30 Apr 1912
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1912
Page
1
The Favorite details subscription prices for daily six months and one year by mail with charges and delivery notes. It notes changes of address must be communicated and mentions notices such as resolutions cards and obituaries priced at regular rates.
Weather indications show storms in interior Texas with Bonham and nearby areas affected. West Texas and Oklahoma expect Wednesday to be fair.
The document discusses merging proposals into a single prominent corporation idea with large capital and limited immediate action. It critiques Congress and cautions against self serving manipulation while urging the public to consider genuine economic remedies. It frames reform as a comprehensive, practical surgical operation for the nation.
The piece argues for broader wealth distribution and cautions against concentrated riches under a wage system. It envisions regulated trade, shared opportunities, and civic effort to boost Bonham and similar towns without creating sprawling cities, stressing essential services like clean water.
Public use, sanitary sewers, graded streets where pay ing is impracticable, sidewalks, clean alleys and good schools are described as city-like civic advantages available to Texas county seats. The piece calls for demolishing old out houses, painting homes and fences, mowing lawns, cutting weeds, removing decay, washing store windows, and notes printers should avoid tobacco chewers and unsanitary whiskers.
Danner news notes a busy season with church painting plans and repairs. Local residents including Mr McCulloteh and Lavttasee are at work on properties while a summer gathering is planned. Social visits and travel among residents, with updates on school closure and fishing prospects, fill the item.
In Sikeston Missouri and Murrayville Illinois two women describe long hospital feared female ailments and how Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored health. Mrs Dema Bethune says months of pain and weakness vanished enabling daily chores and social activity. Mrs Charles Moore reports doctors advised operation but the tonic saved her from surgery.
A newspaper blurb promotes D.D.D Prescription for eczema and skin diseases. Dr Evans and Dr Holmes outline the wash and oil formulation with wintergreen thymos and other ingredients. Palace Drug Store guarantees a trial bottle with no cost if it fails to relieve itching.
A Bronx, New York resident reports relief from lung trouble and headaches after using Vinci and Vinol, promoted as a non oil cod liver and iron tonic that boosts appetite and digestion. The Saunders Drug Company in Bonham, Texas offers a money back guarantee if no benefit is observed.
L P Harrison offers Indian Runner duck eggs in fawn and white colors. White egg strain priced at 2.00, other at 2.50 per dozen. Pure white Runner eggs listed at 5.00. Ducks are pure stock and not related. Paris Texas.
A Texas Bureau of Economic Geology report led by Prof. W B Phillips details lignite deposits spanning about 60 000 square miles with an estimated 80 000 000 000 tons original supply. Beds run 15 to 400 600 feet deep across numerous counties and east of the 97th meridian north of 1 degree.
The county commissioners court invites sealed bids for the iron fence and stone foundation surrounding the courthouse yard. Bids due by 10 o'clock a m May 13 1912. Bids may be for fence and foundation together or separately. The court may reject any or all bids. County Auditor Will Harkins. April 28 1912. Treasury post office building in Texas invites proposals for construction including plumbing gas piping heating electric wiring and lighting fixtures.
A vintage drug store ad promotes Dr. King's New Life Pills claiming to cure the blues by purging sluggish liver and bilious poison. It asserts benefits for stomach, liver and kidneys and offers the product for 25 cents at J. W Pooler's drug store.
A Wayneville North Carolina man, F R Huffman, credits Thedford's Black-Draught with curing what he believed to be heart trouble and indigestion. The ad promotes the liver remedy as a safe, popular vegetable treatment improving digestion and overall health, priced at 25 cents.
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