Graham Texas Promotes Town as Investment Center
The 1908 promotional outline advertises Graham as a growing town with a $225000 capital, a new flour mill, two wheat elevators, an ice plant, and a $10000 school building plus $20000 in cash for a modern high school. The city has 420 pupils in 1908 9 month term, a private preparatory school, no saloons or negroes, clean streets, graded roads, sidewalks, and a planned sewer and water works funded by $24000 in bonds. Real estate lists business lots from $250 to $1500 and residential lots from $75 to $200 with strong market value and guaranteed worth.
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Graham
Texas
Graham, Roswell & Western
Sugar Hollow
Newcastle
Young County
Dallas & Pacific Ry
Gotton
Uly Wi
Growth and character shape Graham's future in Texas
The piece argues lasting value requires effort and collective effort. It contrasts permanent city growth with transient mining towns and highlights Graham's steady rise. It notes Graham's 36 year history, population gains, and civic harmony. Citizens, many born locally, commit to Graham's steady progress and respond to every call for the town's good.
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Oklahoma City
Fort Worth
Oklaho
Stamford
Graham
Pleasant View church keeps pastor for another year
The Sunday morning service at Pleasant View ends with Rev G W Black accepting the church call for another year. Nearby, Rev R Lindsey delivers a strong sermon at 11 o clock. Local families Oatman, Kay, Cross and Mabry visit and move between towns. Grandma Looney improving after illness as folks report a bright sunny morning and a busy farm scene with cotton picking.
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G. W. Black
Pleasant View
R. Lindsey
Mr. Kay
Markley
J. Cross
Joe
Archer County
Grandma Looney
Jessie Oatman
Ancher County
Jessie
Spring Creek
Olin Heffner
Gertrudes
Liver Regulator Promised To Soothe Bilious Ills
A Victorian patent remedy advertises Ballard's Herbine as the perfect liver regulator to cure melancholy liver-related malaise. It claims to relieve bilious headaches constipation chills fever and general liver complaints, urging readers to buy from B. S. Doty & Co.
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Ballard
Doty & Co
Cedar Creek Cotton Picking Progress This Week
Cedar Creek reports a favorable week for work despite foggy mornings and heavy dews that slowed cotton picking somewhat though overall progress remains steady. The crop status and precise estimates follow in the continuing notes from local fields and farm reports.
Community Health and Yields Report
A brief note states yields range from a quarter to a half a bale per acre and mentions a few cases of chills in the community. It adds that overall health is good and residents are too busy to follow wider happenings, resulting in a letter with limited local interest.
A Healthy Family Uses Dr King’s New Life Pills
A Guilford Maine family credits three years of good health to Dr King’s New Life Pills. L A Bartlett of Rural Route 1 endorses the product, noting its gentle cleansing and toning effects and recommends Sloan’s drug store where it costs 25 cents.
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Dr. King
L. A. Bartlett
Guilford
Maine
Sloan’s
Mount Pleasant Editor Echoes Reform Debate
In Mt. Pleasant the north wind bites as residents settle by the hearth with the Leader. The editor praises a socialist visitor who blocked The Leader from endorsing The Appeal to Reason, noting some men miss genuine reform in their haste to judge.
Local chatter on unrest and farm life in 19th century note
The column complains of disorder and anarchy rumors while reporting mild local events. It mentions Jack Frost visible on a morning, typhoid recovery of John Pope, cotton picking as the main activity, and social chatter about neighbors, a Blair Branch buggy visit, and envy among Mr. Pleasant girls. A reader signs as Plow Boy.
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Jack Frost
John Pope
Blair Branch
Slightly Colder With Snow Weather Forecast Ad
Weather note predicts colder temperatures and snow prompting rheumatism warnings. Advertisement urges Ballard's Snow Liniment as remedy for rheumatism chilblains frost bite sore joints and pains with prices 25c 50c and 1.00. Sold by B V Doty &Co.
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Ballard
Doty &Co
The Danger of Colds and Chamberlain's Remedy
The article warns that colds can lead to pneumonia chronic catarrh and other illnesses though many recover without treatment It states colds pave the way for germs and that scarlet fever measles and whooping cough are more likely after a cold It endorses Chamberlains Cough Remedy as the quickest cure and notes its wide sale by all druggists.
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City Water Works
The
Graham Commercial Club
Hawkins Chapel
Cedar Creek
Mt. Pleasant
DR. Broiles Medical
IRS Institutes
Houston
San Antonio
Broiles
Ness
Dales
Dallas
Pt. Worth
Baie Street
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