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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1938
Page
2
Community Public Service Company sponsors a Cold Cookery Clinic led by Marie McHenry from Kelvin Kitchen Detroit. The class is free in the local office Thursday May 5 at 2 30 p.m. Attendees receive recipe books and a take home foods samples with refreshments.
Neighbors challenge the O Leary cow origin tale by recounting a story of youths with clay pipes starting the blaze near the O Leary yard. Mary Kannealy and two other neighbors recall noticing smoke while the O Leary family slept, suggesting pipe sparks ignited the hay. The tale aligns with historical inquiry and shifts blame away from Mrs. O Leary’s cow.
Texas launches the 1938 grasshopper control drive with 37 carloads of bran and 14 800 gallons of sodium arsenate from federal sources. County agents and committees will distribute poison mash to farmers to curb hatch outbreaks planned for May 1 in the worst infestation in history.
Washington report from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics shows the 1937 cotton crop reached a record size but growers’ income totaled 863,970,000 dollars, down 41,109,000 from 1936. Fiber brought 734,194,000. cottonseed 129,776,000. Average price 8.7 cents per pound. 16,818,000 bales sold or loaned. crop estimated at 18,476,000 bales.
A Idaho girl writes to Governor Alfred, claiming she is a 16 year old in love and asking him to arrange for a good looking cowboy to write to her. She remarks on the governor's busyness and loneliness and asks for this small favor.
A humor exchange between a lawyer and a doctor ends with a witty clash about angels and professions. The joke hinges on the lawyer admitting the limits of his field while the doctor hints at moral complexity in all careers.
The Bureau of Business Research at the University of Texas reports Texas retail sales in March, for a representative group of stores, only 2.4 percent below last year and 21.6 percent higher than February. The shift of Easter from March this year to April adds optimism for the current trend.
A Center News note surveys how different cultures pursue beauty from the African cuts and healed welts to Eskimo face greasing and various Indian tribe rites. It mentions Chinese ear development and attention to hair, fingers, eyes, and feet as gendered beauty practices, concluding that standards shift by time and place while women seek enhancement. Spend your money in Whitewright.
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