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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
2
Notices warn subscribers about arrears and payment credit within a week under new postal rules. A column discusses a Milan style school of laughing and urges a U S adaptation for healthier laughter. A teacher admonishes a quarrel with a student and a witty pupil reflects on names.
In a brief social exchange Mrs. Treshday notes a soiled shirt waist while Mrs. Greenough admires her spotless silk. They discuss husbands, clubs, and home life with gentle humor as Youth's Companion records the scene.
A commentary extols American isolationism amid European tensions and entangling alliances. It cites President Washington, notes Austria and Bulgaria breaking the Berlin treaty, and criticizes Anglo Saxon and China pacts while urging the US to stay detached and protect its own interests.
Bonham shops promote new footwear for children and misses at T Wood & Co and Graham Crawford Co. The store also announces fresh breakfst foods including heated hominy grits oat meal and wheat berries under a countywide release.
An Indian civil servant in Shillery, eastern Bengal, left a cat with his steward while he went to the plains. The steward reports the cat’s three days absence and says he has installed a deputy cat on half rations in the official household.
A lifeguard notes the Brittany rock coast is rich in octopus remains. At Breton beach such as St. Luaire, visitors find many fossilized cuttlefish bones from six inches to a foot long, used as ash trays and bird food by locals, evidence of octopus in these waters.
A London Chronicle correspondent notes strict Sabbath rules in the seventeenth century under Charles I. Walking on Sundays was limited to church attendance, and couples could not kiss. Church authorities could search homes for nonattenders, while Sunday trading and food preparation faced shifting bans and permissions across James I to William III.
The piece traces how Master once signaled status, while Mister and Esquire became common. It notes Master has shifted to referring to boys and compares the decline to the French Monsieur, once used for royalty and saints, with M. now a plain title.
A historical note recalls Gen. Sir Redvers Buller as a failed South African War commander and shows Lord Salisbury’s lifelong affection for him. The elderly premier, nearly blind and deaf, muttered “Poor Buller” upon seeing a royal photo, while Buller remained an idol to his soldiers.
In Paris a new avertisseur replaces bells and horns as the popular bicycle alarm. A miniature tambourine struck by a wooden hammer on the front wheel spokes creates a loud tapping sound. The device is said to revive a cadaver and a shop sold over one hundred units in eight days.
In Middleburg Holland the abbey bells ring every quarter hour but fall silent at night when Queen Wilhelmina is visiting since she is a light sleeper and cannot endure the noise.
A large blaze began at the Yeager hotel and spread toward Robinson and Baker's livery barn threatening Lyon's lumber yard. The fire destroyed 275 cords of Moss wood, $3,000 worth of coal, a steam saw, and other property with uninsured losses reported for Moss, Barrett, White, Owens, Sparkman, and the Robinson and Baker shop. The fire department saved the south side of the square from total destruction while several animals and stock were lost or damaged.
A large blaze damaged A J Stevenson billboards and burned telephone and electric posts with no insurance. Fire spread quickly through tinder dry buildings, but the department’s directed efforts contained the flames. Officials suspect a spark from the engine powering a nearby corn shelter North of Barrett wagon yard triggered the fire.
Dr. Stewart R. Roberts of Atlanta School of Medicine states that coffee and tea may hinder digestion due to tannic acids and oils while bottled Coca-Cola contains no digestive interference. The small caffeine amount mildly stimulates the heart and nerves and refreshes the body.
Miss Blakey a trained nurse from the hospital has been installed as nurse over Mrs Belle Thomas confined at the jail on a lunacy charge. The infant born to Mrs Thomas is at the hospital in flourishing condition and Miss Blakey will stay with Mrs Thomas until she can be sent to the asylum.
Two days only sale begins Saturday at 9 o clock and ends Monday night with every article offered at bargain prices. J T Bludworth advertises a house sale event during the weekend.
An old advertisement promotes Foley's Kidney Remedy as a treatment for kidney trouble, claiming to make weak, exhausted people feel half alive and restore health. Saunders Drug Co. markets the product directly to consumers.
A notice offers a house on North Main Street for rent starting November 1 for a couple or small family. It lists contact through Miss Julia Ricketts and mentions a fresh shipment of peanut butter and local businesses Kin caid Reedy Hughes Crawford & Company Gra ham. The fragment includes shoe retailer references and breakfast foods sources with unclear attributions.
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