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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1911
Page
9
Local producer offers Bartlett Pears at clearout prices and features CHOPS BRAN HAY MEAL and Bewley’s Best Blue Ribbon Flour. Flour sacks carry a blue ribbon and guarantee satisfaction with no returns. Call or phone for close prices and quick trade.
The Chautauqua Reading Club met Friday at 3 pm with Mrs Widmeyer presiding and adopted By laws forming The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. Lectures covered aging pension law theater readers and reading statistics, followed by a Round discussion led by Directress Mrs LeVeaux.
An advertisement urges youths to pursue a business education at Draughon's Practical Business College in Graham Texas. The copy claims endorsement by business men and promises training for young men and women. Additional line notes sewing jobs at Mountaine Hotel with guaranteed work.
The note offers to handle business to complete satisfaction and asks for specifics to proceed. It hints at tailoring services to meet client needs and ensures customer satisfaction. The wording is informal and suggests a personal service arrangement.
The piece laments the groom’s neglected role in weddings, detailing his neutral attire and lack of guidance. It notes his anxiety over the ring, his muted presence, and the bride’s emotional focus as many couples seek private vows away from public ceremony.
A columnist laments idle habits that waste others time. He cites porch smokers tossing matches, careless tool handling, misused blades and screwdrivers, delayed oiling, and left burning cigars as examples. The piece condemns loafers as nuisances creating wreck and ruin.
A Harlem household reports a new servant knocked over a miniature Venus de Milo on the piano. The statue suffered broken arms, the girl claims she cannot find them, and the mistress discovers the scene while returning from shopping.
William H. Thompson explains the nail in Isaiah as a wooden peg or tent pin set in a wall. He notes many such nails bend or loosen, illustrating why the prophecy’s imagery endures in The Land and the Book.
The Atlanta Constitution reports the sassafras tree in the First Methodist Church yard is the largest in the world per the agriculture department. At over 100 years old, it measures 7.5 feet in circumference, 50 feet tall, and a span exceeding 40 feet, towering over nearby trees while quietly shading children.
Actor Joseph Jefferson traces the term chestnut to a line in William Dillon’s melodrama The Broken Sword. In a mock dialogue Count Xavier and servant Pablo mix cork tree and chestnut as the repeatedly told tale gains its bloomless charm.
Walters and Did you make a good bar gain when you bought that abandoned farm Williams No I was done by an abandoned farmer Somerville Journal
Dialogue notes reveal a mob-heroic question about Buttit's leadership while identifying him as a baseball umpire. The exchange implies weighing character and authority in a sports context.
The Tablet reports on Adelaide Gosset’s Shepherds of Britain noting a lamb burned alive by a farmer to save his flock from a spell. It cites old memories in the Isle of Man and Shetland seaweed grazing, plus a tale of the collie name origin. It recounts a sheepdog running issue and a ram forcing a hound to flee in a pasture.
The piece argues that the human mind is rarely completely inactive and that true mental vacancy is difficult to achieve. It contrasts introspection under a blue sky with the mind’s tendency to seek ideas, noting that rest can conserve mental forces and citing economic figures and business leaders as examples.
Detroit Free Press reports the cost of mobilizing American troops in Texas and inoculating 17,000 soldiers against typhoid fever paid off. Only one case occurred, vastly fewer than the Spanish war’s 28,000 cases among hundreds of thousands of troops, marking a bloodless, strategic victory.
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