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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1925
Page
2
The Graham Leader offers to correct any erroneous reflections on a person, firm, or corporation if brought to the publishers. Subscriptions are priced at one year six months and three months, with billing details to follow.
A persuasive editorial urges healthy young men to return to school and value education. It warns against early exits to work or business, noting lifelong disadvantages of poor schooling and urging youths to seize their golden school years before they pass.
The piece argues that wandering winter work schemes resemble improved vagrancy. It warns that families moving often, especially with children, risk poor education for the children and a lack of community integration. Long term benefit comes from stability, faithful labor, and active civic participation.
A Palestine Herald reader recalls a man with a half crop driving a wagon with two thin ponies, fleeing a western county failure. The tenant once hoped for a good cotton season but saw his seed fail, forcing him to seek work elsewhere while others envy luxury goods like Cadillacs.
Texas tops the nation in turkey raising with about half a million birds, one of seven gobblers in the U S owned by Texans. The piece notes declining numbers due to disease and confinement, and attributes Texas success to free range farming conditions and pioneering practices by local raisers. Also contrasts broader U S decline and suggests wild turkey tendencies reduce grain yields.
A The Survey article defines gasoline gypsies as destitute wanderers who travel country roads in cheap cars, often with little capital, ready to take odd jobs and move on when better prospects appear, sometimes using free campsites and avoiding fuel purchases.
A compact excerpt of the hymn Rock of Ages credited to D B Smith of Bonham Texas. The verse laments human failure and calls for divine salvation through faith in the rock of ages. The item preserves the author and locale with a timeless religious plea.
A simple mixture of buckthorn bark magnesium sulph glycerine and Adlerika helps stomach trouble in ten minutes by removing gas and releasing old waste matter. It ends the full bloated feeling and leaves the user cheerful. Useful for chronic constipation and quick relief sold by L. M. Davis Drug Co in Eliasville at Nelson's Drug Store.
A 19th century health discourse warns that throat infections seed serious heart disease and other illnesses. It urges daily cleansing of upper air passages with a harmless antiseptic to prevent invisible contagion and reduce fatal outcomes.
In a playful exchange, Dumb Dan asks about John Bunyan while a back row heckler, Dumb Dan, quips that Bunyan was a Kalamazoo chiropodist. The banter highlights literary figures versus local jokes in a classroom moment.
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