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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1951
Page
7
A visiting Eastern professor tours UC Los Angeles with deans amid new buildings labs and lawns. Jests about student numbers arise as the speaker and audience trade quips on optimism language and everyday misadventures including a divorce and southern dialect humor.
A playful couple on a country lane jokes about driving with one arm. The man pretends to worry and recalls the danger, while the woman teases him. A passerby quip about politicians and a German guest’s reflection on German humor closes the fragment.
A sailor stranded three years on a desert island receives newspapers from a ship’s officer. The captain asks him to read updates and decide if he wishes to be rescued, prompting his joy at seeing civilization and a possible escape.
A quarrelsome wife vents about serving her husband while he stays silent. She proposes wives strike, asking what would happen. He calmly suggests a solution, calling himself a peach of a strike-breaker in mind.
The minister's daughter asks if God tells him what to say and notices him scratching out words while he writes his sermon for next Sunday. The exchange highlights a curious child and a reflective clergyman.
An Irish traveler claims only holy water is in a bottle but customs, after a sniff from the cork, declares it whisky. The Irish man exclaims a miracle in response.
Census Bureau profile of Texas from the 1950 census portrays Mr. A Texan as a city dweller, white, married, earning 2813 dollars annually. The average Texan is 28.8 years old, lives in a 3.3 person household, and 63 percent of Texans are urban. Labor force participation is high, with 82 percent of men over 14 in the workforce and rising female labor participation, while domestic servants decline.
Citation issued in Grayson County Texas directs Walter Y Head and Homer H Head to appear before the District Court in Sherman by 10 A M on the first Monday after 42 days from issuance. Plaintiff Kingswanger and Company of Texas seeks 1794.85 plus interest and costs for goods sold. Issued March 23 1951 by Clerk S W Earnest with Deputy Nancy Drake.
Divorce action in Grayson County Texas between George Malvern as plaintiff and Jessie Mae Malvern as defendant. Cruel treatment cited as grounds. Citation ordered for May 7 1951 before 10 AM. File No 58770. Clerk S V Earnest with deputy Iva Davidson.
The text notes that Mr. Texans likely could not afford something, citing a Census Bureau figure of $2,813 as his annual income. The remark implies financial constraint based on this income level.
A Fort Collins group brands cloud seeding a nuisance while a Texas tax foreclosure action targets Whitesboro property. The 1951 filing by The State of Texas cites J. F. Casey deceased, his unknown heirs, and other claimants in Grayson County with delinquent taxes on Lots 43 and 44, Block A, Town Company Whitesboro. The case number is 58790.
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