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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1938
Page
8
The Lubbock Texas Experiment Station promotes refined cottonseed oil as a meat preservative. Cured hams and bacon are submerged in oil after curing, then stored in cool dry spaces. The method prevents drying, mold, and rancidity, allowing longer shelf life up to three years for hams and six months for bacon.
In 1938 Texas wets and drys remained deadlocked with local option elections about two weekly. Drys gained four precincts and lost one county. sixty seven elections had no change. Liquor consumption fell about 227000 gallons to 3700000. beer dropped over 1500000 to 45500000. State revenues from liquor wine and beer tolled 6500000, with nearly 1 million in local license fees. old age pensions rose to 4500000 and the school fund to 1200000.
Austin residents read of a proposed constitutional amendment to limit pensions to those in need and create an eight tenths percent general transactions tax. The plan would fund $15 monthly payments to all needy individuals over 65, applying to real estate, goods, real and intangible items, and professional services. Salaries, newspaper revenue, and first farm goods sale would be exempt.
Sidelight on Democracy notes a European boy who earned a philosophy degree by age fourteen, prompting a wry exchange about early philosophical rigor. The brief item highlights precocity and cultural commentary on youth achievement across Europe.
The piece traces Mongol rule established by Kubla Khan in 1279, its overthrow by a popular revolution, and the rise of the Ming dynasty until 1644. It notes Christian introduction during the Ming, Russian trade from 1653, and the start of modern China, followed by the Manchu republic and later Western contact. It includes a quoted race description from Mackenzie describing northern Chinese peoples and ancestral invaders.
The Field museum displays a Chinese mouth pipe organ or sheng. A lacquered wood bowl forms the body with seventeen bamboo pipes on top, thirteen with free reeds. Players cover small holes above each pipe to sound the tones as they blow, but superstition limits its daily use.
Swordfish lack teeth and swallow prey whole. they can empty their stomachs at will making them exceptionally clean. Their upper jaw bony extension forms a "sword" nearly one third of their body. With great speed and strength they can defeat sharks in fair fights and have attacked whales.
The shark has a large liver producing oil for leather, steel tempering, and soap making. A 13 foot tiger shark liver weighed 200 pounds and yielded at least 18 gallons of oil. Fresh liver oil has medicinal uses and the flesh is processed into strips for brine drying. Dried meat provides food in the Malay states and, with bones and offal, makes poultry feed and fertilizer.
Montreal’s origins date to Maisonneuve who founded the city in May 1642 after Cartier and Champlain visited earlier. The Island of Montreal measures about 32 by 10 miles, and the city grew as Canada’s largest metropolis, banking hub, and rail centers while housing McGill and Montreal universities.
A fragmentary reminiscence notes a “bad liquor” sign on the Fort Worth Jacksboro highway, recalls a 60 day Arkansas Legislature stalemate, and mentions a lanky Ozark legislator’s unicameral liquor resolution. It nods to a federal judge’s quiet life and an Eastland County oil gushers story about Andy Rhodes and the Sailor well.
Perkins named for a young farmer owner later Navy service during World War. The spouter praised at 6 000 barrels a day of oil valued at 2 50 per barrel. A poem titled Cooties with line Adam Had em. Christmas Eve in Jefferson oil field featured boys firing firecrackers as a million dollar display lit background gas flares. Mentions Forgotten Men of American Literature and Robert G Ingersoll arguing immortality born from love and time. A hotel lobby letter ends abruptly with I would write.
A tense moment unfolds as an Irishman declares the writer a liar and peers over the shoulder, while the observer insists he has not read a word. The exchange ends without further incident.
A Gulfport Mississippi Guide note recalls a merchant who avoided ads because he disliked the editor. The piece argues the sole reason for advertising is to boost sales or goodwill, regardless of editor’s quirks, suggesting readers benefit from a paper as long as subscribers stay engaged.
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