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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1891
Page
3
A collage of pasted ad copy offers tonics like Brown's Iron Bitters and Dr. Bull's Worm Destroyers, household tips, land sales in Bee County Texas, and jokes from period humor sources. It highlights patent medicines, real estate pitches, and light quotable quips interwoven with merchant promos and reader notices.
Farmers explore flaxseed feeding to boost milk and butter yields and compare it with bran and cornmeal. The piece emphasizes linseed as a safe, effective feed, notes typical cow intake of seven to ten pounds daily, and shares a practical soaking method. It also promotes earth as a cheap disinfectant and fertilizer, advising deep litter under stalls, vermin control, and the value of home manure with mineral fertilizers.
A mix of agricultural notes reviews manure use for potatoes, clover sod methods, and fertilizer chemistry. It contrasts nitrate rich feeds with spoilage risks, notes clover sod moisture benefits, and explains sulfuric acid’s role in phosphate solubility for future crops. Also praises hatched-machine efficiency versus hens.
A roundup of homestead guidance covers poultry care including breed choices Houdans for eggs, roosters per hens, and geese and ducks as scavengers. It also offers feed ideas with straw clover bran mixes, and emphasizes clean, dry quarters. Additional notes advise kitchen hygiene, oiling locks, lamp safety, and simple home repairs.
A traveler describes Portuguese girls as heavily chaperoned and educated in music embroidery and languages. Women lead a sheltered life with strict gender norms, face limited social mobility, and rely on arranged courtships culminating in marriage within family circles.
The Forum notes how accident insurance reveals surprising facts about risk and behavior. It cites left hand injuries exceeding right, and that insuring against known dangers can increase exposure to unforeseen accidents. Variations occur by sparsity of settlement and season, with more incidents in winter and summer.
The article explains that bride maids in traditional England bore duties beyond modern practice attending the bride elect, guiding invitations, dressing the bride, entertaining guests, and easing guests. It notes bridesmaids often had the best time and sometimes won husbands, with the saying three times a bride maid never a bride.
The city promotes the Autumnal Festivities as the world's only annual exposition, led by Gilmore's 65 piece band. Highlights include the Veiled Prophet parade with electric and gas illumination on October 6, a Merchants' Exchange ball, and extensive new features aimed at drawing record crowds.
The cow catcher attachment for locomotives, invented by D. W. Davies of Columbus Ohio, was never patented. Davies borrowed the idea from a plough mould-board and did not patent it in time. It remains unchanged and has saved railroad companies millions of dollars and likely thousands of lives.
A discussion notes that forty in a thousand men are color blind and that this trait oddly aligns with skills in engraving. It also cites women at about one in a thousand color blind, and compares color reception across savage and civilized races. A London statistic claims twelve thousand vehicles pass the Strand daily, wasting time worth over £47,000 yearly. Quotes from Russell Sage and a thieves anecdote conclude the piece with reflections on honesty and perception.
Joseph Jeffer son recalls Burton as quarrelsome in spirit if not physically. he spent fortunes on lawsuits and had sharp wit on the witness stand. An eminent Philadelphia lawyer questioned concealed funds from the Naiad Queen production. Burton, rising, mocked the moment with a lawyerly imitation and the quip lager got it.
In a Maine Supreme Court office Judge Walton recalls a visit from a disliked lawyer. The banter turns to marriage and money as the judge jokes about the cost of living, noting he could not afford six thousand dollars a year for his own living.
The article describes canes with silver handles that conceal a watch, a dollar in five cent pieces, and a spring to lift coins. Another springed section carries matches, making the cane a compact tool to avoid rummaging for pockets and a pocketbook during travel.
In Fish's int on Upper Eye th road archaeologists report parts of a human skeleton, corroded copper vessels, a pestle, and oddly shaped bottles. Some arsonists speculate these could predate mound builders while skeptics call them earth quake heritage.
The late Gov. John L. Manning came from a family with multiple governors. His father Richard Manning, granduncle James B. Richardson, uncle John Peter Richardson, and Manning himself all served as governor. John Peter Richardson was the cousin of the present chief executive, and Gen Wade Hampton by marriage also held the office.
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