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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1922
Page
2
Notice states that any erroneous reflection on a person firm or corporation published in The Leader will be corrected upon notification. It notes second class mail and the Graham Texas post office handling and a $2.00 postage amount in the header.
The Bastow Post lauds the American Telephone Company as a giant in communications. It notes 19 billion messages carried last year and a network covering 45 billion miles, arguing the system dwarfs others in scale and would cost about 10 billion dollars if handled by a hypothetical manual method.
A local note from Flint Creek requests rain as harvests suffer. The column records threshing progress, family visits, and small town happenings. It laments roadwork delays, mentions three women seen working, a garden accident, and a joke about marriage prospects and a daughter.
South Bend trustees, in financial trouble, received a 583 dollar royalty check for twenty five days in May from an oil well and anticipate more. They plan a new school, hiring H O McBrayer as superintendent to recruit four teachers, amid oil field success spreading to grounds and local graveyards and church lots.
George W. Ray of Widnh Falls spent Saturday and Sunday in Graham. The verse by J. G. Holland contrasts strong leadership with public duty and private integrity and laments corruption and delayed justice.
The Eliasville Journal reports three deaths in the past weeks. Pink Greene, 53, died at home in Eliasville after a brief illness and was buried after a service led by Rev. McCall and Rev. Gilleland. survivors include two Eliasville children, Roy and Terra Greene, and a son in the U S Army in Honolulu. Mrs Sayles, over 80, died at her son’s S H Hill ranch home and was buried Sunday. Rev. Gilleland officiated. Mrs Frank Loyd, 32, died after several weeks of illness, funeral led by Rev. Gilleland. she leaves a husband, local grocer, and two children. The notice also includes a water-division hearing in Austin on an 1942 mining water-use application by Nash and Windfohr.
In a light exchange Mrs. Pokes mocks new neighbors for their attire while Mrs. Jabbs counters that beauty does not always accompany fragrance, noting some flowers lack scent despite outward splendor. The brief reflects social chatter and contrasts material appearances with natural charm.
A long list of Democratic primary candidates across multiple county and district posts follows. The section also includes a notice of hearing to appropriate public waters of Texas No 686, detailing Nash and Windfohr s filing for a Brazos River water permit to fuel a mining pumping plant in Young County, with location specifics and installation notes.
A speaker reflects on fate and wealth as false treasures. Fate grants true life instead of the asked abundance, revealing the misperception of youth. The speaker acknowledges lacking wit to request ordinary life and credits fate with offering a preferable gift.
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