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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1936
Page
2
The 20 1001 model of the solar system and 4000 stars visible unaided were donated to the University Centennial Exhibition by Dr E G Keller astronomy professor at the University of Texas.
Several Wichita Falls and Dallas residents travel for the Texas Centennial in Dallas. Miss Pegey Glass and Miss Betty Gray Saunders return home from Wichita Falls and Texas University respectively. J L Hammett and family visit relatives in Durant Sherman Tyler and Dallas with plans to see the Centennial.
Roosevelt urges prompt full cashing of all government soldier bonds. The message, distributed via the Federal Reserve to its 12 banks, then reaches banks across districts. Tulsa incident follows with a noted Republican remark and a mistaken office encounter.
The W M S of First Methodist held an unusually engaging meeting with readings on South American missions. A poetry reading and a Spanish music segment accompanied a flower decorated Wesley Class room reception hosted by Mrs Nevill and Mrs Leatherwood.
Farmers near Rbilene report yields of wheat and oats higher than expected though not a bumper crop due to heat.
District Manager Addie Hamlin will attend the Woodmen Circle regional meeting in Hollister Missouri starting Monday for five days. About 700 delegates from fourteen states are expected as National officers and state managers participate in rituals, schools of instruction, drills, a pageant, memorial service, and a farewell breakfast.
Boys wishing to attend A and M College are urged to meet in the C of C room on Sunday afternoon June 19 at 2 30 to discuss plans for the coming year. Mr Gant Clutter led a community house at A and M last year for 18 to 20 students at low cost and many more wish to enroll next year. The meeting will outline the program and necessary steps for admission.
Naomi Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs Smith and Pau Fitzwater son of the late Rep Fitzwater and Mrs Fitzwater wed Tuesday afternoon at her home officiated by Mrs Milam. The bride wore a white net dress with white accessories. Groom employed in the old district at Olney where they will live. Attendants Miss Aline Antwine and Marcus Moore from the city. Miss Antwine wore a flowered sheer dress with white accessories. Reported.
Scientists say a 200 year old maple in Maine could live 150 more years if not harmed. VY McGregor fought highway officials to save the tree and prompted redraws of a planned highway. In New York Harold June, chief pilot for Admiral Byrd, plans a two year Antarctic expedition.
Sun tan offers and calisthenics mark a morning at the Park where Sub-District Commander Ben O. Murch oversees from Bonham. Inspectors Kaufman Wolfe City Paris Bogoto tour. court construction, tennis storehouse, and asphalt facing progress. Out-of-state visitors log stats as Wilbanks from Princeton Seminary speaks on Christian living. Pigeon Shillings hosts bathing show as a toe injury occurs.
Rexford Guy Tugwell may face a punch from Texas legislator Eugene Worley amid dispute over a Dust Bowl moving picture. Worley vows to push the convention to help suppress the film as a “detriment” to the region. The potential clash looms at the Democratic National Convention.
More than 500 editors are expected at the fifty seventh annual Texas Press Association meeting in Tyler June 11 and 12. The theme What the Press of Texas Means to Texas frames the convention with keynote by Judge Frank AnderCor of Galveston. Other speakers include George A Riley from the American Press Association New York City and Alfonso Johnson of the Southwestern Association of Advertising Agencies Dallas.
A Florida train announcer delivers a running list of place names including Apalachicola Chattahoochee Cassadaga Estiffinulga and Homosassa. The quirky mouthful features ATI aboard for Chokolaskee Claudia Apalachicola Alipeka and other towns.
A wind rain and dust storm swept portions of west Tennessee north Mississippi and east Arkansas on Wednesday bringing relief to sweltering residents and drought strained crops.
A fragment notes an odd seasonal shift described by Bill Nye as winter mogering in the lap of spring. Neighbors in Chicago discuss the unusual weather pattern and its effects on daily life.
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