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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
5
During exhibition week only, customers buying a Majestic Malleable or Charcoal Iron range receive a free set of ware valued at 7.50. The ware is free with the regular range price, and the offer ends after the week. Visitors can learn details by visiting the store, where coffee and biscuits are served.
An advertisement extols the Great Majestic Range as unique in the world for its malleable and charcoal iron construction. It highlights a large reservoir, efficient fuel use, fast heating water, removable frame, long lasting charcoal iron body, and superior baking quality.
The Leader reports visits from True resident See Bond and Iran visitor Rev C A Ferguson. Miss Camille Gallaher is ill with typhoid. Petty Hallam and Co advertise dry goods bargains while offering old stock sale notes. Community happenings include calls from John A Brown Uncle Archie Medlan and P G Cunningham with merchants, twine supply, and store improvements at Graham Drug Co.
Chas. Donnell reported from Murray last Friday the arrival at his home about two weeks ago of a son who will bear the name of Charles Jr.
J. B. Timmons reported a lively valley visit as Mabry Short and Co. promote fall hats. Miss Gertie Orrell returns to City Bakery duties amid a busy millinery department while S. D. Bacon travels from Denton for a funeral. Ben Miller of Hanson visits Proffitt connections. J T Conner brings 24 bales of cotton to Graham. For sale restaurant fixtures or rent house. Miss Lillie Coleman returns to Mangum after months in Graham.
A Greenville woman writes that after years of greasy doughnuts, her first use of Cottolene produced brown crisp and delicious results. She prefers Cottolene for frying doughnuts pastries and biscuits and notes it as a vegetable oil shortening from The N K Fairbank Company, Chicago, carried by grocers.
Castoria for Infants and Children advertised as the familiar remedy. The page notes social visits to New Orleans for a Christian church convention, local farmers commenting on bloom, and a dealer selling wagons plows and drills. A youth preacher, Fred Stewart, filled a pulpit and returns to Polytechnic College.
The ad proclaims Hunt's Cure as an unfailing universal remedy for skin diseases claiming instant relief and permanent cure for eczema tetter ringworm and related troubles from a single box. It notes Mr and Mrs B F Slater ordered a year of Leader for their daughter and mentions I B Padgett and Claud Cochran shopper activity with ties to Stephensville Texas and Graham.
The bakery and restaurant offers daily fresh bread cakes and pies with a square meal option for dinner and short orders and lunches served throughout the day.
The Graham Cotton Oil Company requests teams and wagons immediately. Seek willing drivers and teams to service local oil operations.
A. O. Norris brought a sample of the oil cake from Eliasville Gin and Oil Co to town last week. The mill, run by Eliasville citizens with A. G. Love as president, can crush ten tons of cottonseed daily. Organized last year, it just started operations, aiding local farmers by marketing surplus seed locally and reducing haul costs.
A pasted warning asserts ordinary colds are dangerous and can lead to pneumonia chronic catarrh and consumption. It claims colds predispose the body to germs enabling serious diseases and that scarlet fever measles and whooping cough are more likely during a cold. It promotes a cure by a packaged preparation sold by druggists.
Go to W C Cardwell's Barber Shop at Cook's Old Stand for all kinds of barber work and a share of patronage. Located near Sipe or Pusiic Square, the ad invites customers to visit for quality grooming.
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