Hilliard and Spiller Advertise Graham Area Land Sale
Real estate firm Hilliard and Spiller offers 120 acres two miles south of Graham with 65 acres fenced and 45 in cultivation. Growing crops include cats, corn and millet. Salt Creek runs through the tract. Also available are desirable Graham residences and unimproved land across Young County. Information gratis from agents in Graham, Texas, March 3, 1978.
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Graham
Salt Creek
Young
Hilliard & Spiller
Texas
The Brick Carrier in a New York Tale
A man carries a brick on his arm for five hours to support a starving family. A New Yorker helps him, he gains work at a park business earning five dollars weekly, eventually rising to a thousand dollars a year. The brick remains on display as a family keepsake and symbol of luck and perseverance.
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Third Avenue
Widow of Capt. Dunn Sought for Charity Message
Notice requests information on the widow of Captain Dunn late of the Third Texas Cavalry to aid a charitable cause. Communicate details to Victor M. Rose in Victoria Texas and request Texas papers to copy.
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Dunn
Third Texas Cavalry
Victor M. Rose
Victoria
Texas
Hair dealing on a railroad car sparks a quick retort
In a railroad car a red headed man taunts a bald man over a past hair dealing. The bald man replies he was there and recalls being offered a handful of red to toss into coal scuttle to kindle the tire.
Texas Angler Encounters Tenfold Catfish Chain
J B Watkins set a line in the Coosa river and caught a three pound catfish that he left as bait. By morning the line revealed a stacked catch: a ten, twenty, thirty, forty, and finally a sixty pound catfish had progressively swallowed the previous fish with the three pounder inside each larger predator. Watkins doubts where the chain would end if he had not pulled the line.
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Texas
Georgia
J. B. Watkins
Coosa
Watkins
Davis Dropped From Fifth District Contest
Suspicion that E. J. Davis would run in the fifth district faded, leaving Hancock and Jones as the candidates with a clear tilt toward Hancock. Since Marshall Russell spoke in Austin, Republicans favor abandoning Jones, reducing his likely following. The Democracy of the district should honor themselves by electing Hancock and ousting Wash Jones.
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E. J. Davis
Hancock
Jones
Marshall Russell
Austin
Wash Jones
Ambition and Gambling Reappear in English Social Scene
Alexander LH Stephens laments ambition while reading an antistat circular and voicing eagerness to strangle it for two minutes. The article notes gambling’s revival in England after Crockford’s closure, with young men and even drawing rooms returning to a ruinous betting culture and ladies in society joining in.
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Alexander LH. Stephens
Kearney
England
Crockford’s
Trained sheep acts as pilot on San Francisco Stockton steamer
A useful sheep aboard a steamer running between San Francisco and Stockton is trained to go ashore on a gang plank at a loading point to demonstrate a safe approach and to serve as a pilot for loading operations.
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San Francisco
Stockton
Farmer John and the Mysterious Man and the New Boy
Farmer John shows a man a boy he works with the old gray horse. The man questions the boy but the farmer says he never had him shod and he behaves kindly. The man departs after a cautious look round, and Farmer John is never seen again.
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Farmer John
Man Helps Melon Seeker Then Grins at Whisk y
A dilapidated man gazes at watermelons on Woodward avenue. He tells a critic he cannot buy a melon, receives a nickel from a bystander, and explains he has not tasted whisky in over three years, choosing the melon first.
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Woodward Avenue
Five Children at Birth Stuns Baltimore Region
Mr Cassidy, an employee of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Slighlands and Bladensburg, has fathered five children two boys and three girls. The mother survived and remains in good health as neighbors, especially women, celebrate this rare event seldom seen even in royalty. The article notes naturalist comparisons to bees and mosquitoes around the home.
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Cassidy
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Slighlands
Bladensburg
House of Kings
Dallas Ballroom Threat Sparks Narrow Escape
A Dallas ball ended in panic when a man faced forced marriage threats with pistols at his nose. An officer arrived just in time to prevent a death or a coerced marriage, leaving spectators shaken by the confrontation.
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Dallas
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H. T. Sale
Atty-at Law
Graham, Texas
C. W. Johnson
Tand
Vial
J. E. Hollingsworth
Leader
Bumn
RF Williams
Williams & Brin
Federal
Supreme Court
Sam’ Abercrombie
North Side Public Square
J. M. Clements
Clas
Conjeining
Union of
J.&s Shaw
Law Office
Land Ianne Teas
Tike Pe Win Young
Mje
Colleectio
Graham. Batel
R. W. Richards
Star Livery Stable
Benton Kramer
Graham Texas
John Meisterhans
Boot and Shoe Maker
Graham Hotel
F. M. Gifford
Public Square
S. J. Christopher
Grariam
Wamble & Randolph
John M. Stemmons
Main St
Dallas, Tex
United States
Des. Price & Atkinson
Ryus’ Drug Store
L. T. Wilson
M. D
Ifers
X. T.hilliard
Land Agency
Henry Warren J. Tn
Re Banking House OF
Henry Warren & Co
Weatherford, Texas
Pointe
vin@ly
Graham High School
Kor
Graham School
Wialawal
Ing. H. Brantly
Lizzier
Bonner
Choice Farms
NEW Yorker
Said I
Elmira Gazette
Hurgiones
Alisoimad SN Vikom
Yuma
Arizona
Paster
Frederickton
N. B
Cucaco
Sherman
Thomas M. Nicholas
the Honest Money League
Uncle Sam
Farmer John’s Bay Male
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