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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1926
Page
8
A Dallas Semi-Weekly News account on preventing disease and parasite infestations in poultry. The author describes thorough sanitation, burning waste, scalding lumber, fumigation with bichloride of mercury solution, and tight, ventilated housing. New birds are quarantined two weeks to prevent introducing disease or pests.
A guide on telephone etiquette notes the caller should end the call, with exceptions. When a woman calls a man it is her privilege to end the conversation, and the woman should avoid keeping him from work. If two women converse, the caller should still end the talk.
The Medlan Chase community seeks funds to improve the aging Median Shape Cemetery noted as one of the county’s oldest. Residents urge out of town supporters to send contributions to Mrs. A. Burnest or Miss Minnie Wat. Listed donors include J. W. Perkins, G. W. Perkins, Mrs. Jemry Herman, and many others.
June counts of communicable diseases in Texas show totals by disease and jurisdiction. Anthrax ten cases, chicken pox one hundred fifty six, dengue thirteen, diphtheria sixty, dysentery twenty one, influenza sixty five, measles fifty, meningitis one, mumps one hundred ten, pellagra sixteen, pneumonia thirty one, poliomyelitis one, scarlet fever sixty four, smallpox one hundred thirty one, tetanus one, trachoma three, typhoid fever fifty, paratyphoid four, tuberculosis eighty four, typhus two, and whooping cough two hundred eleven.
The note offers affectionate counsel on marriage and partnership, urging kindness and consideration in public, even when one partner feels uncertain about the other’s value. It emphasizes maintaining respect in social settings.
A list of candidates announcing for various offices in the Democratic primary. Includes J B Sartin Guinn Williams for Congress. W D McFarlane J D Parnell for Senator. E G Thornton for Judge. Ben P Allred Joe B Carrigan for District Attorney. J H Timberlake G W Ware for Representative. Willie Riggs J H Choat for County Clerk. W H Kennedy N S Farmer for County Clerk. Geo S Berry Henry C Carpenter for County Attorney. W E Steele T E Wallace for Tax Collector. Sam Copeland for Tax Assessor. W W Bill Martin L H Bud Harris for County Treasurer. J B Foster for Sheriff. W G Mobley for County Surveyor. J E Binkley Miss Velma Weisenman Miss Etn a Wilkinson for Superintendent. and several commissioner, constable, public weigher, and justice of the peace candidates.
The eloquent remark by the late Senator Thomas E. Watson praises the selfless farmer’s wife who rises early, sustains the home, and supports her husband through life’s battles. He declares this devoted mother and wife as the true pillar of family life across towns and villages.
A Chicago resident applies to the city for a night watchman post arguing he already walks all night with a baby and could perform a regular route for pay, implying efficiency and necessity in the request.
Sorrow fills the community as Howard Mathis dies July 6 1926. He passed away peacefully at daybreak and was laid to rest in Oak Grove Cemetery. A Christian with a bright example, he served others with kindness and warmth. Sympathy is extended to his mother father and brothers.
Jess Josselet reports a Jersey heifer in Haskell County that freshened in milk at 12 months and 18 days, the youngest cow known to give milk in the county and likely in Texas.
The itinerary lists district, county, and precinct candidates visiting Young County. Padgett, Murray, Loving, Bunger, Orth, Newcastle, Olney, and Graham are set to speak on dates from July 15 to July 28 at 8:15 p m in various towns.
A concise editorial urges individuals running sole ventures to adopt strict frugality and avoid wasteful spending. It argues personal discipline and prudent budgeting fortify small enterprises against market fluctuations and drive sustainable growth.
The fragment notes train or bus directions with a timetable style reference. It mentions Craham and north bound in the morning and south bound in the afternoon or evening. The text is incomplete but implies service routing.
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