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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
2
A newspaper is essential for a town reflecting business energy and social life. It records citizens, compliments achievements, and reports events, while facing pressure to fund itself and cover obligations. The piece urges readers to read the eight pages and engage with its public notices.
Deputy Sheriff Bert Hulsey arrested Jo Stringer near Barrett's wagon yard about 9 PM on a rape charge filed by 14 year old Dora Beadle. The Grand Jury is reviewing the evidence after interviews with witnesses, including the girl. Stringer, an estimated 60, faces long imprisonment if indicted.
Steger Lumber Co advertises coal for sale with orders for July and August delivery. Also vacant rental listings include a large store building adjoining the Bonham News office a warehouse on the same block and an office on the north side by Will H. Vans & Co.
August reports a good cotton outlook and strong late corn prospects with no cause for complaint. Marriages include Preston West and Jessie Sweeney with Tarpley officiating. Church meetings, visiting relatives, sorghum mill runs, and regional travel fill this week’s Edhube item lot.
Ton Kaufman, injured when a car of lumber fell on him at Paris on Monday, is reported resting well this morning. He suffers bruises and a broken ankle causing discomfort, but remains not gravely hurt and will be out of duty for some time.
A leap year dance at the Elks club rooms featured twelve couples and many guests with a large punch bowl. The county commissioners announced a tax rate cut from 40 to 30 cents per hundred dollars, praising fiscal prudence and the full rendition law.
Mr. Wiggins will speak at the First Presbyterian church on adult Bible class work. The message urges every adult in the congregation to attend, especially men of the speaker's class. There will be no prayer meeting due to this event. Chas. M. Schoonover.
In Chicago Journal chatter Alice admires a young Thompson noting his firm mouth and chin while Hazel jokes about whether he has kissed her too, capturing a light social exchange.
Four room cottage with two porches city water next to the seller's home. Priced at 775 dollars with 175 dollars down and 10 dollars per month. Two blocks from square. Small crib on 1 to 4 acre lot. Wilt H Evans & Co.
A notice offers $50,000 investment related to old life insurance policies. It mentions evaced issuing companies values and directs readers to P. O. Box 154 in Bonham Texas for particulars.
Rent notice reads unclear contact details and price. partial text mentions living space four blocks away and a monthly amount about 15 dollars. No specific dates or full address provided.
Foster. Photo. Nice four room cottage for rent Jones Abernathy.
A fanciful Victorian sketch recounts Francisque Sarcey’s unlucky librarians. A released convict hid within the shelves stealing books, a dramatist tormented by addiction met a tragic end, a cheerful youth rearranged stacks and vanished, and a Polish helper perished in a fire at a dance hall in Paris.
An Outing Magazine excerpt describes Hopi, Navajo, and Topi wedding rites, including betrothal, corn grinding, sash making, and ceremonial bathing. It notes a twelve horse dowry for Navajo brides, nine for a second, with later entries free, and a written law requiring the groom to meet his mother-in-law after the ceremony.
A Marshall Islands atoll in the hurricane path was ripped apart as waves towering forty feet swept over the speck land. All vegetation and life were carried to sea and the upper coral was broken away. days later only calm ocean waters remained where the island stood.
Advertises sheet music with titles such as Come Where My Love Lies Dream, Trust Her Not, It Would Not Live Always with ONL Accompaniment, See the Conquering Hero Comes with full orchestra, There Was a Little Fisher Maiden in three parts, The Tale of a Swordfight, Home Sweet Home in A fret.
Let Him Off Easy reports a playful exchange between Lota and Grace An as Lota vows to travel far for love and Anita urges a prompt departure home in a brief humorous note from the Uhienge News.
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