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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1908
Page
1
Harris Polk Hat Co of St Louis offers hats in the latest styles of first class fur stock and guaranteed wearer quality. The line promises hats that are peer to any in wear and style.
Fresh shipment from Kincaid Reedy Hughes promises highest prices for furs hides and poultry. I Rudman advertises buy sell geese feathers at the East side square opposite court house urging customers to compare cash offers for turkeys chickens and eggs before selling.
Horses, mules, cattle, corn and other property offered for sale by cash or credit with security. Property available for viewing at the farm of J C Evans, eight miles north of Ivanhoe, owned by Will H Evans.
Andy P. Evans advertises typewriter cleaning and repair services for old and new machines. He offers stenographic and mimeograph work as well as general typing and repairs with first class guarantees and better than average results. Phone 105.
Mc Sandy Land Farmer advisory urges buyers to visit Thompson Abernathy Co to save money on cast plows and improve farming costs.
A cow owner on North Center Street offers a public sale of a large lot two blocks from a public school for 125 dollars. Trade for a good cow. Will H. Evans seeks a suitable exchange.
Advertisement notes R Bain Nall Optic Phone Hotel Alexander offering the largest and best bunches of bananas ever brought to town at 60 to 75 cents per bunch, with a call to come early.
A deadly tornado devastates Mississippi communities, destroying homes and leaving an entire family dead. Emergency crews search wreckage as residents reel from the catastrophe and officials assess the damage.
A Texas windstorm that reached tornado proportions in Tyler killed four people including a husband wife and infant and damaged property across the region. Mississippian towns were leveled by a separate tornado with six to ten dead. A Comanche public school was unroofed and telephone service disrupted. In Dallas the day’s primary voting proceeded with modest enthusiasm and results listed for city offices and aldermen across wards.
Mrs. J C Haden died at her Durant home on Fourth avenue at 7 30 PM yesterday of gastritis. She was fifty five and leaves a husband J C Haden and two sons Albert and John. The funeral was held at the Baptist church with Rev Stubblefield conducting. Born in 1853 in Barry county Missouri she moved to Ladonia Texas in 1865 and to Durant in 1899 where Mr Haden runs a store with his two sons.
Near the Canadian river north of McAlester three Burton brothers Lorch Bud and Mac were killed in a knife attack by tenants from a Burton farm. Doug and Aroh Caesar were arrested with a third suspect uninjured. Authorities say the trio came to settle rent accounts at the Burton store. A Bonham High School class pin is offered for return in the ad found with the report.
Do not be slow but come and skate once more at the old City Rink. The rink will be open Tuesday February 18 with ladies allowed to skate free until Thursday inclusive.
The piece urges forming saving habits with weekly earnings and placing funds in a bank. It notes state supervision and offers 4 percent interest on savings and time deposits of three months or longer.
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