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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1936
Page
3
More than 65000 dollars were collected in Stockholm last year in dog licenses. About 8500 dollars worth of varying breeds were registered in January this year, up 500 from 1935.
Thomas A. Edison entertains guests at his elegant Simmer residence filled with labor-saving devices. A stubborn turnstile halts passage and provokes a joke about its power consumption as visitors push to enter. Jean Herschel, a Danish figure, is noted as having been adopted by the Seneca tribe.
Ben Burger of Denison, Rayburn’s return to Washington, Miss Mayo’s CIA degree home visit, Jimmy McDade traveling to Eastland, Laura Joyner hospitalized, Gober Gibson returning to Kerrville, Dick Wait earns cake for ugliest candidate, White and Culbreath visiting Mayo family, Martha Lowery recovering post appendectomy, Will Evans accompanying ill wife from Sherman, Pat Buchanan and son guests of Kincaid family highlighting naval academy tenure and local ties.
The Calvary Baptist church South Bonham announces a revival starting June 7 with Rev A B Van Arsdale preaching at 12 pm and 8 pm in Midlothian. The public is invited to all services and a silk hose sale ends Saturday with special prices.
Dallas county candidate Cowboy Kal Segrist visited Bonham on Wednesday to promote his bid for Agriculture Commissioner. He distributed circulars outlining planks including a State Honorary Agricultural Advisory Board funded by pay, and endorsed coordination with Texas A&M and its branches. Segrist, 39, was born in Hamilton County.
Pickering Missouri touts its barber trade legacy with more than 50 graduates since 1900. Former residents from Tilinnis to California spread the craft while Charles Wagner and the Wagner line are highlighted. The town’s barbering tradition continues, aided by Saturday farm visits and nearby Maryville spillover. A separate Austin Texas note mentions a whisky inspector tied to bootlegging cases.
BonhamIce Cream Co has operated in Bonham for twenty five years and built a business envied by top ice cream plants in North Texas. The firm shows steady growth amid regional competition.
The plains folk sing cowboy songs to herd cattle to market with rhythms matching the gait of horses from trot to lope. Classic tunes like Get Along Little Dogies and Home on the Range express the vast plains and the hearts of cowboys under the night sky.
W P Puckett arrives as Texas Telephone Company manager in Bonham with wife and daughter Miss Walline. They settle at 401 West 4th Street and express pride in joining an enterprising city. Puckett notes promising Comanche crop conditions and local dairy production.
M C Spivy and Co announces two more days on specially priced Se Ling Silk Hose. The Gober Cemetery Association sponsors a cream supper at the Gober Gym Friday night. June All visitors are cordially invited. D and W
The Cavalcade of America will air Heroes of Texas on June 10 at 8 PM coast to coast over the CBS network sponsored by Du Pont. The program recounts Texas history from Moses Austin through Stephen Austin and General Sam Houston, highlighting the struggle for independence and statehood with archival details and collaboration from the National Bank of Commerce and Expo officials.
Anna notes that the Alamo garrison was wiped out and Texas moved toward independence from Mexico, ultimately joining the United States as a state. The account reflects a historical sequence linking the Alamo defeat to Texas statehood.
Bonham reports capture of one escapee in Denison switch yards and another en route to Quinlan Texas. Officials still seek two other fugitives as details remain murky about the jail break and escape route. A spoon apparently aided the digging, though concrete work was weak.
In a strained classroom exchange a teacher accuses a pupil of talking like a foolish person and demands if the pupil is the teacher in the room. The pupil denies being the teacher, prompting a terse reprimand.
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