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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1939
Page
2
Winter menus can include crisp salads to balance heavier courses. Recipes include Turnip Green Bean Salad with paprika French dressing, Stuffed Pear Salad with figs nuts and cream cheese, and Fruit Slaw with cabbage pineapple and raisins.
A kitchen feature lists baking guidance and a Devil's Food Nut Cake recipe with steps to cream shortening and sugar, melt chocolate, and alternate dry and wet ingredients. Includes tips on flour sifting, brown sugar crushing, and beating eggs for volume, plus a note on baking two pans and icing with white frosting and walnut decoration.
The fragment references residents and events in Gum Springs and Bonham with mentions of people visiting relatives, illness, and limited money. Some names appear in garbled form, including Huey, Watson, Turner, and Varaye, with vague travel and health hints.
A guide outlines thrifty soup options for family meals including Cream of Potato with frankfurters, Scotch Barley Broth, Potato Soup, Oyster Cream Fry Soup, and other hearty combinations. It describes basic prep steps such as scalding milk, simmering vegetables, adding parsley, and finishing with butter and seasonings.
H R Miller began work as commercial sales man for the Texas Power and Light Company in Bonham. He will travel through North Texas in the Braham district representing TP and L, replacing Bill Simmons who moves to Dallas Speeds. Miller previously worked with Leatherwood Bros Garage and Goodyear Auto Supply Store in Bonham.
Butte Montana reports a tale of Willam J Blondino who rides an automobile instead of his horse on a trip. He was fed and jailed for drunken driving while pining in his cell for his horse. Police allowed him to keep his car as a symbol of the modern era, illustrating the clash between past and present in a rough town setting.
The spread of spot cotton shows stability as New Orleans Dallas Galveston and Houston report unchanged or slight gains. Prices for middling range from 812 to 919 cents per pound with sales totaling 2 452 bales and receipts near 898 bales in New Orleans and 1 812 bales in Houston.
The New York spot cotton market closed steady with middling grades at 9 cents per pound as traders awaited the next movement in prices and export demand.
Dallas quotes for cottonseed products show prime seed at 22 dollars fob North Texas, oil at 5 cents, meal at 43 percent protein priced at 25 dollars, and hulls at 7 dollars.
Poultry items listed with weights and descriptions including hens and toms. Mentions turkeys No 1 and No 2 and various classifications such as light and heavy hens and stags. Also references eggs and per case quantities.
A playful remark links civilization's decline to the hardness of biscuits baked by wives. The quip suggests domestic baked goods as a tongue in cheek measure of cultural eroding trends. Read as a light social aside from a period newspaper column.
60 acre farm 4 miles NW of Bonham near a church and cemetery. Bermuda pasture with most land broke and 10 acres in barley with good crop prospects. Includes an extra good dwelling barn and outbuildings. Immediate possession and small payment. Also other farms and residences in Bonham. Best buy in Bonham.
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