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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1903
Page
7
A reflection on marriage and a wife's unknowable nature. The author asserts men gain no real knowledge of their wives beyond motherly ties, noting wives remain a life’s riddle and not subject to male inquiry. The piece ends with a caution against prying into a wife's matters.
A health note asserts that prompt use of Chamberlain's Pain Balm can shorten recovery from sprains to under one week or even three days, avoiding the common two to three month delay. It advertises Graham Drug Co. and includes a racist remark about employing Black people as chores.
An old rural Irish superstition holds that meeting a red haired woman on a Monday morning brings ill luck for the week. A village postman who encountered such a woman on his first delivery returned home, delaying mail throughout the township.
An elderly man touts Ballard's Snow Liniment for rheumatism with the claim it "goes right to the spot" and relieves pain promptly. CR Smith of Smith Houses in Tahlequah, Texas, endorses it for aches and pains, throat and chest relief, priced 25c, 50c, and $1.00 at Graham Drug Co.
A comic exchange from Punch notes Miss Di-Oh and Mrs Snobson as a class is proposed for wood carving. Mrs Snobson dismisses the idea, saying her daughter already has a butler to handle such tasks and that carving would be superfluous for her child. The scene mocks social vanity and underlines class pretensions.
A brief dialogue where a querist asks Sonny which he would lose first a tricycle or a dog. Sonny initially refuses, then faces a tougher choice when asked which he would lose to a robber. After deliberation Sonny says he would lose the tricycle or dog depending on what the robber takes, ultimately answering with the robber taking the dog or tricycle.
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