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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1928
Page
3
A long list of social visits and travel reports from Sherman, Anna, Dallas, and nearby towns. Names include Louise Sears, Winnie Hamilton, William James, J. B. Phillips, C. W. Anderson, Inez and Gladys Ray, Gordon's Cash Grocery, and many others visiting relatives or friends in McKinney, Sherman, Dallas, Bel ls, and Wolfe City.
The Northwest Fannin County Singing Convention will be held at Savoy next Sunday afternoon with the program starting at 2 o clock. Singers and lovers of good singing are invited to attend.
The Denison Bonham and New Orleans Railway ceased operating last Friday after pulling its sole locomotive into Bonham and announcing no further runs. President D M Penn plans dismantling and sale if no entire outfit sells, with freight losses blamed on autos buses bad crops and reduced rates. The line connected Katy at Denison and Texas Pacific at Bonham serving sand gravel pits and a rural area along the Red River. The road may be converted to a county highway after dismantling.
The American Gas Association has built a Cleveland laboratory to test safety and efficiency of gas appliances before market release. About 50 percent of furnaces and water heaters, 60 percent of space heaters, and 75 percent of gas ranges carry the lab seal. In total 11,000 appliances are approved, with more to come as unapproved models face marketing challenges.
The report notes New York has twenty times the crime of London and uses armored cars in daily streets. It contrasts with London where armed police are not deployed, implying different security approaches between the two cities.
An advertisement from Bow-Wright Drug Co. offers Leto's Pyorrhea Remedy for sore or bleeding gums and pyorrhea with a money back guarantee if not pleased. The copy emphasizes a unique, result oriented claim.
A downtown exchange contrasts quiet Christmas with lavish preparations and concludes the season embodies self sacrifice and generosity. The piece cites God’s gift and the need for spiritual focus beyond ornament and commerce, urging earnestness and hospitality.
It is too late to order engraved Christmas greeting cards yet fine assortment available in stock. Cards are sold in lots of 25 and 50 with space to print the sender’s name. Come in this week to choose and we will have them ready before Christmas.
A fragment shows a humor line about an ice jam and Eskimos eating it with bread. The wording suggests a playful misunderstanding of regional terms and a pun on cold desserts. The snippet preserves a conversational tone with archaic humor.
Mrs F B Angel of Paradise is visiting with W R Correll and family in Manhattan Kansas as reported by the local paper.
A writer asks if motor cars induce laziness and answers that the cure is to remain active as pedestrians. The debate contrasts efficiency with daily movement and physical discipline.
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