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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1885
Page
1
Local notices are published weekly by J. W. Gravis with a rate of ten cents per line for notices and five cents per line for obituary notices and tributes. A liberal deduction is offered to regular advertisers.
Floyd Snook writes from Glenwood Springs about H T Sale in Graham and Judge Sale, the growing frontier towns, trade with the Utes, and a Provo Mormon community. He critiques church governance, notes tithes, and describes the Mormon service with Grant funeral decor, a polygamy case, and local crops, heat, and flies.
Deputy U S Marshal O K Wheeler of St Louis arrived with Joseph H White after an arrest near Whitney Hill county on August 24. White is charged with causing to be printed and procuring for use about 300000 in counterfeit Brazilian treasury notes. A $150000 packet was intercepted at Blum post office. White, once well connected in Bosque county, is jailed and represented by Herring & Kelly. The case followed weeks of work by Charles G D Drummond of St Louis.
The Montgomery Advertiser portrays a rosy outlook with signs of revival. Banks, railroads, and crops are improving as manufactories restart and stock markets rise, suggesting momentum for legitimate investment once confidence returns. A separate column notes Mrs William Rawlinson’s bigamy complaint against her husband, who fled with money. The case cites a second wife tied to a demimonde and a London-born Englishman fathering a daughter.
J. J. Stringer, county tax collector of Johnson County, is reported to be short in his accounts by 2385 dollars.
An active race unfolds in Kaufman county as Terrell and Kaufman vie for the county seat. Terrell leads early, while Kaufman vows to contest every inch, with local option and state politics fading beside this key contest.
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