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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1943
Page
5
50 acres of heavy black land all in cultivation with a 4 room dwelling and abundant water. Price 60 dollars per acre. Contact Frank Wright by phone 229 or 145 R to view this land.
The listing describes multiple farms in Fannin County including 227 acres with mixed land and cotton, 178 acres with pasture and cotton, and 164 acres with black land and pasture. Prices range around 70 to 75 per acre with long terms. Features include new and old homes, barns, electricity, school bus access, roads, and multiple water sources. This broker offers insurance and bonding services and invites property listings.
Notice from Deets Dorough & Co Bonham Texas listing 64 phones 376 contact and free removal services for unskinned dead and crippled blocks. Includes a Sherman address and night guidance with phone line 838 for calls.
A 300 pound heifer yearling is missing. Branded U upside down on the left hip. A reasonable reward is offered for its return. Contact Doug Steger at A&P Store, phone 286-3tpd.
A rough report notes a new design for a metal lined gunpowder box to support Army Ordnance. It mentions monthly production of chopper components and lists gun specifications including a 25y 1655 mm guns.
Merle Ashley notes unreasonableness of calling for 300000 government employees to be dismissed. He cites growth from 917,760 civilians to over 3.8 million, and compares salaries from 1939 to 1942, urging that this is spending not saving during a fourth term.
A 60 year old blind woman from Oowasso Oklahoma gathered 180 pounds of metal scraps in her backyard without help. This item appears in a JACK N THE BOX column by Paul Berdanier.
In Bonham area military news, Otis Anderson, US Navy, is in San Diego awaiting service, while Pvt James C. Brooks visits Lone Elm. Tom Rogers joins the Air Force from Bonham High. Corporal Rudolph D. Hudson of Bonham earns the Good Conduct Medal at Muroc Army Air Base. A. C. Woodruff returns to Camp Irwin after furlough, with Pvt. Woodruff serving in anti aircraft division. Rosemary Pratt teaches at Ft Knox armored school, and J D Fortner spends a 10 day furlough at Windom, Ky. A letter from G D McWhirter in Australia says the country is fine.
COLLEGE STATION Texas USDA War Board chairman B F Vance announces the sale of feed wheat is discontinued except for emergency use due to near total CCC programmed supply sold this year. Since March 29 after a 100 million bushel allocation Texas producers bought about 6 320 000 bushels, with orders now reduced to shipments against pre May 31 orders for several weeks. Do your part buy War Bonds.
Four Series E war bonds costing a total will supply the Navy with wood life float capable of carrying 60 persons. The mountain laurel is flower of Connecticut.
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