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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1890
Page
3
New York Mail and Express notes charity travels beyond grand halls to cottages and lanes, bringing relief to despairing families. It praises unobtrusive aid that lightens burdens as Heaven and earth seem to conspire to greet such acts.
The article explains how long photographic exposure in a telescope builds up light on a silver gelatine plate. Repeated light waves gradually decompose the salts, engraving the star image. Longer exposures reveal dimmer stars unseen by the eye or shorter observations.
A Boston street incident ends with a shoeless newsboy, jailed briefly after a clash with a bully, directing a partner to watch his route. The scene, witnessed by friends, is praised as evidence the industrious newsboy can become a future business man.
A fleeing enslaved person in Washington is questioned by a proslavery bystander about origins and treatment. The slave cites Culpeper as home and recalls a “very good, kind master” who provided necessities, while the bystander suggests staying enslaved as better than seeking liberty. The exchange ends with a crowd’s ironic laughter at slavery.
A clipped collage of odd facts and anecdotes from various papers. Notes on illiteracy in the South and a peculiar clock showing a negro shepherd and dog at the top. A hunter finds a cow killed by a rattlesnake and a physician offers many headache reasons.
A Chicago Inter Ocean piece argues fashion folly, like Oscar Wilde and the dude, shapes taste and refines manners while avoiding moral ruin. It cites relief from American crude tastes and notes the dude as a tempered influence against dissipated high life. Harvey Cook recalls a sand snipe drowned by a clam in Saratoga Lake.
A San Francisco Chronicle opinion argues against heavy clothing and stiff beards, predicting biled shirts will fade as new fabrics allow softer white silk. It questions color dominance by women and cites Oscar Wilde as sharing this provocative vein of thought, promising further discussion.
A Hamlin New York owner reports her cat has two additional feet branching from each front leg, making a total of six. The creature remains a skilled mouser and is very domestic, playing with balls and string like ordinary cats.
The article details proper singing breath technique emphasizing diaphragmatic expansion and slow controlled expiration to improve tone. It includes anecdotes on beginners, muscle use, and maintaining relaxed shoulders. It then recounts a Diner Out joke about a glass eye and ends with a Paris Cor. report on Grand Duke Alexis and royal marriage history.
A fragment from Life recalls a nervous marriage proposal exchange. A Livingston dig uncovers a huge fossil jaw with two teeth, a horn, and large fins, suggesting a prehistoric fish. The piece from the Pittsburgh Dispatch contrasts Edison’s wealth with his enduring work ethic at Menlo Park.
Troy Press notes Paris has not seen a grand pageant in over twenty years and recalls 1867 Napoleon III displays. It contrasts Spain, Rome, and German and Austrian ceremonies, now more restrained or militarily oriented, with republican France shaping a quieter courtly life.
A misfired melodrama scene ends in a broken rhythm of crashes as an actor struggles to improvise while the leading lady withdraws. The piece falls apart and the curtain drops with the cast dismissed the next day.
A poem urging immediate action over dreaming of future battles. Adelaide Ann Procter’s lines push the reader to seize the day, discard vain regret, and prepare for the present struggle as the enemy advances. The refrain Rise! repeats to stress urgency.
A colonel challenges a boy with a jug and bets twenty dollars on a stunt. The boy swings the jug across the street but shatters it near the corner. The colonel admits he bought the jug for the boy and paid fifty cents to execute the plan, leaving the loser surprised.
The passage discusses the termagant stereotype in historical terms and narrates a scene with Robert de Insula, Bishop of Durham in 1274, visiting his mother who complains of overabundant attendants and a lack of quarrel to satisfy her combative nature.
Mrs. Jane Howarth of 401 Central Avenue Kearny says she won one twentieth of the $300000 capital prize in the Louisiana lottery after buying one twentieth ticket No 92561 for one dollar. She traveled to New York with her husband to collect the winnings and plans to keep the money secure.
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes a scene where a well-behaved English bull dog sits at a table with his master and companions wearing a napkin and collar. Waiters treat the animal with notable respect, reflecting a trend toward treating dogs as equals in fashionable society, though how dogs behave remains unclear.
A Portland shoe manufacturer offered to aid the hungry by giving 100 sacks of flour and 100 bushels of meal for each man in need who did not own a dog used rum or tobacco. The Bruns wick Telegraph notes the editor's sly amusement at the tale. A Lewiston Journal item recalls Ireland where youths were jailed for calling a man a grabber.
An American observer hid a dead snake in a newspaper to study monkey behavior. Monkeys fled at first but soon surrounded the snake, showing a paradoxical fascination paired with fear. A Macaque briefly grabbed at the vapor as the tail tether was pulled, prompting the group to scatter.
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