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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1929
Page
4
Erratic OCR fragment references a legal or administrative notice involving Jagan Music and a university, indicating a restricted building or activity at a villa or area. No clear names, dates, or actions are legible beyond mentions of a university, music, and a possible injunction or order.
Governor Moody submitted prison reform legislation and related options to the Legislature. He urged passage of a bill granting a single commission authority to rate and guide plans for the prison system’s overhaul amid a crisis as the body prepared to discuss nine proposed measures.
United Press reports in Kenridge on June 12 that several dollars worth of diamond jewelry was found pinned to a corset inside a negro’s home after the corset was blown from a window in a blast.
Washington June 12 Senate debate raised by Senator Brookhart Republican Iowa to organize a third party if the Agricultural Relief Bill debenture provision fails of enactment.
Chicago June 12. Senate failure to accept the agricultural bill removes the main prop for the wheat market and sends prices tumbling. A headline notes a suspected gangster is slain in Cleveland.
Police report a fresh gang outbreak with shots fired after a man was killed in a Tuesday attack. A separate St Louis bank robbery yielded about $2,000, with a pursuit and unclear casualties. Local authorities investigate both incidents.
Violent electrical storms with heavy rain killed at least ten people and damaged property in eight midwest states including Illinois Minnesota Iowa Wisconsin Dakota and Nebraska and northern Indiana. Winds toppled roofs on buildings and a hotel and school house at Rankin Texas as the storms raged.
In New York on June 1 Flo Ziegfeld voiced disgust at dirt and nakedness in contemporary revues and said he would abandon revue production and the Follies unless the format changes. A Galveston dispatch notes the first Miss Universe title going to Austria’s representative, with Romania and other contestants also in the final tally.
Unclear OCR text reports an aircraft incident involving a governor of New Jersey with fragmented details including locations like the oval Water House and references to a companion or witness, plus mentions of a bank and home.
A Wolfe City child, three years old, claimed a world yo-yo record with a spinning time of 3 hours 50 minutes. The event was observed by local officials at Wolfe City School.
Tyler hosts the East Texas Peace Officers Association two day convention with a pistol shooting event and a mock trial. Participants arrive from Palestine Ranger Marshall Waco Falls Shreveport Dallas Tyler McKinney Austin Fort Worth Houston San Antonio Nacogdoches Will Point Athens. Speakers include Judge J. R. Warren District. Col 7. N Jones Tyler. William McCraw Dallas County DA. Tom Hupghe Shreveport Sheriff. C R Pilkerton Cotton Belt chief special agent.
Farmersville Lexas June 11 Roy Philip manager of Farmersville Cotton Oil Company experiments in reclaiming washed land by planting sweet clover. Half of twenty acres of badly washed soil now grows clover profusely. Land first treated and now rebuilding toward productivity. Philip runs a dairy and chicken ranch and finds clover a fine feed for his stock.
The Dallas gathering of Methodist preachers reports sessions on evangelism worship Bible study missions and church work. Led by I. Sensabaugh Tulsa Oklahoma the event showcases courses and programs for broad church education across Texas and New Mexico communities.
Governor Moody signed the barber regulation measure creating a three member licensing commission. The law strengthens oversight of barbering practice and education with penalties for violations. Separately, reports note the death of George W. Prersol, long in the Oklahoma City bond trade, and Byron D. Sheer, longtime attorney and Republican leader.
Partly cloudy and cooler in northwest Texas with a similar trend in West Texas tonight. Thursday's outlook predicts continued partial cloudiness and cooler conditions across both regions.
In Clarksdale Mississippi Mrs John Lawernce heard her year old child chatter and found a new rattle. Gripped by frenzy she hurled the toy against a wall and killed it with a chair. The baby cried Ho owns a rattlesnake.
Bonnie Davis a 17 year old from Hookerville Oklahoma was found shot through the heart in a weed patch behind a Baxter Springs Kansas house early Tuesday. The body showed she had been dead several hours and no weapon was found nearby. Authorities reported an arrest had been made later that day and noted she had threatened self harm over a love affair.
Leonard Rinelander of a prominent New York family has moved to Las Vegas New Mexico and plans to sue for divorce from Alice Jones Rinelander daughter of a black hack driver. Attorney Harley Harmon says the suit rests on general grounds of mental cruelty and attempts to avoid sensational testimony from a past annulment case in New York.
Thirteen French soldiers were killed and ten injured with eighty one missing after a Moroccan rebel attack on a reconnaissance patrol in the Atlas mountains. The incident was reported from Rabat with details still developing.
Opponents in Alabama's Democratic Party prepare to oppose Senator Heflin in the next year's primaries. Heflin declares his candidacy will let the people express the type and standard of senator they want to represent them.
Prohibition era memories in Dallas recall eleven arrests for drunkenness and a total of 40 arrests for vagrancy and gambling last night. Liquor was seized as a crime wave touched the city with a violent incident involving James Littleton who admitted assault on his daughter Mary Nell. A melee at the Shanghai case left a man badly cut and a woman with a fractured jaw as several participants were taken into custody.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the death sentence for Lea Roy Merriam who, after a Dallas dance, was among two men charged with attacking three girls under 19. The ruling came from Austin on June 12.
The Texas House Appropriations Committee rejected Senator W. A. Williamson's $1,000,000 plan to buy property adjoining the Alamo. The bill passed the Senate with one dissenting vote, while supporters plan to push it on a minority report.
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