Local notes from Graham Texas and surrounding area
A garbled 19th or early 20th century batch of items mentions Graham Texas, the Bank of Childress, the Fort Worth & Denver line, and regional notices. It cites public health products, political mentions about Cuba, and a Missouri editor apologizing to readers for lack of news. It also references medicines like Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic and Tabler's Pile Ointment, along with bank vault intrigue and a domestic anecdote about a bank president and cashier.
Bass Stocking Shifts Near Waco From Carp to Rock Bass
Fred Day of McLennan county operates a water farm spanning sixty acres and is stocking it exclusively with rock bass. Nearby submerged lands near Waco see owners abandoning carp to favor bass. Hunt's Cure for itching Piles. Hunt's Cure for Ringworm. Hunt's Cure for Tetter. Hunt's Cure for Eczema. Hunt's Cure cures all Skin roubles.
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Fred Day
McLennan County
Waco
Hunt
Advertising ploys from a traveling salesman echo local pamphlet
A drummer for vehicles recalls a tactic of avoiding dealers who advertise in local newspapers. He explains using a paper directory to identify occupied territories and then targets towns with no local ads. The anecdote recalls a visiting ad man in Abilene who claimed advertisers reveal trusted firms.
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Abilene
Tour Co, News
Dr Simmons Sarsaparilla Promises Strength and Quick Health
Advertises Dr Simmons Sarsaparilla claiming to strengthen the system and eradicate disease. Sold for fifty cents with fifty doses, promising rosy cheeks bright eyes and a quick step.
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Graham Prug Co
The Skeleton Haunting Every Closet Across Society
The piece discusses a metaphorical skeleton in every life, haunting rich and poor alike and influencing actions in homes, politics, and social life. It notes how impulse drives people, and reflects on aging and the wish to relive past choices. It ends with an advertisement for Herb ine and a pension bureau report from August 18 detailing rolls and losses.
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Washington
Evans
Pension Bureau
Texas House backs shirt sleeves vote in heat wave
The Kansas City Star notes the Texas house voted to sit in shirt sleeves during a hot wave, a belated concession amid the heat. The piece also mentions muddied blood and Crove's Tasteless Chill Tome as fanciful phrases about complexion.
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Crove
Kansas City Star
Texas
Brains Saved by Machines
A New York World excerpt notes machines in Chicago banks perform clerical work, weigh and sort coins, and separate worn from standard pieces. Adding and change machines, cash registers, and patent scales reduce mental load, freeing the brain for higher cognitive tasks and marking progress in reducing clerical bottlenecks.
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Chicago
New York World
Early land lottery notes and patent medicine sales
The piece notes that about 950 Texas residents drew homestead entries in the Oklahoma land lottery, roughly one fourteenth of prizes, with early-numbered winners gaining the best choices. It also discusses the costs of securing perfect title, estimated around 300 dollars, plus expedition expenses. It mentions White's Cream Vermitage offered by Graham Drug Co for babies’ digestion at 25 cents.
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Graham Drug Co
Texas
Oklahoma
Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic ad and political reflection
An old Memphis Commercial Appeal ad promotes Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic claiming it cures constipation improves digestion and normalizes liver activity for 50 cents. The piece also contains a segregation era opinion arguing against Black suffrage and predicting improved white control of politics.
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Gale
Girahbem Drag Co
Texas Legislature Moves to Dress Reform in Shirtsleeves
The lower house passed a resolution by a close vote allowing members to wear shirt waists and drop hot coats and high stiff collars. Lean members backed the ethics code while the heavier set held the majority. Congress may follow with a similar reform as Bailey pursues it in the Senate.
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Congress
Bailey
United States Senate
Texas
Clock With Secret Lever Controls Midnight Hour
A St. Louis inventor creates a clock that ticks regularly and can be held to stop at midnight using a secret lever. The device is pitched as a boon for married men, presenting the man as a friend to husbands.
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St. Louis
The Best Prescription for Malaria
A tonic marketed as Grove's Chill Tonic claims to cure malaria with simple iron and quinine in a taselese form and offers a no cure no pay guarantee.
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Grove
Islander sinks after iceberg collision near Douglass Island
Port Townsend reports the steamer Islander struck a floating iceberg near Douglass Island on August 15 and sank in minutes. Of 108 passengers aboard, sixty seven are confirmed dead while many others were thrown from beds and scrambled for lifeboats amid freezing water and chaos.
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Port Townsend
Wash
Queen
Pacific Coast
Skagway
Douglass Island
Cure a Cold in One Day with Rome Quinine Tablets
Advertises laxative rome quinine tablets priced 25 cents with refund promise if no cure. Claims E W Grove’s signature on each box. Also notes a mosquito extermination method using oil and a match. Virginia reports suggest society will stop using the title Colonel and switch to Mister.
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E. W.grove
The Liver Trouble Cure and Wealth Secret Revealed
A vintage ad claims Dr King s New Life Pills will regulate the liver purify the blood and improve skin and complexion. It also asserts John D Rockefeller s wealth secret is owning land where he grows his own vegetables.
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John D. Rockefeller
Raising a corp of boys like raising a crop of corn
The piece argues that boys need sunshine and rain of training and advice to yield properly. It urges respect for elders and mankind and credits great men with fearless effort rather than idle youth. It stresses industry as the path to success as shown in biographies. Merkel Mail.
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Merkel Mail
Deafness Cure False Claims and Corn Stalk Rescue Tale
An ad claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can restore hearing by constitutional remedies and offers a reward. A separate humorous note from Granite Falls Tribune describes a boy stuck on a corn stalk and rescuers failing to reach him. Colorado Springs residents praise Roosevelt as the best president to date.
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Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Arkansas
Granite Falls
Cuvier Outwits Ghost in Midnight Prank
A university prankster dressed as a monstrous fossil beast intruded on Georges Cuvier at midnight. The specter proclaimed intent to eat the naturalist, but Cuvier calmly identified the creature as horned hoofed graminivorous and the intruder fled defeated.
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Cuvier
Lord Eldons Apology in Contempt Case
In a contempt of court incident junior counsel faced punishment after signaling surprise at a ruling. John Scott, later Lord Eldon, intervened, planning a public apology. Scott rose and explained the youth erred from ignorance, praising his penitent client and urging judges to overlook the insult. Green Bay.
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John Scott
Lord Eldon
Scott
Samant
Green Bay
Coaster Jonathan Bell’s 1870 mislead chase of a tramp steamer
The Bowdoin Quill recounts how in 1870 the coaster Jonathan Bell mistook a tramp steamer’s light for Monhegan light. After chasing the false beacon for 50 miles, head winds delayed the Bell three days into Rockland and cost its captain his job. The masthead light’ s forward placement fooled the Bell as a heavy ocean swell swung the light from behind the mast.
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Jonathan Bell
Boston
Rockland
Monhegan
Manny
Olc Salt
Applause on Trust and the Loyal Audience Tale
In a Brittany incident Jules Simon recalls giving a long speech that drew a standing ovation on trust rather than open acclaim. The anecdote notes the crowd totaled two to three thousand, save for a few insiders, leaving Simon to admit the applause was earned by perception.
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Jules Simon
Julegimons
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Coat Graham
Titherto
Rove
Bank of Childress
U.S. Weddington
Rei
Ft. Worth
Vande
Presiyoarium
Frisco
Santa Fe
Brownwood
Brady
Kansas City
Mexico
San Angelo
Graham Co
Island
Las News
Vy Graham Tug Co
Missouri
Fellows
Indiana
Memphis
Sam Jones
Virginia
Henry NH. Roelofs & CO
Philadelphia
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Roosevelt
Etmores
Wetmore
Wetmore Ras
Wetmore Tobacco Company
Animal Sagacity
M. Hatchet
M. Hatchet Souplet
Malieaien
Newark
Miss Della M. Strayer
Tully
Kans
Cardus
Thedford
Enone
Chattanoooge_Kloe Company
Chattanooga
Toan
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