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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1905
Page
7
Bus timetable lists trips from Graham to Jacksboro Bridgeport and Ft Worth with departures at 6:00, 7:10, 9:00 am and returns at 4:00 and 5:50 pm. Arrival at Ft Worth is 10:50 am and at Graham 9:00 pm.
Local notes advertise farm purchases and sales by J C Vaughan and W T Blakely while promoting grants to pick cotton at 75 cents per hundred. Beef and pork products are sold at City Meat Market. Pearl Roach travels to New Mexico for health. Families move between Eliasville Lorena and Hopkins County. Visitors from Sulphur Springs and Bowie return home after reunions. Utilities and grain bag vendors urged to see Vaughan and Tidwell and Son before buying.
After a hearty meal a dose of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will prevent indigestion. It is marketed as a thorough digestant and cure for indigestion, gas on the stomach, weak heart, sour risings, and stomach troubles. A Little Rock Kentucky testimonial claims it saved a child's life and praises its continued use, sold by B. H. Biakoney.
Last Sunday night Mellis Bruton son of W T Bruton living five miles northeast of town was badly injured when the horse he rode home from church ran into a wire fence. His left leg was severely cut and internal injuries occurred from the fall. The horse was crippled. Dr Terrell treated the wounds and reports Bruton in very bad condition but not necessarily fatal.
Readers advise Mosquitos are troublesome this year and bite hard. A local remedy suggests Hunt's Lightning Oil to soothe irritated skin and, when applied promptly, to keep bites away.
H K Brumbelow and his five children faced loss when their McCumber farm house ten miles east of Graham burned last Sunday morning. The fire, likely from a stove, destroyed the structure and all household goods. A local relief subscription raised funds as citizens donated generously to aid the widower and children.
Rev. G. W. Black led a successful Hopewell Baptist church gathering at Oakland school house despite poor conditions from the Eliasville reunion and harvest. Thirteen new members were added and others were converted though not joining that day.
W P Stewart offers vendors lien notes with liberal loans on farms ranches and other real estate. Represents leading fire and life insurance companies. Office over First National Bank in Jacksboro Texas.
A large red Durham bull strayed from a pasture, dehorned with a nose ring and no brand. The owner asks the finder to contact Oliver Loving in Gertrude, Texas.
Time Tried and Merit Proven promotes One Minute Cough Cure as a safe pleasant remedy for coughs croup whooping cough and related ailments. It is described as harmless and the children’s favorite cough syrup.
S W Lane County Business Agent advertises a wagon sample for the Farmers Union. He invites any Union member in need to place orders or visit to help assemble a car load at once. The note emphasizes prompt action and fraternal greeting.
R A Dunlap recently passed through Union City Oklahoma while en route to Eureka Kansas. He halted for a day due to his sister’s illness typhoid fever and plans to resume travel once she recovers.
The advertisement promises a cure for piles itching or bleeding with PAZO OINTMENT. Druggists reimburse money if it fails in 6 to 14 days. First application provides relief. Cost is 50 cents, or send stamps if not on shelf, via Paris Medicine Co. St Louis Mo.
A protracted meeting will be held at Midway between Belknup and True starting Friday night before the first Sunday in September. Rev. E M Mercer of the Cumberland Presbyterian church will conduct the event and invites all to attend, set aside worldly cares, and work for the Master who has blessed us.
An old time sales pitch asserts Cheatham's Chill Tonic cures chills for fathers and mothers alike. It claims long proven merits, offers a money back guarantee, and promises a full refund if the bottle fails to cure any one case.
166 acre farm with 10 acres waist land 85 acres in cultivation three room house hall porch water well good orchard and vines good cribs and lots pasture fenced good all in the best school district in the county one mile from school house price 2000 CY
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