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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1934
Page
3
The Daily Favorite prints today the names of entrants in the 4000 dollar gift campaign. District 1 covers Bonham city residents. District 2 covers surrounding areas. Not all nominees are active yet and subscriptions are required to win. Subscriptions due Friday. vote counts released next Saturday.
Donald Richberg argues the long slow trial and error process as the path to economic recovery and an alternative to state socialism. He spoke to the Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia detailing new agencies of human cooperation to meet industrial era conditions.
Kaufman High School Lions upset Honey Grove Warriors 27 13 to advance to the regional title game against Mineola. Stars Hodge and Shelton led the visitors while White Hall and Barnett shone for Kaufman. Honey Grove suffered injuries including a likely broken limb to Lankford as both teams entered the contest undefeated.
Hunt's Bonham unveils an elaborate Xmas display starting December 10 from 7 to 9 PM. The show features over 100 Hecht displays a powered pipe organ and colorful light pictures with seasonal music and merchandise highlights for shoppers.
The Justice Department announced the discovery of an additional 30000 dollars of the Urschel ransom money near Portland Oregon, bringing total recovered to 54000 dollars. The amount paid previously stood at 200000 dollars and discovery details are withheld. A note mentions the Akka a wandering tribe of dwarfy in Central Africa first reported in 1874.
The record notes a timing window where March opened at 12.56 and closed at 12.54, indicating a brief interval between the two timestamps. No additional context or events accompany these times in the source.
Reports from Szeged say refugees cross the frontier amid Yugoslav controversy. Hungarian officials post guards after a student demonstration against Yugoslavia. Armed Serb forces are sworn to have invaded, while Yugoslav forces deny it. Farmers offer to form a civil guard. military authorities refuse.
Hundreds gathered near city hall on East 6th street as 1028 relief checks totaling $4634 were handed out by the Texas Relief Administrator of Fannin county. The payroll lists 1836 names with 1740 working in November. average monthly family budget $16.85. funds allocated 85 percent to work, 8 percent to direct relief, 4 percent to administration. Wage scale reduced to 20 cents an hour from 30. Administrator Crawford notes more relief clients.
The Christian Endeavor leaders plan to bring several cars of youths from McKinney Sherman and Denison to lead the Vester service at First Christian Church Sunday at 5 PM. The church youth will participate in special music and invite all young people to attend.
D B Crawford three times Swisher County sheriff and county head of federal relief administration died from injuries in an overturned auto near Burleson. L L Thomas, traveling with him, was cut and bruised. They were en route to Temple to visit an ill relative. Crawford was a former Ranger.
Oslo reports Arthur Henderson president of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday. The disarmament efforts have attracted world attention.
A December Bronx tenement fire killed Mrs Catherine Gibeny and two of her sons aged 7 and 2, plus Mrs Minnie Johnson, and injured four others, including a 70 year old crippled woman who may die. The blaze started between the second and third floors of a 24 family building.
The past few days brought ideal weather for hog killing as farmers used the period to process meat. Spare-ribs backbane and sausage were plentiful at fair prices, with Fannin County hog numbers down this year due to participation in the government corn and hog program.
Geneva reports the League of Nations council approved an international army patrol for the Saar before the January 13 plebiscite. Britain Italy the Netherlands and Sweden are invited to contribute contingents under the League’s Saar governing commission with an English commander to be chosen.
Retail Merchants Association agrees to string the square with colored electric lights for Christmas. Work begins Monday with Texas Power and Light Company already installing display lights, and other firms to follow. By mid next week Bonham will glow with festive lighting ahead of Santa Claus’s visit.
In Geneva on December 8, France halted discussion before the League of Nations council. Foreign minister Pierre Laval declared France stands with Yugoslavia in a grave affair and sought peace by striking King Alexander. the outcome now rests with the League to prevent endangering peace.
The Department of Agriculture set this year's cotton crop at 9.731 million five hundred wound bales in its final report, down from 9.634 million in the preliminary estimate and far below last year's 13.047 million bales.
Manila Dec 8 report says floods in northern Luzon islands drowned sixteen persons, with many missing and several thousands left homeless due to Cagayan Valley flooding. The disaster affected residents across the region, prompting relief efforts.
Kraft-Phenix announces Bonham dairy plant ready Monday morning and urges farmers to deliver Sunday milk. Nine routes listed from Bonham to Ravenna, Carson, Randolph, Honey Grove, Ladonia, Wolfe City and nearby areas. Milk price set at 32 cents butterfat with payments twice monthly.
Washington December 8 Frank C Walker of New York named as possible director for a four billion dollar development program to exploit land and water resources. President Roosevelt hints at a major national development attack but plans are not yet announced. Bonham crowd celebrates Denison Kraft Phenix parade with Santa Claus and dances, floats, and community turnout from Denison Dallas and Sherman.
Bureau of Census data show Texas ginned cotton at 2 140 55 bales before November 1, down from 3 734 470 bales the previous year. The report notes a drop of over half a million bales year over year and hints at county ginning figures of interest inside.
The readable portion shows garbled temperature and forecast text with several misspellings and misplaced characters. No usable location date or specific conditions are extractable from the fragment.
Secretary Hull announced the United States will remain neutral in the Hungary Yugoslavia dispute and denied that Hungarian groups protested in the department. He said the U S is watching closely and has no information supporting Geneva claims about Youngstown Ohio creations in plots against the assassinated king.
Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation executives headed by C. H. Kraft of Chicago visited the Bonham plant Friday. Also present were N. Stoneich Montreal district production manager A. J. Riddle Southwestern manager L. C. Teissler Denison production manager and 30 to 40 company representatives from six Southwest states. They praised the plant as one of the most modern in the company and Bonham businessmen welcomed them.
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