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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1928
Page
4
John P. Lair, born June 13, 1845, celebrates 83 years while recalling vast social changes. He notes railroads, phones, automobiles, electric appliances, and Civil War memories. Active at Confederate reunions and a Democrat, he enjoys health and community life amid looming Prohibition debates in the era.
Advice touts Black and White Ointment as a safe treatment for facial blemishes. Recommends Black and White Skin Soap and Ointment for best results, sold by local dealers at small cost.
Bonham Drug Co promotes Star Parasite Remover and Baby Chicks Star Roupe Tablets claiming worms and insects are eliminated, health improved, eggs increased, and diarrhea relief with money back offers for the tablets.
A condensed notice on Colonel Theodore O'Hara birth in Kentucky and his Civil War roles, noting his Mexican War poem cast on bronze cemeteries, and the enduring vigil of soldiers in Frankfort. The piece ends with lines from The Bivouac of the Dead praising noble sacrifice and the enduring memory of heroes.
Ambiguous wartime style notes describe visits and greetings among local residents. Scattered names such as Morrison, Rayburn, and Power appear with fragmented sentences and unclear events.
Thea Rasche, famed German flying woman, accepts delivery of the Bellanen trans Atlantic aircraft for lifting and loading tests. Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine, who earlier flew from Roosevelt Field near New York to near Berlin, guide her in instrument use during the test. A photo shows Miss Rasche starting her first solo in the new plane.
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