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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1924
Page
2
Notice stresses correcting misstatements about any person or firm in The Leader. It notes teachers should integrate with the community during their tenure and that positive impressions benefit pupils, the teacher, and the wider community through enhanced service.
A large hundred thousand rural youths will return to school soon in cleaner, redecorated buildings some new to the community dedicated to public service. Many are beginners and new movers with first impressions shaping lifelong attitudes toward learning and cooperation with peers and teachers.
The piece argues politics blends sport and gambling with national business. It urges restoring normal European postwar conditions, maintaining American industry and jobs, and ensuring farmers access to world markets. It endorses using the best brains to align government action with economic interests.
A speaker urges abandoning old fashioned party politics to serve the country and humanity, stressing enduring business ethics as a foundation for governance beyond partisan gain.
A vivid collage of workers and craftspeople moving with vigor and cheer. It highlights energy, determination, and courage across roles from milkman to engineer, farmer to soldier, ending with a definition of pep as happiness energy determination and invincible will.
A compact retrospective recounts Abraham Lincoln facing repeated losses from youth to 1858. He swamped Illinois legislature bids, business failures, a broken engagement, and defeats in Congress Senate and vice presidency races before becoming a revered leader.
A brief reflection praises the motto “Don’t Hinder- Help!” displayed over a business door. It extols helping others in church, government, and daily life, condemns hindering as a crime, and urges every person to live a life of service. The piece calls the motto mighty fine and timely for its age.
Dr. W. W. Cobentz notes the heat from all stars, if concentrated on a spoonful of water, would take two centuries to boil, illustrating how feeble the sun’s heat reaching Earth is.
Friends of John C. Marshall urge support in the August election. The ad defends his record on taxation and governance, asserts he never supported a five cent oil tax, and argues for economy, fair labor and farmer-friendly legislation, with pledge to oppose new taxes and party influence.
A new group named Unshorn Girls at East Texas State Teachers College began with sixty members. They staged a campus parade with long hair flowing over their shoulders then marched into Commerce downtown before returning to the campus and dispersing quietly.
Representatives of Germany and the Reparation Commission sign the first three protocols to implement the Daws plan. In London, Premier Herriot of France returns with authority to sign an accord with British and American participants that would include early military evacuation of the Ruhr.
In pioneer Texas, corn fed families and marked the frontier diet while mills remained hand powered. Settlement began around 1821 with corn patches along the Brazos and early gins like William Scott's Cedar Bayou operation in Harris County. Stock raising eclipsed crop farming as a major pursuit, with Mustang ponies, buffalo, and improved horses brought in by the Vince brothers. The evolution from ox wagons to rail, auto, and tractors shows vast agrarian progress and interconnected industry growth.
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