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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1959
Page
7
The National Safety Council warns poison dangers hide in every home from medicine cabinets to food shelves. About 1,000 lives yearly, including many children, are lost to accidental poisoning. Preventive tips include education, stricter labeling, and home safety steps such as storing medicines out of reach and locking poisons.
A string of humorous vignettes on marriage and manners. A labor leader seeks a match at a matrimonial agency caught by seniority. A wife’s spending sprees prompt clever responses about money and honesty. A Sunday School tale ends in a cheeky take on forgiveness. A divorce court inquiry closes the snippet with a puzzled defendant.
A judge calls for a recess to examine the case as a woman reports her husband missing. The husband’s lawyer asks for the meaning of the remark and the judge clarifies the situation with a pointed line about the client’s head. A separate note reports a wife asking to send a message to her missing husband.
A visitor asked an artist if talent runs in families. He replied that ability does not pass by inheritance, citing the Spanish painter El Greco as an example of artistic distinction arising from other factors.
A brief exchange between a girl and an artist reveals none of them have heard of El Greco or his parents. The artist implies a deeper point about recognition and legacy, while the girl remains puzzled by the comparison.
Two Texas farmers compete by borrowing a crosscut saw to cut a watermelon. Jimmie reports Ernest cannot lend the saw until afternoon because he is halfway through a cucumber. The hometown joke highlights neighborly one upmanship and farm life humor.
A social tea featured Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes as hostesses praised by attendees. As the great man prepared to depart she queried his view of afternoon tea and Holmes replied with a sharply comic line: It is giggle gobble gobble git.
The Citizens National Bank of Denison sues Denison Land and Investment Co and co defendants over Lots 14 through 24 in Block 1 College Park Addition Denison Texas minus parts sold to Houston and Texas Central Railroad The citation requires O L Landman and Rose Landman to answer by May 18 1959 and mentions 65732 as file number Published in The Whitewright Sun April 9 16 23 30 1959.
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