16 Jul 1921
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1921
Page
1
Local notes recount Bonham post office closure, editor remarks, and regional observations. Commentary covers Atlantic icebergs, coal talk, and youth career hopes, plus sports snippets from Bonham versus Clarksville and hotel resort chatter.
Two Bonham men L. Rodgers known as Hugh and Senator Gibson plan a swimming party at the Nat Monday night with taunting contests. Prizes for ladies who swim the pool most times with mouth shut and for the fat man who negotiates the pool without kicking or words. Children and others invited to enter. Contests run 7:30 to 9:00 PM.
League baseball match between Bonham and Sherman scheduled for tomorrow at the old Pavilion Park. Items advertised include fountain pens pencils harmonicas razors and straps. Brannon Jewelry Company and Fannin County Realty Company feature in local notices and a 1920 Ford Touring Starter is mentioned for sale.
Catarrh is described as a local disease worsened by constitutional conditions requiring constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and claims to act through the blood on mucous surfaces to destroy the disease's foundation, strengthen the patient, and assist nature in its work. A $100 reward is offered for any case not cured. Testimonials free. B J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
Night of July 22 features a church supper to benefit Mt Pleasant. Lindsey's Sherbets offered Sunday with Lindsey's Ice Cream Factory contact. The French American Beauty Parlor requests Bonham area ladies to call for appointments. scalp specialist Nancy B Sumpter offers guaranteed treatments with customer-focused motto.
Yesterday Myrtle Browning daughter of Henry Browning died at the family home in Ft Worth and her body will be brought here for burial arriving on the noon T and P train tomorrow. The service will be at the grave conducted by Rev Ernest Quick of the First Baptist church. Also an advertisement lists wedding rings cut glass silver and ducks and a sale of Poland China pigs by Phillip Wise.
Trustee L Burnet announces sale of McKinnis Brothers groceries and fixtures in Leonard Texas with invoices totaling 1005.75. Fixtures list available in Bonham Texas until sale day, Monday July 1 at 3 p.m. Auction to highest bidder.
Ed Weathersby came back from Chicago and Grand Rapids where he had been to market. He invites others to join a trip to Chicago to escape Texas heat, though he found Chicago hotter than Bonham and returned home the first day he could finish his work.
Little Miss Mabel Davis Chapman hosted friends at her North Pine Street home for a fifth birthday party. Games, ice cream cones, and photos followed a happy gathering, with guests including Elainae Hayton Elizabeth Stevens Johnnie Lou Phillips Thelma Hodge Tom Mae Mahon Willie Mae Phillips A P Bolding Jr Jallie Mae Weathersby Mabel Owens Alma Owens Mildred Potter Geo Potter Chas Roberts Lorena Calhoun Velma Maxwell James Denton John Claude Longimore Janet Harris and James Harris.
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