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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1935
Page
4
The notice lists Glenn Doss as editor and manager and J H Waggoner as publisher with a $1.50 yearly subscription paid in advance. It is entered at the Whitewright Texas post office as second class mail matter and requests readers to send news items and out of town visitors to boost local coverage.
A column questions government ownership of electric utilities noting low local rates and reliable private service. It contrasts private power companies with government Provider efficiency, citing delayed farmers' payments and long hours as intended indicators of government shortcomings.
Denison Herald warns motorists to ignore hitch hikers after a Houston salesman was robbed and killed by a parolee hitch hiker who stole his car and money and dumped the body on a Rio Grande Valley road. The piece urges drivers to avoid giving rides to strangers to protect families.
A Los Angeles Times pamphlet details a harsh satirical decalogue on bad driving. It mocks rude habits such as ignoring pedestrians, squealing brakes, and horn blasting at night, urging reckless behavior and hypocrisy on the road.
A stark reflection contrasts heroic wartime images with the grim aftermath. It notes fleeting prosperity, restricted free speech, and press, while soldiers and women endure hardship, aging marks, and a loss of renewed hope after conflict.
The Abilene News argues Americans should be wary of entanglement after war and urges avoiding new European conflict. It recalls past broken pledges and stresses restraint unless invasion or attack occurs, calling for cautious, principled engagement.
The Carnegie Endowment publishes all treaties behind Europe’s tense moment in two volumes. The dull page of history reveals jealousies and hatreds arming the present conflict as Freud and Hitler topics stir American discussion.
The Dallas Times Herald laments youth being drawn to war as nations like Germany and Italy mobilize youths and ROTC cadets face uncertain futures. It argues for raising minimum combat ages to 25 or 30 to reduce wartime sacrifices and urges wiser use of older adults in national defense.
The Greenville Banner questions relief policy and eligibility checks for Federal and State aid. It argues daily employer polls are needed to verify desire and availability for work and warns against overpaying relief workers. The piece notes potential abuse under CWA and a proposed prevailing wage amendment.
A quoted Exchange meditation urges denying vacation and rest, working nonstop, eating poorly, avoiding exercise and sunshine, worrying about job security, and fostering ill temper, arguing such habits shorten life and questioning the appeal of dying next year.
The Preacher's Column urges church members to donate eggs for Buckner Orphans Home. Readers are asked to bring two to three dozen eggs to Manning Clark Meador store or to the church basement by 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Men are urged to skip a Coke and cigar to help fill cases. The column also notes prior hints about gambling and debt, reflects on an old friend, and praises recent Sunday school gains.
In a small country town an elderly man described as convivial yet bookish is brought before the magistrate for drunken and disorderly behavior. He refrains from specific defense and quotes poets before the judge imposes seven days in custody. The magistrate orders a list of his quoted names to be compiled.
A humorous exchange shows Mrs Crabflake celebrating finally affording medical care as her daughter marries a doctor. The joke hinges on the cost of appendicitis treatment and the boastful remark about improved finances.
The passage argues taste is moral in nature, shaping character. It asserts taste guides what we like and thus who we are, claiming true education should cultivate delight in the right things rather than mere compliance.
A Pennsylvania German farmer's wife bakes many mince and apple pies and marks the crusts with T. M. When a neighbor asks for the meaning she explains that T. M. stands for Tis mince on one pie and Tain't mince on the other, delivering a humorous regional exchange.
Weather bureau offers a simple wind velocity scale. From 1 mph smoke rises vertically to 75 mph plus inland gales under tornado conditions. Each range describes effects on leaves, branches, wires, and structures.
The piece recounts Galileo Galilei in Padua around 1592 experimenting with a glass air tube connected to colored water to measure heat. It notes his term thermos for warm and meter for measure and hints that no complete thermometer existed until later.
The text traces early temperature scales from Fahrenheit's 180‑degree division with water freezing at 32 and boiling at 212, through Reaumur, to Celsius who proposed 100 at freezing and 0 at boiling before reversing to centigrade. It notes the collaboration across nations and the minor role of the tube agreement.
The excerpt lists varied stats from relief counts and women and children in need to bison populations in North America, printing costs for the Congressional Record, Cleopatra Selene’s Rome captivity, national illness estimates, highway mileage, stamp tax data, and a 1930s murder rate. It reads as a composite trivia item.
A woman observer questions voter handling at the polls. An official replies that no votes were discarded, only non ballots were tossed, including a sponge cake recipe two soap coupons and three love letters.
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