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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1944
Page
1
A column lists multiple farms and houses for sale with varying sizes from 4 to 6 rooms. Properties include No 22 to No 33 with details on dwelling rooms, utilities, acreage, improvements, wells, water, electricity, barns, and roads. Prices range from 1600 to 5300 with terms offered where noted.
Urrie Ashley notes the navy’s global reach while questioning postwar use of the merchant marine and surplus vessels. He jokes that smokers should cut consumption to boost cigarette supply and that bacon on Saturday comes from skipping the other weekdays. He briefly cites Eisenhower’s urgent shell and bomb needs.
G W Jackson, a long time Texas resident since 1884, recalls boyhood plowing with a steel-beam plow and notes a tractor now plows fifteen acres in a day. Advertises the Philip Wise Farm No 027, 156 acres north of Lanham, offering by J L Kerr Possession January 1 1945 via Winals Bankers Life Assurance Co. representative E J Bodman with price 5000 down 120000 mortgage 3800 and annual payments.
The Purple Warriors open their cage season tonight at Savoy against a seasoned Savoy quintet. Savoy, with multiple wins, holds the edge over Benham, whose squad is largely untested after a week’s practice. Veterans Hawkins Lumpkins and Hiatt from last year lead a largely new team under Coach E E B Wilshire.
Houston December 13 The Oil Bowl classic hosted by Randolph Field is suspended until 1946 due to a War Department order barring air force teams after Saturday. Randolyn Field was to face Second Air Force Superbombers in the Bond Bowl in New York City. About $40,000 was returned to ticket buyers.
A terse World War II era note records two blasts by liberators at the Pacific Fleet headquarters in Pearl Harbor, marking a wartime incident likely dated from the early campaign period. No further details are provided in the fragment.
An Army Liberator force struck Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands group on Sunday December 19 as the strategic air force intensified its assault on Tokyo’s fortress. B-24s faced only moderate anti aircraft fire over the lonely island amid reported enemy losses.
A garbled early December Houston report tells of a father overseas and a child missing near a Houston station. The piece mentions a Santa Claus figure and a charitable appeal, but the exact details are unclear due to the OCR errors.
To the H. D. Club of Ravenna I have received the Christmas package sent by the Home Demonstration Club of Ravenna and Tam takin I take this opportunity to thank each one of you for thinking of me.
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