Rock Island Comes With A Popular Welcome To Graham
The Rock Island extension near Graham brings optimism as tracks from Bryson west open a new era. Local crowds watched ties laid and rails spiked with pride while praising the locomotive as the world’s great civilizer. Few accidents occurred and only one death noted from typhoid fever, reports say.
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Bryson West
Graham
Douglas
Texas
Fort Worth
Dallas
Rock Island
Sunday Observance and the Sabbath Law Emergence
An old friend of the paper's proprietor presents a discussion on Sunday laws. It notes that ancient nations kept a weekly rest day, Jews and Christians observe Sabbath rest, and Texas had no Sunday law before the Civil War. It recalls a December 16, 1863 statute punishing those who force slaves or apprentices to labor on Sunday with fines, up to fifty dollars.
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Texas
Sunday law and rail cars in Texas provoke church backlash
The article argues the 1887 Texas Sunday law failed by exempting rail cars and rail workers, calling it a surrender to mammon. It cites Fort Worth and Dallas rail traffic, a Dallas fair impact, and urges reenactment of the 1863 provisions with no exemptions, urging church leadership to oppose Sunday labor and promote a strict day of rest.
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Thi
Graham Brothers
el G. A. Graham
Texas
Worth
Fort Worth
Denver
Mulkey Memorial Church
Dallas
Southern Methodist Church
Grove's Black Root Liver Pills Advertisement
An old advertisement states Grove's Black Root Liver Pills use an active Black Root principle to act on the liver like calomel with no griping or sour stomach. Promises cure for chronic constipation. Price set at 25 cents.
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Grove
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Ad Claims Iron Quinine Formula
The label proclaims the tonic contains iron and quinine in tasteless form with the claim No Cure No Pay.
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Grove
P Muse Credits Dr King’s New Life Pills
Durham North Carolina resident P Muse writes that after years of severe stomach and liver trouble he was saved by Dr King’s New Life Pills. He praises the pills as best on earth and notes the price of 25 cents at Edgar Matthews & Co drug store.
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Dr. King
Kennedale
P. Whitehead
Matthews & Co
P. Muse
Durham
N.C
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John E. Morrison
Iraham
Sea Island
Ewe
Loeav Et
Onty
John E. Morrison & Co
W. C. Hilburn
Graham, Texas
Harl
Ed Earl
Heaven
Isla Clals
K. Graham
Beksboro
Craney Bros
Winston
Graham Drug Co
Canada
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