Local notes on visits and travel across Texas towns
Area residents and visitors are listed with many trips and calls during a week. Families from Denison Sherman Roswell Dallas Oklahoma City and Mesquite host and visit relatives while others plan teaching assignments and vacations. A legible legal notice follows detailing a 1958 Denison property case with a court citation and property partition request.
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State OF
Texas
Daisy Simms
Alice Kidd
Day & Munson
Denison
Grayson County
A. D
Tuabe
S. W. Earnest
Whitewright Sun
Taxation No Vacation Henry Heads Off for Lookout Gulch
Henry Suburban wakes for the annual vacation with a morning routine of purchases and taxes. He lists rates on alarm clocks radios and the car as he prepares to leave for Lookout Gulch, with family items, household goods, and fees noted. He plans to shut off gas, arrange transport, load suitcases, and check licenses and gear before departure.
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Henry
Lookout Gulch
Miss Suburban
Shantytown
Groom Falls
When Is a Hand Not a Hand and Toll Road Tax Tale
A humorous travel vignette tracks Henry’s road trip with tolls, gas, meals, and hotel stays marked by prices and taxes. It mentions a child’s highway exhibit and a TV baseball game, ending with a quip about a teacher’s husband and his wife reading a grocery list aloud.
How to Avoid Temptation
An anxious man asks a king how to resist temptation. The king tests him by requiring him to carry a vase of oil through a crowded city without spilling. The man succeeds by focusing only on the oil, not the people, and the king declares this proof of temptation avoidance.
Missing Client Name Causes Quick Crisscross
A young lawyer travels to New York to consult a client but forgets the name. He wires the firm who replies that their client is Smith William A and that his own name is Jones John B.
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New York
Smith
William A
Jones
John B
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