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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1911
Page
4
Mr H P Rose and Mrs J W Akin were called to Austin on Friday to be with their mother Mrs M F Rose who died Saturday evening. The notice also urges payment of poll tax and directs readers to consult Mabr & Sons for details.
Coal arrival from WIDMAYER A W Black and Fred Nance visited from Newcastle last Sunday to meet family in Pilot Point. An obituary notes Miss Annie Diecey died at George Mahaney’s home in Ming Bend and was shipped to Comanche Oklahoma for burial.
Mrs. Charles Kline of Euston Pa. reports multiple family members recovered from coughs and colds using Foley's Honey and Tar. She keeps a bottle at home for throat irritation relief and quicker cold relief. Graham Drug Co. sells the product.
Notice announces D G Vice & Co Graham Texas adds staple and fancy groceries with cash or credit options. The item lists a retired drug owner J W Gallaher selling his Sloan Drug Company share to Wallace Sloan and includes varied local ads and community notices from 1911, mentioning Mabry & Sons and W L Tidwell & Sons.
Read headline again to see tremendous significance. The Oliver Typewriter, described as the standard visible writer, is offered for 17 cents per day. The ad touts it as the most highly perfected typewriter on the market and a conquest of the commercial world in business history.
Take Foley's Honey and Tar for quick relief from coughs and colds. The product expels the cold from the system and contains no opiates. Safe and dependable. Sold by Graham Drug Co.
The advertisement touts the Oliver Typewriter with names like Ballance Shift and Automatic Tabulator claiming a nationwide cash plan. It cites a deluge of applications from diverse classes and asserts a quarter million people are already making money with the machines.
The Oliver Typewriter is pitched as a money making machine beginners can operate earning 17 cents per day plus more, with demand for Oliver Operators. It claims home use, wide business utility, and a plan to place Oliver in every American home, urging readers to write for details and a free catalog from The Oliver Typewriter Co Frank H Bowron Agent Graham Texas.
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