Preachers, bishops, and wry worldviews mix in Bonham column
Bonham letters celebrate a North Texas Conference visit praising the visiting preachers as jovial and capable. Bishop McCoy hints at riding opportunities for future assignment, while locals joke about unions, telephones, and fortunes as distant headlines fade into daily life.
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Bonham
North Texas Conference
Bishop McCoy
Sam Fryar
Clarksville
Exemptions in verse from two Georgia papers
Short humorous quips note Adam keeping his buttons and Eve not going home to mother. Columbus Enquirer jokes about woes and steadfast Sunday pants while Columbia State hints Eve never said she would return home.
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Adam
Columbus (Ga
Enquirer
Eve
Columbia State
Courting parlors and curious quips in the press
A Beaumont Journal note discusses courting parlors in churches for young people to meet under overseers. Los Angeles and San Francisco papers praise church supervised courtship while skeptics fear loss of propriety. The column also lampoons a Bonham citizen’s cigar store gambit and a bow legs joke from Mineral Wells.
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Beaumont Journal
California
Los Angeles Times
San Francisco
Better Train Service Sought on Texas Pacific Route
Texarkana Board of Trade reports a Bonham request to persuade Texas and Pacific railway to run a through passenger train on the Fort Worth Texarkana division. North Texas cities aim for a through service with connections to Memphis and St Louis, arguing benefits from homeseeker traffic and regional development.
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Texarkanian
Texarkana Board of Trade
Bonham Board of Trade
Texas & Pacific Railway
Ort Worth
Quinn
S. C
Middle West
Texas & Pacific
North Texas
Fort Worth
Texarlana
Iron Mountain
Memphis
St. Louis
Texas & Paific
Tme
Methodist minister leaves for Gainesville conference
Rev. W. H. Brown of the Methodist church departed this morning for Gainesville. He had been in the city to attend a conference he declared one of the best he had ever attended.
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W. H. Brown
Gainesville
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