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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1929
Page
5
Sherman resident Joe McKinsey visited Sunday while Jack Ryan came from Denton. Dozens of local residents and relatives traveled to Paris, Sherman, Durant, and Celina over the weekend. News also includes shop ads, a cafe menu, and a Texas-Louisiana Power Company official visiting.
Advertisers in newspapers are the live merchants in town and usually offer the best values. Advertising boosts business and lowers selling costs, reducing prices for buyers.
Bethel Baptist Church hosts a Bethel Young People's Union program on February 24 at 2 30 p m with the theme Choosing Heroes Group II led by Group Captain Margrette Reeves featuring a playlet with Gene Robert Alexander Jane Neator Stotts Jim Gladys Layman Bamy Tola Fae Layman Frank Jesse James Lucy Georgie Jones and Miss Annie Jones Visitors are welcome and members urged to attend bringing friends Reporter
The Friday Literary Club met at Mrs. Roby Childress home at 3 PM. Plans were announced for a Colonial Tea on Feb 22 at Mrs. Guy Hamilton home. Program included talks on Michael Angelo by Mrs Rhom Pennington and papers by several members with a salad course served and pink and green decorations.
An editor trained reporters on accuracy as a young staffer submits a public meeting report claiming three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine eyes were fixed on the speaker. The editor, furious, learns the phrase hides a single eye in the audience, prompting a lesson in wording.
In Beverly Hills early Sunday E L Doheny Jr 36 son of a wealthy oil magnate was shot dead in his home by secretary Hugh Plunkett who then killed himself Police and Dr C E Fishbaugh attended the scene noting Doheny and Plunkett were fully dressed and the motive cited insanity arising from Tea pot Dome era stress Blame placed on Plunketts mental strain and duties with the oil heir
Sherman County lumbermen push county wide farm building improvement program led by EF W Rubush chairing the effort. A Denison meeting named H L Bronsted Neal Powers Ed Langford J Lyman Davis Sherman and Rhom Pennington Whitewright to plan and execute the project with a publicity committee including Dick Gray J H Waggoner C O Bellinger and Pat Mayse. A banquet is planned to gather lumbermen and farmers from each community.
Albert F. Bemis of Boston tells the House Ways and Means Committee that in twenty five years cotton seed could supply food value and lint become a by product. He argues synthetic yarns from plant materials threaten textile industries more than jute competition and cites peanut shells as an example of raw material costs. Bemis attributes current cotton industry lows to overproduction, not jute.
Kingston sportsman D Eugene Wood urged North Carolina lawmakers to spend 10000 dollars to buy 10000 goats and release them across the eastern and western parts of the state. He said the goats would weed and beautify parks, rid areas of snakes and pests, reduce mosquitoes by drying marshes, and create a new game supply, noting goats are hard to catch when they resist.
West Texas delegation plans to invite President-Elect Hoover to attend the West Texas Chamber of Commerce annual convention in El Paso and to meet Mexico's President Gil there. The group sails from Dallas Feb 28 on the Hoover Democrat special to attend the inaugural parade March 4 and seeks a White House audience. Simmons University Cowboy Band of Abilene will join the special train.
Six year old Joseph Dubresne of Paris saved his sister and a playmate from falling into the Seine. Davy Lee a four year old film child star is hailed as a successor to Jackie Coogan. Mary B Lankford a Norfolk schoolgirl earns a Carnegie hero medal for saving two from drowning. Irene Bentley a one year old mountain girl of Whitaker rescues her sister from a derailed locomotive. Marian Terry and siblings inherit over 200000 from Clinton Lyon a wealthy oilman not related to the family. Earl Webb of Missouri posts a net profit of 119 on a litter of pigs last season.
Margaret delivers a quip after being asked to use officious in a sentence. The joke features Mary and John at a lake with a shouted request for help and a humorous fish out line.
Local ad from Lem Tittsworth in Bonham offers new and second hand living room and breakfast room suites dressers and cabinets. Also a second hand Detroit gas range and built in oven oil ranges advertised as bargains for shoppers with limited budgets.
A roundup of notes reports the transition from gas street lamps to electric lighting in New York, along with various national and international facts including farm income shares, rail safety improvements, air travel milestones, a philanthropic donation, and other contemporary items.
Senator Capper of Kansas advocates abolishing Congress and replacing it with a small board of directors modeled after corporate boards. He argues for streamlined governance and reduced legislative bloat, asserting efficiency and modernity in a new system.
The Hope Press-Star critiques a Capper plan to tax one tenth of earnings to fund public employees noting the plan would require a constitutional amendment to abolish Congress, which is unlikely since members must vote to eliminate their own jobs.
A council bluffs Non pareils note contrasts scientists question earth’s age with the author’s remark on calling earth she. The brief hints at language and science intersecting in a witty line. The piece frames two questions about science and personification.
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