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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1944
Page
1
Advertises several dwellings with 5 to 7 rooms on black top streets, each with conveniences, barns, garages, smoke houses and well water. Prices range from 1500 to 5300 dollars with notes on terms and improvements. Also includes a 9 10 acre farm 3 miles southwest of Honey Grove with a 3 bedroom dwelling, barn and electricity priced at 5000 dollars.
Column listing multiple small farms and acreage parcels for sale. Includes No 27 to No 33 with details on size, cultivation, pasture, dwellings, outbuildings, wells, windmills, electricity, ponds and lakes, nearby towns, schools, and transport. Prices range from 850 to 4250 dollars with terms offered.
An old man favors the past and dead things over the living while noting Christmas hangovers and the joke about surplus Christmas dollars. The meditation ends with a quip on nature preventing surplus time as the year ends and a new one begins.
Royce L. Brooks son of Mr and Mrs C A Brooks of Benham Rt 1 has been promoted to seaman first class. He is stationed in the Gilbert Islands and reports the heat there. A brother, Pvt James C Brooks, fights with the Fifth Army in Italy.
Mr and Mrs Leun Cason and child visited Mrs Cason's parents in Mulberry. Numerous relatives from Eva La Porte Ravenna Bonham Wolfe City Tyler Dallas Waxahachie Gainesville shared Christmas and weekend gatherings with local families including the Donaldsons Venables Hyatt Bond and Hall.
Idaho and Wyoming emerge as the leading centers for range sheep production while Ohio tops as the greatest farm sheep center in the region. The snippet highlights geographic dominance in sheep farming across western and midwestern states.
A reflective piece threads the Spindletop oil boom and Patillo Higgins belief in oil under Spindletop with Captain Lucas, plus a Beaumont sulphur finding tale. It recalls Higgins and Lucas, the Great gusher, and a Beaumont mine boss. The column also recounts a daring flight to cover a high school game, landing hazards, and a quip about grandparent choice and money.
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