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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1912
Page
3
Local notes report Gatlin trading in town and visiting Chism's Studio for top North West Texas photos. Mentions pneumonia illness, births, farm rentals, and community updates, finishing with Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertisement for skin injuries and cold sores.
Loving Happenings with Jim Hawkins faces more tests while friends hope for no further accidents. Myrtle Crow, Rev Crow’s daughter, sick but relieved after a doctor visit. Sunday School drew 49 despite cold. cottage prayer meetings planned. Wednesday night gathering noted. Residents report cheaper coal from nearby five miles away. Methodist church building talk continues with cautious optimism. James Campbell held quarterly conference at Red Top but cold weather canceled. Blizzard delayed by twelve hours. Two hogs froze at Red Top Saturday. Visitors passed through in an auto. locals say they are strangers to New Comer. Y County Abstract & Title Company seeks farm land trades in adjoining counties.
Dike Texas December 23 1911 to the Postmaster Graham Texas a widow asks for aid in obtaining paid work. She offers to work at a hotel or in any respectable family and explains she is in the east where employment is scarce. She requests correspondence to Maggie Robertson Dike Texas R F D No 3.
R C McPhails offers land loans with no $10 per thousand lawyers fee when loan amounts exceed $1500. He promises prompt service and payment of most expenses except abstracts. Recommends under the Loan and Land Act.
Mr Rube Loftin and Miss Marion Baker wed at the bride’s mother Mrs Laura Baker near Loving on January 4 with the writer officiating. The couple come from listed families, are active church workers and pledged to Christian family worship.
An editorial notes Texas property values surged from 1900 to 1910 doubling per capita wealth. It cites assessed wealth rising from 946 million to 2.389 billion, with real gains driven by property values and incoming capital, projecting a ten year average net daily increase in wealth of hundreds of thousands per day.
J. S. Donahue of South Haven Michigan recalls nearly wrecking as a lighthouse keeper but credits Electric Bitters with curing kidney troubles chills and improving his sight after years of failed cures. He claims the remedy helps dyspepsia indigestion stomach liver and kidney issues and notes he is now seventy and well. Sold by all druggists for 50 cents.
The group met December 29 with a few members and January 4 at Mrs. Virgle Edleman’s with ten present including visitor Mrs. James Norman. New member Mrs. R. E. Mabry attended. president Mrs. J. E. Simpson was absent due to a sick child. refreshments were served by Mrs. Edleman despite club rules. Next meeting at Mrs. Mabry’s residence. new officers to be elected. all members urged to attend.
The Rev Irl R Hicks longtime weather forecaster is praised for forty years of warnings about storms and dreath. Readers are urged to subscribe to Word and Works Publishing Company for the Almanac and magazine for one year, with the Almanac priced at 3 shillings and sixpence by mail.
Adolphe Aderer launches The Friends of the French Language a national society to defend French genius against foreign words and neologisms. The committee blends literary figures, university scholars, artists, merchants, and a scientist, pledging firm protest across streets shops plays and commerce.
Casper H Miller Jr of 10623 Tacoma Ave wandered from home and told Mr McVeigh he lived at Eddy 391X. The boy insisted his name was Hart Miller, prompting confusion as his father considers using Hartmiller as the family name.
Eddie Foy, living near New Rochelle, hurried to a New York rehearsal when his car failed. A passerby chauffeur gave him a lift to the station and declined payment saying he knew Foy by reputation. The man handed a card reading W H Vanderbilt.
Mr Baker discusses cooking snails with Lawyer Thompson and Colonel Robb on a hotel piazza. Robb, drowsy, suddenly declares he saw three marble players in front of the post office, prompting Barker to ask about the colonel. Robb insists he is talking about snails and the exchange continues with humor.
Too Hopeful Andrew B Humphrey secretary of the American Peace and Arbitration league discusses universal peace in New York remarking on its strides but cautions against over-optimism. A dialect anecdote about Peleg Shucks buying a gun follows, humorously illustrating skeptical views of disarmament.
Public citation commands the sheriff to publish for four weeks a notice to heirs in Young County and 30th Judicial District newspapers to appear April 8 1912 in Graham. The suit No. 461 seeks probate of Joe A Thomas will, listing heirs Marier A Stephens Eliza Ann Welsh Mary E Daniel Charles W Thomas John H Thomas Columbus M Thomas Joseph M Thomas Sarah A Thomas Jasper N Thomas.
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