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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1922
Page
2
The Graham Leader announces its Newspaper Association Membership and endorses the National Highways Association drive for universal good roads. It argues better roads boost prosperity, education, and farm profits by reducing haulage costs and enabling faster travel.
The Aug 31 declaration marks U S recognition of the Mexican government after decades of tension. President Harding stresses cordial neighborly relations, respect for Mexico’s self determination, and a pledge to honor contracts and property rights, seeking stable talks on Article 27 and mutual assurances.
The excerpt discusses a desire for definite favorable results from talks with Mexican Commissioners and seeks permanent, neighborly diplomacy that benefits both republics. It emphasizes mutual understanding as the basis for lasting relations and joint friendship.
Texas hosts 756 oil entities paying production tax led by Gulf Texas Humble Humphreys Magnolia and Sinclair forming 37.4 percent of the tax take. The industry employs about 56 000 people with average annual pay over 2000. Texas refineries total around 121 with 450 000 barrels daily capacity and royalties near 16.8 million for 1922.
A Collier’s Weekly quote extols loyal people. Anna C O’Flynn of Vincennes Indiana has fifty years of public school service with perfect attendance. In Passaic New Jersey two Skolkin siblings also boast thirty three years of unbroken attendance. The piece highlights loyalty as a stabilizing force in daily life.
A light classroom exchange features a teacher asking if anything is worse than a giraffe with a stiff neck and a pupil replying that a centipede with corns is worse. The joke relies on a punning contrast between long neck and foot problems.
An audience watches as a lecturer begins to quote Webster while a husband urges his wife to leave, joking that the scholar will soon launch into the dictionary. The moment captures a lighthearted interruption during a formal address.
Good rains reached Young county but not this section as drought persists. E L Cretsinger bedridden two weeks with rheumatism shows improvement. J K P Hughes adds to his Cantelope prairie home. J M Reed and son Otis plan prospecting trip to Erath County possibly moving there. Dewey Ritchey harvested ten acres of cotton yielding over a bale. More details will follow.
The Kansas farmer L J Thompson of Sedgwick County sold high grade Kansas red wheat for 91 cents per bushel. He calculated that 64 loaves of bread could be made from a bushel and that bread sold at 10 cents a loaf bringing $6.40 plus 25 cents from mill feed totaling $6.65. He notes 91 cents from the $6.65 as the key question Kansas is considering.
European leaders debate responsibility for the killing of General Tellini and four staff from the Albania Greece frontier commission. Italian and Greek accounts differ on who fired the fatal shot. Italy seeks indemnity while occupying Corfu. Greece appeals to the League of Nations, amid possible Italian noncompliance.
Public notice commands A C Whitaker to appear at the Justice Court in Graham on September 24 1923 to answer a debt suit No 2851 filed July 20 1923 by Central Filling Station Rex Cornish and S S Bates claiming 67 50 owed for goods delivered. Publication required weekly for four weeks in a local newspaper if available.
A justice of the peace document from Young County Texas bears the line How you have executed the same and the closing formula Given under my hand and the seal of said court in the city of Graham dated August 21 1923 W P Stimson Justice of the Peace Precinct No 1 The text records a local court action stamp and official signature in 1923.
Hatfield Arkansas farmer G W Parsons says Black-Draught is the best all around medicine for the liver and constipation. He began using it 25 years ago and still uses it for indigestion biliousness and headaches. The wife also uses it for headaches and biliousness. Get Thedford's original Black-Draught powder. Sold everywhere NC-150.
Advertises Pepsinated Calomel as a non upsetting liver cleanse that stimulates liver and kidneys to remove poisons. Claims no nausea or griping and guarantees relief by sundown or money back, via Scott-Long Drug Co. and other druggists.
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