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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1885
Page
1
Published weekly by J. W. Gravis with rates: ten cents per line for notices and two five cent lines for obituary notices and tributes. Liberal deductions offered to regular advertisers.
In a Sept 29 1885 letter from Lewiston Idaho the writer travels through Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho noting land suitability for agriculture, irrigation needs, and the Baker City Grande Ronde Valley area. He comments on the Columbia River’s navigability, salmon canning, dried herrings, and memories of a journey east by train past varied landscapes with cattle trails and shifting sandbanks along the river.
The writer details a journey through Sprague and Colfax areas noting rich fields yielding thirty five bushels of wheat and seventy five of barley per acre. He praises the farming land across Utah, Oregon, Washington Territory and Idaho Territory, admires water, climate, and the growing fruit industry, and comments on Hibbs the ex postmaster and local likeness to Walla Walla while envisioning settling in Western Oregon or Northwest Idaho. He recalls a trip to see Cleopatra's Needle deterioration and warns of its brittle base and fissure risks urging preventive treatment.
A thirteen year old errand boy Nichols Bouya wrote to President Cleveland asking for a job for his sister Cora to support their mother. The letter prompted a reply indicating a Mint position for Cora. News includes a separate Texas rail camp raid where over sixty convicts fled, twenty killed or wounded, with several recaptured and families notified.
The County Court dismissed the libel charge against Editor Duvinage at Dr. Denton’s request after he received satisfactory explanations. University faculty note new students are more advanced this session. Dengue fever nearly stopped. Fireproofing work in the general land office uncovered burning beams in chimneys. one beam burned nearly through and could have caused a fire this winter threatening U.S. lands.
Corsicana has secured the Odd Fellows Widows and Orphans home. The acquisition promises continued care facilities and stability for residents, with local officials signaling public satisfaction and plans to integrate the home into the city’s welfare network.
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