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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1943
Page
1
A real estate ad describes multiple city properties including 6 and 7 room dwellings, 4 room homes, 2 acre lots, garages, and suburban plots. Prices range from 800 to 4000 dollars with terms offered. The agency seeks listings and advertises insurance services.
Deets Dorough and Co advertise several farms for sale in the Red River area and Bonham Texas. Listings include a 66-phones-316 rent and insure note, 250 acre stock farm with gravel road and school bus, 160 acre blackland farm on highway with daily mail, and 100 acre stock farm near Bonham with good improvements. Prices range from 30 to 750 per acre with cash and terms. J M Carver, Box 253, Bonham. See tag at 220 West 4th Ave. Bonham, Tex. Phone 297-M.
The piece questions shifts in gender roles over fifty years and notes berry field owners struggle to find pickers. It laments women’s comfort with work in the woods and contrasts mothers’ patience with machines, while joking about John L. Lewis and Franklin Roosevelt versus Teddy.
An ad from J. W. Peeler Drug Co promotes a star sulphurous compound added to drinking water and feed to destroy intestinal germs and worms in poultry. It claims to prevent diseases and remove lice mites fleas blue bugs and red bugs that harm chicks. The product is said to cost little and offers a money back guarantee. August 12.
The Office of War Information says aviation industry output for 1943 will reach 20.1 billion dollars, about a quarter of the wartime budget and nearly one seventh of national income. The survey notes no cargo only planes for long range service exist yet, with several in production.
Here over weekend S set. and Mrs. J. P. Gary in San Marcos spent weekend in Bonham with their parents. Sgt Gary is in the dental clinic at the San Marcos post. Mrs. D. C. Whitt Bonham Rt 1 has received a letter from her son Pvt. Julian Whitt in North Africa.
Civil Aeronautics Administrator C S Stanton envisions an air fleet to carry most of the nation's and world's aerial freight. He says transports will supplement but not supplant rail and sea routes, noting air costs must drop from about 44 cents to 10 cents per mile to compete.
Bonham residents learn Pvt. Jimmie Gaunce has arrived safely in North Africa though censoring forbids details. At San Antonio, AC Viscent trains as aviation cadet. he met Lt. Grinnell and Capt. Morgan. Three McEwen brothers serve in army and navy. one teaches anti aircraft gunnery at Camp Haan. Kennedy brothers arrive on furloughs. Lavock improving in Minnesota hospital.
Longview reports a pasture demonstration scheduled for June 7 to aid the war effort as part of postwar planning. Hubert M. Harrison of the Texas Chamber of Commerce announced a series of stops across East Texas from June 8 in Atlanta to June 24 in Coates.
R L Clements, a Henry County Alabama native living in Cass County Texas since infancy, recalls arriving by ox wagon and mentions Red River upbringing. He questions when the dummy line and local seminary were built, estimating timelines around 33 and 63 years ago and seeking exact dates.
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