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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1901
Page
2
A historical postage stamp entry line indicates mail matter received at the Graham Texas post office as second class mail with a fee of one dollar and fifty cents.
The Dallas News notes Britain’s payment of 33 230 000 for a royalty, calling the sum a high price for buncombe.
An 19th century style advertisement page touts tonics and tonics linked to health claims. It lists pale blood remedies, a mercury weight figure, India population, London population, a laudanum like sarsaparilla, and a $175000 six story store project by Sanger Bros. It promotes Hant’s Lightning Oil with guaranteed relief and refund.
The report notes $88,935,150 worth of property destroyed by fire in the first six months of the year across the United States. An advertising insert touts Hunt's cures for piles ringworm tetter eczema and shin troubles.
The average adult carries about twenty eight pounds of blood in the body and each heartbeat moves ten pounds of it. This compact health note emphasizes the remarkable blood volume and heart pumping strength in a single circulatory cycle.
On Friday at the governor’s request Nebraskans statewide gathered to pray for rain. By Saturday general rainfall covered the entire state bringing much needed moisture.
An 1890s style column notes various health claims for Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonics and Simmons' Sarsaparilla, touting improved complexion, boosted vitality, and malaria relief. Mentions a Rock Island road wreck in Oklahoma with fatalities and injuries. References Porto Rico trade expansion and a New York garment strike.
The ongoing steel workers strike in the North remains unresolved as no agreement has been reached and the situation remains unchanged.
The Southern Pacific issues a directive requiring all locomotives to use petroleum as fuel instead of coal. Tests on the line show petroleum is a cheaper fuel than coal.
An old advertisement touts Herbine as a health and vitality aid for women. It promises plump cheeks and a rosy complexion, claiming to impart strength and vitality to the body. The snippet emphasizes beauty benefits with uncertain pricing.
Gov. Sayers ordered the cancellation of a state oil contract with Waters-Pierce Oil Co after learning it failed to file a non trust affidavit as required by the Texas anti trust law. Attorney General Beil was directed to sue for penalties and to revoke the company’s Texas permit. The move follows a published dispatch and shocks political and business circles.
An 19th century advertisement claims deafness arises from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local apps. It offers one hundred dollars for any case of deafness due to catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circulars are offered free with purchase.
A collage of social slogans and moralizing lines about thrift politics and vice. It notes wagers on pensions, charitable blame, and a critique of society’s fads. An ad for White's Cream Vermifuge claims heat worsens infant strain and offers a 25 cent dose from Graham Drug Co.
The Mt Pleasant Times Seview editorial argues that juries often misuse their powers selecting the ignorant over the intelligent, aiding lawlessness. It laments miscarries of justice due to technicalities and urges rigid jury duty to restore accountability and proper verdicts.
Claims a mosquito bite remedy that counters poison wounds inflames and heals flesh. Offered by Graham Drug Co with prices 25 and 50 cents.
A July 26 note from Asperment Star reports a heavy rainstorm, the hardest since October 1900, saving cotton and helping forage crops. Town tanks fill, waters should last weeks, with good rains in nearby counties. Also advertises HERBINE 50c by Graham Drug Co for digestive issues and related ailments.
A Long Island girl reportedly drove a horse into a drugstore. It is unclear if she caused the animal to drink. The piece notes political blame and credit dynamics between the Republican party and Providence.
A reader extols Confederate soldiers as noble brave and generous, praising their care for civilians during the Civil War and urging descendants to honor and remember their fathers and veterans of the G. R Christian camp Antelope Texas. The piece invokes figures such as Sam Davis and generals like Jackson Lee and Hood, and envisions a heavenly festival as veterans pass the final roll call.
An old advertisement from Graham Drug Co promotes Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment with claims it cures piles. It mentions Mrs M J Useton of Antelope Texas and references the Jacksboro News. Prices listed: 50 cents for bottles and 75 cents for tubes.
A Boston inmate jailed for killing a white woman pleads extenuation claiming she ceased to love him. The item cites editorial opinions from the Times Union and Houston Post on race and crime, alongside ads for tone and health products and a railway labor debate.
David Block died in St Louis a few days ago. He was once a millionaire who, aligning with Carnegie, believed that the man who died rich died disgraced. He began giving his property away and had already disposed of most of it by his death.
Excursion rates in June July and August via the Great Rock Island Route to points East North and West. Promotions to San Francisco Chicago Detroit Buffalo summer resorts in Colorado Wisconsin Michigan and the Eastern States. Write for rates routes to plan your summer trip. Cons. B. Sloat G. P. A. Fort Worth.
The University of Texas outlines a broad program with over 1000 students, 174 courses, and a library of 35 000 volumes. It notes that women are admitted to all departments and tuition is free with total expenses estimated at 150 to 250 dollars.
Three local church members collected evidence by visiting saloons and buying whisky and beer. The district court issued an injunction against all saloons in town and ordered suit against each keeper and the owner of the buildings used for liquor sale.
An old practitioner claims a new treatment for catarrh named Snuffies the Guaranteed Catarrh Cure. The ad touts it as the only remedy that reaches the afflicted areas, relieves immediately, and permanently cures, with anecdotes about hay fever and head cold relief. It promises full month’s supply for one dollar and offers personalized guidance from the discoverer. Sent to Philadelphia addresses.
An inventor and astronomer wins a contest for the most unique pocketcard contents. His case held pawn tickets policy slips pins a four year old railroad ticket an accident policy an ID card stamps poetry cuttings a How to Propose article laundry check hat measurement YMCA card trolley exchanges directionals visit ing cards conundrums a street directory and a vial of aromatic spirits of ammonia.
The Cloudcroft Lodge in Cloudcroft New Mexico is completed and opened under J W Fisher proprietor of Hotel Sheldon El Paso Texas. The summer resort on Sacramento Mountains offers tennis golf dancing and healthful air at 9000 feet with convenient travel via Texas and Pacific Railway and through-el Paso connections. Descriptive literature available from ticket agents or E P Turner Dallas Texas.
Through Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland Merk Hanna finds that he is five million six hundred five thousand dollars better off than he figured. Johnson raised the valuation of his railroad properties for taxation by that amount.
The Ladies Aid of First Presbyterian staged a carnival with a kissing booth charging 5 cents. Men paid to enter and received candy kisses, then a sign offered a real kiss for one dollar. The stunt failed, angering conservatives who deemed it madness and questioned the young men’s motives.
The London Chronicle notes a West End fruiterer pricing goods in U.S. currency, strawberries at 16 cents a basket, as a foreshadowing of a wider shift. The piece muses on Americans valuing English money and goods and suggests new coinage with five dollar sovereigns and English denominations swapped to cents and dimes.
A satirical note from the Saturday Evening Post on wealth and comfort. The piece contrasts millionaire leisure with a barefoot child, noting a shirt waist as a social equalizer and commenting on modern society’s trends. It reflects on how riches pursue ease parallel to the poor’s simple discomforts.
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