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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1925
Page
1
Dayton Tennessee July 13 The Scopes evolution trial adjourns until Monday to allow both sides to prepare for a major decision on whether defense experts will testify for evolution. Attorney General Stewarts says prosecutors will oppose the move, marking a pivotal development in the proceedings.
In Dallas on July 11 a carpenter named Paul Reavis aged 48 was working in extreme heat for days and developed severe sunburn requiring hospital treatment. A physician at Emergency Hospital stated the ailment was real and serious.
At a recent board meeting, officials reported federal aid funds set aside to assist the county, with a plan to build a gravel and later asphalt road from Bonham toward Red River and connect with Oklahoma. The Highway Department indicated designations and cross-state cooperation, including a bridge over Red River, would need a special legislative act and October action to proceed.
Scopes defense lawyers question whether they will be allowed to defend themselves as the trial pauses. Clavner Darrow and staff confer with Dudley Field Malone amid Bryan and prosecution resistance over admitting scientific evidence. If Bonham has it, buy here.
Walter Maranville manager of the Chicago Cubs and two other team members were arrested in New York for disorderly conduct after a dispute over a taxi tip. The incident involved failure to tip a taxi driver and resulted in their detention.
Joseph Gant, president of the failed Centropolis Bank, died at his home in Kansas City on July 11 after illness since bank closure. He had been under a $60,000 bond and faced questions about the bank’s missing $620000.
United Press dispatches from New York report the Dayton evolution trial expanding to a world story with UPI cabling about a thousand words daily to foreign clients. The British bureau arranged a special service while Central Europe and South America press give wide play. R C White family returns from Colorado trip by car.
In Rome the Pope praises modest dress campaign as pilgrims from Tunis visit the Vatican. In Texas, Lockhart hotel keeper Moon is bonded for 1000 on the fatal shooting of C. D Patten after a late altercation noted by officers.
Auslin July 11 The State Board of Control calls a meeting of state hospital superintendents for Monday to discuss the new eleemosynary law and its changes to admission methods into the institutions.
Governor Miriam Ferguson granted four conditional pardons and seven restoration of citizenship on Saturday. The action occurred in Austin as part of the expected clemency program amid ongoing reforms.
Dee Thompson near Gene Risser’s farm displays a large Elberta peach crop of the Favorite 4s lamb variety. The scene reflects local farming and community life near the city with notes on crops and daily concerns.
Austin July 11 The State Board of Health issued a warning urging better preventive measures to curb the typhoid fever epidemic. It stresses typhoid vaccination and strict sanitation of residential premises amid high rural population risk in Texas.
More than 2,000 citizens claiming to be Klan adherents paraded through Chicago suburbs early this morning to close saloons and vice resorts. No violence was reported by police at this time.
Fred Dennis former state bank commissioner of Oklahoma is held in McAlester for failure to pay a $10,000 fine after his sentence for irregularities in his administration expired this morning. Governors will decide disposition of the case.
Fredrick Oklahoma July 11 Mrs Graham is hospitalized with gunshot wounds after she and her 16 year old daughter were killed and another daughter was injured by her husband who allegedly killed Mrs Mel Metchen and the girl during a quarrel with neighbors reporting a feud between the families.
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