05 Feb 1948
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1948
Page
1
Bonham Daily Favorite announces correction policy for errors and notes United Press news rights. It lists subscription rates for city carrier and mail, and names publisher editor staff roles and positions.
An advertisement from Spencer Insurance Agency seeks good homes and farms for immediate sale. The office reports being full with buyers and offers quick courteous service to property owners wanting to sell, stressing their successful business and eagerness to show properties.
Real estate ads describe 25 acres near Bonham with 15 acres cultivable and 10 acres pasture, a four room dwelling with porches, barn, orchard, and well water. Prices span from 60 to 3500 dollars with various options including immediate possession and multiple small homes and farms. Prominent mentions include near East 9th Street and Evans Avenue properties, and notices seeking buyers for black land and mixed farms.
Close to town the No 1 location grocery store and station shows strong performance and immediate buyer appeal. Also offered is a four room house on South Main for $2300 with immediate possession.
An investment offer advertises a concrete block building with a 40 by 97 foot lot priced at $525000. It claims a higher yield than 10 percent rental and is listed by 594 J Spencer Insurance Agency.
Four room house built in 1945 on a blacktop street in South Borham. All rooms are large and well ventilated with full conveniences. Owner will sacrifice for 370000 dollars. Contact 594-31 Spencer Insurance Agency 4-C.
Eight lots available for home building or rental use priced from 25000 to 200900. One of these new terms is sought. Property referenced as 594 J Spencer Inn Agency.
One of the best 75 acre sandy land places in Fannin County with a good four room house, a 30x30 barn and three other outbuildings. Includes 26 acres cultivated and balance pasture, ample water, orchard, grazing land. Joins on rental basis. Only $2700. 594-1-Bpencer Ins. Agency.
A notice states the party who borrowed a tent should return it. Sheriff Dick Wait is awaiting the original owner to bring the tent home and identify the party last in possession. The message implies a retrieval request without further details.
Washington officials report Petroleum interests plan actions to ease a fuel oil shortage. They will cut refinery gasoline output for two months to reserve for heating, restrict supplies in some areas to save transport, and boost gasoline production in spring to meet farm needs. Max Bell of the interior department notified the National Petroleum Council of the attorney general ruling.
About 100 4-H club youths from Bartow Woons Edhube and Ivanhoue traveled by school bus to the Fort Worth Fat Show Monday with M Margaret Jackson US home demonstration ager reporting a wonderful trip despite a little car trouble delaying their return.
The Naval Air Transport Service canceled a single Hotshot line flight from Washington to San Francisco in its first year of operation due to heavily iced runways at National Airport. The report notes coal has been the dominant American fuel since about 1840, replacing wood.
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