The Hehthouse Countenance of a Friend
A cryptic quatrain by Sir P. Sidney extols a friend’s countenance as a guiding inner strength. The verse likens friendship to a house’s gilded inner room that outshines grand palaces.
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1931
Page
2
A cryptic quatrain by Sir P. Sidney extols a friend’s countenance as a guiding inner strength. The verse likens friendship to a house’s gilded inner room that outshines grand palaces.
A brief quotation from Psalm 27 14 urging readers to trust in the Lord and find courage as they wait for strength. The line emphasizes patience faith and perseverance in divine support.
A reflective verse by Catherine Parmenter recalling weather, seasons, memories, and intimate moments within four sturdy walls. The piece blends rain, dawn, robins, laughter, pain, and enduring love as a personal meditation on home.
A meditation on opening the eyes to beauty in nature and people. It tells how Jesus restores sight to Bartimaeus and how a father reveals microscopic beauty in a fly, urging readers to seek inner clarity and notice kindness, art, and nobility around them. It ends with a note about county funds and potential salary cuts affecting employees.
The Record Chronicle reports county workers in Denton considering a ten percent salary donation to the general fund to prevent work stoppage and job losses. The decision will be announced at the Commissioners Court meeting in July. A Chicago dentist says Americans have the handsomest teeth, though he quips about wealth. The son of a rich asbestos maker sues his third wife for divorce after barely a month of marriage. Even asbestos seems to shield against heat.
A collage of quoted opinions from Texas newspapers notes social advice and political quips. It references prescriptions for rest cures, views on women and economy, and mockery of Stalin, with citations from Corsicana Sun Celina Record Dallas News Star Telegram McKinney Examiner Mineral Wells Index.
An Austin justice of the peace vows to jail men charged with crime who plead guilty and pay fines to collect his one dollar for commitment and one for release. The attorney general calls the practice illegal and would place offenders in the penitentiary. The judge says he must keep fees to live, arguing a fee driven system trumps lawful correction.
On the same day a U S jury freed an officer who killed a Mexican youth while a Mexican judge sentenced to death an American who killed a Mexican bartender. The judge argued murder remains murder regardless of victim identity.
An Illinois man who murdered two women and her two small children thanked the judge who sentenced him to death. He claimed the punishment fit the crime and said he got what he deserved based on the evidence.
Mississippi Democrat Pat Harrison calls for an armistice on politics to let responsible statesmanship guide the Hoover debt moratorium proposal. He criticizes partisan games and favors measured fiscal moves aimed at national welfare despite Republican origins.
A patron questions a cat roaming among tables in a city restaurant. The waiter explains the governor believes the cat’s presence enhances rabbit stew dining, framing it as part of the meal’s enjoyment.
The United States Coast Guard notes that one sector remains free of overproduction this year as it reports on ongoing supply and market balance. Authorities describe a stable trend with no excess inventory affecting prices or distribution. However, details are limited in the fragment.
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