07 Sep 1943
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1943
Page
1
A mixed set of real estate ads promotes several 4 to 6 room dwellings with prices from 1100 to 3000, including corner lots and 2 sides on blacktop streets. Also mentions living arrangements, pasture land, and a 20 room apartment setup with income potential. A casual note hints at a 80th birthday celebration for James Dell.
Uncle Ashley reflects on staying faithful to Texas through hardship and the coming rain. He muses on wisdom and anger toward writers, notes a late fall victory garden in North Texas, and observes that greens onions and sleep remain essential.
Real estate ads include stock farm for sale near Bonham on a pike road with improvements water and grass on mail route and school bus access, a 6 room house and lot on South Center Street, and other farms in Grayson County with cash and balance terms. Also a golden anniversary tribute to Marshel and Mattie Shipley marking 61 years together at First Baptist Church Bonham with thanks to church members.
Private Hollis R Williams of Cincinnati arrives at the University of Cincinnati for specialized basic engineering training after Blue Ridge High School and Camp Hood. Samuel A Miller commissioned as second lieutenant after field artillery course at Fort Sill and heads to battery executive training with wife and child visiting. Wesley E Robinson serves in Sicily with a U S Army medical corps unit after training at Camp Barkley and Fort Sam Houston and transfers through England and North Africa ending in Sicily as a medical staff member.
Dr Howard Florey and colleagues revive the green mold discovery at Oxford to create penicillin. The drug blocks bacterial growth, heals chronic wounds, and helps fight infections like osteomyelitis, but production limits hinder widespread use.
El Paso dispatch reports Gov Deke Stevens plans a visit to Mexico City after routing from Victoria to the national capital in efforts to improve Texan Mexican relations. The itinerary shift shows continued diplomacy moves in recent months.
In New Orleans a Higgins shipyard workers group creates the Half Hour Club to boost morale for overseas troops. About 2000 staff join, adding a half hour to time sheets weekly to fund overtime pay and build a sense of unity among welders, carpenters, and other employees.
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