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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1942
Page
6
A Beeville Bee-Picayune piece recounts a humorous diary of a recruit reported by a Beeville stenographer. The narrator describes registration, uniforms, and training misadventures, marching to Australia, trench duty, and a final farewell with a light patriotic tone.
The memoir recalls meals and studio tours with George Sidney James Stewart Judy Garland Ann Rutherford Lucille Ball Eddie Cantor and John Lee Mahin. A quirky anecdote about a Southern belle pirate and a grandpa’s ancestry calculation adds humor to the Hollywood notes.
A Kansas editor urged a concise wedding notice of the “upper ten” but the draft read like a flowery novel. The piece praised the bride’s beauty and dress while awkwardly recounting the ceremony and ending with a risqué joke about a lily.
A joke about a Negro asked for a tame turkey ends with the servant quipping that the shots were meant for him not the bird. Separate note states Texas produced 3,000 tons of grapes in 1940.
A National Geographic Society bulletin summarizes the Solomon Islands as a 900 mile long chain of 10 major and many smaller islands. The area, east of New Guinea and northeast of Australia, hosts Melanesian tribes, past cannibalism and head hunting, and earthquakes. Tulagi once capital, now amid fighting as U S and Japanese clash.
Sadie Hatfield of the A and M College Extension Service explains how to identify poison ivy found in Texas woods along streams. The plant has three shiny dark green leaflets, often grows on tree trunks, and turns red in fall with white berries late in the season. To remove it, dig roots. wash exposed skin with strong soap if touched.
The United States has cut pneumonia deaths by roughly 50 percent over the past four years. This progress reflects improved treatments, vaccination efforts, and public health measures across regions and demographics.
Seattle dentist Dr. Ralph L. Huber offers a cheap disposable hypodermic syringe that can be factory loaded and sterilized, costing about 1.5 cents. Loaded syringes include a disinfectant swab and supply sulpha drugs to prevent infection, potentially reducing nurse sterilization needs. Medical officers weigh adoption for first aid kits as an efficiency boost.
Citation issued in Grayson County Texas commands George Riley to appear by 10 AM on the first Monday after 42 days for divorce petition filed July 2 1942 by Mary Chinn Cotton Riley. Case No 49055 notes cruel treatment and seeks dissolution of marriage with name restoration and costs.
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