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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1924
Page
3
A reader critiquing The Passing Day asks if women vote for candidates they know or for principles. The columnist argues many vote for familiarity, notes both sexes show this tendency, and laments whether long-standing habits will ever favor principles over person. The piece reflects on World War effects and human interest in risk and excitement.
The piece notes a welcome rain after two months of dry weather and mocks readers for grumbling about it. It observes people complain about cotton crop impact and price drops, then jokes that everyone is a perpetual grumbler and a born conscientious objector.
Observers note that as families grow wealthier they travel more by car and accept discomfort from longer journeys as a trade for mobility. The piece argues auto travel reflects American prosperity and questions the social cost of widespread highway living. It closes with a set of quoted maxims.
A collection of odd legal cases. An Italian officer sued over a bullet in his body and won. A French abbe sued after a bonfire welcome but the suit was dismissed for lack of a case. A stout man sued over excess fare after entering first class through a wider door. An American sued a barber for a 12 inch beard removal and won a token sum.
The Womack Construction Company received the west highway contract from Jacksboro to the Young County line for 168 853 89 dollars by the Commissioners Court on Friday August 8. Work begins August 23 and must finish in 120 working days. The firm also holds the Perrin highway contract and plans for the east highway to Wise County are being prepared for state approval.
Many valuable pearls are gathered yearly from the Mississippi river. Some smaller and cheaper pieces, called slugs, find a market in India where Hindu women use them in embroidery, necklace making, and other ornamental uses.
Report from Fully Switzerland describes water jets at the turbine station driven by two tons per square inch of pressure. The jets are stated to be harder than steel and resistant to crowbar force, illustrating extreme hydraulic force.
Forty four boys and girls from New York counties take part in a prize spelling bee at the State Fair in Syracuse. Final standings hinge on words like rarely repellent pick nicking vilify gentian genteel plague inoculate fallible embarrass.
The text presents making good as expressing sincere effort linked to victory, and places the highest form of goodness in making good as a Christian. It emphasizes moral striving and religious achievement as central to true success.
Dr. C. G. Shaw of New York University foresees a future when laughter has no place in the United States. He suggests museums may store jokes and comic strips as memorials, similar to Stone Age relics.
In response to Washington’s note demanding full protection for American citizens in Persia and warning of breaking diplomatic ties after the killing of Vice Consul Imbris, the Persian government vows to address the incident and meet the United States points. The piece also notes railroad development expanding rich lands in many regions, with ratio comparisons of miles of railroad per thousand square miles across continents.
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