04 Nov 1891
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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1891
Page
1
Miss Maggie Starrett started public school at Median school house last Monday. Advertisements list wallpaper at 7 cents per roll and various home items sold cheap at McI msey's including window shades at 60 cents, glass dishes 30 cents, preserve stands 15 cents, bedsteads 2.90, and large arm Boston rockers 2.50.
Classified notice lists cedar posts for sale with contact Bb E McJuron in Graham Texas. The item repeats and includes promotional lines for Hunt s Cure products and other local notices about births and teaching positions.
V F Gierrissen offers 30 day sale with many items discounted to St Louis prices including sewing oil 10c, tablets 10c, table spoons 25c, knives and forks 1 00, glass pitchers 45c, goblets 60c, tumblers 30c, cut glass tumblers 1 25, four piece glass sets 40 45c, fruit saucers 35c, cups and saucers 75c per dozen. Nursery stock and orchard plantings promoted with emphasis on new fruit production and exchange terms at Young County Nursery by L J Bower Prop’r.
The ad touts Hercules Gas and Gasoline Engines by Palmer & Rey of San Francisco with a self igniting device requiring no maintenance. It claims ease of use as the market's simplest engine and invites readers to request the illustrated catalogue.
Akin & Co advertise Cheatham’s Tasteless castor oil priced at 25 cents and Cheatham’s Tasteless Chill Tonic priced at 50 and 76 cents with no cure no pay. Tom Beach pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace last Saturday and paid a dollar plus costs.
The notice touts a 45 cent fine cabinet frame set with glass back and mat ready to hang. It also promotes six dozen new styles at McJimsry's. Separately, local notices invite McJimsry's Workers' Institute event in Macedonia Baptist Association with sermons and debates led by Elders Kuykendall, Harmonson, Black, McDonald, Stribling, and Cunningham on various theological topics. The piece mentions a Buckner Orphan Home drive and a local editor’s humorous, lengthy letter from a reader.
Dr Rh Akin offers the Saar encyclopedia Britannica reprint in 26 volumes at $1.50 per volume with easy payments. The ad claims the set is page for page Edinburg ninth edition, with American updates and new maps, and markets against higher editions.
The note recalls roundups ending and community ladies happier with early mornings. Rev Kuykendall of Graham preaches at the schoolhouse on the 24th and the Saturday before the fourth Sunday each month. Local families attend services at Salt Creek and Indian Mound, with travel details and school reopening notes.
Very dry conditions strain water for stock as Bend hosts thirsty cotton growers. Brazos remains key for supplies while goose neck residents forecast 400 bales of cotton at 40 dollars each, with wheat and corn thriving. A bridge over the Brazos is needed, and a general merchandise store plus a gin mill could profitably serve Goose Neck. Aleck Davis and his Peach Creek class entertained, and Mollie MeJilton begins Ming Bend school with Goose Neck to follow Sue’s school start.
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