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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
9
The Nugget Leader lists readers renewing subscriptions from Sanger to Bryson and Olney. Local items note W. F. Babb wiring a school, Baynes & Yancey doing job work, and Mrs. S. I. Payne renewing for The Leader. Other notes include a new gasoline engine at Graham Mill, Chamberlains tablets recommended for bilious attacks, and Ballards Horehound Syrup advertising.
Nan and Ned ride with Uncle Bob to St Nicholastown a magical winter world where the Wish Master processes wishes at a busy factory and Santa speaks Fantasmia while Mother Goose letters describe festive scenes and curious questions linger about Santa’s chimney visit.
Misses Annie Smith Winnie Har rell and Frances Thornton of South Bend visited to view the linotype last Thursday. F R Meador departed last Friday for New Mexico on a prospecting trip and may settle there if the country suits him.
Large Plymouth Rock rooster sale offered at $1.00 each. J. W. Padgett announces the sale. W. A. McLendon of Dallas visited his brother, Supt. Edgar McLendon of Graham High School, over the weekend. R. G. Hallam hosted his brother S. C. Hjam and sister Mrs. H. W. Moberly of Albany earlier in the week. Mrs. W. C. Harrell of Newcastle attended several informal dinners and luncheons with close friends this week.
A land sale listing mentions 10 acres with a frame house 60 acres cultivated and the rest in grass priced at 160 dollars per year. R C McPhail, Co. HW. Elkins Sr., from Colorado Springs, Colorado, plans a visit to Young County until early February. Hershal Caldwell, ex-friend of Breckenridge now in Gainesville, renews his Leader subscription.
No. 3 Oliver Typewrite offered in trade for a No. 5, good condition with clear print and light action. Also mentions subscription payment from A. L. Havens and a promotion for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Upcoming recital by Miss Lucile Miller at the opera house with a humorous farce "A Cyclone for a Cent" to benefit the High School Auditorium fund.
A new reader subscription note from Route 1 mentions A H Jones and Mer Joe Y Doolen joining the Leader and Dallas News. The item highlights local gin and ginner references and adds a nod to early subscribers.
For Sale items include a tow seater hack at ten dollars a work horse priced at seventy six and a horse price at thirty dollars. In Fort Worth forty four thousand six hundred eighty one trains passed the interlocking plant in October up from thirty one thousand eighty four a rise driven by cotton traffic. Pittsburg notes the Northeast Texas Fair Association arranging with a northern track man to winter fifty race horses in the city with plans for winter races featuring some of the country’s finest horses.
Henry Hesse of Graham won a first prize with his two year old filly in the season's class. Hesse owns multiple fine horses and operates a stable near Graham. The Northeast Texas Fair drew attention to his string of horses.
Taylor's Mercler, Register No. 181241, named Best Poland China Boar in Young county, invites breeders to view him three miles south of Loving before breeding. Terms set at 100 dollars. RQ G Tayter.
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