Unclear fragment notes address changes and timing
The readable text mentions an address change and a timetable to avoid delays. It also includes a casual greeting and partial remarks about paper changes and approval timing.
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1925
Page
1
The readable text mentions an address change and a timetable to avoid delays. It also includes a casual greeting and partial remarks about paper changes and approval timing.
A scattered column voices skepticism about fishing yarns and bootleg homebrews as the first of the month nears and hoss Monday approaches. It notes a circus craving, Ringling Brothers perhaps, a Navy man named Tony Augusta, and warns Dallas police about an IWW related clash while urging See America first and local Texas pride amid growing cotton and bank money talk.
In a reflective piece, the writer laments outdated schemes and advertising tricks that plagued Bonham and Amarillo a century ago. The column recalls faded rumors about a bell buzzard and a fallen canard, hoping such tales stay buried as time passes.
A space writer notes that the girls from the Golden West are spending at least $500 a day in London. He questions what they are buying and suggests Dukes and Earls may be involved. He warns of a growing Leviathan if prices rise.
Two papers publish the same editorial suggesting mutual copying or shared sources with no local value. A Muscular Wells index quips the idea as mental telepathy and notes a prior fly swatting anecdote appearing in two exchanges as proof of identical content.
A young woman from Taleo stopped at Rufus Bevill's home around 3 a.m. Wednesday for water after an automobile ride with a Paris resident she had dated for nearly a year. She declined Bevill's offer to stay the night and continued walking toward Talco.
Clarksville merchants weigh dropping street collections in favor of mailing all accounts at month end. The Times questions the impact on customers and notes waterworks, telephone, light providers and banks already use in person or mailed payment systems.
Editorials debate a plan to implement a new billing system in town. Some warn it would trigger an army of bill collectors and discomfort at month’s start, while others argue the scheme might succeed with proper execution. The discussion reflects local concerns about credit and revenue timing.
A Fort Worth column argues railroads face costly commissions while merchants and professionals choose locations freely. It questions why rail lines must seek state and national approval to expand, urging a competitive approach or uniform commissions to ease regulation and promote growth.
Hollywood gears up for a wave of sea pictures with Ralph Ince directing The Sea Wolf and John Barrymore in The Sea Beast, while William Fox shoots The Ancient Mariner and Dawn Productions launches its first sea saga. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer plans Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island in natural color as Impressario William Earnest Williamson leads the era’s briny cinema surge.
Noted continuity writer Kraely, once a European star, is now featured in a Lubitsch led production. The latest collaboration is Kiss Me Again, with Ernat Lubitsch guiding Kraely to American audiences. I also caught Constance Talmadge in He Sis.
Mr Considine oversees the new Valentino production directed by Clarence Brown on set today. Kreely located the script and pleased Brown. Louise Dresser, famed for The Goose Woman, plays the czarina of Russia in a Universal project similar to Pola Negri’s Forbidden Paradise.
Eric Von Stroheim will direct Constance Talmadge in East of the Setting Sun, a sequel to Graustark. Norma Talmadge has finished Graystark, adding interest with a crossover of the Talmadge sisters in the original McCutcheon romance.
In a vivid vignette a fifty to seventy something woman nicknamed Aunt Aurelia visits a beauty parlor. The waiting room hums with gossip as staff prepare instruments like for surgery. After a clay pack and a Marcel perm her hair shines coppery and waves, her complexion brightened though not truly youthful.
Dialogue fragment shows a mother and daughter joking about a young man Joe Brown wearing a wide belt and a remark about President Roosevelt and suspenders. Editor’s note appears to frame the snippet as a humorous exchange.
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