29 Aug 1902
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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1902
Page
1
Mr Mabry notes two constants in the county drought and Mollie Bailey's show. Last Saturday in Graham the audience enjoyed familiar acts with new features. crowds cheered the clowns, trapeze, and wire walking while old friends and families filled reserved seats. Bailey, once a war nurse, now offers cures for blues, drawing crowds to her tents.
In scathing diatribes from a Dallas News piece, critics mock and defend Texas voting fervor. The text contrasts red headed rhetoric with harsh insults about candidates, illustrating the heated politicking around statewide elections.
Abilene porter laments Mr Lanham’s dilemma as forty men seek each office. The writer urges Lanham to reject the clamoring applicants and choose modest individuals from his wide acquaintance.
An advertiser states the tonic is simply iron and quinine with a tasteless formula printed on every bottle. The claim includes No Cure No pay and a price of 50 cents.
Reports from Longview Ennis and Abilene describe extreme heat delaying outdoor labor. Bricklayers in Texas worked only in morning and night hours under artificial lights while crews in Young County continue steady railroad construction with no prostration cases reported.
The piece argues teachers face inadequate pay and heavy responsibility teaching forty to fifty pupils while balancing parental expectations and social pressures. It urges parents to support teachers as the new school term begins and highlights the strain of public scrutiny on educators.
Brisco has shipped 250000 bushels of soft wheat directly from farmers wagons, avoiding elevators, the McKinney Courier notes, marking the largest shipment by any country town in Texas this season.
Alwaye touts Hant's Lightening Oi as a universal remedy for swellings tooth-ache colic weak back backache cuts burns neuralgia catarrh. Aunt Lucindy boasts sixty nine grandchildren endorsing the remedy's trustworthiness and wisdom.
In a humorous confession, the writer recalls meeting Cy Lyles in Memphis last week while sober. Their rounds furiously bonded them, then in the calaboose they remained strangers again, later visiting a brewery before an order to leave the keg. They claim lasting friendship despite drink.
The advertisement promotes physic Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets described as easy to text and pleasant in effect. Available for sale at Graham Drug Co.
In Panama Colombia Dr Chas H Utter praises Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after a sixteen year old girl with severe dysentery revived within eight hours and fully recovered in a week. The report appears in a letter cited by the physician. Graham Drug Co sells the remedy.
A J Cottingham traveled to Washington County Arkansas to visit his sister and was stricken with a severe bout of dysentery. He tried Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Medicine and reported it effective, writing a praise letter. Cottingham lives in Lockland Arkansas, with the Graham Drug Co selling the remedy.
About one thousand boys usually working in Scranton coal breakers and mines sought admission to schools during the great anthracite strike. The scene highlights harsh economic conditions that deny these children access to the city’s strong school system and ample school funds, forcing them into dangerous labor instead.
Patent medicine advertisement claims Moore's Pilates cure all forms of malaria including chills and fever swamp fever malarial fever bilious fever jaundice biliousness and fatigue. It asserts no quinine or arsenic no acid or iron entirely tasteless and easy on the stomach. Sold for 50 cents a box by Dr CG Moore Co St Louis Missouri or Graham Drug Co.
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