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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1922
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun notes post office status and advertising rates for notices including obituaries and memorials. It references San Jacinto Day on April 21 and Texas census figures on homes and ownership. It also shares quotes and quips about Ford, Denton College, and various editorials from other papers.
C L Stewart, state agent for Kellogg, says company sales this year rose five hundred percent from last year due to newspaper advertising. Kellogg spent about a million and a half dollars on ads in 1922, with The Sun running over four hundred inches of Kellogg Corn Flakes articles since January. At first only one or two Whitewright merchants stocked the product, now every grocer carries Kellogg's.
A collage of newspaper quips on prohibition literature and social mores. The items poke at issues from race and gender to economics and public virtue, with sharp asides on editors and leaders. Large names and publications appear beside sly puns and contrarian observations.
Statement of ownership and management and circulation required by the 1912 Act for the Whitewright Sun weekly newspaper published in Whitewright Texas for April 1 1922. Details include names of owners editors publishers and circulation figures as filed with the post office. This notice confirms the paper’s official publication data and distribution reach.
Notarized statement by editor owner J H Waggoner of Whitewright Texas lists publisher editor managing editor and business manager as J H Waggoner. States ownership as J H Waggoner with bondholder Mergenthaler Linotype Co Brooklyn NY on machine. Sworn April 18 1922 by GUY HAMILTON notary with commission expires June 1 1922.
Sunday school runs at 10 a m each Sunday with preaching on the third and fourth Sundays. Everyone is invited. Mr and Mrs W H Fleming and their daughter Gladys Mae stayed with Mr and Mrs Ernest Keeling over the weekend. R D Hughes and Erwin Mitchell visited Otto Hopper on Sunday. Mr and Mrs G S Ryan and Mrs J M Hassler visited P H Connelly.
Sunday events noted as Mrs. M. D. Oliver improves from illness while Ada Owens and Clara Hefner socialize. The Canaan school will close Friday April 21 with a program inviting all to bring baskets. Local visits include Miss Lenora Hefner and Miss Vashita Owens. Canaan baseball beat Enterprise 7 to 6. Bells fell 19 to 3. Boy Scouts defeated by 6 to 5.
San Francisco dispatch reports that all states are urged to name their greatest hero of the recent war for the Living Hall of Fame to be featured at the Disabled American Veterans of the World War convention in San Francisco from June 26 to 30. Fourteen states have already named their heroes and most governors are expected to follow.
Mayor James Ralph of San Francisco has written to all Governors to second the invitation of the convention committee while arrangements are made to name the hero representatives.
In Whitewright area this spring residents face skin troubles and are offered a jar of Blue Star with a guarantee. The advertisement emphasizes relief and a money back or satisfaction commitment to buyers in the territory.
A Sun office ad offers 75 sheets of a good typewriter paper for 25 cents and promotes auto casings and tubes with a sales pitch to see before buying. It also mentions Dyer Jones products for skin conditions and a pleasant odor while noting the paper does not stain clothing.
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