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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
2
Rental card lists Office World building at southeast corner square and residence at 616 W. 9th Street with phone 156. Office hours are 9 to 12 and 2 to 5. Includes contact details for business and home.
Offers to buy old life insurance policies for cash with no cost to investigate. Claims to pay more than the issuing company or others and invites readers to write box 154 to realize immediate cash.
Notice to stockholders of Benham Bank and Trust Company to meet at the bank office on Tuesday January 14 1908 at 3 p m to elect directors for the ensuing year and attend to any other business. after O Siler W os ert av
The regular annual meeting of the Bonham Cotton Mills stockholders will be held Tuesday January 7 1908 from 2 to 4 p m in the director s room at the First National Bank to elect directors for the ensuing year and address other business as needed. The notice also mentions the postmistress Alice Robertson of Muskogee and civil service clerk tensions with white employees threatening to walk out if a black clerk works in the office.
In Oklahoma City 2300 barrels of beer valued at 17000 dollars were poured into sewers by the New State Brewery after prohibition moved in. Crowds watched powerless as beer flowed from nozzles and residents filled containers to drink freely, a scene few have seen. An onlooker even emptied a hat full of foam in a single gulp.
For Rent or Sale. 100 acres north of Bonham with 65 acres in cultivation. Features a good house and cribs, everlasting water, and good pasture. A good proposition for the right man. See Hudson P. Silhia in Paris Texas or Philip Wise in Paris.
A January page outlines Florence arts topics and lectures at the session on Santa Maria Novella and related schools. It includes ads for Foley's Honey and Tar and Ballard's Snow Liniment praising cures for cold symptoms and sprains, with local druggists Saunders Drug Co. promoting the products.
The Colored Burial Association calls for prompt payment of another assessment now due at M. J. B. Yound's furniture store. Members are urged to pay promptly.
Fragmentary notice notes catarrh cannot be cured by local applications because they fail to reach the affected area. The text appears as garbled medical advertisement language with unclear instructions.
A wagon drawn by a tour mule team fell from a narrow bridge on W. J. McMurry’s old home place near Ketor on a Wednesday morning. T. E. Tilley died in the accident and the cause remains unclear as the wagon and mules plunged twelve feet or more to the ground.
The article mentions Chamberlain's cough remedy and notes about a burial. It reports Mr. McMurry arriving in town after the burial and provides fragmented details on injuries from a stalk cutter, a 33 year old victim, his wife and child, and Mila Ross as his wife. It honors a respected Methodist church member and records Logan Sharp from Duplex visiting the city.
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