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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1954
Page
3
Local residents report travel and family visits. Names include Whitworth Morton Stuteville Gillett Morton Watkins Tate Williams Windrow Colbert Holland and Simmons with friendships extended across Irving Dallas Ardmore Oklahoma City Sherman.
Connie Sears Garner of Angleton completed a month with her grandparents Mr and Mrs Robert Sears and other relatives. The visit included a Dallas trip to see W O Ballard family and Ricky Bridges surgery. A birth announced for Patti Lou Haston in Leonard. A Ray family reunion was held in Whitewright with descendants visiting Kentucky town cemetery.
New York notes the ice cream cone's 50th birthday, with four billion cones sold yearly and 600 million gallons of ice cream consumed nationwide. Origin traced to the 1904 St Louis World Fair, where Ernest A. Hamwi from Damascus improvised a cone from wafers to help a crowded vendor. A separate court quip praised drivers for colliding with each other rather than bystanders.
New York inventor William Emery receives a patent for a time lock cigarette case. The device uses a built in watch to lock the case for a set period, preventing access to twenty cigarettes until the timer expires.
The article links U S kitchens to farm equipment like tractors and harvesters, noting appliances arise from agricultural tech. It argues the kitchen’s labor-saving miracle stems from the development of farming machinery powering urban and rural homes.
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