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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1900
Page
4
Daily and Sunday train service lists No 102 from Jacksb o to Fort Worth with 4:30 p m departure and 7:80 p m arrival and No 4 from Fort Worth to Bridgeport 8:25 a m arrival 9:53 a m. Through tickets available and agent F Short in Jacksboro Texas offers rates and pamphlets.
The Graham Leader advertises a sweepstakes offering cash prizes for guessing the total votes cast in Texas for the November 1900 presidential election. Prizes range from $1,000 down to $700 per monthly window, plus tuition or books, with a cutoff noon day before the election. Readers may subscribe to The Illustrated Youth and Age to participate.
A wealthy woman cured of deafness by Dr Nicholson's artificial ear drums donated $10,000 to the Nicholson Institute in New York to provide free ear drums to deaf people who cannot afford them. The institute is located at 780 Eighth Avenue, New York.
A Brotherhood Star column divides Christians into three groups Workers Shirkers and Jerkers. Workers are dependable while Shirkers shirk all service and Jerkers show feigned zeal during revivals but fail afterward. The piece urges everyone to become workers and take action now before they are gone.
A Bowie Blade letter argues that editors seek items of interest to readers. It urges citizens to share news rather than dismissing the question What do you know. The piece frames local reporting as a community benefit and a path to broader prominence.
A list claims fifteen attainable skills for girls before fifteen such as tidy rooms punctual rising bread making and clear speech. It includes admonitions to stay orderly and considerate and avoid fidgeting before a racial joke about a darky and a phonograph ends in a punch line.
Patti, a public figure known for strong will and kindness, insists on her concert fee upfront. An impresario challenged the amount calling it higher than the U.S. president’s yearly salary. She replied she cannot help the rate and told him to get the president to sing instead.
James M Wood offers newspaper and magazine subscriptions at the Leader office. He promises savings for customers seeking new subscriptions or renewals.
The Calcutta region saw 35 inches of rain in three days and three feet of water flooding much of the city. Millions face loss of life, crops, and property as famine, plague, and cholera add to India's misery amid widespread devastation.
A scholarly writer analyses global death statistics from self harm and argues marriage acts as a major preventive while divorce is a key trigger of self-destruction. The piece frames marriage as stabilizing and divorce as elevating personal risk.
Reported by A. C. Casey Commissioner Precinct No 4 and left with J. T. Wilkins. One brown horse about 14 hands high eight to ten years old branded CV on right shoulder and H on left thigh. Dated September 29, 1900 Cas Gay C.C. C. T.
A description of attractive, well dressed women selling papers on upper Broadway near the Casino. A chorus girl once crippled in a runaway began selling papers there and now many others have followed her example, staying until about ten each evening.
A new Texas law allows sale of over 400000 acres of school land at 1.00 to 1.50 per acre with 3 percent interest over 40 years and 140 cash, starting May 28. Additional 10 million acres to follow after repeal of absolute lease law. buyers urged to send 1.00 for a School Land Book and county maps. Ashby S. James, Special School Land Attorney, Austin, Tex.
The advertisement touts Battano Hore Hound Syrup as a delicate safe remedy for coughs loss of voice and throat and lung troubles priced at 25 and 50 cents.
The Rock Island Route offers reduced round trip rates for Kansas City and Chicago excursions with special dates in September and October. Extra Saturday Sunday trains run during the Texas State Fair period from Jacksboro via Bridgeport to Fort Worth and Dallas. Tickets are $3.10 for a single day, $3.40 for multi day returns, with specific connection notes for Texas & Pacific trains and return limits through October 16. Cons. B. Sloat G. P. A.
The Confederate Veteran published by S. A. Cunningham in Nashville shows 84 monthly issues to Jan 1900 with a circulation of 1,196,462. Subscriptions to the Veteran and The Leader may be sent for a year at $1.60, with copies available via The Leader for veterans unable to subscribe.
Historical voting data shows yearly increases at each presidential election. From 1864 to 1868 gains reached 1.7 million, then 0.7 million to 1872, 2.0 million to 1876, 0.8 million to 1880, 0.8 million to 1884, 1.3 million to 1888, 0.7 million to 1892, and 1.9 million to 1896. The current estimate places the total vote at about 16 million.
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