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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1903
Page
2
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Attendees at Grace Reformed Church dedication in Washington last Sunday heard Theodore Roosevelt deliver a sermon. The article notes Roosevelt’s view of preferring a country editor’s life over kingship. It also reports El Paso's flood threat from the Rio Grande and a Servian royal upheaval with the assassination of the King, Queen, and household aides and a new king elected by parliament.
City Attorney Joseph W. Folk of St. Louis, who has pursued the bloodless, refused a $15,000 residence tendered by St. Louis citizens. His action will not only commend him to the public but allow him to perform his duty without fear or favor. The Commoner notes a proverb that paying one’s own way shows independence.
A remote dwelling forces families to stock Bucklen's Arnica Salve for burns cuts and wounds. Edgar Matthews' Drug Store sells the salve at 25 cents as a reliable home remedy.
A Texas style note laments modern heat and crowds urging a return to riverside fishing. The piece contrasts nomadic freedom with city life and invites friends to send Martin a red end line to reach the Clear Fork refuge where chiggers and seed-ticks abound.
The article praises a bumper wheat harvest across Young County with per acre yields exceeding prior estimates by about twenty percent. It notes excellent corn and cotton prospects, lush pastures, and overall good health, urging residents to host a big summer reunion on the Clear Fork with prominent ex-Confederates invited to speak. The county committee is asked to meet at the courthouse to plan.
Reports say a divorce suit titled M. Wooden vs D. Wooten was filed in a Dallas county district court. Ex congressmen Dudley G. Wooten and his wife are alleged parties, but filing lawyers refused to discuss, leaving reporters and the public eager for details. The case appears private and not for public disclosure.
New Texas game law declares all wild animals birds and fowls as public property. It bans five year possession of wild birds other than game birds and sale of plumes. It sets protected birds, nesting protections, daily and seasonal hunting limits, and fines from ten to one hundred dollars with possible jail time. It also restricts deer hunting, deer and fawn seasons, and prohibits trapping year round.
A New York Mail and Express piece condemns lynching as a national evil and blames slavery, while Dallas News counters by recalling pre South lynching in the North and West. The note shifts to a New Orleans dog injunction case, recounted by the New York Sun, about a neighbor’s barking nuisance and damages sought.
The Memphis Appeal calls Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis a literary pirate for stealing sermons and attacking Southern whites. It accuses him of betraying pride in race, recounts prior to public incidents, and mocks his stance toward Booker Washington. The piece urges white Americans to scorn him.
A South Norwalk dispatch reports a racial tension at a high school graduation class dance. Miss Victoria Blackwell, a colored graduate, invited forty colored guests despite being told not to. The plan allegedly aimed for a mixed attendance, a traitor among the invited informed whites, leading to a hastily changed venue and date and Blackwell and her friends not attending.
A cloudburst on Sunday struck Heppner Oregon flooding the town with a twenty five foot wall of water. Boulders weighing a ton were hurled downstream crushing all before them. By Tuesday the death toll rose with over 300 bodies recovered from the creek.
Prohibition action spreads to three more counties as voters and authorities react to injunction tactics. The state faces growing tension over enforcement methods with public sentiment turning against prolonged legal wrangles. A state troops deployment is reported in Waller County as part of enforcement measures.
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