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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1929
Page
8
The piece lampoons spring fever among students with jokes of lazy boys and love crawling into focus. It prescribes sunshine, exercise, fresh vegetables, water, fresh air, and sleep as cures, noting a rest cure if blindness symptoms appear. It closes with a patriotic nod to Texas history and the Star Spangled Banner.
A Texas essay mixes history of Tejas and flag battles with a senior class banquet at Whitewright High. Juniors hosted seniors with decor, a multi course menu, songs by Miss Sears and others, toasts by Dick Barber and others, concluding with Auld Lang Syne and a list of attendees.
On Friday evening April 12 the Whitewright High senior class staged a two act play Slats directed by Miss Margaret Forester senior sponsor. A large crowd braved threatening weather to attend amid intermission acts and a Countess Maritza duet by Madge Sears and Dick Barbie. Masqueraders Club members sold candy at the door and between acts. The seniors delivered a strong performance and set a high bar for next year’s seniors.
A string of lighthearted exchanges and puns from daily life. Jokes about notebook size, weather plans, bootleg liquor, and a doorway bell pair with a peanut butter joke and playful misunderstandings. A humorous slice of old school humor.
Short classified ad promises fast responses in the want column offering 25 words or less for 25 cents. Readers may place notices seeking services or items.
Five room dwelling with smokehouse and garage on a 200 by 142 foot lot in the west part of Whitewright. Priced at 1750 dollars. Also notes about insurance, pennant oil and gas, carpenter work, and printing services offered by The Sun office.
A dialect joke features Mose and his wife Dinah in a playful exchange about naming their baby Electricity. The line plays on the phrase if Dinahmose doesn’t make electricity what do they make.
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