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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1921
Page
4
Entered at the Whitewright post office as second class mail matter. Notices warn about advertising rates for entertainments and obituaries. Local items urge planting a garden and shade trees, note rising living costs, and cite community remarks about a Leonard editor refusing to publish a Christ letter.
A comparison of opinions on alcohol shows a man who once denied drinking now bragging about white corn liquor. The comment is echoed by local papers noting the shift in attitude over personal liberty and public perception.
In Honey Grove the police chief warns Sherman will strictly enforce local chicken ordinances. Chickens roam city streets and flower beds, as few know the law. The paper jokes that hens belong in backyards or on dining tables, endorsing capital punishment for violators.
The Fort Worth Record reports a roundup of U S presidents and their tobacco use. Names mentioned include Warren G Harding Chester A Arthur Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison Theodore Roosevelt William McKinley Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft with varied cigars cigarettes pipes and rings.
Government whitewash method keeps lime in steam during boiling, then strains and adds salt. A paste of ground rice flour, whiting, and glue is stirred in, with hot water, left to stand covered for days, and applied hot with a painter’s brush.
A collage of quips and editorial lines from various papers. It comments on unions closed shops and factories, Indian law studies, war production shifts, and wealth recovery while noting humorous stabs at politics and society. Notable jests target silk shirts in Sing Sing, sugar in soft drinks, and the Yap dispute.
A Chicago woman delivers a crude remark about men and suggests a door to door canvass in their absence. A Buffalo Express item notes battle cruisers costing 23 million dollars each may be scrapped. Dayton News reports women electors abandoning airplanes for trains to Washington and urged politicking with politicians. Houston Post quotes Dr. George Stuart on generations, noting the next may improve but cannot exceed his own clever restraint.
On Thursday January 28 the Blue Bird Club was hosted by Mrs Grover Gillett with candlelit rooms and pink and white carnations. Five o clock refreshments included Pimento sandwiches Saratoga chips pickles and chocolate. Assisting hosts were Mesdames Gillett Grady Gillett Byron Sears Stanley Fogle Bryant King Gilmore Webster and Max Pope. Guests included Mesdames Murray Bryant Dora Evans and Stanley Fogle.
A military recruit Casey asks if the corporal wants to see vaccination status after the corporal shouts inspection arms. Casey drops his rifle and rolls up his sleeves, prompting a cautious response about testing vaccination.
Mrs Abbie Lewis wife of D R Lewis died at the family home in Whitewright on February 9 1921 at about 5 am. Funeral services were held at 2 30 pm at the home and Oak Hill Cemetery burial. Rev K R Isbell Rev J F Feader and Rev A E Major officiated. Surviving are four children Niler Lewis Mrs John Haden and Mrs L LaRoe plus another child unnamed. The family had lived in Whitewright 33 years and were highly regarded. Mrs Lewis had been ill eleven years with devoted care from her husband and physician.
A week of social events hosted in the home of Misses Inez and Gladys Ray honors Miss Dow Gilson of Paducah. Guests enjoy tea, an evening reception, small parties, games, and a candy basket treasure at three progressive tables with Edison music and piano by Misses Ray and Abernathy.
Corsicana Texas February 7 After repeated attempts to locate James Robertson the drowned duck hunter in Chambers Creek the search party heeded an old man’s superstition. A shirt belonging to Robertson was thrown into the creek above the fall and floated downstream sinking about 75 yards below where he disappeared where the body was finally recovered.
In Alaska clerks of court are scarce and the standard process differs. Couples must navigate sparse records and unstandardized procedures as they pursue marriage licenses and the necessary ceremonies in a land of long winters and isolation.
A rugged frontier household led by Tip Sams with twins seven sons and a little mammy Jude. He raises tobacco and skins, hunts rabbits with dogs, and works a bone spavined filly and a mule pulling a plow. The one room house and old roan cow frame a hard living tale.
Two colored men in Claremont Virginia discuss a faculty member at a negro educational institute. They note the professor’s use of high sounding words and imply it may mask a lack of knowledge. The exchange centers on speech and pretensions rather than the subject. The verse hints at family and wartime loss in a broader rustic context.
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