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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
1
An ad notes the biggest seed line including corn millet potatoes and garden seeds. It claims high buy prices, raises turkey price to 9 cents, and urges delivery. It also announces the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs J M Hancock.
Fire at Lake View public school in Collinwood Cleveland destroys building trapping 150 to 170 children. Between four and five hundred students were in the hall when alarm sounded. By 1 45 PM seventy one bodies recovered, exits clogged as panic and debris fatal. A father reportedly pulled his child from the rubble, tragically losing her arms in the effort.
Frank Johnson, a negro murderer, hid in a barn nine miles from Clarksburg West Virginia, shot and wounded three people including Miss Mageny a school teacher and Harry Corn and John Ramsey. The barn is surrounded by about 500 people and Company K West Virginia Guards are en route to assist in the capture.
A Carlton College music class under Miss Marion Fielding will present a recital on Saturday. The item also mentions a drug that claims to refund money for Foley’s Honey and asserts it cures coughs, lungs, and prevents consumption, with warnings about genuine packaging and local druggists.
Highly recommended Miss Elizabeth Hill will give a public reading tomorrow evening in the High School Auditorium under the auspices of the Senior League of the First M. E. Church South. She is endorsed by prominent men from cities across the United States and billed as a talented, charming entertainer. Admission 25 cents.
Lenten observances at Trinity Church opened with a large Ash Wednesday turnout. Upcoming services are scheduled for Thursday and Friday at 4 oclock, with the Brotherhood of St. Andrew meeting Thursday at 7 PM. Miss Elizabeth Hill and Mesdames M V Gray and Frank Allen assist. Richard Morgan, Rector. Chicago, Ill. A public school auditorium event Friday night charges 25 cents admission.
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