vandalous boys who smash street lamp glass during street games and ball play. He notes repeated rock-throwing for ten to fifteen minutes until a lamp is finally broken, and reports basement windows of vacant houses often left broken.
A Paris chronicle recounts how oranges arrived in Europe from China via Carthaginian grafting creating the blood orange. Jean de Castro brought the fruit to Portugal from the West Indies, with initial cultivation by the Constable de Bourbon and continued by Francis I. Louis XIV’s visit to Toulon linked oranges to the royal orangery as a gift.
A woman observes how hotel pages vary by hotel age and size in New York. The Knickerbocker shows younger, smaller pages resembling children. Astor and Waldorf pages are older and larger. St Regis has full-grown men. Downtown hotels host even older pages, with old men guiding guests.
The article extols koumiss as the Tartars national beverage, claiming it sustains labor on a quart a day and bestows all virtues while avoiding evils of other drinks. It suggests troops in Roosevelt era tests should take koumiss.
Delinquent tax list certified by M A Wallace Tax Collector for Young County for 1908 taxes only. Certificate of Commissioners Court confirms accuracy and Wallace’s credit for taxes due. Open court dated April 6, 1909, with county officials attesting and seal. Includes properties Eliasville Graham Olney Spring Creek Proffitt.
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