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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1922
Page
2
The Graham Leader prints a broad meditation on autumn’s benefits highlighting harvest abundance and the season’s energy for business, crafts, and social life. The piece celebrates renewal, prosperity, and hopeful outlook as cool air signals opportunity and growth.
A historical note argues US motor vehicle registrations prove inevitability of better roads. It cites 1895 and 1925 totals and a table from 1913 to date predicting 14 to 16 million cars by 1935, attributing highway demand to growing vehicle use and opposing political forces.
The pessimist describes autumn as a time of melancholy noting yellowing vegetation and falling leaves. He contrasts this with a perhaps brighter perspective hinted by the phrase two views of autumn.
Charles Schwab outlines integrity loyalty imagination and friendship as core foundations of a successful life. He stresses living with honor earning trust among colleagues and employers and using vision and good judgment to seize opportunity.
The text notes land scarcity shapes farming habits with small plots, where ten acres make a good estate and many live on less than an acre. It highlights intensive cultivation over extensive work and ends by blessing the first born for receiving the largest share.
The narrator admires ancient soil fertility despite lack of fertilizer. He describes erosion as natural enrichment, village customs with loose sheaves for the poor, and simple farming on terraces. Gardens scent the hills with poppies and herbs while onions and greens feed families, ending with a humorous note about a hot pepper in a soup.
A witty tale shows a young man wandering stalls at a bazaar. A patient seller offers items he claims to need, from cigarette holders to pens, chocolates, and soap. He finally pays for the soap, ending the encounter.
A fragment notes that a gossiping tongue reflects an evil mind and urges awareness of personal ignorance while signaling the Young County Fair dates November 8 to 10.
Chicago, once densely Americanized, now shows 28 percent native born. Statistics from the Chicago Association of Commerce report 72 percent of residents are foreign born or of foreign parentage, totaling 1,947,376 people. White natives number 642,871. blacks account for 109,458, leaving a predominantly foreign profile in a city of about 2.7 million.
Sheriff Dan Cambern announces a sale under an August 11 1923 execution in the case H Byrom vs W M George No 1236. On September 24 1928 at Graham court house door the horse wagon and harness described will be sold to satisfy a $534.10 judgment plus costs.
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