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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1912
Page
5
Roy Brittom visits Graham from South Bend. Mabry & Sons and Graves & Ward advertise fresh produce and sliced meats. Denton and Amarillo trips noted. several residents enter colleges in College Station Midland and Denton. Retail page promotes trade checks, pork products, and new theater season at the Opera House.
Local ads note Lyon Hardware Co unloading Moon Bros. Buggies for sale and inviting customers to inspect. The page also lists residents traveling, seed rye for planting at 1.29 a bushel, household purchases, hotel stays, and notes on local produce and fruit from residents.
A plantation in South Bend seeks hands to pick 720 acres of five lock big boll cotton at 85 cents per 100. Expected yield 1 2 bales per acre. E C Stovall and Fred Nance from Newcastle arrival noted. Visitors include J H Harris from Bunger and C J Woods from Woodson with others in Graham.
A historical notice from the Farmers Union Gin Co led by A. H. Jones proclaims they offer the best rin and ginner west of Arkansas and urges farmers to take notice of the gin services available.
A series of notes records A J Allen from Ivan with cotton, J R Jameson returning from Dallas, J H Hargraves from Rock Creek on business in Graham, G M James from India Mound, W M George from Tank Valley with cotton, Jim Larimore and wife from Newcastle visiting, Mollie Veach visiting sister May Stone in Graham, W R Jordan from Newcastle, G W Carmack from Murray, and Sam Dowdle joining R F Short and Co as a dry goods salesman.
An advertisement touts Dr. King’s New Life Pills for liver ailments and biliousness with phrases about quick safe results. The item also notes social notes from town, including Miss May Ragland’s Havre Montana visit and locals such as Mrs Laura Caldwell visiting Graham area relatives.
Real estate offers list unimproved grass land near Throckmorton totaling 960 acres at 6.50 per acre with trade options. 800 acres of good land, well improved, priced at 15.09 per acre with 1-3 cash or trade. Also notes a family visit and local farming mishaps including a lightning strike on a school superintendent’s home and a mule injury from cottonseed wagon incident.
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