Whitewright Hosts Big Annual Picnic and Market Talks
County crops show record potential as rain aids bumper cotton and grain yields. Vera Cruz tensions rise with battleships ordered. Whitewright prepares a two day picnic with bands stalls and speeches by Mayor Moore Congressman Rayburn and others including F C Weinert on warehouse marketing and farm issues. Senator J C McNeius plans to attend Friday morning address.
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Whitewright
Bonham and Whitewright
Whitewright Fire Company No.1
Moore
Rayburn
F.C. Weinert
Texas
D.S. McMillin
J. F. Spindle
L. P. Sears
J. C. McNeius
Dallas
D. S. McMillin
Grayson County Farmers to Meet in Sherman Saturday
Grayson County farmers bankers and businessmen are invited by T A Cole chairman of the Sherman Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee to meet in Sherman Saturday August 21 during the Old Settlers Reunion. Nathan Adams of American Exchange National Bank Dallas will discuss marketing cotton and warehousing while H K Singleton famed hog man will discuss cooperative hog marketing.
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T.A. Cole
Sherman Chamber of Commerce
Grayson County
Sherman
Old Settlers
Nathan Adams
American Exchange National Bank of Dallas
H. K. Singleton
Fruit of Absence and Snakes In China Clippings
Brief quips note how absence deepens affection in a magazine joke and warn that killing snakes in China is unsafe. The Chinese Taoist belief in the dragon king, tied to flood control, appears as a cultural reference in a Philadelphia North American blurb.
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China
Philadelphia
John
Their Only Pleasure and a Diadems History in Brief Notes
A London Missionary Society report recounts a native commissioner's two executions in New Guinea where men pleaded for hanging after being forbidden to throw spears at police. The piece then traces the diadem’s royal origin from a simple ribbon and notes a peaceful 10,000 year old civilization near the Caspian with brick houses and decorated pottery and no weapons.
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New Guinea
London Missionary Society
London Mall
Pliny
Bacchus
Athenaeus
Topers
London Spectator
Caspian Sea
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Epitorr and Publisher
Glenn Doss
Grayson
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Louisiana
New Hampshire
Brownsville
Cotton Belt
East
Liam
Rass Sewannsus Relat
Limited
Sityes
the Odeon Theatre
William Fox
Theda Bara
Clemenceau Case
Alexander Dumas
Theatre Antoine
Paris
Herbert Brenon
New York Press
Harrison
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Southwest Corner Square
Sherman, Texas
San Francisco
Siam
Royal Gardens
Cenes
The
Dallas News
Whitewright Sun
Grayson County Farmers
Madge
Marjorie
Charlie
Jack
Lippincott’s
Ector
Tom Barbee
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