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Newspaper
Grand Saline Sun
Location
Grand Saline, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1962
Page
10
The quarrel over postage stamps continues with Ed Boolitte and Rew Greenter discussing mint flavored glue effects. Conjecture about public reception, Hoovering glue, and improvements are mentioned as a potential remedy to bad taste.
A fragmentary clerical note from Virginia records Alf Roberson as owner and publisher and mentions associate Torne Grand Salts and unclear manuscript meeting. The readable text is disjointed with names and roles only partially legible. The item resembles a masthead or internal note rather than a complete news story.
Zeke Grubb cites a Post Office estimate of four billion Christmas yards weighed at $121 million in postage and laments welfare state growth. Bug Hookum decries schooling woes and calls for work ethic courses as he reflects on public finances. Jan Webster’s advice column answers reader questions on career, marriage, inheritance, and advice etiquette in a period voice.
A childlike plea to Santa requests a doll, doll clothes, a small suitcase, candy, fruit, and stocking huts. The note asks Santa to remember the younger sibling and grandparents, signed by Pam Smith and family.
Report of an Athens auction noting stocker prices and livestock sales. Prices listed include stockers at 30, backers and calves around 24 to 26, utilities 17 to 21, calls 13 to 17, fat cows 14 to 17, cannere and cutters 11 to 14, bulls 14 to 19.9, stocker cows 85 to 165, and hogs 16 to 17.80 per hundredweight.
Gary Shields, Fruitvale correspondent for the Grand Saline Sun, is recovering from surgery performed in a Dallas hospital on December 10. Test reports indicate she was to be hospitalized about 10 days but progress was so good the time could be shortened. Price figures for boats and livestock are listed as heavy boats eight to eighteen fifty, sows twelve to fifteen twenty five, and food weaned pigs five to eleven per head.
Mr and Mrs Carl Darnell of Aquilla spent the weekend in Grand Saline where friends hosted a surprise birthday party for Carl. The gathering featured punch coffee and popcorn and honored Carl on Saturday night.
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