31 May 1943
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1943
Page
1
Notice states publishers will correct any erroneous reflections and grants United Press exclusive publication rights for dispatches. It lists city carrier subscription rates for 1 month 6 months and 11 year, and mail rates for 1 month 6 months and 1 year.
A compact old line advertisement promotes listing property with Deets Dorough & Co Realtors. It claims experience in real estate sales and offers fire tornado hail aircraft and automobile insurance protection with contact details.
Classified ad offers multiple farms for sale including 250 acre stock farm on Red River with good improvements and school bus, 160 acre blackland farm on highway, 100 acre stock farm north Bonham near highway, all on cash or terms. Also mentions 6% miles to highway and contact details Box 368 Bunham Tex 297 M.
Urrie Ashbce reflects on fifty five years of marriage describing challenges such as lean larders scarce clothing and rare vacations. He praises enduring sacrifice faith and mutual support as the path to happiness noting vows kept long before Hollywood or Reno.
An ad from J. W. Peeler Drug Co promotes a sulphurous compound added to water or feed to destroy intestinal germs and worms and rid poultry of lice mites fleas and other bugs. It claims to prevent most diseases at little cost with a money back offer.
The article lists men inducted into the US Armed Forces through Fannin County Local Draft Board No. 2 and slated for active duty, naming Navy, Army, and aviation personnel including Lawrence Lawton Page, Windom. Tom Hobbs Shope, Elmer Lawrence New Honey Grove. Burton Hal Burnett, Ladonia. Harold Glenn Baker, Ivanhoe. James Robert Taylor, Randolph. and others. It also notes James Antwine finishing gunnery training at Jefferson Barracks and Lt. An twine’s pilot graduation, plus Rollie D. Odum’s promotion at Camp Joseph T. Robinson and Camp Wolters service dates.
Deep gratitude for acts of love and sympathy shown during illness and death of a wife and mother. Thanks to Dr Donaldson, Allen Memorial Hospital nurses, Wise Funeral Home. Prayer and blessings to all, signed W R Glover Evelyn and families, Mr and Mrs W B Rice, Mrs Herbert Apple and family, John Glover and family, Joe Glover and family.
The fragment notes weather concerns over cotton and corn crops. It mentions wet conditions affecting cotton prospects but indicates corn appears to be doing well or improving. The readable text is limited and lacks clear locations or dates.
Lend-Lease Administrator R. S. Stettinius Jr reports up to April 39 about 75 million dollars of military supplies sent to General Henri Giraud in North Africa for French forces. The report notes materials including asbestos extracted in Northern California with prices from 20 to 500 dollars per ton.
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