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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1928
Page
2
Public notices warn readers to include old and new addresses for paper changes and note charges for notices of entertainments dinners and other benefits. A poem by Edna J Proctor titled The Heroes Live reflects on fallen heroes and the enduring bravery of those who fight for freedom.
Agricultural experiment results on two Texas farms indicate calcium arsenate greatly increases seed cotton yield, with combinations of poison and sulfur performing best when applied with or without dew. The piece urges farmers to act and notes broader economic stakes for Fannin County and regional landowners amid faltering weevil damage and rising cotton prices.
The paragraph satirizes the idea of average commercial shortcake being cardboard and plaster, asking what the strawberries are. It notes that saying artist once meant the man who painted a sign on a barn, with Detroit News style and humor.
The article recounts a pioneer journey across Fannin County, detailing camps along Saunders Creek and Honey Grove. It recalls Father and sons hunting, locating Alamo-era trails, and naming locations such as Honey Grove and Arlen's Point while claiming land around dense timber and prairie.
An advertisement promotes the New Perfection oil stove with a long blue chimney burner. It promises delicious food with fluffy biscuits roasts and crusted pies and invites customers to see a live demonstration of its lighting and cooking performance.
A garbled fragment describes shipboard chaos with a sick passenger and calls for doctor advice. Interwoven are stray lines about a hotel, ads, a temperamental artist, and a chorus repeating the line Some Day Understand. The text reads like overheard talk and punchy snippets from a periodical.
Fragmentary OCR shows garbled notes about an optimistic view on a candidate and possible influential purchases. Details are unreadable, making it difficult to identify names, places, or concrete events.
Club women complain there are no good bye cotton dresses despite demand. The trouble is they look like cotton. Still one advantage to having a toy King in the Balkans is that nothing delights a child as a puzzle. The socialist party has its candidates in the field and platform built, and that is about all it had to do. All a European nation wants is a neighbor rich enough to buy goods and too poor to make war.
The Boston Globe reports the Fashion Art League of America leader predicts Gitson girl hats and long scarves are coming. The piece asks if the girls know it, implying upcoming fashion trends and public awareness.
Dr Beebe says sharks do not attack humans except by accident when they mistake a moving object for prey. The Kansas City Star notes the idea with a dash of humor about the shark’s distress upon realizing its error.
A collection of quips from Texas papers noting social notices. The Sherman Democrat cites prophecy versus honor. the Houston Post-Dispatch notes Cincinnati homes. Corsicana Sun jokes about checks. Clarksville Times mentions Hoover campaign labor. Mineral Wells Index laments hidden opportunity in hard work.
Star-Telegram quotes Claude Callan noting that pushing from parents to the front may not secure lasting position, while elbowing one's way there can sustain longer influence. The remark reflects on merit over lineage in advancement.
Henry Ford endorses global prohibition, arguing automobiles should not be designed around alcohol since neither its carburetor nor steering wheel suit drinking or alcohol use.
The Tyler Journal notes a proposed campaign song titled The Bottle Rye of the Relic, a tongue in cheek reference tied to temperance era rhetoric. The item sketches reaction from readers and hints at political satire surrounding alcohol policy debates.
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