Whitewright Tenants Board Reorganized and Road Plans
Whitewrights town activities include new directors for Denison Oil and Gas Company, road work to start after weather, a $900000 bond issue approved last year, reorganization of the city band, Civic League officers elected, and March 1 telephone rate increases for business and residence lines. City finances show $32906.71 collected in the year ending Feb 1 with allocations to taxes, water, sewer, schools, and bond redemptions.
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the Sun
Whitewright
Denison Oil & Gas Company
G. D. McCarty
Dr. R. May
R. L. Holcomb
T. H. Sears
Grayson County
F. M. Echols
Jesse Wallace
F. K. Russell
The
Civic League
W. J. Barbee
J. W. Wilson
T. E. Barbee
J. W. Davidson
D. W Smith
R. L. Sears
A. M. Bryant
L. C. Long
Hayden
Lilley
Horace Thompson
Maple Street
George Cooper
J. F. Fender
Grayson College
Mrs Abbie Lewis Dies At Family Home
Mrs Abbie Lewis wife of D R Lewis died at the family home on Wednesday morning In other brief news Morton Badgett and Miss Esther Hines were married last Saturday
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Abbie Lewis
D. R. Lewis
Morton Badgett
Esther Hines
Jumbled Musings on Women Money and Morals
A collection of opinion snippets contrasts appearances with brains noting Daisy as pretty but ignorant and discussing marriage and social status. Other vignettes touch on ambition money and patience with revenge and a Census fact lists Virginia’s 1790 population as 747 600.
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Daisy
U. S
Virginia
Local man Tom Grimes dies at home
Tom Grimes aged 40 died at his home northwest of town on Sunday. Other notes include three stores and a garage looted at Savoy on Sunday, Miss Marian Barbee visiting her parents, the birth of a girl to Mr and Mrs Jim P Montgomery, Lilley Dry Goods ad with prices, and lyceum entertainer Emma Dee Randle spending the weekend in town.
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Tom Grimes
Savoy
Marian Barbee
Pilot Grove
W. J. Barbee
Jim P. Montgomery
Lilley Dry Goods Co
Chambray
Emma Dee Randle
Lyceum
Coffee Trade Links Latin America and U S Industry
The United States relies on Latin American coffee as a major export source and market. Brazil produces about half of world coffee. Colombia, El Salvador, and Guatemala are also key producers. U S consumption averages two cups daily per person, with total annual use near 2.45 billion pounds.
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A. C. Monahan
America
United States
Latin America
Europe
Brazil
Colombia
el Salvador
Guatemala
More and Better Cotton Planting to Fight Bacterial Blight
Agricultural guidance urges cotton growers to use disease free seeds and mercury dust treatment to prevent cotton seedling death and boll loss from bacterial blight. Costs under ten cents per acre. also notes sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid gas methods. Cooperative field action is advised to stop regional spread.
Coffee and cotton notes from historical farming tale
A historic text recalls goats nibbling wild plants and reacting with laughter while coffee bean roasting later revealed to improve flavor. It traces coffee’s spread from Arabia to Europe and notes that most U S coffee isn’t Java. Cotton farmers are urged to plant seed for better stands and to curb angular leafspot.
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Arabia
Europe
United States
Nature's oddities reveal strange animal traits and feats
The Exchange notes odd facts such as a female male trap leading to mate loss and starvation, a garden snail with 14 176 teeth in 135 rows of 105 teeth each, bobwhite quail found in catfish stomachs, and the Ansbas climbing fish in Java said to walk on land to reach water.
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Java
Wisconsin Tops Nation With 2.317 Million Dairy Cattle in 1947
Wisconsin led the United States in dairy cattle on farms in 1947 with 2,317,000 head. Minnesota followed in second place with 1,530,000 cows.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Veterans Questions on hospitalization and insurance renewals
Veterans receive VA hospital care for service connected disabilities regardless of WWII status. In service, term life policies auto renew at higher rates with deductions from pay. contact Insurance Accounts Service for status and to opt out. A pension income question clarifies that a decedent check is counted in the year received. 1950. Also includes a legal notice from Grayson County Texas regarding guardian accounts for Patsy Parker Minor with court date and citation requirements.
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Korea
National Service Life
Insurance Accounts Service
Veterans Administration
Washington
D. C
State of Texas
State of
Texas
Grayson County
Patsy Bob Parker
W. S. Rodgers
Said
Said County
Sherman
J. C. Buchanan
J.C. Buchanan
Marguerite Berry
Proletarian Dolls Replaced in East German Kindergartens
A Soviet zone decree bans dolls with reactionary and imperialist expressions in kindergartens. Sentimental faces are removed as children are shown simpler wooden dolls with proletarian features to teach proper values.
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Soviet Zone
Germany
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Fisher
Fisher Unisteel
Hasty Chevrolet Company
Whitewright, Texas
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