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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1947
Page
5
A collection of light vignettes and corny humor from early 20th century life. A gardener suspects tomato theft, a New York World reporter recounts a polo grounds snack scene, a cross examination with an old darkey, married life humor, and a nosy diner crowd greeted newlyweds.
A professor urges students to know themselves while a student quips that self knowledge wastes time for forming better acquaintances. The dialogue pivots on a humorously grim definition of a pedestrian as a man whose son has returned from college.
A physician's son finds a skeleton relic in the closet of the consultation room. The child’s friend asks about it and the boy quips that it is "dad's first patient," highlighting how the doctor’s past cases have haunted his reputation.
Three gentlemen debate the idea of man's best friend. The first praises dogs, the second honors horses, while the third jokes that a male alligator is the best friend because it eats 9999 of 10 000 eggs laid by a female, preventing an overrun of female alligators.
A doctor admits inability to diagnose correctly and suspects alcohol influence. The patient replies with a wry vow to return only when the doctor is sober. A closing quip notes sermons fitting others rather than oneself.
A collage of recipe fragments describes a berry citrus drink base with sugar, juices, and spices, plus a spaghetti bake with breadcrumbs and a mushroom sauce. It also lists Liver Filling Cheese Filling and Chicken Filling components with basic seasonings and binding agents, concluding with a quotation about imagination and humor.
A recipe details cooking spaghetti in salted boiling water for about 12 minutes then draining. It mixes ground meat with eggs milk onion green pepper parsley and Worcestershire sauce optional followed by a mushroom soup milk sauce and buttered breadcrumbs.
A playful classroom exchange has Johnnie answering a teacher’s question about when Rome was built with a witty retort that the saying Rome wasn’t built in a day explains the timing. The joke hinges on a misdirection between the proverb and historical construction.
Government hunters and western ranchers report a sharp drop in wolves and coyotes preying on livestock due to the coyote-getter, a targeted device now widespread in the West and Southwest. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service data indicate the device is effectively named and increasing in use.
Citation to Grace Roberts and unknown heirs and others asserts Lot 21 and 22 Block 17 O T P Whitewright Texas delinquent for state and county taxes totaling 301.50 dollars. Suit brought by the State for collection. Appearance required at the April term of the District Court of Grayson County in Sherman on the 21st of April 1947 to show cause why judgment should not be rendered and land foreclosed.
The Fish and Wildlife Service reports Texas led a 45 percent rise in predators killed in the 1945 46 year. Of 24,800 wolves and coyotes slain in the state, more than 35 percent came from the coyote getter. The device is a ground embedded gun using sodium cyanide to kill a coyote at contact. Hunters say the animal often dies within 200 feet. Gary Indiana bans garlic after eating before streetcar or theater rides. About two thirds of an animal’s weight is water.
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