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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1885
Page
1
The Graham Leader outlines local notices rates at ten cents per line per insertion with a five cent reduction for obituary notices and tributes, plus a liberal deduction for regular advertisers.
The letter accuses the Greer county handling by Governor Ireland and Commissioner Walsh of patenting veteran certificates for 800000 acres, claiming the land is either public domain or school land. It argues the board’s classifications and leases show inconsistency and incompetence, noting no survey has been made and criticizing the land policy as vacillating.
Reporter notes Treasurer Jordan has fitted up a bedroom at the treasury department and practically lives there. The piece suggests many Republicans remain in the department and that Treasurer Jordan Wisely fears Democrats cannot be too watchful.
An article notes counterfeiters exploited local attitudes toward licensing, implying a lax stance on prohibition. It mentions a counterfeit operation touring the country, attempting to print bills through famed lithographers as if a legitimate business.
A Niagara Falls NY farmer trades wheat with a Canadian neighbor for clothing. A customs officer taxes the goods an extra 50, arguing a tariff to protect US factories. The farmer calls the tariff robbing the poor to enrich monopolies and vows to vote the Democrats out.
Hon. Harvey M. Watterson visited Washington to shake hands with a United States president for the seventeenth time. He has known the sixteen predecessors and spoke warmly of President Cleveland. He believes the Democratic Party’s best hope lies with Cleveland and that repudiation would doom the party.
In Dallas a popular St. Louis drummer, plagued by alcohol, faced a tame monkey arranged by friends. After a tense scene and aDropped shoe, the man wrestled the animal before guards secured it. He sobered and now advocates prohibition per the Ft. Worth Gazette.
Cincinnati reports disclose youths of Mercer county Ohio involved in burglaries in Celina. Clayton Marsh son of Hon H D Marsh speaker of the Ohio House, and a Landfair son, a Kentucky Military Institute student, are under bond amid broader suspicions. A sheriff’s nephew exposed the case. Marsh Landfair and a barkeeper James Schilling are imprisoned on bond. Citizens fear weak prosecutions due to local influence. a fund to hire capable prosecutors has been started.
San Francisco reports a cellar on Puaciltic Street with a floor of decayed human bones and flesh. Chinese workers boiled remains and packed bones for shipment to China, claiming about 3800 bodies were taken from cemeteries statewide. Two living skunks were used to mask the stench as authorities seized the remains.
The Peoria Democrat asserts the whisky pool is beyond repair, calling attention to systemic failures and urging review of governance and oversight. The claim frames the pool as irreparably flawed, accusing leadership of mismanagement.
A Boston Advertiser reprint argues that many so called fast young men arise from poor home training. It blames lax fireside instruction, indulgent guardians, and late hours for leading youths to vice, crime, and dissipation. It urges parents to uphold duties and cites a future union of church and state as a looming change.
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