Prospects Improve for Cotton as Harvest Advances
Cotton prospects improve with each day as much of the crop is already saved and worms or weevils are few. A few more days of current weather may yield a good harvest with some farmers estimating three quarters to a bale per acre and several predicting the largest yield since 1900. The corn crop will be only fair but sufficient for local needs with some surplus.
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Dallas News
Dodd
Windom
Trenton
Bonham
Randolph
Bonham Sluggers meet Whitewright Inky Whites in rematch
The Bonham Sluggers defeated the Whitewright Inky Whites 8 to 6 in the second meeting, after the Inky Whites had won the opener 14 to 7.
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Bonham Sluggers
Whitewright Inky Whites
Darkies
Inky Whites
Loved Boy of Eighteen
At Margate police court Mme. Guimbal alias Mme. Stugine faced charges of attempting suicide after being found near fainting on the Westgate cliff with her arms cut. A bag contained a note declaring love for an 18 year old French boy and a portrait of a foreign youth. Bail was granted pending further action by the French consul.
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London
Margate
Mme. Guimbal
Mme
Stugenie
Berners Mansions
Berners Street
Westgate
Tam
Earthquake Shakes Eureka Causing Chimney Damage
Three sharp shocks struck Eureka California at 2 58 am 3 08 am and 5 30 am smashing over 100 chimneys cracking windows and damaging the county court house walls and the Carnegie Library while a Minerva statue staff crashed into Judge Hunt s courtroom. A fissure opened on Leary ranch a mile north of Eureka and the quake damage is estimated at 2000 to 3000 dollars. The tremors were mainly in a small southwest to northeast area.
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Eureka
Cal
Minerva
Hunt
Court House
Carnegie Library
Leary Ranch
Firemen to Play Elks in Friday Pavilion Game
A Bonham Volunteer Fire Department team, with help from Silks regulars, will face the Elks at the Pavilion Friday afternoon. Gate receipts go to the fire boys to shore up their nearly depleted treasury, and a good crowd is hoped for. Lineups will be published tomorrow. The article also includes a Dallas News crop report with cotton prospects for several Texas towns.
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Bonham Volunteer Fire Department
The
Elks
Pavilion
Silks
Fire Department
Miss Beasley Hosts Large Catfish Party and Big Catch
Miss Beasley hosted a morning and afternoon gathering at her mother’s North Main Street home with forty two and five hundred games. Prizes and lunches followed, with Mrs. Will Rayburn and Mrs. McDaniel winning china bowls and a framed picture respectively. In Bois d Arc Creek north of Lannius, W P Cross and Bob Semple led a fishing party that hauled over 100 pounds of fish, including a 45 pound catfish four feet two inches long whose head was shown at Thompson Abernathy Co.
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Miss Beasley
North Main Street
Katherine Beasley
Jim Kennedy
Will Rayburn
McDaniel
Kelly
W. P. Cross
Lannius
Bob Semple
Bois d’Arc Creek
Thompson-Abernathy Company
Bonham
Llonea Wins Part of Land Suit in District Court
In the case F. M. Llonea vs W. L. Ariedge et al a suit to try title was decided today. Llonea receives one eighth of 20 acres and the defendants receive all other lands in controversy. Plaintiffs attorney has filed a motion for a new trial.
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F. M. Llonea
W. L. Ariedge
Wealthy Farmer Fatally Shoots Himself in Paris
Paris Texas Aug 18 B F Holloman of Birdstown this county shot himself through the left temple at 3 am in the presence of his 13 year old son after a brief talk with his wife about visiting his brother in law. He was a wealthy farmer aged 60.
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Paris
Texas
B. F. Holloman
Birdstown
Lie
Ile
Cotton crop in Comanche county hit by boll worm invasion
Charles Smith reports boll worms are destroying the cotton crop in Comanche and other western counties. He notes that three weeks earlier prospects were for a record yield but now Gloomy outlook suggests little cotton unless conditions improve soon.
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Fort Worth
Tes
Charles Smith
Caton
Comanche County
Rudolph Robinson Hurt in Horse Accident
Rudolph, the young son of Mr and Mrs Will Robinson, fell from a horse yesterday afternoon and fractured his left arm. He is listed in as good condition today as could be expected.
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Rudolph
Will Robinson
Ile
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Rogers, Woodward
Chas. Davis & CO
Bonham and Ravenna
Fannin County
Bois d’Arc
District Court
Nunn @ Jones Co
Comanche
Farmers’ Union
L, B
Caldwell
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