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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1917
Page
2
The Leader published weekly on Thursdays priced at $1.50 with Frank H. Bowron serving as editor. The notice signals a community newspaper's periodic release and the editorial leadership guiding its content.
The article argues the newspaper is a commercial enterprise producing content beyond ink and paper. Its value rests on reader trust and community service, requiring fairness and generosity to maintain prestige and avoid harming the public it serves. It notes the unique, identifiable quality of human voices.
The piece argues newspapers should be profit driven so they endure and serve readers. It suggests a prospering paper balances risk with responsibility, and warns against non profitable papers that fail to meet community needs.
Archer City reports rapid cotton arrivals with Farmers' Union Gin delivering 260 bales to farmers in the area by 6 PM. The advance signals strong harvest activity in the district this season.
A reprinted War Review focuses on national unity and patriotism in the United States, promising language purity, loyalty tests, and tightened immigration bonds. It highlights wartime aims of a stronger citizenry, safer borders, and suppression of dissent, alongside optimistic Allied advances and German financial strain.
Archer City Sept 22 six o clock this afternoon J W Feals manager of Farmers Union Gin had his right arm badly injured requiring amputation below the shoulder. The accident occurred while dressing a belt his arm drawn into the wheel. He was taken to City Hotel for care by Drs Hooper and Lindley Feals lives three miles northeast of Archer City a well known and prominent citizen.
Senator Floydd introduced a bill in Austin on Sept 24 to repeal laws that created the West Texas A and M College Northwest Texas Insane Asylum and Northeast Texas Junior A and M College. In Anarene on Sept 22 John Conner a leading ranchman and Hereford breeder shipped cattle to Fort Worth receiving prices: twenty calves 27 50 each six cows 60 each five heifers 40 each fourteen yearlings 41 each.
Our quarterly Graham Mission meeting will assemble in Salem on October 3. Bro. Webb is to preach at 11 o clock before the business session. Official members are urged to attend. W. E. Harrell, P. C.
Chicago reports fourteen additional infantile paralysis cases bringing the total to about two hundred fifty.
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