Washington trip notes rich in art and history
A Texas writer describes a Washington visit with views of the Corcoran Gallery and National Museum. Highlights include statues, swords of famous generals, Confederate uniforms, a Washington suit, and a Roosevelt White House reception. He also recalls Capitol spaces, the Speaker’s chair, and President Roosevelt’s modest appearance and guarded entry.
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Corcoran Art Gallery
National Museum
Smithsonian Institute
Gen. Grant
Washington
Alexandria
Smithsonian
Capitol
Steven
John Adams
Teddy
Roosevelt
White House
United States
Secret
Citizy
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Alverse Brooks
Fowls Follow Skiddoo Wagon
John Lane, a colored resident five miles from town on Birdville road, found an automobile horn and used it to summon his chickens. The hens and roosters rushed to feed time after the horn sounded, but last Saturday a Fort Worth party arrived in a car and the chickens chased the horn down the road for four miles before returning home. Lane vows never to use the horn again.
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Sam Jones
David
Solomon
John Lane
Birdville Road
John
Fort Worth
A Young Mother at 70 Gets New Health With Bitters
Mrs W L Gilpatrick of Danforth Maine says her mother, once crippled by dyspepsia for twenty years, is now revived at seventy after six months on Electric Bitters. The tonic is hailed as the greatest restorative medicine, claiming to fix stomach liver and kidneys, purify blood, cure malaria biliousness and weaknesses, with a 50 cent price and guarantee by B S Doty & Co.
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W. L. Gilpatrick
Danforth
B. S. Doty & Co
Cough Remedy Reunites a Child with Health
Mrs Ora Bus sard Brubaker Lil writes that two years after pneumonia their daughter suffered an awful cough like whooping cough. After using Chamberlains Cough Remedy the child stopped coughing and gained weight. The remedy is sold by all druggists.
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Ora Bussard
Brubaker
Lil
Money to Loan on Land and Farm Financing
Atty R. F. Arnold advertises long term land loans at low rates and options to extend vendor lien notes or fund 1 to 2 percent of the purchase price on improved farms. Call for terms.
Sheriff to sell land in Young County Texas 1906
Sheriff M A Wattack sets sale for December 4 1906 at the Graham courthouse to satisfy a $361.61 judgment in favor of T J Morris against H Walker. Property is the William Fullerton survey on the Brazos River containing 320 acres, described relative to Belknap Clear Fork mouth and recorded in Young County deed records Vol 41 page 804.
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T. J. Morris
H. Walk
Court House
Graham
Young County
Brazos River
Texas
Belknap
S. W. Cor
J. OC. Harper
Henry Wood Sur
Clear Fork
Brazor River
H. Walker
S. E. McKeen
T. J Morris
M. A. Wattack
Hunt's Lightning Oil Advertises Pain Relief
A period-appropriate promotional piece urges laboring men to buy Hunt's Lightning Oil for burns bruises cuts and sprains. The copy frames workplace toil as dangerous and presents Hunt's Oil as the best remedy for common injuries.
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Hunt
The Rose That Smells The Sweetest Fades First
An Ottawa Herald note praises a poem declaring life’s paradoxes in compact rhymes. It highlights lines about fading roses, fastest boys, gloomy dawns, big buyers, wormy fruit, falls in life, clear soup revealing flies, marketing costs, large eggs, and the lure of flashy things over simple truth.
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Ottawa Herald
Special Clubbing Offer For Local Farmers
A combined subscription offer features THE DALLAS SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS and THE GRAHAM LEADER. For $1.75 per year readers receive 156 copies and stay informed on Local News Home Enterprises Personal Items State National Affairs and Foreign Matters plus The Farmers' Forum in The News.
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Dallas
Graham Leader
Farmers’ Forum
Ideal home site 160 to 240 acres near town
An advertisement offers an ideal home site ranging from 160 to 240 acres close to town, inviting inquiry to F. Herron for details and availability.
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F. Herron
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