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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1882
Page
4
The verse extols merit over luck noting that true achievement may be overlooked at first but will rise with time. It emphasizes that there is no fate beyond effort and patience and that fortune rewards steady labor.
A late 1777 foraging party from Philadelphia raids Major Rudolph’s Darby farm, seizing a prized cow named Sukey. Twelve year old Anne Rudolph overturns danger by racing to Washington and Cornwallis, pleading for her cow. Washington’s presence looms as the deal unfolds at the general’s tent.
General Cornwallis calms a frightened girl and earns her trust by listening to her tale of rebel kin. He learns her father and brothers serve with Washington Gates and Lee. He gives her knee-buckles and orders a search for her cow ending with her triumphant return home.
A health focused essay urges that beauty stems from well being and personal care. It argues individuals must tailor baths diets and exercise to stay well and attractive, noting that appearance reflects health and civilization has changed how people live and hunt.
A bear in a fable abandons faith in the world then discovers life proceeds as usual. In Texas, Colonel Milo Stephens endures a funeral where his wife Mirandy’s uncontrollable giggles and a wisecrack about a bonnet trim steal the scene, leaving guests puzzled as the ceremony continues.
A display in a two-foot box shows two tarantulas, one brown and one black, fighting for six hours until the black spider dies. The victor tears and eats the loser, leaving only legs and shell fragments. Henry Warp Bercuer weighs in on dancing as morally neutral unless surrounded by bad influences.
Austin woman Mrs Milo Stephens reportedly breaks into giggles at funerals causing embarrassment and confusion. The article notes her pattern of laughter whenever propriety calls for solemnity in church and similar occasions.
Missouri Pacific Railway offers no change of cars with daily trains linking Houston Dallas Denison and other cities to St Louis and Sedalia through Union Depots. Passengers gain direct service to San Antonio Austin Fort Worth Kansas City and Hannibal with five lines of Pullman sleep cars and modern day coaches.
The Missouri Pacific highlights a steel track Miller platform and improved automatic air brake across its passenger trains. It describes itself as a first class railway and offers maps time-tables and reading matter on connections free by mail from officials in St. Louis Dallas and Texas.
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