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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1889
Page
6
The article profiles Mrs. Jenness Miller promoting dress reform centered on a full body union suit and leglette substitutes. It portrays her undergarment system, the sleeveless reform gowns, and the rise of dress clubs across the country.
The piece argues that emotions in animals mirror human ones across a wide range from fear and affection to cruelty and benevolence. It claims the emotional life of animals supports genetic continuity with humans, noting similarities to children and challenging obstacles to descent theories.
A photographer captured a glacier image showing a phantom city with warehouses factories chimneys homes and church spires. Speculation named Victoria Seattle Portland San Francisco but a French Canadian identified Montreal with the Windsor Hotel Notre Dame cathedral dome and Mount Royal in the distance, nearly 4,000 miles away.
A fragmentary exchange shows Mrs Norman Quenann accusing a grocer of sending six month old eggs while he defends his efforts to clear, referencing a home and furniture sale. The dialogue hints at a tense domestic/business dispute in a turn of the century style.
A correspondent reports on using a road engine to plow and thresh, noting speed similar to horses, capability over ordinary country, and advantages for large land sections. High cost and water supply issues limit adoption, with advice on tree planting and soil enrichment from chip manure and buried materials.
The article notes a persistent rise in labor and land input for each year’s crop while yields fall across corn wheat hay and cotton. It attributes the trend to lower profits from prior cultivation, prompting overcropping and reduced fertilization as farmers seek income, impoverishing land and labor and contracting farming capital.
In a store the two farmers offered eggs from their flocks. One seller boasted his Werymouth Pooks and their large eggs. A dozen weighed 30 ounces, about three and a quarter ounces each. The other offered smaller eggs averaging one and three quarters ounces. Both lots were counted, the sellers paid a cent per egg, and a passerby noted the bigger eggs did not fetch a higher price despite size.
The article advises that any soil suited for a fair corn crop will grow peach trees. It describes plowing ground, laying it out in straight twenty foot rows, using a two horse plow, marking across, digging a three foot wide hole twelve inches deeper than the tree, and filling the hole with a pint of fertilizer or half a bushel of stable manure mixed in.
The British consul general in Odessa notes two main wools in Southern Russia Merino and Donskoi with lesser zigal and malitch. Merino origin 1805 thrives in dry climates. Molokans improve yarns, yielding heavier grease fleece. Donskoi from Pen river area, zigal finer, maliteh Crimea. Bradford trades in Merino wool but global supply shifts reduce South Russia’s role. The piece surveys a Japanese rake design, lauded for ingenuity yet seen as cumbersome, suggesting future adoption of refined tools.
The article urges gardeners to plant flowers in neglected corners to brighten homes and stresses that flowers are a daily necessity, not a luxury, essential as hay for barns. It argues neglecting flowers impoverishes family life and happiness by overlooking beauty and nurture.
The evener for three horses is built from a scantling two by four inches of hickory or oak. It measures four feet long and includes holes for clevis-pins at set distances plus a fourth optional hole to give the single horse an advantage during training. The double-tree attaches to the short end while the one-horse white-tree attaches to the long end with clevis and links positioned beside the others.
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