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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1918
Page
3
An old advertisement promotes Swift Specific Co medicine claiming to cure rheumatism by purifying blood and strengthening the system. It urges readers to write to the medical director in Atlanta Georgia for treatment advice.
County Judge A P Bolding and W A Spangler, County Clerk Deets Dorough and J B Laughlin, County Attorney O L Couch and A L McRae, Sheriff S F Ss Tincher and W E Biggerstaff with J E Whitley, Constable Precinct One W Edwards and J B Birdwell, Public Weigher Bonham Sam B Miller and Lee Moore.
In 1917 our real estate and insurance business stands out for honesty and fair dealing. We invite inquiries about fire or life insurance, city property, farms, or notary work, promising the benefit of excellent companies and years of experience.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure offering a reward for cured cases. It claims a 35 year reputation, explains the medicine acts on the mucous surfaces to expel poison and heal diseased parts, and urges immediate use with testimonials from Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
236 acres with fifty in cultivation and timber, pine and hardwood. Includes a good house, barn, outhouse, open range and a running stream. Sandy loam soil, 90 percent cultivable, no overflow. Twelve miles northeast of Cenroe. Priced at 5000 dollars with small cash payment and easy balance through Ashley Evans Land Co or Dr. C. A Gray. If
Earl C Ross, publisher of the Hamilton County Republican News in Syracuse Kansas, reports using Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for years. He calls it the only cough remedy on the market and endorses its merits based on family use.
The Bonham Buick Co has fitted up a new home in their own building on West Fourth street and invites customers to call and view their cars. They emphasize the Buick as a real car and provide phone number 199.
Dr Edwards olive tablets offer a natural laxative to aid chronic constipation and torpid liver. Advertised as calomel free with a mild vegetable base, the product claims to cleanse bowels, improve breath, and boost energy with nightly use.
Ninety acre tract five miles northwest of Bonham offers fifty cultivated and forty pasture acres with immediate possession if sold soon. Improvements include a four room bungalow, clean barns, and hog pasture. Priced at 40 dollars per acre with terms through Hendrix Williamson.
A historical document listing gross income categories deductions and notes for taxpayers. It enumerates income types such as salaries commissions rents interest dividends royalties and partnership profits and lists deductions including salaries taxes repairs depreciation and insurance premiums. The form instructs filling before return submission under oath and mentions various sources and items to list separately.
Advertising copy promises instant pain relief from headaches with Dr James Headache Powders. Urges readers to send someone to the drug store for a dime package to end suffering and relieve neuralgia and sinus pain within moments.
Mr and Mrs C. Millis left this morning for Texarkana upon receiving notice of the death of Mrs Millis father S R Callom in that city.
A fragmented plea urges mothers to seek calming support amid exhausting chores and nerve strain. The message emphasizes nourishing guidance to ease daily demands and restore well being.
Four room house on half acre with hall porch city water barn and hen house. Well located though some distance from the square. To be sold very cheap by Ashley Evans Land Co.
Farmers receive guidance on deductions for business expenses in income tax returns. Deductions cover land prep labor seed and fertilizer livestock care feed repairs to farm buildings fences machinery operation costs and small tools. Machinery cost itself is not deductible but operating costs are.
Vague references describe uric acid issues and remedies with a cloudy claim of a tablespoonful in a waxlike preparation. The text mentions transfers of a small farm, buyers including L. M. Walker and W. H. Evans, and a purchase from C. T. Caldwell, with no clear events or dates.
Miss H F Oates and Miss Naomi Pratt left for Petty and Ravenna while Jack Biard went to Cuero and Gonzales for a two week stay. Mrs W T Henderson returned to Dallas after visiting Luther Ware. Dr Bacon Saunders visited his mother Mrs S J Saunders in Fort Worth then went home.
Appeals to U S school children to knit and sew garments for refugees destitute from war. French and Belgian children helped by kits and hospital garments. American Red Cross urges continued donations as thousands of garments already turned in and more needed.
Bois d Arc posts blocks piling and rough timber wanted by Lyon Gray Lumber Co. Call the office for specifications and prices.
A condensed sales pitch notes that many people have recovered health using these tablets and that the price is only 25 cents, suggesting a worthwhile trial.
I have a Ford in good shape, a Chevrolet roadster, and a seven passenger Paige for sale or trade for Fannin County property. Also notes on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy from Mrs. George Lewis of Pittsfield New York praising its effects on a sick child. Ashley Evans Land Co. offers to sell or buy property with advertising and deed preparation, and Chamberlain's Tablets praised for constipation relief and digestion.
An early 20th century warning against calomel promoting Dodson's Liver Tone as a vegetable, gentler liver remedy. The advertisement claims calomel is dangerous causing sickness and salivation, while Liver Tone prevents this and guarantees quick, safe liver action for adults and children.
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