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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1927
Page
6
In Leclede Missouri a farmer—E N Rawlinson—wears a garter styled as a necktie, sparking church party laughter. The rubber banded blue elastic garter with pink trim sits at the collar, prompting bemused smiles as Mrs Rawlinson notices at the card table.
Bonham Texas store M C Spivy & Co promotes fresh colorful departments and a large new stock from a cash buying run in St Louis and New York with help for dry goods problems.
Frank E Campbell Jr aged 14 is disclosed as the most heavily insured boy in the world. His New York undertaker father secured a policy worth 1 million dollars, with 37 companies co operating to underwrite the twenty year policy surpassing Jackie Coogan's 650000 policy.
In Hogwallow news the Depuy Constable ponders a case he has not yet formed. Atlas Peck reports skin pale and sickness while the Tin Peddler notes his recovery. Sap Sprachen asks the weather for tomorrow and day after with mixed answers from locals. Clab Hancock’s rooster acts as flock guardian until a feed bout changes the plan.
London reports Dr. Alice Hutchinson urges understanding why children lie. She tells Bedford College audience that fibbing often stems from self preservation and should not be despised but explored to help the child unburden itself.
A small car described as a baby carriage car attracts attention at the Olympia motor show in London. It measures nine feet overall with a six foot eight inch wheelbase and four seats. Features include four wheel brakes electric starter lights speedometer and electric horn with three forward speeds and one reverse.
Texas tops states in oil refineries with 63 and in farm wealth and livestock. California follows with 51 refineries, while over 150 Texas towns have natural gas for fuel. By Sept 30, 1926 Texas led in Federal land bank loans totaling 104 million plus to cattle, sheep, and mules on farms.
The piece critiques citizens who push for civic improvements yet buy from mail order sources, draining money from local trade. It argues this self defeating habit undermines town progress and loyalty, urging residents to support homegrown businesses instead of distant purchases.
M C Spivy and Co Buys low priced spring merchandise for Bonham Texas market as department stores plan broad display in all zone sections.
The Borozone preparation, offered in liquid and powder, is advertised as a germ purifying and flesh healing remedy. It claims rapid recovery for bad wounds, with prices in liquid 30c 60c and 1.20, powder 30c and 60c, sold by J. L. Kirkpatrick, druggist.
How doctors treat colds and the flu by Calotabs a purified calomel tablet. One or two Calotabs at bedtime with water will purify the system by morning without salts nausea or interference with eating work or pleasure. A family package with directions costs 35 cents at any drug store.
The passage notes a novel instrument for measuring heat in distant stars uses fly wings in its construction. It mentions other curiosities from giraffes’ speed to Cuba tobacco tents and a pricey White House plot. Military science drills in Russian universities and old Hungarian feather symbols are also touched on.
In crafting the instrument the craftsman cut a brass tube to excess thinness, so it crumples under its own weight like paper, illustrating a flaw in the manufacturing process.
A man born of woman wanders the city in days of debt and pride. He spends freely, gives the charge, and disappears on the first day. The next day he returns, parades in public, flaunts politics, and admits the debt only to claim it is too late. The collector reappears, demanding seven fifty, but the man defies payment.
An ad claims Laxa tive Brom Quinine is superior to ordinary quinine due to tonic and laxative effects and absence of nervousness or head ringing. It urges readers to remember the full name and look for the signature of J. W. Grove.
A fragmentary excerpt shows a collector lamenting his empty purse and lack of a son. He laments, quoting Solomon, that all men are liars, in a voice of bitter weeping and reproach.
Passengers in a speeding car argue whether they can beat an oncoming train. The driver insists he can pass easily while the front seat passenger believes the train will win by twenty seconds. A rear passenger remains silent as the car rushes on.
Disease symptoms in sickly children indicate intestinal worms. Pale complexion dark circles bad breath and listlessness signal worm infestation. White's Cream Vermifuge is promoted as a safe effective treatment priced at 35e and sold by local merchants.
A fragment expresses indifference to the race winner and a hope that the result is not a tie, reflecting casual public sentiment from the Boston Transcript.
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