Good crops and road work lift spirits across the county
A favorable outlook for wheat, oats, corn, and a bumper cotton crop boosts local optimism. Roads between Denison and Sherman have been repaired and county crews will lay gravel and drag to improve routes. Cattle losses near Bonham due to charbon and black leg, plus hog cholera reports, are noted. A East St. Louis race riot leaves many dead and injured.
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Denison
Sherman
Commissioners Court
W. T. Truett
Bonham
Mr. Truett
Hustlers Class Tea at Former Long’s Bakery Site
The Hustlers class of the Presbyterian Sunday school will serve tea at the building formerly occupied by Long’s Bakery on Saturday afternoon July 7.
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Presbyterian Sunday School
Long’s Bakery
Dan W. Smith Active in Orange Texas Business Ties
Dan W. Smith visited Monday and Tuesday for business and socializing with friends. He lives in Orange Texas and runs a thriving fuel and grocery business amid a local shipbuilding boom. Mrs. Smith and daughter Vivian stay in Bastrop for a family reunion with her siblings.
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Dan W. Smith
Orange
Texas
Drug Store for Sale in North Texas Town
Established profitable drug store in Sherman Texas population around 25000 Located in the town’s most desirable storefront area Business shown via classified notice Box 155 Sherman Texas August.
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North Texas
Sherman
Texas
Remarkable Oats Yield in 116 Acre Tract
Eugene Everheart reports an oat outcrop on a 116 acre tract yielding 142 bushels per acre as measured and vouched for by several substantial local farmers. At 102 dollars per acre the result is considered favorable for this productive section.
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Eugene Everheart
Car Plunges From Rail into Niagara River With Casualties
A belt line car on the Great George route left the rails and fell twenty feet into the edge of the whirl pool rapids at Niagara Falls. Eight dead are confirmed, two missing and likely dead, with estimates of two to ten more missing and over twenty injured hospitalized.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Great George
Mrs Anderson Visits Sister Mrs Mell Roberts
Mrs Anderson is here for a visit with her sister Mrs Mell Roberts in town.
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Mrs. Anderson
Mrs. Mell Roberts
Americans Sink Sub On Way To France
American destroyers convoying transports with troops for France repelled two submarine attacks on the voyage across. The last contingent of General Pershing’s expeditionary force arrived safely in a French port. No ships were hit and no American lives were lost, though one submarine was sunk and others were possibly destroyed in the initial night attack.
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Washington
France
Committee On Public Information
Navy
Sale of Goods at Bargain From Local Household
Sale items include a Good Emerson typewriter twelve inch electric fan and an electric iron. Guests at the Moore home Sunday included T W Gattis Jones Barrett of Ryan Okla James Lomax Miss Laura Adamson of Sherman and Miss Margaret Hughes of Tyler. Guy Cox of Denison visited here Sunday.
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Emerson
T. W. Gattis
Guy Cox
Denison
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Dimity
Stickrie
New York
Whitewright
Palm Beach
East St. Louis
South
T. B. Laremore
First Church of Christ
Houston Street Church
EK. E. Wilson
Slaton
Luther Smith &Son
Sub
Navy Department
the New Furniture
Evansville
T. H. Truett
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