High School Football Team Receives New Sweaters
The high school football team was presented with gold and black sweaters at an assembly on November 25. Purchases came from the athletic association treasury and a supporters list. Recipients include Captain Leon Coffman and S. T. Montgomery among others while Planters National Bank and First National Bank contributed.
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Nener
The
Athletic Association
Planters National Bank
Tyer & Jones
S. & S. Service Station
Adams Motor Co
Lloyd Moore
S. T. Montgomery
Leon Coffman
Edward Pritchett
Fitz Bryant
Eugene Hall
Earl Blanton
Homer Annip
Jack Montgomery
Campton Humphreys
Donald Hall
Henry Phillips
Bill Keyes
Miles Chumbley
Supt. F. W. Smith
Last Week Mid-Week Meeting Draws Church of Christ Members
Minister C C Merritt reports a well attended mid week meeting and urges all able to join next Sunday study on Lukewarm Laodicea and Rekindling the Fire. The Ladies Bible Class meets Tuesdays at 2 30 inviting all town women to visit.
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Church of Christ
C. C. Merritt
The Golden Casket and Second-rate Choice at church
The Methodist Church schedules a morning service with The Golden Casket as theme and an evening service at seven titled The Tragedy of Second-rate Choice. Sunday school meets at the regular hour and Epworth League at six. Pastor L G Hagard extends a cordial invitation to all to attend.
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Methodist Church
Epworth League
L. G. Hagard
Business Men's Bible Class To Meet With Free Eats And Fellowship
A church bulletin promotes the Business Men's Bible Class meeting on Tuesday December 10 at 7 pm with free food and drinks. It urges all members to attend and invites friends to join. News notes include the B Y P U convention attendance of Misses Loletta Coffey Maggie Horton Velma Bennett Nellie Ackley Willie Ruth Ackley and Rev and Mrs W H Ackley at Longview with 175 in Sunday school last week and a call to return if marked missing.
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Loletta Coffey
Maggie Horton
Velma Bennett
Nellie
Willie Ruth Ackley
W. H. Ackley
Longview
Contract Let for Red River Bridge Across Denison
The Southwest Lee Myers Company of Dallas won the contract to build a Red River bridge north of Denison. Bids opened Nov 25 with figures of 230 294 for Denison 230 754 for Gainesville and 233 453 for Terral. Oklahoma City and Texas officials jointly announced the award.
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Gainesville
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Highway Commission
Texas Highway Commission
Red River
Durant
Okla
Denison
Texas
Democrats Will Not Intervene In Nominee Selection
Washington. Democratic national committee chair Henry Raskob says the party will take no hand in choosing the presidential nominee. He spoke during a business conference with President Hoover in the capital, praising the administration program and urging clarity on tariff policy. Raskob defended the Simmons tariff proposal moving flexible tariff provisions from the President to Congress.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
Raskob
Hoover
Congress
Simmons
North Carolina
Hooverisms from his congressional address
A summary of President Hoover’s message to Congress covering government aims to preserve order and freedom, growth and progress, literacy abolition via a voluntary committee, law enforcement duties, opposition to lawbreakers, DC as a model for enforcement, executive restraint in business, and criticisms of overcrowded federal penal institutions and weak parole and probation systems.
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District of Columbia
Whitesboro sets bond election for ice plant
The Whitesboro city commission granted a petition to vote bonds for a $15,000 municipal ice plant. The election date was set for January 6, 1930, with Mayor W. R. Younger presiding at the Monday night session.
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Whitesboro
W. R. Younger
One Sears of Lubbock Visits Relatives Here
An individual named Sears of Lubbock visited relatives in town at the start of the week, indicating family ties and local travel.
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Sears of
Lubbock
Sunday services announced with prayerful guidance
A church notice invites attendance at Sunday school 10 a.m. preaching 11 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. with B Y P U at 6 p.m. Prayer meetings drill Wednesday at 7 p.m. emphasizing Hebrews 10 25 and blessing for faithful attendance.
Meadolake to Open Cream Station in Whitewright
N C Sanford of Sherman arranged for a Meadolake Milk Products cream station in Whitewright to be located at the Purina Feed Co. store. Albert Vestal will supervise, with cream purchased every Wednesday and Saturday. The Meadolake plant, among Texas’ largest, opened two years ago and aims to boost local dairy industry by creating a home market for area producers.
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N. C. Sanford
Sherman
Whitewright
Meadolake Milk Products Company
Whitewright Purina Feed Co
Albert Vestal
Meadolake
Texas
Surgeons urged to know profession at Dallas meeting
Dr. W. C. Tenery of Waxahachie warned North Texas physicians that too many surgeons are operating beyond their capability. He urged thorough patient evaluation, preoperative study, and post operation patient care, stressing literature and information as safeguards. The surgical section led the morning program.
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Dallas
W. C. Tenery
Waxahachie
North Texas Medical Association
Texas to Seek Five Million Dollar State Budget Increase
The Texas Comptroller reports a two million dollar general fund deficit while plans emerge to seek approximately five and a half million dollars in new appropriations in the upcoming Legislature. Experts warn the state will lack funds in January and anticipate possible revenue declines. officials doubt large funds will be available and expect the Legislature to fund its own expenses and adjourn.
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Austin
State of Texas
Comptroller’s Department
Public urged to curb yard grass fires in Whitewright
Repeated costly fire alarms highlight dangers of burning dead yard grass except with favorable wind, ample help, and mature supervision. Weeds growing in vacant lots near barns and out houses along fences pose fire hazards, and Whitewright reports many such sites this year. The fire department should be kept reserve for higher priorities.
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Whitewright
Gifts that last from Lee Johnson’s charming line
A sales pitch promoting a gift line from Lee Johnson. The text invites readers to consider gifts that endure and playfully suggests a thoughtful choice for friends and loved ones. It emphasizes a charming, lasting gift theme.
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Lee Johnson
Three Deer Taken In Southwest Texas Hunt
K. T. Doss and J. M. McFerrin returned from a Southwest Texas hunting trip with three deer. They stored the game in a local cold storage plant, and Doss later delivered one deer to town by truck. A crowd gathered as details of the hunt drew questions.
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K. T. Doss
J. M. McFerrin
Texas
Sunman
Mr. Doss
America
Prison cotton brings premium of $19,711
George B. Terrell, Commissioner of Agriculture, said the department sold 2,040 bales of prison farms cotton up to Oct. 28 at an average $104.43 per bale, totaling $204,886.76. The premium above Houston spot quotations was $10,711.84, about $9.61 per bale.
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Austin
George B. Terrell
Houston
No Lack of Words in English Discoveries of Word Use
The article examines how often difficulty in word choice arises for writers and speakers. It notes English dictionaries now exceed 400 000 words, Webster's early editions held far fewer, and the average educated person understands about 50 000 words but uses only a fraction. The public knows and uses fewer than 8 000 words, inviting readers to sample dictionary pages and test familiarity.
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Noah Webster
Fellowship Service at Methodist Church Highlights
Wednesday evening the Methodist Church held a fellowship service led by Rev. L. G. Hagard. A devotional preceded an interesting program featuring a solo by Mrs. Howard Kilgree a girls quartet and children from the Sunday school. The program included a spelling match using Old Testament words.
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Methodist Church
L. G. Hagard
Howard Kilgree
Ministers Attend Texas Masonic Grand Lodge Meeting
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Willbanks of Shidler Oklahoma visited Monday night with Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Kirkpatrick. Willbanks was bound for Waco for the annual Texas Masonic Grand Lodge meeting.
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J. W. Willbanks
Shidler
Okla
W. A. Kirkpatrick
Willbanks
Waco
Texas Masonic Grand Lodge
Will Decorate for Christmas in Whitewright Town
Efforts are under way to make Whitewright the best decorated town in the region for the Christmas season. Merchants have bought evergreen trees for storefronts, show windows will be lit, extra lights to be added in the district, and homes are urged to use Christmas locations in yards or front windows with colored electric lights to boost the holiday spirit.
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Whitewright
Masqueraders To Stage One Act At Palace Theatre
The Masqueraders drama club will present a one act play at the Palace Theatre next Tuesday night with The Queen of Hearts making her first appearance. The cast includes three boys and three girls and a possible musical number is planned.
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Palace Theatre
Queen of Hearts
Two Injured in Auto Overturn Near Bells Sherman Road
Howard Cook suffered broken arm and several ribs while Orville Lyle received bruises when Cook's sedan overturned twice Monday night around 9 o clock on the Bells to Sherman road. Cook tried to stop for a stalled car, braking hard and causing the vehicle to somersault. Both men are residents of Savoy and sons of C. E. Cook and spouses.
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Howard Cook
Orville Lyle
Cook
Bells
Sherman
Mr. Cook
C. E. Cook
Savoy
Mr. Lyle
Memory Restored After Dozen Years in Amnesia Case
Alvin Carlson, long missing memory for 12 years, regained knowledge of his identity in Jacksonville Illinois after a Red Cross magazine story connected his photo to his brother Ed Carlson from Lewiston Montana. He had been found in Chicago with a blank mind and wrongly treated at state hospitals.
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Jacksonville
Alvin Carlson
Lewiston
Mont
Carlson
Chicago
Elgin
Ill
Charlie
Red Cross
Ed Carlson
Alvin
A and P Advertising Split Reveals Media Value
The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company allocates a $6 million advertising budget across media. It spent $50,000 in magazines, $80,000 for radio, and $5,670,000 in newspapers as its 15,000 stores hit a record billion and a half in annual business.
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Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Whitesboro Man Hurt in Underpass Cave-In
Clifford Works of Whitesboro was seriously injured Tuesday when the second cavern at the railroad underpass on Highway No. 5 east of Whitesboro caved in. He worked at the bottom of a 15 foot cut. the collapse occurred as the excavation gave way. Less than a month earlier two men were killed in the same cut.
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Clifford Works
Whitesboro
Thanksgiving Returns to Dallas and Sherman Guests
Mr and Mrs Clay Horton and little daughter Mrs D B Tate and daughter and Mrs W Binion spent Thanksgiving in Dallas guests of Mr and Mrs Pascal Binion Mr and Mrs C W Bryant Mr and Mrs G F Bryant and children and Mr and Mrs Roby Childress spent Thanksgiving in Sherman guests of Mr and Mrs Floyd Everhart
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Clay Horton
D. B. Tate
W. Binion
Dallas
Pascal Binion
C. W. Bryant
G. F. Bryant
Roby Childress
Sherman
Mrs
Floyd Everheart
Fort Worth Visitor Jack Lackey In Town Tuesday
Fort Worth welcomed visitor Jack Lackey on Tuesday with local engagements and planned meetings. Lackey's visit drew attendance from community members and business circles in the city center.
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Jack Lackey
Fort Worth
Changes in Public School Faculty After Thanksgiving
The post Thanksgiving reassembly brought faculty changes. Miss Margaret Forester, longtime history head at the high school since 1928, resigned to marry Mr. M. B. Boone of Amarillo and will reside there. Miss Roselle Cavaness will assume the duties, bringing 1.5 years of teaching experience and a BA from TM A. The first grade is split into two sections with Gertrude Schooling and Kate Fulton leading each, and Miss Isabel Noe of Denison joins the fourth grade. Additional grammar school assignments are being considered as late entries create imbalances. Superintendent Fred W. Smith surveys conditions this week to find advantageous changes.
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Dan Cupid
Margaret Forester
Dallas
M. B. Boone
Amarillo
Maypearl
Ellis County
Gertrude Schooling
Kate Fulton
Isabel Noe
Denison
Fulton
Miss Noe
Austin College
Susie Not
Fred W. Smith
Experts Correct Map of the World
Experts from the United States Department of Commerce unveil a new correctly proportioned flat map showing true areas and distances. The Mercator projection distorts sizes with Greenland larger than Australia, while the new map preserves equal square inches and scale along the equator and central meridians.
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Gerardus Mercator
Mercator
Karl Vooght
Popular Science Monthly
United States
Brazil
North America
South America
Greenland
Australia
United States Department of Commerce
West End Bridge Club Hosts Christmas Evening
Mrs. H. T. Atterberry entertained the West End Bridge Club Tuesday at her West Grand avenue home. Christmas decorations and candy plates added festive touches. Miss Ethel Gordon won high score for club members while Mrs. B. B. Adams took guests honors. Besides members, attendees included Mrs. Grady Geer of Van Alstyne, Mrs. Lucian LaRoe, Miss Sallye Hamilton, Dorothy Tapscott, Margaret Boone, Margaret McMurry, Rozelle Cayenne ss, Helen Thompson, Texarkana, and Louise Sears.
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H. T. Atterberry
West End Bridge Club
West Grand Avenue
Ethel Gordon
B. B. Adams
Grady Geer
van Alstyne
Lucian LaRoe
Sallye Hamilton
Dorothy Tapscott
Margaret Boone
Margaret McMurry
Rozelle Cayneness
Helen Thompson
Texarkana
Louise Sears
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