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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1936
Page
2
The Bonham Cotton Oil Mill advertises oat bags and grain buying and selling services for corn, wheat, oats, and cot onseed. It also notes a financing forecast by the Treasury for June.
Prominent local men Grady Smith Dean Peterson Bull Parke John Tinsley Harveey Emmons Woodrow Gilbert Clarence Gray Knowles Earthman George Melton and William Castleberry receive leadership promotions in Company 89-4 at the Bonham CCC Camp. Mr GC Jones and his Jones family quartet entertained Thursday evening with a humorous performance and songs.
An exact Annapolis replica built by the Bureau of Yards and Docks from blotters blocks and strings is finished and will travel to Dallas Texas for visitors to view. The miniature campus is on a 50 feet to 1 inch scale, five feet four inches long and will be encased in glass.
A fragment urges reflection on long efforts by men to win political office and questions what to do amid persistent schemes. The note appears as an editorial musing in the Toledo Blade.
Bonham and surrounding residents travel to Dallas for the Texas Centennial events. Notables include Mr and Mrs Will Van Zandt, Miss Frances Culbreath, Joe Brannon and family, Miss Virginia Akane, Beth Luttrell, and others visiting relatives, sightseeing in Dallas, and returning from travels to Washington and Mexico City.
See Dr Fett for eye care on Saturday in Bondoa and for repair jobs at 129 South 25th Street. Quick service available any other day at Paris Texas with contact 295-11tp.
Byron Utecht Fort Worth newspaperman chased a moving train for Roosevelt's party near Deer Park Texas. He sped along the highway with a State Patrolman guiding on a motorcycle and flagged the train down at a crossing about five miles from Deer Park. The train stopped and Utecht boarded amid cheers from colleagues.
A swallow exhausted into the wheelhouse of Capt Burghs 100 foot fishing ship near the coast, then rode back to port aboard the yacht. The bird contentedly settled in as the vessel returned to harbor.
The Babcock brothers known as F O and Jess Floyd launched auto parts ventures in Denison and Sherman, expanding to 15 stores across northeast Texas and southeast Oklahoma. They employ about 75 workers and recently updated fixtures and displays to showcase over 4 000 items in a long standing family business celebrating its 16th birthday.
In Dallas on June 12 the interior of Mexico supplied one hundred wild cattle for use in the Texas Centennial Exposition corrals for the World Championship Rodeo event. The stock was purchased to stock the arena for ongoing competitions and demonstrations.
Death claims neighbor Mr WS Cooper aged 84 on May 20 at the home of daughter Mrs Venn Jaggers. Funeral held May 21 at Dodd City Methodist church with burial in Dodd City cemetery. Survived by seven children, a step son, grandchildren, great grandchildren. Cooper was a devoted church member and Christian. Other notes mention families visiting, Bud Fagal buying a new pickup, and local visits in Dodd City.
Crossroads residents complain as mail from Elida New Mexico arrives only three days a week despite a new Clovis to Sovington route. Senators Hateh and Chavez have been asked to intervene to fix the mailing schedule.
In a speech to payee workers, Berry signals attention to the Lavor goal eight and proposes a targeted £1 gesture. No other details on timing or scope are provided in the excerpt.
Miss Jeanette Freeman and Oscar Kennedy, popular young people of Ravenna, were married Thursday afternoon at 3 oclock by Rev B F Milam at his home in Bonaa. Friends witnessed the ceremony and wished them happiness.
Center Texas student Jimmie Huron Oats, class of 36, is hailed by Consolidated High School in Paxton as the nation’s largest graduate. He is 17, six feet two inches tall, weighs 485 pounds, with a 63 inch waist and a No 8 hat. He has been a good student since age seven, entering school at 110 pounds.
In Dallas on June 1 a collection of prairie schooner wagons, a rare antique stage coach, several ox carts, and an old time carriage will serve as rolling stock for the Cavalcade of Texas, a spectacular historical drama at the Centennial Exposition.
Hicks Rubber Company Distributors of Waco Texas advertises a Bot ham store project needing one third investment and two thirds capital. They seek interested applicants with merchandising experience and age qualifications plus references to run the store.
Dallas dispatch reports that more than 1,800,000 admission tickets were sold in advance prior to the June 6 opening of the Texas Centennial Exposition. The record sales suggest up to twelve million visitors may attend before the November 29 closing.
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