WPA Allotment Approved for Fannin County Fair Project
Washington approved a 64140 WPA allotment for a new 86000 plant at the Fannin County Fair Association. The plan includes using salvaged materials, starting after the year and ready for the 1940 fair. The project promises local labor and increased purchasing power for Bonham merchants.
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Fannin County
Washington
WPA
Sam Rayburn
Roosevelt
Drought
San Antonio
Alban McRae
Fannin County Fair Association
McRae
Bonham
Sponx
The
Fair Association
Daniels
Fair Park
Park
Merchants Swathing Stores With Cotton For Celebration
Rev Clarence E Farmer of Ft Worth spoke with Gov O Daniel in Austin and urged reconsideration of an adverse decision within 60 days to assemble the legislature The exchange followed Farmers candidacy for governor during O Daniel s nomination in the annual office taking ceremony
Cotton Carnival Grows Bonham Parade Sets Stage
Bonham gears up for a cotton themed carnival as merchants decorate stores and windows for a Tuesday parade starting at 2 39 pm. Queen Cotton will be crowned by the Band Stand on courthouse lawn with duke and duchesses from nearby towns amid daily committee meetings and a festive mood.
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Bonham
Elyre
Queen Cotton
Bonham High School
North Texas Basketball Association Sets 1940 Schedule
The 1940 North Texas Basket ball Association season schedule is approved with Bonham Denison Sherman and other towns hosting games. First week of January opens league play, with home and home series against all four other clubs. Greenville’s berth bid rejected due to travel distances. Bonham defends title.
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North Texas Basketball Association
Bonham, Denison
Guineaville
McKinney and
Sherman
Fach
Greenville
Loop
Greenville Quint
Bonham
Purple Warriors
Marshal Mevef Bonham
Lee
British Fighters Drive Nazi Planes From Naval Base
British fight ing planes drove eight German craft from the Port of Perth today. One enemy plane was struck by British fire. A German pilot rammed a British aircraft near Texel in a fierce dog fight. both planes crashed into the sea.
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Naval
London
Perth
Air Ministry
Berlin
Netherlands
Texel
Woman 118 Years Old Shares Rules For Living
SAN ANTONIO Tex Mrs Francisco Sanchez 118 offered living tips while hanging clothes advising kindness charity plenty of sleep and a tranquil life She recalls Santa Anna as a friend from youth born 1821 in San Luis Potosi she moved to Texas in 1860 and has not returned to Mexico
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San Antonio
Tex
Francisco Sanchez
San Luis Potosi
Texas
Mexico
Bigger Portion Will Be Paid Before January
Fannin county farmers have received 105303.48 in parity and soil conservation payments this year. Dan Barnard says 1243 checks totaling 18058.44 were issued to date, with total AAA payments nearing 970000 for 1939, including 721820 in cotton and 172182 in wheat and increased small payments. The 1940 allotments rise with home garden payments of 150 per garden.
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Fannin County
AAA
Dan Barnard
ACA
Barnard
Pannin County
Parden
Soil Conservation District Receives Tentative Approval
Spencer Penrose dies at 14 in Colorado Springs after building Pike's Peak region landmarks. The article notes his scope includes the world highest automobile highway to Pike's Peak and other notable projects. It also covers tentative approval of the Fannin County Soil Conservation District by the State Board, with a public hearing held October 28 and ownership voting rules described.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Spencer Penrose
Olorado
Penrose
He's Peak
Pike's
Pannin County
Fol Conservation Board
Temple
Fannin County
Jamar County
Whitewright
Missouri
Kaowas
State Board For Study
Therd
H. McCleary
Honey Grove
Turtle marked with ARM. 9 found in Hanover
Priscilla and Ludy Brooka of Hanover found a turtle bearing the marking ARM. 9. The item notes letters from Elbridge Gordonville and Benson describing how the turtle was marked.
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Hanover
Mass
Priscilla
Ludy Brooka
Elbridge
Gordonville
Benson
Hew
County Wide AAA Meeting Scheduled Here Friday Night
Greek Faelish Dutch ships sunk in sea warfare as Uniten Powns lists crew losses. Tajandoen doomed after mining or torpedo strike in the Faatlish Channel. 7 men missing. 14 saved aboard. Warship Washington hit mine in North Sea. eight dead reported. Paralos, a Greek freighter with German coal, sunk in Miami Extuary. chief officer and engineer killed.
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AAA
London
Miame
Ana
Will Conclude Series on Cotton Marketing Quotas Meeting
County committee members announce a Friday night rally in the district chart room to explain the proposed no AAA farm program. Open to all residents who want to talk with speakers Jicgee Lesle and W J Young plus any attendee. Meetings conclude in Leonard Orangeville Ravenna and Coter with 7 pm start.
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Jicgee
BP. Lesle
W. J. Young
Don Barnard
Noid
Leonard
Orangeville
Ravenna
Coter
Focal
AAA
Alarm Clock Sit-Ins Fail To Trim Sermons
In Middletown N Y the Rev Dr Alexander J Kerr pastor of Beatritown Presbyterian Church refused to shorten his sermon for Sunday dinner despite parishioners bringing alarm clocks to church and setting them for after noon. He asserts a minister in charge of his services must lead without time pressure.
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Middletown
Alexander J. Kerr
Beatritown Presbyterian Chureh
Germans Launch 60 Raids on French Front Early Today
Berlin reports 60 raids on French advanced lines from Moselle to Rhine in the early hours. French outposts attacked with rifles, machine guns, grenades and mines, followed by artillery across a 100 mile front.
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Paris
Moselle
Rhine
Seek Second Iron Lung For Crippled Children Clinic
Hot Springs New Mexico chamber launches effort to requisition a second iron lung for Carrie Tingley Hospital for Crippled Children. A second mechanical lung would make the Hot Springs institution the only one in the United States with more than one iron lung. In Cleveland Ohio a man trains his boxing cat Mr Buster to spar with him, the cat wearing gloves on its forepaws before boxing rounds.
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Hot Springs
N. M
Carrie Tingley Hospital
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Cleveland
Ohio
Edmound Ho Ruh
Lakewood
Buster
Ruh
Parker Grove Busy Bees Present Program for Patrons
In El Paso Texas the Parker Grove Busy Bees stage a Tuesday program for parents and friends. The event precedes the Sun Carnival parade and Sun Bowl game, featuring a Columbus to present-day pageant tale and a display by 20 Busy Bee girls in blue and white uniforms.
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Parker Grove
el, Paso
Tex
Busy Bee
Vernon Price
Herman Rush
Welome
Busy Bee Club
Odessa Dereberg
Bee
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Pike's Peak Area
By Unsirep Peess
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Cheyenne Mountain Highway
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Garfield
Okla
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Uniten Powns
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