Frank Svoboda Miss Katheryn Pate Eli Smith
Bonham Daily Favorite notes the engaging wedding and social notices of Frank Svoboda, Katheryn Pate, and Eli Smith. The item highlights a community event with these individuals as central figures.
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1940
Page
2
Bonham Daily Favorite notes the engaging wedding and social notices of Frank Svoboda, Katheryn Pate, and Eli Smith. The item highlights a community event with these individuals as central figures.
Local announcements list candidates for Congress in the 4th District and county offices in Fannin County Texas. Notable entries include SAM RAYBURN for Congress, TOM M HODGES DICK WAITS. EURA GRAY. BOB TRAYLOR. J P MOORE for precincts, and several justice of the peace and judge contenders. Also mentions tax official candidates and state figures, followed by a note on New York Citys experimental block subway from the 1860s with a quarter fare.
Judge Myron Westover ruled in favor of Trene Castle Melauchlin in a $40,000 slander suit brought by milliner Sonya Zaranof. The decision held the allegedly slanderous remark about hats as a privileged part of a business agreement between Miss Garanof and a line of women’s wear suppliers, negating malice.
Marie Greene, vocalist and arranger, championed singing in the bathtub at the annual conference of the Music Educators Association. She said baths relax the body and vocal cords. A trade journal hailed a new women’s hose project as an unqualified success ten days after its debut on the market.
The children and grandchildren of the late Mrs Evalyn Dyer thank friends in Randolph and elsewhere for sympathy and floral offerings. Special thanks to Rev O Harmon Rev Cates and Stephens for their help and support in the time of sorrow.
Saturday at the Favorite office drew many readers for chats and a three months for 0c offer. Field rep J Balentine added subscribers from Ravenna and Bonham including J N Chesser and Bo W Brackett, with earlier names R S Duncan and Bart Price, and more new subscribers like A G Allen N M Thomas Floyd Lockaby and Clifford Lawrence. A neighbor, Reader W F Newton, boasted a peachy orchard near Bonham.
Incidents from 23 years ago feature Joe D. Johnson of Fort Worth, a former Finnin county resident, recalling his days as a flying officer at Tal Taliaferro Field in Port Worth during World War I. The article notes Johnson enlisted at Port Sam Houston in 1917 and piloted one of Hicks Field’s first flights with Sherwood and Seybold, both later killed in action. He flew with Captain Deere, an RFC ace, during October and November 1917.
A fragmented list of route lines shows officials and locations such as Ivanhoe Bonham Ravenna Dodd City Ravenna and Savoy. Names include Preeman Campbell A F Delashaw James A Kean W Walker Jasper Thames I H Price J Walls ROL Neely ITD Duncan and J P Moore.
A stunt pilot with Canadian OSS ties operated in Everman during wartime. After a brief return to active duty on the front, the captain was killed in action, marking a final note in a perilous service record.
Howard G. Danford of the NYU Center for Safety Education will lecture on accident control through education at East Texas State Teachers College on June 28 as part of a summer series. Danford, an administrator and instructor, has fifteen years in health and safety education and co-authored the Every Pupil Safety Series and Safety Education Digest.
The schedule lists 40 games across June through August. Teams Economy Bailey Elkins Pumpers face each other repeatedly with dates from June 25 to August 27. Outcomes not provided, just matchups and calendar days.
AUSTIN state fire insurance commissioner Marvin Hall urged city officials to adopt emergency measures banning the sale and use of fireworks on Independence Day. He warned that limiting explosive material and curbing the noise hazard would reduce risk to the public.
Funeral services were held for Mattie Lou Brinkley a three and one half year old girl of Leonard who died Saturday at a McKinney hospital at 10 10 am after injuries from a June 9 bed fall. Rev CP Sansom conducted the service and Grove Hill burial was directed by Wilon. Survived by parents Jewell and Brinkley a brother Jimmie Truett Brinkley and grandparents R L Brinkley and Tate M McBroom.
Items from Bonham with Miss Mary Bradford visiting Tyler. Julius Evans family in Galveston. Cotton County agent W J Young urged farmers to tag old cotton before July 1. Mrs Gus Jackson killed a wolf threatening her turkeys. Norma McDougal visiting Dallas. Roy Owens safe arrival at Buenos Aires. J W Knightling spoke to Texas and Pacific employees. Jack Russell Sr Luther Ware Mack Watson John Rogers left for Houston to attend National Democratic convention. Virgil Wilson of Texas Power and Light visiting Bonham. Martha A Mitchell returned from Wichita Falls. W R Holder of Port Worth called as pastor at First Christian Church. Do your trading In Bonham.
A court order bars Detroit figures from drinking while Philip ise becomes the first to bring in a cotton bloom. A man named Frank Borodenka displays a legal looking item and contemplates restraint before forgoing a drink.
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