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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1936
Page
4
Local notice shows Sid Smith offering to buy oats and wheat at a premium. A collection contact is provided with phone number 5 and Bo 296-6tc for coordination.
June 21 marked as the longest day of the year. The notice from HALSELL-DOSS CO. 297-2tc urges readers to observe Father’s Day with limited guidance and civic notes.
Final arrangements for the July 1 dedication of the Laredo to Mexico City highway were completed by American and Mexican officials. U S Ambassador Josephus Daniels will attend and President Lazaro Cardenas is expected to inspect the road before opening to traffic. A motorcade will start from the southern Nuevo Leon border and proceed to Monterrey.
Woodford Thornton, 40, assistant county probation officer and World War veteran, collapsed and died of a heart attack Monday afternoon after helping dismantle a building at the County School for Bar at Southton in San Antonio. He had been awaiting bonus bonds at home that day.
Several local residents made visits across Texas and Oklahoma including Marion Moores in Paris with relatives Marvin Englander and Neil Thompson. Dan Inglish arrives to open Congressman Rayburn's Bonham office. Rev R R Akin to attend Nazarene General Assembly in Kansas City. Lake Charles editor M Newberry notes improving business and crop prospects. Community members plan C of C meeting at 8 this evening.
Nine members of the grand jury indicted Huey Long figures for income tax fraud. United States Attorney General Homer Cummings sought to abandon prosecutions. The case involved former St. Representative Joseph Fishe and others, with some charges dropped and acquittals noted for Abel Sushan, former president of the Orleans Levee Board.
Unmasked assailant held part owner B H Vordenbaum of the Union Bottling Works today and took 1117.50 in cash before escaping with a companion. The incident followed by a Chamber of Commerce meeting notice urging members to attend at 8 pm.
Governor James V Allred and Mrs Allred spent four hours in Denison as part of a Texas tour after President Roosevelt’s Little Rock address. They were greeted at the station by Denison relatives and North Texas residents. Senator Morris Sheppard and his wife Theo accompanied the party aboard the same private car attached to the president’s train and later detached at the Texas Arkansas line. The governor, longtime Denison visitor, was busy shaking hands with locals during the stop and spoke of past ties to the city.
Citizens laud the tidy appearance of the square after a Saturday cleanup. The praise highlights weed cutting on vacant lots, health benefits from fewer mosquito breeding sites, and thanks to the Garden Club members for organizing the effort.
The Favorite office received notes from Truman Griffth al Lamasco about a rock formation he called strange and rock like. He described a Brazil shaped, weathered igneous appearance with a hollow interior and a petrified stone shell that could challenge the origin of the rock.
Associated Press reports Belgian troops were mobilized in Brussels on June 16 to protect public order as strikes surged across the nation. Demands centered on higher wages and improved working conditions.
Reports from Budapest say a ferry capsized on the Danube killing 21 people. The vessel carried workers returning from an optical plant. details describe a tragic drowning incident and lost lives.
Report describes a large bass on display at the Texas Centennial Aquarium that survived a two week hunger strike after being fed seven crawdads. Fishermen visited the exhibit and noted the bass’s aggressive appetite and unusual eye, with a 14 to 18 pound range cited for Texas and Florida waters.
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