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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
3
Robor Bryan announces purchase of the Acetylene Light Plant from EKC Stovall and offers full-time service to light homes and businesses. He claims the light is the best available and invites fair trials, signing off sincerely.
The court notice announces that Gro. W. Terrell is administrator of the Ben Waters estate in Young County Texas. All persons with claims must present them to him at True Texas by November 5. The notice names True Young County Texas as the mailing address for claims and ends with the administrator's signing.
The piece condemns catalogue houses as parasitic, urging readers to support local dealers who contribute time, skill, and money to the community. It argues such dealers foster local markets, pay taxes, and stand by customers, contrasting them with impersonal national firms. It ends endorsing the trader as essential to communal prosperity.
An health advisory style note warns that untreated coughs can lead to pneumonia or consumption. It promotes Ballard's Horehound Syrup as a remedy, listing prices 25c 50c and 1.00 per bottle and noting sales by B. S Doty Co.
Roy D. Golston advertises readiness to pay the highest price for turkeys after Thanksgiving. He offers 7 cents per pound and promises to pay 8 cents after Thanksgiving, asking sellers to hold birds and watch for his ad in the Leader.
An old line advert touts Dr King s New Life Pills as a simple cure to biliousness malaria and jaundice promising trouble free liver and bowel health for 25 cents at Sloan s drug store.
The piece argues discontent shadows all life, but city pleasures demand heavy sacrifice and loneliness. It urges rural youth to stay close to nature, build body and mind, and act for community, preferring a life of virtue over pursuit of fleeting thrills. The author praises Christian charity and personal example as true sources of happiness.
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