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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1896
Page
4
Fragmentary text discusses newspaper pricing based on circulation and advertising space. Mentions Texas politics, national democracy, and a Comanche context with garbled phrases and erratic spelling. No clear event or person details emerge.
A senator doubts action on Spain and warns of war, while Secretary of State remarks spark debate over Cuba independence. The president’s stance on recognition is seen as an executive power, signaling a possible fight with the Senate. The House shifts from fiery to conservative as the Senate positions itself as the sole deliberative body.
The next session of the Texas Live Stock Association will be held in San Antonio on March 8, 1887 to discuss cattle and livestock matters and association affairs.
The stock yard siding is being relaid near the pens to handle larger stock shipments. The track between here and Weatherford is being repaired and ballasted with new stone culverts. Rumor says the railroad will extend to Graham and northwest toward Seymour, bringing employment and direct Colorado connection, possibly promoting Mineral Wells as a winter resort.
Thoft Salve claims to treat cuts bruises sores welts salt rheum fever sores telver chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions and guarantees relief or money back. Piles cure promised with no payment required. Price 26 cents per box by D. Re Akin & Co.
Senator Mills offers a direct resolution directing the President to take forcible possession of Cuba and hold it until the Cubans establish their own government, leaving other Cuba measures behind.
A satirical piece instructs a publisher to neglect readers and advertisers, avoid editors, and dodge promotion to destroy a paper. It promotes discouraging discovery of the publication, stifling community news, and imagines a failing town as a result of miserliness and indifference.
The Dallas News argues wheat price gains harm most growers while benefiting speculators who never farm. It notes producers shift from seller to buyer of their products, and warns if prices reach the dollar mark, harvests may yield only calamity for many farmers. The Parker County News promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla for ringing ears and related symptoms.
President Isaac Lewis of Sabina Ohio testifies to Hood's Sarsaparilla by praising its blood purifying effects and mental and physical benefits. He notes long service as Sabina Bank president and 75 years in Clinton County, recommending the tonic to brain workers and others seeking strength.
A local editor comments that laws restricting doctors advertising tonics are too severe, noting hard times make appetite and health efforts tougher and defending medicines like Hood's Pills as easier on the wallet at 25 cents.
A clergyman reports a duo as confidence swindlers, posing as a married couple in Branford Guilford and nearby towns. They passed counterfeit $20 bills, with one minister briefly receiving a $15 change from a $20. An editor criticizes press and pulpit complicity as moral commentators ponder mothers influence on children.
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