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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1903
Page
2
Rates of subscription are listed for one year and six months. The text notes a one year rate of $1.00 and a six month rate of 50 cents. It appears in a Graham Texas post office legal notice as a second class mail matter.
Robbery at Bridgeport post office Wednesday night involved a blown open safe and theft of stamps valued between 200 and 300 dollars. The Graham mail in Bridgeport also arrived torn with contents removed. full loss details and total figures awaited.
On Wednesday night at the residence of the bride's parents ten miles north of Graham Mr Nolan T Gaines and Miss Myrtle Steen were married Rev G W Black performing the ceremony The groom is a prominent teacher of Rockwall county and the bride is a daughter of Mr John Le Steen one of our popular stockmen The couple will soon move to Rockwall county The paper extends best wishes to the pair
A Texas editorial condemns a stringent new dope law as overreaching and impractical. It argues the statute criminalizes ordinary care, threatens druggists with frivolous prosecutions, and allows evasion through allowances for proprietary medicines, predicting the law will fail in practice. It frames the measure as a nuisance harming neighbory assistance and medical access.
A column questions modern preachers who mix politics race equality and social reform with gospel preaching. It contrasts abolition era clergy with today’s loud pulpits and argues that true gospel teaching remains in backwoods ministers who preach the power of God unto salvation to all who believe.
The pope Leo XII is reported in a dying condition at ninety three years old after a week of decline despite medical care and heart stimulants. He led a peaceful reign and urged peace during conflicts while maintaining neutrality in the Spain dispute and fostering church property talks in the Philippines with Governor Taft. His death would deprive the world of a skilled diplomat and friend of humanity.
Ex president Grover Cleveland has accepted an invitation to Chicago in the fall where he will likely announce his presidential campaign intentions. He aims to show he is still in the race, with ardent supporters invited nationwide. In Chicago tomorrow William J Bryan will be met at the depot by a marching escort for a major political reception.
A Milwaukee Journal opinion warns youth against boasting of equality and disrespecting others. It argues true respect arises from real worth, not self-assertion, and laments how irreverence corrupts character, lowers standards, and harms both self and others.
A British feature on pit brow girls in Lancashire who work at coal mines from 6 AM to 3 or 4 PM earning about 50 cents daily. They haul weed from cages, run rails to tipping machines, and sort rubbish at the surface. Their dress, trousers and clogs with rolled Petticoats, marks and hard labor, with age range eighteen to twenty five.
London’s Langham Sketching club, also known as the Artists’ Society, is the city’s oldest working art institution. Founded near 1830 with signatures dated 1831, it met under J Prescott Knight in Gray’s Inn Mews, moved to Clipstone Street in 1835, and in 1838 formed the Langham Sketching club, preserving bohemian art life.
A lighthearted meditation on superstitions about pins and tea bubbles. The narrator contrasts different folk beliefs about luck, pins on sidewalks, and the idea that whether the pin’s head or point faces you can affect fortune, noting the contradictions in omens.
The piece notes that Chinese social norms favor brevity and time is not treated as unlimited. It contrasts missionary quotes and a busy clergyman with Chinese communication habits, highlighting that speaking at length is hard and defies easy expectations. The idea that open speech challenges patience is emphasized.
A Washington man’s son, praised for cleverness, repeats a table manners rebuke. The father warns, calling him a little pig, then asks what a pig is. The boy answers, a pig is a hog's little boy, ending the etiquette lesson.
The article explains that rosewood is not red nor yellow but nearly black. Its name originates from its early-scented perfume when first cut, a fragrance likened to rose, which lingers in the historical record even after the wood dries and loses the scent.
An early Anglo Saxon feast began at noon with a solemn laying of the board. After dining, guests moved to their cups as chroniclers note, and the rule required guests to leave arms with the porter at the hall entrance.
A well known artist recalls a man asking for a portrait of his late father. The man lacks a photograph, arguing that if Moses can be pictured, so could the father. The artist, unable to refute, accepts the commission. On completion, tears reveal the father has changed in memory.
A parish beadle recalls a curious event when a strange old gentleman pulled an ear trumpet from his pocket before a sermon, proceeded to screw it in two parts, and, after the beadle watched, whispered a warning that he would turn him out if he played it. The anecdote appears in London Bits.
A Scottish Presbyterian minister debates faith and works with a boatman during a river crossing. The boatman demonstrates that faith or works alone fail to move the boat, but using both oars together achieves progress toward salvation, illustrating a balanced approach to belief and action.
The university lists 119 instructors and officers, 1086 students and 262 summer students. Women are admitted to all departments. Tuition is free with total expenses $150 to $250. Sessions begin Sept 28 with a $10 matriculation fee. Programs include civil, electrical, mining engineering, and law with a three year course for a Bachelor of Laws.
The notice from the Medical Department at Galveston announces a four year program with twenty two instructors. It outlines entrance examinations in the preceding week for a course including pharmacy and nursing schools for women, with a one time matriculation fee of 30 dollars. Communications go to Dean Smith in Galveston and a departmental catalogue may be obtained from Registrar Lomax in Austin.
Sealed bids for painting bridges in Young County will be received by July 1 by order of the Commissioners Court. The county provides paint and bids cover work only. Work begins August 3 and continues until all bridges are painted. The right to reject any or all bids is reserved. Jo W Akin County Judge Young County Texas.
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