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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
2
The Graham Texas Leader announces subscription rates and renewal terms published weekly. It states rates for one year and six months, notes post office registration, and warns that credit is not extended beyond one year. Readers are urged to check the label date and renew if arrears approach a year.
Mrs W J Oxford widow to be learned Tuesday morning that her mother Mrs G Lee Dalton had been found dead in bed. The sad event occurred at the family home in Palo Pinto county and left Mrs Oxford, the eldest of ten children, facing a sudden bereavement just after her recent marriage. Judge Oxford and wife hurried to the scene by private conveyance, seeking to offer support to the distressed household as neighbors and friends offered sympathy in this division of sorrow.
A minister announced he would preach on Hell and Who Will Be There this coming Sunday, but prior to the sermon he received threatening letters from lawyers, merchants, a doctor, and three women, plus the justice of peace, warning him not to name any names or face slander suits.
Fragmentary ad style text describes male health concerns and mentions kidney relief and private gland enlargement. A physician is cited and a remedy is promoted by Gradyin Drug Co, with various garbled phrases implying elderly male readership and a medical testimonial tone.
The Cleburne Enterprise reflects on a religion that forgives and lifts the sinner with compassion. It denounces harsh judgment and urges kindness, urging believers to help those who stumble and to keep faith in a sunnier future.
A pamphlet style admonition condemns tattlers as moral filth and social poison, urging communities to silence the tale bearer. It likens gossip to wood feeding a fire and calls for truth and righteousness to extinguish the flame before it grows beyond control. X-Ray.
An old advertisement touts Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy as a reliable cure. It targets men of moderate means and notes a price of 25 cents with Sloan Drug Co as the seller.
The article reflects on postwar farming fears with high prices for wheat and corn, calls for diversification to weather cotton downturns, notes boll weevil presence, and cites varied crops like potatoes, peas, and berries as resilience. It emphasizes southern farmers shifting away from cotton toward broader production amid economic volatility.
A promotional piece touts the Oliver Typewriter as a landmark machine selling for 100 dollars, offered for 17 cents a day after a small cash payment. It boasts features like Ballance Shift and Automatic Tabulator, claims vast demand across all incomes, and asserts universal typewriting is at hand with a quarter of a million people making money.
A mid century club newspaper promotes its semi weekly publication with world news and local coverage. Readers are urged to subscribe for 81.75 to receive both papers, promising timely items and featured reports on men and women in the community.
Mrs Oma Beckham of Tonk Valley visited our office Monday. The Newcastle barbecue ad invites readers to participate as residents plan activities on July 2 and 3.
A gold Masonic pin was found in the grocery department of the John E. Morrison Company store last week. The owner may recover the pin by visiting this office and paying for this notice.
The Young County Abstract and Title Company sold seven hundred acres of the Clark and Eichelberger land to Missouri buyers last week and anticipate another party of northern homeseekers this week. J L Vaughan traveled to Penelope Texas to visit relatives. Olney ball team defeated Wichita Falls 10 to 3, showing strong play by local youths. Ads note Foley's Kidney Remedy and Dr Shoop’s Pain Tablets. Mrs Howard Gould questions her social position amid a court fight over earnings. Property and local notices mention a park on Film Creek between Profitt and the river, and community notices about water and permissions.
Fragmentary note directs delegates to attend a County Union gathering at a stool house with a commsitice to tel them sages to go. The text is garbled and lacks clear persons dates or places.
A dramatic account of Bere R. Lean of Cheéeny Wash, saved from near death in a restaurant after a desperate illness. The narrative claims a bold breakthrough by an expert doctor failed, led to trips to Spokane and California, then relief with Dr. King's New Discovery curing lung trouble, bronchitis, coughs, colds, asthma, croup, and whooping cough, with a 50¢ to $1.00 price and a free trial bottle, guaranteed by Sloan Drug Co.
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