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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1927
Page
4
The Whitewright section notes a heavy weekly rain, oversized sample cars at farm markets, impressive sunflowers including a 15 inch head, and a population rise at the Texas penitentiary. It also mentions recent nuptials in Denison and Sherman with hopes for lasting happiness and no divorces.
The Houston Press recounts five year old King Michael I of Romania facing royal ceremony yet longing for simple comforts. Surrounded by nobles and soldiers, the boy clung to dignity while pleading for bread and jam, preferring toys to a crown.
Chief Justice Joseph Sabath, who has dealt with over 25 000 divorce cases, offers ten commandments for a happy marriage. The advice urges bearing and forbearance, teamwork, avoiding heated quarrels, frank discussions, sympathy, humor, shared duties, establishing a home, and nightly prayers to leave no leftovers for tomorrow.
A Peoria Star quote notes that many men mistake having an open mind for having a vacant one. The remark emphasizes self awareness and intellectual humility.
A collage of short quotes and wry observations from newspapers in different periods. Highlights include remarks on Prohibition nonstops to Europe, a color matching machine, a humorous jab about a husband, a speedy Himalaya sheep, and comments on responsibility law and Mary and her lamb stories.
The clippings cite Mencken on universal language and Lindbergh’s post fame fate, plus Coolidge’s job talk amid 1928 presidential speculation. The items reflect opinionated wit across Toledo Blade Seattle Times and Brooklyn Eagle.
A rapid collection of varied trivia cites global tidbits: motored rural mail routes, African ancestry sneeze habits, Ruthwell bank origins, biblical word frequency, English word additions, Joliet robbery years, snuffbox fashions, nine lives myth, Abyssinia telephony rules, Montreal motor fines, a German clockwork sleep device, Babylonian timekeeping, food canning origins and prize, European hair data, Lord Palmerston inkwell habit, Indian rulers’ squeaky shoes.
A slice of vintage miscellany notes that some English firms produce items priced by quality, USC coeds prefer "home lovers" as husbands over "cave men," dogs in London clinics charge $2.50 for a standard cut and $5 for a St Bernard, Dutch opposition to head hunting persists, while Borneo tribesmen increasingly borrow heads when needed.
The arrival of the first ship in fifteen years to an island in the Bering Strait between Siberia and Alaska informs inhabitants that Russia is no longer a monarchy.
The text notes regional bread variations from cold countries using scarce ingredients to warm regions using corn and chestnuts. It lists Mexico and Central America using cornstalks, Iceland drying fish, Ireland potatoes, Italy chestnuts, and Russia bark during lean years.
Boston August 3 A lock of George Washington hair was given to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts by Mrs Washington after his death. The gold urn by Paul Revere holds the relic and rests with another similar urn containing Garfield hair. A letter from John Warren Paul Revere and Josiah Bartlett invites Dame to keep the keepsake with regalia.
Deaf mutes may now see their voices and learn to speak using a device from Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing. A bright light line in a revolving mirror scatters into curves that map speech when spoken into a receiver. Soft cooing yields graceful curves, sharp hello forms a barbed wire fence image, and whistling makes the light line go wild.
A method helps deaf pupils by showing the shapes of sound waves produced by speech. They observe and imitate the teacher's waves and quickly learn to reproduce the spoken forms.
Four years after a dime candy gift at the post office, Little Fidity Flinders recalls the drummer’s face. Yam Sims faces an accusation of a big head but vows not to become top heavy due to his large feet. Luke Mathewsla notes a cautious outlook on his prospects.
The article notes Slim Pickens in the Gander creek bottoms where he was swarmed by chiggers, a minor wilderness misadventure. It also mentions Columbus Allsop, formerly with the Excelsior Fiddling Band, now using his bass fiddle at home to accompany a difficult phonograph piece.
A storekeeper at Bounding Bil lows observed Sid Hocks gazing into a showroom window from his door on Saturday. He declined to invite Hocks inside, believing Sidney lacked funds for any purchase even on installment.
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