Newspaperman Edson Waite on World History of News
Edson R Waite of Shawnee Oklahoma, with help from Edwin S Friendly of the New York Sun, offers a compact history of newspapers from Acta Diurna in Rome to the present American era. It notes major milestones, costs, and the vast scale of U S newspaper production and spending.
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Edson R. Waite
Shawnee, Okla
Edwin S. Friendly
The
New York Sun
Rome
Acta Diurna
Peking “Gazette
Buttler
Atlantic
Boston
Benjamin Harris
Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania Gazette
Saturday Evening Post
U. S
Out of Her Depth Sermon Sparks Mixed Understanding
A popular preacher delivers a grand sermon as congregants exit church. One woman praises the message while another asks if it was all understood. The reply notes the difficulty of comprehending such a great preacher.
Sun Office Card Invitations At Reasonable Prices
Engraved or printed cards and announcements are available at The Sun office with reasonable pricing.
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Sun
Pilot Grove News Notes Road Work and Social Visits
Road improvements behind weather allow progress with rock and gravel on Conner hillside and S. G. Ashinhurst farm. Over eighty workers employed. Local social visits include Miss Scoggins in town, Miss Lola Scott in Dallas, and several others across Sherman, Van Alstyne, Whitewright, and Anna. Rev Sooter’s mission sermons draw crowds as Pilot Grove upholds higher church attendance.
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Conner
Bow Corner
Garland
S. G. Ashinhurst
Mary Scoggins
Southmayd
Will Scoggins
Lola Scott
Dallas
Mrs. Beardsley
Marie
Clara Fae Sooter
Anna
All Hero
F. Garland
Fort Worth
Helen Oliphant
Denison
Charley Kaiser
Myrtle Cook
van Alstyne
Marian Barbee
Maurine May
Whitewright
Cordelia Russell
Genie Tate
Helen Ray
Dolly Waldrop
Sherman
W. A. Smart
Bill Dixon
S. F. Garland
Tom Bean
A. K. Sparks
George Miller
Burr Hulet
R. E. L. Binion
A. T. Scott
M. C. Sooter
United States
Chistian
Sooter
Pilot Grove
Early American railroads and the rise of carriage and freight cars
The article traces early railroad transport from stage coach styled passenger cars with flanged wheels to freight wagons, noting slow schedules and lack of telegraph or telephone links. It catalogs mileage growth from 1835 to 1927 and explains land grant policies that spurred expansion to the Pacific, plus early car lighting and absence of special passenger cars.
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Alabama
Delaware
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Virginia
United States
Congress
Pacific Coast
King Arthur Questions Queen About Sharped Pens
A Tudor era style dialogue shows Arthur asking who carved nicks in his sword. The trembling page admits the queen has sharpened pencils, a curious anachronism in this fragment.
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King Arthur
Round Table Fame
Flu Time Again in January and February
A satirical Honey Grove Signal piece mocks flu season calling January and February the flu months. It describes humorous stages of illness and suggests treatment is random, noting many drink whisky to feel as mean as the flu and recommending convalescents be placed in a mad house or dog kennel.
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Cuss
Honey Grove
United States Holds Most Airplane Records
Twenty of the sixty two airplane records officially recognized by the International Aeronautic Federation Paris are held by the United States.
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International Aeronautic Federation of Paris
United States
Leap Year Bride Wins Free Marriage License Incident
Miss Ellen Calvert of Davenport Iowa, age 29, won a free marriage license offered by the county clerk to the first girl who proposed and secured a man during the leap year. Her fiancé is Vale Pestle, 21.
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Ellen Calvert
Davenport
Vale Pestle
Sassafras Tea promotion from Dyer & Jones
An advertisement promotes Sassafras Tea as a rich nourishing spring tonic to drink now. A fifty cent package is offered with fragrance for meals and fresh steel cleaned roots for making. Sold by Dyer & Jones.
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Dyer & Jones
Card of Thanks for Sympathy After Loss
We express gratitude to friends for sympathy and consolation in our great sorrow after losing husband and father. May the Lord be close to you when it is your time to lose a loved one. DS Carr and children.
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DS. Carr
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Acta Diarna
Pilot Grove News
Sassafras Tea
cNew
Ann . Ae
B. Flimt
Ichiy
Chevrolet
Fisher
Evrolet
Chey
Whitewright, Texas
Sherwin-Williams
Dyer @ Jones
Drug Store No
First National Bank
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