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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1914
Page
2
Advertisement section lists subscription prices and newspaper rates. Rates include one year and six month options, local advertising charges, display rates by column inch, and special yearly contract offers. The notice is filed as second class mail matter at Graham Texas Post Office.
The Elks club served a turkey dinner to seventy five Fort Worth newsboys and messenger boys on Thanksgiving day. They also fed sixty Rosen Heights Orphans Home children the same day. These dinners are annual events hosted by the Elks.
Fifty members of the Chicago Athletic Club paid 50 dollars for an ostrich dinner on Thanksgiving. The bird looked plump but was found to contain nails hairpins bits of board fence and gravel after being prepared.
The first United States Christmas ship unloaded gifts for British and Belgian children on Thanksgiving Day. Navy stevedores handled the cargo at the naval yards while newspaper men were escorted by sentries and police kept watch, keeping the ship out of reach due to wartime measures.
Earl Beaucamp, First Commissioner of Work in the British Cabinet, told officers aboard the US Christmas ship Jason on November 26 that peace possibilities in Europe may align with ideas proposed by President Wilson and Secretary Bryan. The remark was considered deeply significant.
The women of the Tarrant County Humane Society and Fort Worth churches started a bandage rolling bee at the Westbrook Hotel last Saturday to last a week. They aim to provide bandages for wounded soldiers in Europe and Mexico through the American Red Cross. Nurses and physicians volunteered to teach proper technique. Dry goods stores were asked to supply gauze.
Farmers are invited to bring cotton to the Union gin now operating eight stands with a bale ginned every ten minutes. The facility also grinds corn and sells meat at 75 cents per bushel, under the Farmers Union Gin Co. A. H. Jones.
Seven million Belgians suffer on Thanksgiving Day with only half the required food. Three thousand tons daily needed, but the United States provides less than half. Hoover reports desperate conditions and dispatches ships toward the Atlantic to deliver aid from Americans.
An advertisement touts PEBRILINE a tasteless Quinine syrup that is easy on the stomach and suitable for children and adults who cannot take ordinary Quinine. It claims no nausea or nervous effects and promotes a 2-ounce package and 25 cent bottle. Brownwood reports a new sweet potato yield record by C B Heard at Tear farm with 200 bushels per acre selling for $1.00 per bushel on irrigated land.
Sudan grass emerged as a premier hay crop across Northwestern Texas and adjoining states. Introduced in 1909 by Prof C V Piper it outperforms millets, yields 1 to 8 tons per acre, and adapts to broadcast or drilled sowing. Texas seeds dominated national supply with vast trials under Texas Experiment Station, yielding high returns even with scarce rain.
The Rev Irl R Hicks Almanac is praised as essential for homes and businesses across the continent. At the close of his seventieth year Prof Hicks completes the issue, mailed for 25 cents, with Word and Works magazine offered for one dollar.
Property owner warns against any hunting or trespass with dog or gun. Prosecution will be pursued to the fullest extent of the law.
The notice offers sale services for any item or farm through Wa Johnson & Co. It promises to find buyers at the right price and handle the selling process.
One day last week Texas shipped exports totaling one million dollars to foreign markets. The day’s goods included 10,789 bales of cotton 250,880 bushels of wheat and 39,266 sacks of cotton seed meat all Texas produced. Fort Worth also sent four carloads of fresh beef valued at 10 000 to England to feed soldiers.
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