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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1905
Page
6
A Kansan observer extols farm prosperity and new comforts while lampooning past rural simplicity. He notes rising wealth, houses, baths, and even automobiles, and discusses fashionable courting, schooling, and a controversial rain bath craze with quotes from an Austin writer. The piece blends satire with nostalgia and social commentary.
East Florence Alabama resident G W Farlowe declares a seven year skin ailment eased by Hunt's Cure. He reports one application gave relief, one box cured, and a year later he remains symptom free. The ad promotes Hunt's Cure as a guaranteed remedy for all itching skin diseases at 50 cents.
Revival meetings announced for Gooseneck starting Friday night before the 5th Sunday and lasting into August’s first Sunday. Salem begins Friday night before the 2nd Sunday in August and continues over the 3rd Sunday. Henry Chappel starts Friday night before the 4th Sunday in August. All Christian workers and singers urged to attend. Motto promises revival at every point and many souls saved. Prayer requested. 8 D Cook P C.
An old advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a 25 year tested iron and quinine remedy. It emphasizes its tasteless form and claims no cure, no pay with a 25 cent price.
The passage extols farmers as master of the soil and credits Minnesota and Dakota farmers with $300,000,000 in product value in a single year. It contrasts agricultural worth with capital figures, then pivots to health advice praising Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It claims the tonic increases red blood cells and cleanses the body, noting long sales history and a mail order book offer from Dr. K. V. Pierce of Buffalo New York.
Visitors to the Lewis and Clark exposition on August 10 may view a free replica of the Little Big Horn battle. About a few hundred Umatilla Indians will portray Sitting Bull and his Sioux with white militia on a knoll, pursued and overwhelmed in a staged scene of the 1876 clash.
Edna Texas March 14 1903 letter from L. E. Warb praising kidney and rheumatic treatment by Dr E W Hall of St. Louis Missouri. He reports cure and recommends Hall's Great Discovery to others with similar ailments.
An ad touts Texas Wonder or Hall's Great Discovery as a universal cure for kidney and bladder issues in men and women, including diabetes and rheumatism. One bottle costs $1 and lasts about two months, with mail order options from Dr. E. W. Hall of St. Louis and availability through Graham Drug Co.
Strong minded up to date men seek a good general newspaper to stay in touch with the outside world. The Dallas Semi Weekly News combines The Graham Leader and Dallas Semi Weekly News to keep farmers and families posted on Local News Home Enterprises Personal items State News National Affairs Foreign Matters. For 1.75 a year 156 copies The Farmers Forum in The News is worth the money to any farmer or stockman of this locality Subscribe now.
The advertisement touts De Witt's Little Narty Risers as pleasant easy to take pills that never fail to relieve headache biliousness torpid liver and constipation. It claims a tonic effect on the liver and a cure for jaundice and notes sale by B H Blakeney.
Dr. A. R. Ward of the University of California and assistant Dr. C. M. Haring successfully set a horse’s broken leg. The limb stayed in a plaster cast six weeks, the cast was over six inches thick, and after removal the horse moved with only a slight limp that should disappear soon.
Soothing and cooling salve promises rapid relief from inflammation and healing for cuts burns and bruises. Claims to be the only genuine Witch Hazel Salve by DeWitt and warns against counterfeits sold by B H Blake ney.
Germany stands as a formidable competitor to the United States with merged coal and manufacturing interests. German coal trusts push into French coal basins, underselling locals, while German commercial representatives display goods in France. American merchants rely on consuls to access foreign markets.
An advertisement invites readers to sample Sunset Magazine noting its accuracy and California focus. It states Southern Pacific, Dept. E in San Francisco, sells the magazine and offers one way tickets to California at low rates from Sept 15 to Oct 31, 1905.
Wanted learn telegraphy for railroad service under an old operator with years experience. Notes accepted for tuition. Position guaranteed. Free catalogue from McKinney Telegraph College in McKinney Texas.
118 acres six miles north of Graham in Salt Creek bottom offers 50 acres cultivated with a good four room house, tank, cistern, good fencing and living water in pasture. Priced at 15 dollars per acre with favorable terms.
Illustrated books with accurate information and fine photo productions about California and the Far West offered by Chas. Fee of the Southern Pacific in San Francisco. Low rate colonist tickets available from Sept. 15 to Oct. 31, 1905. Ask about them.
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