Parsons well casing halted as gas or oil test looms
Ed Parsons and crew including Willianson and Parry return to finish 3600 feet of casing for a test well eight miles northwest of Bonham. Fifteen feet of mud was added to hold in rising gas as a precaution. Crew believes the well is producing gas or oil, a view shared by local men who inspected the property. Reports of Santa Claus face in Kilgore burning well draw reader interest.
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Willianson
Onham
Arsons
Parry
Williamson
Riller
Dallas News
Bonham
Santa Claus
Kilgore
Barn Fire in Honey Grove Destroys Barn and Cattle
Fire at Frank Goss Nagon Yard in Honey Grove destroys the barn sheds and livestock. Nine Jersey cows ten hogs and feed perish in the blaze. Fire department prevents spread. Bull saved, a gift from the Texas Power and Light Company to the 4 I Boys Club.
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4-I Boy's Club
Honey Grove
Frank Goss
Goss
Ab Boys
Texas Power Andight Company
Lord Caravan Visits Bonham For Special General Electric Display
Bonham is to host an event Monday featuring a gold finished General Electric Refrigerator mounted on a Deluxe delivery car. The display commemorates the Millionth General Electric Refrigerator presented to Henry Ford for the Edison Institute in Dearborn Michigan, with Truman Swope, president of GE, presiding.
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Bonham Monday
General Electricmpany
Henry Ford
Edison Institute of Schnology
Dearborn
Michigan
Trard Swope
Genal Electric Company
Miners Dig Tunnel To Reach Burning Oil Well Near Kilgore
Four miners laboring with drills tunnel seven feet high and six feet wide below Bell Graddy's burning oil well near Kilgore Texas. They work to reach the hole to cap the well as crew accelerates progress while arrival of standby workers had slowed prior access to four feet daily.
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Kilgore
Texas
Lanoma
Jay
Bell Graddy
German Smasher Schmeling Tops Stribling in 15th Round
Max Schmeling, the German heavyweight, defeated Young Stribling by technical knockout in the 15th round at Cleveland’s new stadium before about 35,000 fans and a gate near 325000. Stribling, battered and bleeding, fell in the corner as the referee halted the bout.
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Friday Nught
Germany
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Teuton
Giorgian
Schmeling
George Blake
Los Angeles
Lake Erie
Title Histor, Inc
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New Water Rates to Be Put in Operation
Fragmentary text discusses anticipated water rate changes and public reaction. No clear names, dates, or locations are readable to specify who is involved or when rates take effect.
Work on Dump Grows Steadily Amid Torrid Heat
Despite extreme heat, work continues along the east gap linking Bonham to Dodd City via Bois d Arc bottom. The proposed dump sits nine feet high to avoid regular floods, recalling 1904 floods that rivaled military actions and threatened local rails and camps.
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Bonham
Dodd City
Bois d.Arc
Bois d’ Arc
Thomases
Dois d' Are
Red River
Sunday church fellowship services across two Presbyterians
The message invites members of the First Methodist and First Christian churches along with Presbyterian congregations to joint fellowship services at a yacht post and Galty setting. Sermons include Our Declaration of Dependence by WR Holder and singing by Wa Wdomns. Also notes 24 hour weather with highs around 105 and scattered showers in Texas regions.
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Union
Lee
Simpson
Presbyterian
Methodist Amt
Christia
Ellowshup
Emah
WR Holder
Judge Refuses To Take Further Part In Boys Growth Case
Fragmented report mentions Eddie Holle and a Black individual, with unclear details. The text references a judge and a case involving youths, growth, and a drowning incident affecting tourists. Due to garbled OCR, specifics are unreadable.
Death of Ladonia Woman Reported
Midna Fuller died at home in Ladonia after months of poor health. Funeral services were held at Bethel Church in Ladonia with relatives and friends mourning a well known Bonham woman and community member.
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Ladonia
Midna Fuller
Bank Seeks Cooperative Growth For Community Prosperity
The text praises good farming and merchandising plus industrial prosperity tied to strong banking. It urges careful cooperation among industries to advance constructive welfare and notes the bank aims to support safe, sound prosperity in the community.
Leave College But Not Quit Jobs Shaping Mexican Youth
Mexico City July 4. News reports say President Pacua Ortiz Rubio urged Mexican youths to leave college but continue work, planning studies in Kansas and Canada next autumn. The action follows a case involving a Mexican youth facing repercussions for leaving American schools.
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Mexico City
Caese
Pacua
Rubio
Kansas
Canada
Bill Ness
Ardmorea
Milk Truck Crash on Rattlesnake Hill Near Sherman
A milk truck driven by W W Meadows and a Fent Milling Co truck driven by Toward Dobbs collided on Rattlesnake Hill near Sherman. The milk truck was demolished and about 3000 pounds of milk spilled. the Dobbs vehicle was damaged with minor injuries to Howard Dobbs and W W Meadows was bruised but not seriously hurt.
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W W. Meadows
Fent Milling Co
Dobbs
Rattle Snake Hill
Sherman
Howard Dobbs
Nis
Baldwin Rites Held in Honey Grove After Stamford Death
The funeral of J H Baldwin occurred this afternoon at 4 o clock in Honey Grove following his death Wednesday in Stamford after an illness. The notice said Baldwin had died in a hospital.
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J H. Baldwin
Honey Grove
Mr. Baldwin
Stamford
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