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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1925
Page
2
Published daily except Sunday by Favorite Printing Co. Sherwood Spotts publisher Ashley Evans managing editor Chas Inglish business manager. Foreign representatives listed. Notices of entertainments with admission fees charged at one cent per word. Obituaries and cards also charged. Change of address requires old and new addresses.
A brief devotional note quotes Romans 13 10 stating love fulfills the law and urges readers to live by neighborly love as a guiding principle.
Long dispatch questions proposed fifty thousand dollar appropriation for a Texas Literacy Commission to educate illiterates, arguing volunteers could teach without state funds. It notes 297000 adults illiterate, debates need for more judges in Dallas County, school funding sufficiency, and a San Antonio judge invalidating the state Ranger law.
The piece mixes local crime beat notes with a sharp lampoon of Washington resignations. It references Rangers cracking down on bootleggers and other crimes in San tone, notes resignation waves among officials, and mentions Homestead Law debates in Texas as summarized in a Denison Herald analysis.
A fragmented timetable lists train connections from Bonham through Greenville via Bailey Leonard Celeste Kingston and Santa Fe with multiple daily departures to Dallas Sulphur Springs Tyler Terrell and other points. Fares and times include Bonham to Greenville at 7 30 a m and 9 30 a m with onward Dallas service around 9 50 a m 1 00 p m and 8 00 p m. Departure from Alexander Hotel Phana area noted.
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