Sun notices and anti-Ku Klux Klans report
A compact reader notice from The Sun outlines classified policy and correction duties, cites census gender splits, and jokes about Texas social norms. It reports 3 to 7 percent food price increases in nine cities led by Detroit and notes anti Ku Klux Klan groups forming in state sections to counter Klan activity with three members for every Klansman.
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Department of Labor
Detroit
Little Rock
Ku Klux
Watermelons Abundant Yet Poor Quality In Whitewright
This week Whitewright reports an ample supply of watermelons with thirteen loads observed Tuesday afternoon. Yet most fruit is unfit for eating, and about half of the melons are poor. Despite that a big melon costs a quarter, making occasional waste affordable. Last year big melons sold for 75c.
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Whitewright
The Greatest Man in the World
A child idolizes his father, believing him flawless and beyond reproach. The piece argues parental influence shapes a boy’s views on smoking swearing and opinions of others, asserting a father’s behavior defines his greatness in the eyes of his child.
Proverb Snippet Reflections on Duty and Taxation
A compact quotation from the Boston Transcript and Williamsport Sun contrasts procrastination with obligation and taxes. The proverbs highlight duty, representation, and family choices in everyday decision making.
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Williamsport Sun
Difference between old fashioned and new fashioned girl
A reader from Whitewright writes that the old fashioned girl looked at the moon and dreamed, while the new fashioned girl looks at the moon and is a dream. The Sherman Democrat reports this witty distinction as a light, opinionated note in letters to the editor.
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Whitewright
Sherman Democrat
Found fifty dollars on road near hedge at farmer home
The Blancée Courier notes a cord planter money found on the road by a prominent farmer’s hedge. It lay unused for weeks and worn by exposure. The note jokes that if the paper had the lost money, it would not be running a newspaper.
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Blancée Courier
Knocks From Suburban Teams Attract Leader Attention
Whitesboro and Whitewright clubs deliver heavy blows in a baseball game against Van Alstyne, scoring twelve runs while the Van Alstyne team struggles for a single. An amusing park-side incident involving a Cotton Belt train nearby is noted as a possible factor in the lopsided score.
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Leader
Whitewright
van Alstyne Club
Ball Park
Cotton Belt
van Alstyne
Katy
The
Editorial Sparks Quotes on Power, Money and Society
A collage of biting wits and political quips from various papers. The collection remakes public life with pithy lines on governance money and human nature, including remarks on leadership, loans, industry and Irish diplomacy.
Healthgrams on hygiene and disease prevention
A health column warns that infantile paralysis can strike any age and stresses sanitation. It links good health to business success, emphasizes dental care, digestion, and nutrition, and lists pests and mold as health risks. It also advises on flea control using naphthalene and kerosene and notes dust, dampness, and darkness as TB risks.
Safeguarding Public Health Is Highest Community Duty
The text emphasizes eternal vigilance to protect freedom from disease and warns that indifference to health issues leads to higher sickness and mortality. It stresses grave, ongoing public health problems and the necessity of proactive safeguards.
The State Axiom and Public Welfare, A Seldon Quotation
A quotation from John Seldon asserts the state's duty to encompass the public health and physical well being of citizens. It argues for welfare of people including material, spiritual, and health aspects, aiming to transmit strength and virility to future generations.
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John Seldon
Wolfe City Street Paving Project Starts
The Wolfe City paving program begins with removal of crossings and installation of gutters and curbs. Sidewalk work in the business district starts before guters and curbs, then brick paving on main street and intersections follows, with completion expected within sixty days and other streets to be paved later.
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Wolfe City
Government to sell linters at twenty five cents a bale
The U S Government offers 242 bales of linters from the wartime stock at 25 cents a bale. Authorized agent J M Sturdivant will handle sales at the oil mill office. Linters, weathered and damaged after two years, are pitched as useful for ditch filling on farms and other cheap applications.
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U. S
Oid
J. M. Sturdivant
Man Loses Pants During Snake Prance
Desire Missouri July 30 A man fishing in shallow water was attacked by a water moccasin during a snake dance. He removed his trousers to flee the snake and ran panting past astonished women who screamed as the pair tumbled into the scene.
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Mr.Powell
Woman Drops Dead Upon Seeing Daughter in Chicago
Palestine Texas July 30 Overjoyed at meeting her daughter in Chicago Mrs M Winner widow of the late M Winner former prominent Palestine business man dropped dead in a railroad station in Chicago last night according to telegrams to relatives here
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Palestine
Texas
Chicago
Buyers brighten moods affect on selling in town
A note from the Youngstown Vindicator observes that a season of low mood no longer yields a bored and forbidding air when buyers make offers. Sellers’ attitudes shift as the market improves.
Texas Bureau Now Largest of Marketing Association
Dallas July 31 The Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Marketing Association claims to be the world’s largest cooperative marketing group with over 40 000 Texas farmers signed to five year ironclad contracts and plans to market every bale of their cotton. Be Guthrie of Dallas named manager with a salary comparable to the Prune and Apricot Growers’ California chief. A treasurer will be chosen next week as financing for the movement is pegged between 12 and 15 million dollars, plus 30 to 40 million from crop proceeds. The executive committee overseeing appointments includes John T.
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Dallas
Texas
Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Marketing Association
California
BE. B. Guthrie
Cotton Man
Prune and Apricot Growers’ Association of California
Guthrie
Cotton Association
White House dog's brother faces chicken killing charge
Denver July 30. Dicky Boy, brother to Laddie Boy, President Harding's Airedale, was arraigned in Police Court on a charge of killing chickens. Owned by Albert R. Lowrie, the Denver broker offered to reimburse all losses if proof of death was shown. Judge Rice took the case under advisement as evidence remained inconclusive.
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Denver
Colo
Dicky Boy
Laddie Boy
Harding
Albert R. Lowrie
Lowrie
Rice
White House
Mr. Lowrie
Bald Heads Debate Bobbed Hair Propriety in Greenwich
Greenwich residents read of the Bald Head Club of America planning a pro and con debate on bobbed hair among girls at the next meeting. Editor John Rodemyer, founder, aims to bring bobbed-haired society girls from Greenwich to challenge opponents. Mrs. Claude R. Truett and her children visit relatives in Pilot Point.
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Greenwich, Conn
Bald Head Club of America
John Rodemyer
Greenwich
Claude R. Truett
Pilot Point
Notable Texas names listed in regional report
Orr Dallas W D Farris Ennis Jeff Montgomery Titus County Shirley Gregg Travis County Phil Mason Nolan County appear in a regional roll call of individuals and counties. The fragment preserves several named persons and places without further context or actions.
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J. H. Waggoner
Sun
United States
Boston Transcript
Whitesboro
van Alsne
Editorial Sparks
Canton
Dayton News
New York Evening Post
John Bull
John D.—Marion Star
Washington Post
Kansas City Star
New York
Detroit Journal
Pittsburg
Baltimore Sun
Harrisburg Patriot-News
Arthur Brisbane
Arthur
Houston Post
Wyoming
Minneapolis
John Barleycorn
Columbia
S. C
Washington. Post
Baltimore
Nicholson
Nicholson’s
W. T. Nicholson
Stown Vindicator
Texas Bureau
OF Marketing Association
John T
Denison
Sherman
McLean & Childress
Woosley’s
Mr. Robinson
Hudson, Davis & Company
Robinson
Hudson, Davis & Co
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