This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 20 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1933
Page
5
Bonham residents visit relatives. several locals recover from illness while others travel to Dallas Fort Worth and Houston. Dr. J F Fender to preach at Presbyterian Church. senior class play Have You Seen the Queen to be staged Friday with thirty participants and acts.
Bill Jones promotes a sale of ladies and girls oxfords canvas leather trimmed at 98c per pair. Ladies black kid and patent leather oxfords and strap slippers medium heel sell from 1.59 to 98c. Also men’s work shirts offered at 50c 45c and 35c each. Trading place urged with pitch to pay.
Mr and Mrs W E LaRoe and Miss Blanche Montgomery attended the funeral for Jim Pendleton at Farmersville Saturday, who died at his home there Friday. Mrs J C Gillespie and Mrs Olive Myrick visited J L Truett in Baylor Hospital Dallas. Rev J L Truett showed improvement after being moved to Baptist Hospital Dallas.
Mrs W E Pennell hosted the Tom Bean Culture Club Friday at her home. She remains a member of the group despite moving to Whitewright and continuing her affiliation with the club.
Mr and Mrs B S Montgomery entertained guests over the past weekend including Mr and Mrs E T Fant of Sherman and Mr and Mrs Charles McCaskey and daughters Mary and Elinor of San Rafael California Rev L G Hagard pastor of the Methodist Church and Jim Williams attended the district Methodist conference in Honey Grove for a two day session starting this morning.
Uncle Bill May's shoulder bruise from a cow attack shows slow recovery. Visitors include P A Short and his brother Frank Short at 67th birthday, and H Benedict departing for Wichita after wintering in Kerrville. Several residents receive hospital news, travels, and family updates across Whitewright Sherman and nearby towns.
Local want ad column pledges fast outcomes for readers seeking services or sales. Advertisers highlight broad reach and simple contact methods to attract responses from the community.
Miss Lucille LaRoe presents Norma Frances Donigan Sarah Belle Gillett Aileen Pennington and Fred Starr in a Thursday 7 45 evening program of readings dances and a playlet. The cast performs Be the Best Hindoo s Paradise Just a Friendly Call Unfinished Lecture She Liked Him Rare Weel Whoa There January They Never Quarreled The One Apple Blossoms Your Old Home Town At the Place of Fun The Old Box Springtime Dance The Wedding At the Sign of the Cleft Heart with characters Love Margaret Boone maiden and Aileen Pennington. The public is invited.
Mrs. Sidney Watson and Mrs. Coy Harris attended funeral services for their cousin J. C. Mercer at Lone Oak on Thursday. The deceased was 16 years old and died in an automobile accident.
The Whitewright Music Club gathered Friday afternoon. New member Mrs. Gomer Graves was welcomed. Program included papers Seating Place of the Orchestra and The Conductor and His Duties, readings The Gift of the Magi, violin solo In a Rose Garden, piano Valse Caprice, and stringed orchestra performances. Refreshments followed.
The church lists Sunday school at 10:00 a m and 11:00 a m for observance. Evening worship follows at 7:45 p m with a sermon by Pastor L G Hagard titled Making Religion Formal or Vital including a 6:30 p m Young People's Service.
A humorous exchange features a spinster recalling a waiter asking how she would like her rice and replying in a playful manner about being pelted with it. The friend prompts and reacts with witty banter in a lighthearted domestic scene.
The Texas Bankers Record reprints a seventy year old bulletin by Hugh McCulloch advising bankers to guard against risky loans. It warns against speculation, favors diversified lending, prudent large loans, and dismissing officers who live beyond means.
Vienna doctors pursue a purified bee sting remedy for rheumatism while a Welsh inventor creates an automatic gravity powered oil separator. Prenatal X rays reveal an embryo elephant with a defined upper lip. Dr. Phillips notes 10 million Americans suffer hearing loss from colds. A German fire chief extinguishes oil fires with water in seconds. Activated carbon purifies vast water supplies. Public Health Service proclaims cancer as a germ disease with an isolated organism. White matter dictates brain power, not gray matter.
The article describes a new pencil using dry ice to freeze freckles off the skin. A touch on a freckle instantly freezes the spot so it drops away and does not return, offering a cosmetic fix for women unhappy with freckles.
A humorous Arkansas Highways verse extols a simple dependable vehicle praising its self starting nature, no license or sparks issues, durable frame and inner tubes, frictionless maintenance, and affordable upkeep with few demands. The tone blends playful admiration for a trusty ride with light publicity style.
A classroom scene contrasts prose and poetry as the teacher explains definitions. Tommy reads a joke example about an old woman who lived behind a hill and asks whether it is prose or poetry, provoking laughter and a puzzled moment.
Slim confesses he is pleasured by two engagements at once and worries over the reactions of both fiancées. Sam questions his plan while Slim weighs his romantic trap and possible consequences.
A Shreveport druggist offered a barter: two bottles of 3.2 beer for three barrels of East Texas crude oil. Beer bottles sell for 15 cents each while oil barrels go for about ten cents at current market.
Experimental study finds trees planted forty feet apart produced forty three bushels per acre more than those spaced thirty feet apart, indicating spacing significantly affects yield in orchard trials.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.