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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1913
Page
1
A jumble of rates and notices opens with subscription prices for The Favorite and Daily Favorite. Various quips, jokes, and brief comments follow, touching on temperance, courting, public figures, and rural life, ending with a Ravenna folk query about old fashioned women drying apples.
Voters are urged to reject Senate Joint Resolution No. 8 on July 1. The piece would grant unlimited bonding power to the legislature, allowing bonds for any state institution with no cap on amounts or interest. The writer warns such power could be misused by future legislatures and calls for separate bond amendments instead.
The Ft. Worth Record notes a stern rebuke to individuals who missed a Sunday school convention. No mitigating circumstances were offered and they faced consequences. The article warns they must choose the narrow path despite tempting pleasures and earlier youth.
Notice to public stating market owners will close each day except Saturday at 6 o clock. Customers urged to phone orders in time to be filled before closing. Names Locke and Roberts, Marshall and Lindsey, J. I. Crouch appear as signatories.
The Ladies of the Episcopal Guild plan a Saturday market at Taylor and Thompson's offering bread cakes and chicken plus cook aprons. Orders or inquiries go to Mrs. Horn at No 122 by phone.
The letter notes rain damaging oats and corn, a cyclone-like cloud feared, plus recent sickness eased. It recalls a reunion on the 10th with J J McKilwee and daughter Mrs KF Cooper meeting after fifteen years. Families listed include Mrs F A Cooper and two children, Mr and Mrs Willie McElwee and baby, Mr and Mrs J G Cobb and two children. Aunt Luda sends good wishes.
A May incident in Honey Grove and Bonham involves Colonel James H. Lowry and Sherwood Spotts amid a Sunday school travel clash. The Port Worth Record scolds insurrectionists while praising ethics and community leaders as central figures in the muddy waters of the Redover region.
The T P Ry runs a Bonham to Sherman excursion Sunday June 22 for the Bonham Sherman baseball game. Departure from Bonham is 12 40 PM and from Sherman 7 PM on return. Round trip fare 90 cents.
Real estate ads offer a $1400 cottage on West 4th Street with 4 rooms, 2 porches, city water and nearby amenities. Additional lots east of W. G. Clark’s priced at $600 and a Corner lot on the car line West 10th Street. Builder loan available with purchase, properties near schools and paved streets.
L W Lantrip of Ladonia vanishes after leaving on a business trip to Hugo Oklahoma with two associates. He checked into a Hugo hotel with 200 to 300 dollars to buy land later. Friends and officials search Hugo and Bennington for him, with no clue to his whereabouts.
Fannin County Farmers Union will hold a regular session in Bonham on July 1913 at 10 a.m. All locals are urged to send a full delegation as officers and delegates to the State Union will be elected at this meeting.
Advertisement extols Dr Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil as a surgical dressing that relieves pain and heals. It lists Notaliniment and prices 25c 50c and 1.00, urging immediate use to prevent blood poisoning.
Health good as Miss Ruby Horton returns to preaching. Rosa Mae Farmer visits Rosa Lee Farmer. L. R. Dossey and family visit T. J. Cox. Forest Ely shows typhoid fever improvement. Alpha Dean and Sadie Date visit Pike girls. Claud Miller and John with Walter Farmer. Frank Horton buys a new bicycle. Bro Gentry fills appointment. Arledge Rupe people attend preaching. Ruby Horton visits Beulah Stroud. Ruby Cox visits Matty Pike. J. Dale family visit relatives in Lannas. Ollie Farmer visits Fame Stroud. Lois Cashion visits Ollie Farmer. Mrs Kate Cashion visits her mother Mr Blake. Miss Gertie Morrison visits relatives in Bonham. Pine Apple.
Fragmentary sports calendar shows teams like Denison Durant Ardmore and Sherman with win loss records. Standings list Chats Phaved and Texathana with mixed results and percentages, indicating a regional Mississippi League style schedule.
Advertisement promotes Dr Ewing's New Life Pills as a safe prompt laxative for the elderly. Nominated by J W Peulor, the pills are claimed to be harmless and effective with no pain. Priced at 250.
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