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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1911
Page
8
Advertises birds with emphasis on quality and variable pricing. Eggs priced at 2.00 for 15 or 3.50 for 30 from best pen. second pen offers 1.50 for 15 or 2.50 for 30. Orders refilled at half price if hatch fails. Cockersels offered at 1.00 each from third pen. Early garden plants also advertised.
Carrie Nation dies at Leavenworth after months of illness. Born in Kentucky in 1848 she rose to fame for saloon smashing, aided by her second husband David Nation. Her death follows worry over lawsuits against lecture bureaus. Burial planned in Kansas City.
Four Bradley cultivators offered by L. B. Kidwell must go quickly. First come, first served with prices almost giving them away.
Whitewright Texas begins debris removal and rebuilding after a major fire that destroyed seventy five homes and forty three businesses including the city hall. Losses top a million with two hundred thousand dollars in insured value and relief efforts underway for the homeless. Denison and Sherman aided with equipment as residents plan brick and stone reconstruction. A gas engine pump is offered for sale.
A call to build domestic factories to process Texas raw goods. The essay argues Texas farmers ship $1.2 million daily in raw material to foreign factories, creating a global parade of production. It claims $200,000 daily costs and $75 million yearly, urging public servants to support local manufacturing.
The article argues credit payments burden farmers more than the boll weevil, saying debt drains vitality and forces neighbors into debt. It urges merchants and bankers to help farmers switch to a cash basis for financial stability.
Report from the Good Roads Convention at the Dallas State Institute where GL Cooley representing the federal government argues there is no reason why tax for roads should be worked out without intelligent application of road fundamentals. He cites millions of dollars wasted annually due to poor road policy.
The demagogue is described as a fitting product of hard times in Texas whose career hinged on pitting classes against each other and attacking capital. He wielded audacity and rhetoric to rally support while pursuing wealth, then vanished, with a wish that his shadow never returns to Texas.
A rural critic notes farmers have fine stock and well-kept land but suffer from poor public roads that stall wagon travel most of the year. The piece argues roads must progress to match farming advancement and prevent hindrance to commerce and daily life.
A reformist call laments excessive spending on luxuries and urges redirecting funds to farming, road building, and farm improvements. The plea argues genuine development requires public works and productive investment rather than indulgence.
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