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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1933
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun lists a $1.50 yearly subscription payable in advance and warns notices of entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission will be charged at regular rates. It notes corrections for erroneous reflections and comments on plow-up agreements and crop yield comparisons tied to a severe winter and insect infestation implications.
President M H Cahill of the Katy Railroad appeals directly to Texas readers to support the railroad in its business campaign. The ad notes Katy’s impact on Whitewright, naming the town and its founder, and highlights the line’s role as a major taxpayer contributing 595 dollars to city taxes and aiding schools and government.
Farmers who refused to participate in the cotton plow-up may have to sell unplowed cotton at lower prices if the government’s forecast of 12,314,000 bales holds. The Dallas News hints the forecast may be inflated to push farmers into conforming, though past revisions have tended to rise.
A Dallas News column contrasts Woodrow Wilson's era with Franklin D Roosevelt's farm aid, arguing Texans benefited more from cotton prosperity and rural welfare than political patronage. It criticizes automatic tax settings and per capita scholastic allotments as dishonest, predicting deficits and embarrassment for state finances.
Texas announces a sixteen dollar per capita apportionment for school funding despite being in arrears on last year’s. The forecast points to likely failure to reach this unattainable target and suggests political advantage sought through an impossible goal. The forthcoming election could reflect this misdirection.
A reflection by Mrs. Walter Ferguson laments the decline of the American man with the disappearance of the mustache. The piece recalls varied styles from long silken to belligerent and how facial hair signified trade, temperament, and social presence, mourning a vanished era.
In 1932, about 305 679 727 people moved through New York by rail ferry and car a 14 percent drop from 1931. Suburban trains carried more than half a million commuters daily while trunk railroads lost about 35 million riders year over year. Cheese consumption doubled with beer in New York and Chinese food demand rose unusually. A subway vendor appeared with an armful of magazines before a passenger bought one.
A quirky slice from New York highlights a 125 degree street claim, a Bronx Zoo shipment of 41 snakes five lizards and African scorpions, and local businesses enforcing strict dress codes. Shoppers buy skin whiteners and yellow telephones while streams of Chinatown depositors fill Citizens Savings Bank on the Bowery.
A compilation notes quirky laws across states such as California orange peels in hotels and Kansas grasshopper duties. It also tells a Joliet tale of a condemned mountaineer appealing for a pardon amid rumors and a tongue twisting governor note.
A small rural press notes both Sun and Semi-Weekly Farm News items arrive to the same address for a yearly rate of 1.85 dollars. The notice implies a shared mailing arrangement and pricing.
A long editorial cautions readers that there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, condemning get rich quick schemes and urging that true happiness comes from honest, diligent work and moral living. It cites nature’s laws and quotes sacred text to underscore these lessons.
Report notes testing of charcoal gas as an alternate motor fuel in China where cheap energy is crucial. It mentions Prof. F. Bergius, the German chemist and 1931 Nobel laureate, and his bread from forest lumber. Also cites a study by Dr. K. K. Chen using 7500 toads from five continents to study food poisons and a finding that hydrogen mixtures can be made less inflammable, potentially aiding dirigibles in some countries.
The text notes Verkhoyansk in Siberia as the coldest winter location among regularly measured places. It cites Vladimir Zezinov in The Road to Oblivion, quoted by Charles Fitzhugh Talman in a Science Service feature, describing effects of extreme cold such as ice crystals forming in air, spittle freezing midair, animals seeking deep shelter, marmots hibernating underground, and ice making wood spark like flint.
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