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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1915
Page
8
A bill died in committee as the commission seeks to study conditions affecting childhood and find remedies. The notice urges protecting home life and fostering agencies for child development, calling mothers, fathers, educators, ministers, legislators and the press to make the child the watchword of the era.
A persuasive ad urging parents to treat a child’s cough with Dr. King’s New Discovery. It promises rapid cold relief, soothing balsams, and antiseptic action, claiming it will stop a lingering cough and is guaranteed with a druggist purchase.
A New York Mail clipping notes Susan Simpson meeting Stephen Slocum in a social scene. The pair exchange a playful if shy dialogue about marriage as the summer season unfolds through a string of alliterative lines.
The message warns that slight liver symptoms can presage serious illness and urges immediate action with Liv-Ver-Lax, a natural vegetable compound replacing calomel. It promises safety, effectiveness, a money back guarantee, and notes sale by Dyer & Jones.
On Thursday night May 6 the ladies of the Central Christian Church present Clyde Reeves Brodhead in a mixed program of dialect sketches and a reading of People’s popular play The Littlest Rebel at the high school auditorium.
Oran Sears offers cord and stove wood for sale with cash terms only. Readiness to supply wood is stated as ample and invites buyers to see before purchasing.
A Sunday program followed by a long business session set the stage for Whitewright Scouts. Four candidates will try out for the debating team with the two best to represent Whitewright at the county encampment in Sulphur, Oklahoma. The county group will meet May 8 at Woodlake for a get acquainted session, with events including a camp lamp making session and first aid talk.
Red River rose eighteen feet today at Denison Texas and is six feet from overflowing its banks. The river is full of driftwood and the Katy and Red River Bridge Company has men stationed at bridges to pull driftwood from the piers.
The marshal warns residents to keep stock up at night to avoid being taken to the pound. Stock found at large within the city will be seized and impounded. comply to avoid fees and annoyance. J T Roberts Marshal.
Whooping cough relief promised with Pine Tar Honey by Dr Bell's. Lozens mucous soothes throat and lung lining, reduces coughing severity. Suited for growing children. keep on hand for coughs and colds. 25e at your druggist. Electric Bitters a Spring Tonic.
A Harrisburg pair aged seventy plus report full cure of long kidney trouble by Foley Kidney Pills. They say they are as vigorous as thirty years ago. Pills also relieve sleep disturbance from bladder weakness, back ache, rheumatism and joint pain. Sold by Kirkpatrick and Bryant.
A promotional notice invites readers to mail five cents to Foley Co. Chicago to receive a trial package of Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for coughs colds and croup along with Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets. Kirkpatrick Bryant sells the items.
Ad promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for sluggish liver dizziness and indigestion. Claims ease constipation biliousness and improve blood quality. Sells at 25 cents through local druggists.
An author explains crowning rural roads to prevent standing water by raising the center and sloping to open ditches. A road drag, made from two split logs, is used to create a crown, smooth ruts, and puddle resistance, with regular dragging after rain to keep roads in good condition.
A hopeful statement extols good roads as engines of social contact and progress. It argues roads prevent intellectual stagnation, boost happiness and prosperity of workers, elevate national glory, and broaden the scope of mankind. The rhetoric links infrastructure to national improvement.
A farmer living beside a bad road faces serious delays reaching markets to sell produce. Poor access hampers transport of crops and livestock, impacting earnings and deliveries in the rural area.
The article critiques highway construction waste from ill placed or levelled road beds and argues for consulting a highway engineer before major improvements. It warns that temporary foundations for bridges and culverts cause heavy losses, praises durable corrugated iron pipes, and urges location fixed construction with rigid foundations for bricks and concrete. It notes Americans' haste leads to undone past work and wasteful cycles, while valuing conserving time, labor, and human life.
The writer argues good roads from farm to market raise farmer prices and lower city food costs. A farmer with solid roads and reasonable grades prefers to haul goods to the city personally and sell from his wagon.
The United States Department of Agriculture uses a dynamometer mounted on an ordinary drag to measure the tractive force needed to pull different weights over various road types.
A concise exhortation for improved roads and schools and stronger neighborhood cooperation to ensure future generations fare better than the present, emphasizing collective action for children's welfare.
A letter argues that improved roads cut travel time to town and reduce marketing costs. It urges authorities to build more good roads to boost commerce and farmer profits. The writer cites heavy travel and market expenses as reasons for expansion.
A short aphorism warns that the idea of bad roads as a necessity should be reconsidered, urging readers to rethink infrastructure norms and the impact of poor road conditions on daily life.
The halves of the drag are framed by wooden braces with split surfaces facing outward. Set the drag at a 45 degree angle to the road to draw earth toward the center. Use after rains to smooth the surface and prevent ruts, crowning and puddling mud. Effective on clay soils. widely used in the West. Farmers should own one and work roads after rain, then again as the earth begins to dry to finish smoothing.
E B House outlines practical gravel road surfacing steps from base shaping to rolling. He stresses solid shoulders, compacted earth, and layered gravel with sand or loam to create a durable surface, estimating a 15 foot wide road with center thickness of six inches and side thickness of three and a half inches.
A discussion argues that road stretches vital to a locality may be ignored by the township system. Townships are too small to maintain essential improvements or bear costs alone. County control of main roads is proposed, with county votes allowed to approve or reject such control.
Maryland appropriates 4,000,000 dollars for road improvements. A portion must be used to plant trees along highways. The initiative highlights Maryland as a land of beauty with better roads aiding rural districts.
Italy is drafting a series of regulations that will define the permissible widths of wheel rims allowed on highways and set enforcement measures to ensure compliance across road vehicles. The move aims to standardize safety and vehicle performance standards nationwide.
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