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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1952
Page
4
Texas health officials warn of rising whooping cough cases with 1273 infections in five weeks. Isolation of cases, early recognition, and keeping affected children home for three weeks after symptoms are urged. Vaccination and convalescent serum are recommended to protect infants and small children. Sun advertising gets results.
Poem expresses a veteran sender's wish for the unknown successor to carry on his work after death. It reflects guidance, farewell, and hopes for the future, ending with a spiritual note that their failures will become successes in the afterlife. The author remains unnamed.
A Memphis housewife recalls making her husband eat dog food years ago and now he insists on keeping “plenty of that good hash.” Tortoises on the Galapagos Islands are believed to be the oldest living creatures on earth.
Harry Miller of Gaines Dog Research Center warns most families need a normal house dog not a specialized guard. He describes guard dogs as hostile to all strangers, kept chained or kenneled, and useful only for large estates or institutions.
A Fort Worth mother, Mrs. J. R. Johns, says her 2 1/2 year old Bruce fell seriously ill after suspected poisoned meat was left for dogs in Ave L. A dog died Wednesday and another neighbor’s dog died Sunday. a chicken leg lay near the second corpse.
Milwaukee officials said they never billed $507,323 for 1946 building material and sewer castings. Seller Lee Schneider has kept to himself. his wife cited a backlog of business as the reason for loose ends.
An elderly widow, Mrs Betty Bates, reported she kept 17 800 dollars in cash and 15 000 dollars in jewelry in a black bag in a hotel room. She prayed for police help after the bag vanished from a cafeteria chair near her hotel around January 13.
The Federal Reserve reports a rising owner mortgage trend tied to the housing boom. Between 1949 and early 1951 the number of mortgaged homes grew by about 1.42 million, reaching an estimated 10.0 million, with 47 percent of U S homes mortgaged in early 1951, up from 45 percent two years prior.
A mixed list offers practical tips such as cleaning venetian blinds with gloves and silver powder, preparing putty after window work, Tri sodium phosphate solution for plaster, maintaining a fire with ashes in a fireplace, sharpening scissors on sandpaper, removing wax with alcohol or carbon tetrachloride, plus historical notes on the Lost Cause and the Golden Spike at Ogden Utah in 1869 and a presidential kinship fact linking Zachary Taylor to James Madison.
Churches announce service schedules with Rev. Don Riesinger as pastor for Sunday school at 10 a.m. and sermon at 11 a.m. on the first and third Sundays. Rev. R. L. Hamm leads Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. worship at 11 a.m. Evangelistic service at 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday prayer at 7:30 p.m.
Sam P Farler, pastor. Sunday School at 10 a.m. Morning service at 11 a.m. Youth Fellowship at 6 30 p.m. Evening service at 7 p.m.
Sunday Bible Classes at 10 a.m. followed by the Lord's Supper. Mid week service at 7 30 p.m. Wednesday.
James L. Cooper and Paul Robertson head church activities with deacons and officers named. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Morning worship 11:00 with Rev. Lee H. Smith joining staff Feb 15 to oversee Ladonia Spring Hill and Dodd City work. Pre Easter film shown Feb 26 with book study March 4 to April 1 led by staff members.
In Virginia the term barrel for corn yields differs by region. Henry M. Taylor explains Shenandoah Valley growers use a smaller barrel than Eastern Virginia, leaving a mid area where estimates vary. He recalls days when gallons were used and notes measurement ambiguity across the state.
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