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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1923
Page
2
The Graham Leader pledges prompt corrections for any erroneous reflection on a person firm or corporation upon notification to the publishers Bowron and McLendon props. The notice appears in The Leader published in Graham Texas and entered as second class mail.
Unity will assemble at its school house on that day. On Saturday will be featured The Great Out of Doors and the Conservation and Development of Forests, Soil, Roads and other Resources.
The Circuit Rider monthly by Rev. Frank H. Stedman of Cisco serves churches in Cisco Eastland Ranger Thurber Graham and Breckenridge. The Leader endorses the effort noting Stedman’s reach to congregations and his goal to improve spiritual welfare through monthly issues.
The article details American Education Week spanning Sunday November 18 to Saturday November 23. It lists daily themes such as For God and Country Patriotism Day School and Teacher Day Illiteracy Day Community Day and Physical Education Day with slogans urging equality of opportunity and a pub lic library in every rural community.
A daily paper highlights frequent home fires where owners lose houses and valuables with no insurance. It urges readers to insure homes, contents, health, and personal property to avoid destitution and hardship and to rely on precautions against fire and accident.
The Chicago Automobile Dealers promote street safety with steps for pedestrians. Do not hurry across and wait for clear traffic, avoid crossing in the middle of a block, and do not dart from parked cars. Personal responsibility and court outcomes are noted.
A writer in the Wide World praises Portuguese women for great strength noting their ability to carry heavy loads on their heads. He recounts a woman porter carrying a 420 pound steamer trunk up steep hills and peasant women balancing items such as a closed umbrella on their heads.
A woman balances a small round basket atop her head holding it with one hand while shielding a sleeping infant from the sun with an umbrella in the other. The scene captures a rural practice of sun protection and child care.
A call for thrift in New England style and a push to start savings early. The piece argues that a penny saved becomes more through compounding and cites a teacher’s classroom example showing $300 invested annually at 6 percent growing to substantial sums over 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 years. It asserts disciplined saving builds independence by age forty five.
A satirical verse depicts a Pickle Eater as a chronically grumbling man who dislikes praise and anything pleasant. He scorns common pleasures from cooking to fashion, complains about coffee, styles, and even street names, and longs to isolate the optimistic from society.
The National Geographic Society estimates religion totals show over ten times the U S population in followers worldwide. Christians number about 576 million, Confucianism Taoism 300 million, Islam 227 million, Hinduism over US population, Jews about 14 million, and animists near 200 million, mainly in islands and Malary Review.
The film Scars of Jealousy directed by Lambert Hillyer from a story by Anthony M. Rud unfolds a clash between Cajans and a southern family. Forest fire set pieces and a lynching avoidance create thrills as two pursued leads escape through blazing treetops before a posse fights the flames. It plays Monday and Tuesday, October 9.
A Methodist bishop once a circuit rider recalls a tale of hunger after his first sermon. A widow invites him to dinner but has only a tree shelter. He eats corn bread and molasses while chickens cluster around her son, who cries out in distress.
Nineteen men and six women are invited to apply for specialized training by mail or at college for contract positions as bookkeepers, bank clerks, and stenographers paying 1000 to 1200 dollars yearly. Write for guarantee contract and catalog, Draughons College.
The Jewish Year Book for 1923 cites a world Jewish population of 15,400,000, with conservative estimates reaching 17,000,000. An American Israelite writer notes historical counts: 9,000,000 in 1790, 7,500,000 in 1881, 1,300,000 in 1914, and over 15,000,000 by 1923.
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