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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1903
Page
2
Local merchants and buyers praise Graham as the best trading point in Northwest Texas. Evidence in the Leader shows high prices for farm products and very low prices on goods, attracting shoppers from Fort Worth and Dallas. The town is described as well supplied, competitive, and populated by genteel, reliable merchants who treat customers well.
A reprint from the Albany News arguing the country boy embodies the nation’s future leadership. It contrasts rural workers with urban sophisticates, asserting the plowman’s diligence and rural roots drive railroads banks and government. The piece ends with a counterpoint praising the country boy over city pretension.
The Albany News reports on the Abilene Cleaver's campaign to prove there is no hell. It notes prior thinkers like Humes Huxley Voltaire Tom Payne and Bob Ingersoll failed to overturn the doctrine. The piece mocks the effort, arguing the world would suffer without belief in hell and suggesting the Cleaver address pressing issues instead.
The piece argues for ending Turkish power in Europe amid mass atrocities near Bulgaria. It notes near neighbors commit similar war crimes, urging civilized nations to widen any war beyond the Turk to address broader regional atrocities.
Gov. Jeff Davis of Arkansas refused a requisition for an Indiana fugitive citing Kentucky Governor Durbin’s prior actions regarding W. S. Taylor. He warned Indiana’s governor to respect Kentucky’s wishes before any future requisitions. Colonel Curtis Jett of Breathitt County Kentucky has been sentenced to hang for the murder of James Cockrill with December 12 set for execution. attorneys have appealed to the Kentucky court of appeals.
Complaint that Miss Alice Roosevelt faced snubs from Newport society this past summer. The piece blames the president for inspiring social tensions as Newport aristocrats resist his social equality ideas and his familiar relation with the African American community.
The W. R. Hearst boom is advancing as he gains ground in the hearts of the people each day, signaling growing support and momentum in his favor.
D L Beach of Clover Nook Farm Greenfield Mass reports four years of stomach trouble improved after using Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets. He recommends the product priced at 25 cents and sold by Gra ham Drug Co. Kaufman county becomes dry as Texas trends toward prohibition.
A Memphis Herald item notes White's Cream Vermifuge as a children's tonic aiding digestion and growth, sold for 25c at Graham Drug. It adds a humorous Civil War era campaign button image of Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington labeled Equality, linked to Northern Negro Republicans.
B L Byer a well known cooper of this town says Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy saved his life last summer after a month of bilious dysentery. Doctors offered no relief until he tried the remedy, which gave immediate relief. For sale by Gra
The surveying crew for the Denton Decatur and Western Railroad finishes the Denton to Decatur line and prepares to push west from Decatur. Chico will be the next station, with grading expected to begin within twelve days. Professor Langley seeks more funding for his flying machine.
The Washington correspondent notes that if Panama secedes the United States will act under international law and recognize a de facto government once it shows stable support from the people. The U S will avoid haste, recognize in time, and defend Colombia’s sovereignty and the canal per treaty while preserving railroad protection. Gun boats and marines may remain for a long period if rebellion occurs.
A thirty year proven remedy, Chamberlin's Croup Remedy, has sold millions of bottles and is trusted in thousands of homes for treating croup. It claims a faultless cure record, works when hoarseness or croupy cough first appears, is safe for babies and adults, contains no opium, and is sold by Graham Drug Co.
President Roosevelt at Syracuse on Labor Day extols Civil War veterans while criticizing a plan to promote General Leonard Wood over 494 elder generals. The speech highlights the iron years 1861 to 1865 and the burden of saving the Union.
General Nicholas commands in Manchuria insist the flag stay placed, signaling stance on regional control amid tension with Japanese forces and ongoing border disputes.
D P Daugherty of Mercer and Sumner counties West Virginia was near death from diarrhea. A neighbor brought Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy which cured him in less than 24 hours. Sold by Graham Drug Co.
In Graham Texas the subject will practice in the District Course of Young county. He holds complete abstracts for Young county line titles.
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