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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1939
Page
7
Notice to the public from the Bonham Texas post office era asserts corrections will be printed if errors reflect on any firm person or corporation. It lists subscription rates by city carrier mail and durations for a 1939 period.
Cleveland notices detail the Ohio Institute for Medical Assistants as a new Cleveland school teaching women as doctors' helpers and secretaries. Separate items mention Empire interiors in London using imperial woods for Victoria terminal paneling and a Hungarian osteopath who adopted 11 children since 1904. Also included are small ads for typewriters and adding machines in Sherman Texas.
Bonham Laundry employees pledge to partner with the Bonham operation and donate about fifty percent of all laundry income to support the community. They state their commitment to first class work and local spending with Bonham merchants, urging residents to give them a chance to demonstrate service quality.
Mr and Mrs Harry T Hodge of San Antonio arrived in Sherman Thursday to visit Mrs Hodge s parent Mr and Mrs Ernest Binir 12 25 Grend and Mr Hodge s parents Mr and Miss C Hodge Bonham Mrs Hodge is the former Miss Katherine Bieir Sherman Democrat Lute Loy manager of the Hotel Denison presided at a luncheon of the Rotary club Thursday presenting as speakers JD W Carleton former Denisonian and Andy de Marcelilac both of the Adolphudy hotel Dallas Mr Carleton and Mr deMarceliac spoke in the interest of national hotel week. Hotel associates of neighboring cities guests Sherman Democrat Mr and Mrs A S S Lacy and daughter Miss Bivelyn and Mrs R A Gaskill and Mix H C Titts worth of this place Mr and Mrs Lynwood Massey Jr Mr Virginia Massey Mrs Linon Maney Sr J Lem Tittworth and son Lem uf imo Pillott Whittle and daugs Miss Virginia Ann of Benham spent the week end at Lake Fannin Wolfe City Sun Mr and Mrs C C Tiller and t Ruel and Mrs Lucile Jerni an of this place and Miss Mary Elizabeth Hames of Brownwood sent Sunday afternoon at Lake Pennin near Benham and at pats in Oklahoma Wolfe City Sun Mr end Mrs W T Melton visit e in Bonham Sunday Wolfe City Sun Mr end Mrs Frank Wright Mrs J M Wright and Mrs J M Stur vant visited friends in Bonham last Friday Whitewright Sun
NANCE Bus Lines announces travel on Thursday April 27 offering three round trips from Bonham to Durant Oklahoma. Buses depart Bonham at 7:0, 20 m and 3:45 p.m via Kurma Yuba and Achille. Fare is 75 cents one way and 1.35 round trip. Ticket agent phone 558.
A new pigment group called phthalocyanines has been unveiled by Du Pont chemist Miles A. Daley at the American Chemical Society meeting. Based on chlorophyll like green and blood red colors, these pigments resist fading and show no spectral impurities, enabling pure blues and light blues and greens for outdoor painting and interior use. They promise stable colors for printing, wallpaper, and oil painting under artificial light and daylight alike.
Beavers’ dam building disrupts land use on Manitoulin Island damaging farming and lumbering. Colonies in the west end built a dam that flooded a road and affected local property and access.
A community describes a daily routine where youngsters must row across deep waters to reach their school. The makeshift boat path highlights the ongoing impact of the flooding on students and families.
The Save to Travel plan, first started in Victoria, has been adopted nationwide in Australia. Travel stamps costing 125 are valid for all rail, sea, air, and road services, enabling broad travel purchases.
SHEREVEPORT LA UP The Tiles of last century s colleges would be frightening to students in this modern age Rules read in Centenary College records from 1839 forbid deadly weapons and require study hours from early morning until after dark Students must stay in their rooms after twilight unless called by an officer and must open doors on command as punishment may follow A moral department is demanded of faculty and local merchants urge patronage with today s ads for bargains
Cattle and hog prices held steady or climbed in Fort Worth markets with hogs topping at 6.10 and packers at 6.20 elsewhere. Feeder lambs and yearlings eased weekly while some week finished yearlings reached 650 dollars. Loads of well finished cattle brought strong prices. notable sales include Melvin Waters’ yearlings at 9.25 per 818 pounds and Sawyer Cattle Co. heifers at 9.25. Cresson steers weighed 1,163 pounds and sold near 9.25. Abilene calves 4.5 to 5.75 pulled buyers. New Orleans cotton quotes steady with mixed receipts. Galveston and Houston also showing steady tones in spot cotton markets.
Melvyn Douglas to lead Greta Garbo in Ninotchka directed by Ernst Lubitsch at Culver City Studios marking his second pairing with Garbo. New additions include Ina Claire Sig Rumann Felix Bressart and Gregory Gay. Other MGM titles see Tom Brown Ann Rutherford Mary Beth Hughes Richard Carlson Gloria Golden Astrid Allwyn Cliff Clark join These Glamour Girls and Miracles For Sale. Rita Johnson Tom Neal star in They All Come Out directed by Jacques Tourneur with Jack Chertok as producer. Fay Holden Leslie Fenton and Ruth Hussey sign long term MGM deals. MGM also gains rights to Looking After Sandy by Margaret Turnbull.
The California Taxpayers' Association studied enrollments and birth rates to estimate the state population, arriving at about 6,490,000 people for the beginning of 1939.
Pasadena California shows the highest car density in the United States with 38,200 autos, nearly one car for every two residents, surpassing the national average. This reflects the city’s strong autos culture and transportation reliance.
Two miles west of Bonham a 49 acre farm with five room house barn and deep well is offered with $750 down. Also 38 acres on the Ravenna Pike six miles out at $1250. Five miles north of Bonham 60 acres with small improvements at $1500. Seven miles south of Sherman near Howe 90 acres at $35 per acre with favorable terms. 47 acres near Southmayd for $2000. 68 acres near Savoy in Panin County with two small houses and cultivated land. Selling agents promise not to charge unless a sale is made.
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