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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
4
National League games in Brooklyn New York ended with Brooklyn 5, visiting team 1. In Philadelphia the Philadelphia contest result appears incomplete with Boaston Plade and an American League matchup not clearly stated.
Daily notes show residents Henrysale, J. F. Berryhi, W. B. Majors and others traveling to Bells Estor Ravenna Honey Grove and Paris. Regional scores list Cleveland Chicago Boston Philadelphia Dallas Houston and Galveston. Social activity includes purchases at Ware's and travel notices for conventions and visits to Kings Daughters and other events.
A fragment mentions Bonham and oat sacks with a note that the repair department will oversee an up to date watch maker who has been an official inspector of Texas and New Orleans for several years.
A fragment from Philadelphia North American describes wig makers in England supplying legal wigs and the costs for judges and counsel. It also notes child tobacco use in England and Ireland with cultural contrasts and a stray notice about stolen ponies near Bonham.
An notice warns kidney disease can be deadly, urging early use of Foley's Kidney Remedy to correct irregularities and prevent Bright's disease or diabetes. A sale ad notes a Wallace fabric at Ware's price of 56 per yard.
A farmer known for his work with a plow gains unexpected fame beyond his fields, drawing attention from communities and local media for his distinctive approach and enduring craft.
A testimonial from O. S. Woolever of LeRayeville New York credits Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with curing bleeding piles twenty years ago and claims the salve heals the worst sores boils burns wounds and cuts quickly. Saunders Drug Co. stock 250 and new varieties advertised.
Local notices show Mrs. Cunningham and others traveling to Dallas for the State meeting of the Women's Federated Clubs. Travelers include C A Miler to Brookston replacing an ill engineer and Miss Lenabele, visiting relatives in Knoxville. Bailey and Barrett figures linked to political speeches in southwest Texas.
The excerpt shows a couple's breakfast banter about poetry theft and journalism. They joke about plagiarism accusations and discuss literary ideas while cleaning butter from the sporting page and commenting on the country’s marriages and press habits.
London Health Record suggests a diet rich in protein and tissue building foods such as nuts cereals legumes dairy and fruit to curb dipsomania and reduce cravings for strong drink. The note emphasizes proper nourishment as a preventive measure against alcohol excess.
In a bizarre scene from the Drive Museum a doctor questions a freak about a swallowed thermometer. The glass eater explains it thought it was medicine, prompting the medical inquiry into the stranger’s odd ingestion.
Two speakers joke about a battleship that runs aground. The quip imagines a ship stuck in mud becoming a record breaker on the open sea, playfully contrasting speed with being mired.
Money makes egotists and gives the acquirer power and imagination of his own power, tending to make him idolize self according to Cardinal Newman.
A Washington Star reader quotes a lecture anecdote about misdirected economy and the folly of excessive funeral costs. The tale centers on a man who saves by carving only first names on small stones, while the larger epitaph remains unreadable, prompting the remark that wealth measures society’s value to him rather than his value to the community.
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