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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1913
Page
2
The Leader warns advertisers and readers that Tuesday noon is the cutoff for submissions and Friday or Saturday news items are welcome. Editor Frank H. Bowron notes staff limits and urges early news to avoid late-night work and ensure timely weekly publication.
The Fisher couple invites all diners to a weekly Monday special, with their dining room enlarged to accommodate three tables. They pledge generous servings and equal treatment for rich or poor, thanking friends for past patronage and support.
A note highlights that business leaders shaping the city’s commerce are too occupied to praise themselves.
A Federal Census Department bulletin from Washington presents 1910 data for Young County. It shows total population 13 657 with 6 475 females and 6 ? males voting 3 331 illiterates 10 years old and over 2 ? dwellings 2 ? families. Texas totals include 3 896 542 people with 1 003 357 voting age males and 282 904 illiterates.
Notice lists a brood mare and mule breeding offer at A. P. Stewart's Loving Texas farm with a saddle station in Denmark and a service fee of ten dollars. Palestine reports the Young Men's Business League aiding a new hotel company planning an eighty room hostelry costing eighty thousand dollars, funded by popular subscription.
The county shows fowls valued at $16512 on farms from 1910 census data. 1909 output reached 117646 birds and 267923 dozen eggs valued at $65533. Texas totals include 13,670,000 fowls and poultry and egg value around $23,000,000 with about 25 percent reaching northern and eastern markets.
Poetic reflection expresses longing for an afterlife of reunion with family and loved ones. The speaker imagines a realm of beauty and song where mortal grief ends and divine presence offers eternal joy. The piece centers on reunion, faith, and the ache to embrace a baby who died young.
J. H. Price advertises buying and selling second hand goods including organs sewing machines and all kinds of furniture repaired in first class order. Also offers candies nuts gum tobaccos and other popular items. Independent phone 74 4 rings opposite City Bakery.
An ad touts American Beauty corsets as the peak of corset craft, shaping the form into subdued lines in vogue. It claims value for money with a stock of the latest figure effects and modish proportions.
Enord accuses Underwood of being Wilson’s tool and predicts disaster from free sugar free meats free hides and free wool. Ousley supports Republicans plans to split the Democrats and attack Wilson early in his administration. Bryan’s California trip fails to sway lawmakers who pass an alien land law while aiming for better Japan relations.
On May 1 he moves to a south side studio near Ely's ice cream parlor offering Kodak services. Films developed free, prints six cents a postcard, Leyhe Music Co instruments displayed. John Fisher of Graham to preach at old Baptist church Saturday and Sunday. Collinsville Times notes his lifelong steadiness.
Land on Brazos River 7.5 miles southwest of Graham offers 400 acres with two sets of improvements. 150 acres well along, 100 acres more in good grass with ample water. fully fenced. Good school on property. Priced at 10 dollars per acre with 1 to 2 cash and rest on purchaser's terms. Sea C. W. Hinson.
The steamer Via tor will clear on May 9 for Haiti with a full cargo of general merchandise Texas packing house products and Texas wholesale outputs. Trade expansion to Haiti is seen as a first step with Caribbean shipments from Galveston predicted to double before year end.
The text notes farmers face urgent issues needing resolution and signals a timely awakening. It emphasizes collective action and the need for responsive measures.
Seller offers genuine Mebane Cotton Seed bought last year at 75 cents per bushel. Most bags contain ten seeds per lock. Seed lot available at Rock Island Stable in Graham. Caution noted in handling and sale.
Hereford Chamber of Commerce organized with over fifty members at a well attended meeting. Elected officers include J. I. Walker as president Wm Ray as vice president S. B. Edwards treasurer G. A. F. Parker D. F. Ashbrook E. F. Connell and F. H. Oberthear as directors.
A vintage medical ad touts Laxative Bromo Quinine as a one day cold cure. It claims to stop cough and headache and relieve the cold with a money back guarantee by EH W Grove on each box priced 25 cents.
Jersey cow producing two gallons of milk daily without a calf offered for sale at fifty dollars. View at W. H. Mayes residence in Graham. Seller: Joe R. Mayes.
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