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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1902
Page
3
The issue notes railroads expanding into Graham area and a light smallpox outbreak at Gooseneck Bend. The town promotes Tidwell and Norman as a large grocery line, with sales pitches and notices of local residents moving, visiting, and recovering, plus various local business and legal notices.
The page lists church events and society items including Epworth League programs on January 12 1902 with topics on entering the kingdom and faithfulness, selections by local youths, and remarks by leaders. It records local illness notes and subscriptions, plus a notice forbidding hunting or fishing on pastures signed by H. R. Jeffery on November 7 1901.
A vintage box label touts Laxative Bromo Quinine 2 0ts ue remedy claiming cure for a cold. The ad highlights HBO via signature on every box as a distinctive feature.
A Philadelphia student who knew Dr. Rixey visited Washington and was invited to luncheon. He declined due to indigestion, but Rixey insisted the issue was restlessness. He advised mastering stillness to conserve nervous energy and avoid trifles that waste time.
A rough messenger boy enters the Pennsylvania Railroad office and demands a signature with bold slang. The dignified clerk warns him, but the boy brashly retorts and exits whistling a taunting tune, leaving a charged moment recorded by the Philadelphia Record.
A smuggler in Silesia challenged by a customs officer detaches a bladder of spirit and bludgeons the officer with it. The bladder bursts and sets the officer ablaze. A second officer extinguishes the flames, but the injured man is in despair. The criminal escapes.
In Roanoke Virginia revivalist A Wagge urges burning crops to avert hell fire. Farmer Matthew Searce reportedly emptied eight barns filled with fine tobacco, piled them in a single heap, invited neighbors, and set the entire crop ablaze valued at 8000 dollars. Other farmers sell tobacco claiming others should take the proceeds.
A renowned artist recounts a tale of a man seeking a grief portrait. The caller wants a photo of himself weeping on his lost fiancée's grave, claiming distance to Ireland makes sending equipment costly, while the photographer offers a local grave mockup and the man insists he can weep anywhere.
A quirky comparison notes a Grove product offering a tasteless chill sensation at a lower dose level than a bitter chill tonic. The remark highlights taste and strength differences.
Former Chief of Police Thomas Byrnes labeled a man a natural born thief during a Broadway encounter. A coincidence ensued when the same man boarded in Byrnes’ friend's house, later implicated in a wholesale jewelry theft from the household.
A Archangel province inventor completes a flying machine and asks a pristav for a permit. After three days of study, the officer refuses, saying no law covers air flight and he cannot allow the test. The tale satirizes strict adherence to the letter of law.
The Record notes a growing trend in Philadelphia to use English rather than American pronunciations. Ten years ago Greek lecturer Lamberton at the University of Pennsylvania faced laughs saying clerk as dark, now the oe sound is common. Berkeley becomes Barkley and Darby becomes Darby as patent heels toward London style.
The Pennsylvania Railroad spans the Susquehanna at Rockville five miles above Harrisburg. Forty eight seventy foot arches are in place and the ash covering is being applied. After this, filling, grading, ballast work, and four tracks will be laid down. The project began less than two years ago and claims to be the largest stone arch railroad bridge in the world.
Paris dispatch reports a French gendarme cited a motorist for killing and carrying off a partridge and failing to insure on crossing a river. It emerges one partridge was snagged in the radiator, refuting the licenses claim and highlighting local folly.
Dredging rivers in gold regions grows into a vast industry with powerful dredges capable of reaching sixty feet below and above the water line. Gold seekers worldwide form companies to reclaim millions of dust in this relatively inexpensive method.
An advertisement touts Hereinek as a universal blood purifier curing disorders from skin eruptions to scrofula and salt rheum. It claims safety and efficacy with a price of 50 cents and sales through Graham Drag Co.
An old advertisement claims Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic cures malaria by removing its cause. The note presents biliousness as a symptom linked to malaria and frames the tonic as the remedy.
The Attorney General approved an amendment to the Chicago Rock Island and Texas Railroad charter permitting a branch from Jacksboro through Jack County to Graham Young County. The extension runs about twenty six miles beyond the existing Bridgeport to Jacksboro branch.
The Belle Plaine Defenders notes a national craze among farmers who have grown earless corn. The essay mocks modern tech like Horseless carriages and wireless telegraphy while joking that farmers now raise earless corn as a trend.
Farmers in Cortland New York a prohibition district discovered workers tapped a silo and brewed illicit liquor from fermented green cornstalks. The strange incident exposed a home brewed liquor that tastes pleasant but proves deadly in effect.
Pat and Mabel converse as Pat explains he is measuring the thermometer at his mother’s request, assessing how high it rises in a terse domestic scene. Faith remains a quiet observer.
The four Democratic Senate hopefuls for Kentucky stop at the same Frankfort hotel amid tense rivalries. The notice hints that sensational developments may emerge from the gathering in the nation’s largest hotel.
Farmers in Texas faced a harsh year yet managed to diversify beyond a single crop. Despite challenges, many reported solid returns and a favorable harvest compared with past seasons, signaling resilience and adaptation among growers.
Weatherford Herald comments on increasing travel to Texas and rising citizen movement from a sister state, noting growth over the last year and a trend toward a more settled population.
Jerry Simpson now believes in heredity as he becomes a grandfather with the youngest child born. An Ohio girl resists the report of her engagement to Mr Hobson of Merrimac fame. The Mississippi River freezes over at Davenport Iowa.
The Dallas Semi weekly News presents straight facts in a concise account. The note emphasizes truth and clarity in reporting the case details to readers.
The advertorial text promotes The News and The Leader as essential papers. It claims brains and care go into the product, offeringLeappr and The Sem-Wessiy News at one year for $1.75 in advance. The offer ends when paid time expires.
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