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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1928
Page
9
Sherman reports 126 Grayson County farmers received 2 361.44 in checks from Meadolake Milk Products for 94 940 pounds of milk in the past two weeks. The average butter fat test was 4.6 percent with a February base price of 2.20 for 4 percent milk.
An essay argues the postwar period reshaped Southern life not by violence but through everyday care. The black mammy’s steady influence, nursing multiple generations, quietly held families together as emancipation unfolded and tensions rose.
Devotional portrait of Mammy as a beloved caretaker whose authority shaped both white children and black slaves. Her close bonds with her charges bridged races, tempering conflicts with patient counsel and shared joys and sorrows. She remains steadfast through emancipation era pressures.
The piece contrasts memory of slavery with present race relations, noting lingering tension between whites and Blacks. It discusses evolving servant roles, family proximity, and the shift from mammy’s care to transient nannies, while recalling Gen. Sam Houston’s homestead and its 1847 acquisition and later partial sale.
The former residence of Gen Sam Houston first president of the Republic of Texas in Huntsville is being beautified and will be kept as a state park. Work funded by a Texas Legislature appropriation and supervised by a committee appointed by the Board of Regents of the State Teachers College at Huntsville. College students perform preliminary tasks.
Pending the divorce trial Mrs. Agnes Yates of Des Moines secured an injunction barring her husband from speaking to her without permission.
A local producer argues that premium Half and Half cotton seeds yield higher lint and per acre returns than Staple. He cites price differences between Whitewright and Greenville markets, higher yields in Vernon and Gilmer, and premium offers for Pedigreed Half and Half seed. He urges farmers to consider seed quality and market premiums amid boll weevil pressures.
S L Ricketts, cotton gin owner, after a Vernon trip, says farmers in West Texas back half and half cotton. He cites shorter maturity, higher lint percentage, better price prospects, and mills’ demand. He notes strong local interest among landlords bankers merchants and farmers and urges planting Kash or Mebane seed for next fall premiums.
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