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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1939
Page
4
Learn to Let Go Heals Mind and Body Observe Advice from Medical Talk
A columnist reprints a philosophy that urges readers to release daily irritations and grudges. Let go of petty hurts, hatred, jealousy, and even deep sorrows to gain physical and mental health, and embrace a more hopeful view of life. The piece emphasizes practice and habit in achieving well being.
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Medical Talk
the Sun
Texas Week Proclaimed For Week Of Civic Duty
The 42nd Legislature set Texas Week as the calendar week containing the second of March. Governors and mayors are urged to publish proclamations inviting observance. The aim is better work and living, not holidays, with flags flown daily and schools holding suitable programs. Texans are urged to display Texas pictures and dedicate trees.
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Texas
State plans on industry growth and scenic preservation
Citizens to make patriotic pilgrimages to historic sites, discuss further industrial development, and cooperate in the growing movement to preserve scenic beauty and wildlife across the state.
Editor Retracts Fake Raiford Execution Story
A Grayson County paper ran a wire service report falsely detailing the execution of Franklin Pierce McCall for the James Bailey Cash Jr. kidnapping. The discrepancy arose from a lazy reporter at the service who forged details. McCall was reprieved and alive. The newspaper will fire the implicated wire service staffer.
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Grayson County
Raiford, Fla
Franklin Pierce McCall
James Bailey Cash Jr
Press Service
McCall
Drinking and crimes of passion in mass survey
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company analyzed 250 killings from petty quarrels and found 116 involved one or both parties drinking. The report argues most homicides stem from quarrels not organized crime and that alcohol greatly increases willingness to use deadly weapons.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Not Dead Yet in Main Street Occupied Buildings
With the occupation next week of the J. B. Dickson building by Frank Smith grocery, only the Masonic building remains unoccupied on Main street. Observers note this differs from other towns where many storefronts are vacant, arguing towns stay alive while their business districts are occupied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Dickson
Frank Smith Grocery
Main Street
Masonic
Taxes for Tenants in New Jersey Tax Fight
The New Jersey Taxpayers Association urges landlords to provide tenants with itemized tax statements on their rent bills. The piece argues taxes are embedded in every retail and utility charge, noting how retailers and service providers pass taxes to consumers through higher prices. It highlights hidden taxes across real estate, gas, utilities, and goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey Taxpayers Association
Donald R. Stevens
Phone Exchange
Fuel Gas Company
Light and Power Concern
Tax Bill Pressures Tied to Tenant Pay Power and Competition
The passage argues taxes hinge on tenant ability to pay and the level of rental market competition. It notes tax collectors always press for payment, while tenants’ capacity to meet taxes varies with market conditions and tenants’ finances. The analysis emphasizes imbalance between taxing authority demands and actual payer strength.
What Sequel
An 81 year old retiree, tired and broke after taking 4000 from a bank, travels Europe and returns exhilarated yet penniless. He muses on a possible sequel about relief and dependence, contrasting his wild oats with a life funded by others who did not travel.
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Europe
Germany
Italy
Switzerland
Holland
Belgium
France
A Determined Boy Who Crafted His Own Violin
A poor boy with a passion for music builds a fiddle from scraps and horsehair bow roams the barn to practice. His father, impressed by the talent, buys him a real violin for 30 dollars and encourages him to entertain the world with his gift.
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John
Billy
An Editor's Diary From a Newspaper Office
A humorous diary vignette shows a newsroom grappling with readers complaints and gossip. The piece recounts Mrs ABC demanding coverage, a rival club, a disappointed subscription status, a Dallas visit, a Kansas death clipping, a local play notice, and a push for a hot news item amid libel cautions and cocktails. It lampoons reader interactions and editorial limits with light irony.
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Abc
Diary
Xyz
Dallas
Houston
Johnny X
Sonny
Kyz
Pappy
Rest Period Here Says Morgenthau Rest Period Here Says Morgenthau
Secretary Morgenthau told a Congressional committee that business is in a rest period but will steadily recover in 1939. He noted a rapid postwar improvement since Decoration Day and that conditions are far better than 12 months ago.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Morgenthau
World’s Tallest Man reaches 8 feet 1/2 inch on 21st birthday
ALTON Ill Robert Wadlow the world’s tallest man on record marked his 21st birthday by standing at eight feet one and a half inches and declaring I am a man His weight 491 pounds shoes 37 hat 8 7/8 collar 19 bed nine feet six inches long He plans to stay growing and healthy and hopes to run a shoe business rather than pursue law His parents are normal in size and his family includes four other children His father H F Wadlow travels with him as they tour the country
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Robert
Barnes Hospital
St. Louis
Wadlow
Hollywood
H. F. Wadlow
Oil land bought for 139 dollars now worth 100000
Casper M. DeGeorge bought 20 acres near Friendswood Galveston County for 139.71 at a tax sale. A court ruled his title valid and the land in an oil field is valued at about 100000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Casper M. DeGeorge
Friendswood
Galveston County
White Footed Mouse Discovery By Aggie Research Unit
A white footed mouse new to science has been found by the Texas cooperative wildlife research unit of A. & M. College in Walker County East Texas. The new species result of field work by the division of wildlife research and the research unit at the experiment station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Texas Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit
A. & M. College
Walker County
Texas
Public urged for full disclosure of government spending
The San Marcos Record reports a Texas press push for a law requiring quarterly public financial statements by tax bodies, to curb waste and graft. The effort includes delinquent tax rolls to boost collections, with Lt. Governor Coke Stevenson backing transparent, accountable budgeting nationwide.
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Press of Texas
Coke Stevenson
San Marcos
Two in One Marry and a Pretty Cook at the Altar
A light exchange on marriage humorously envisions a groom marrying a pretty wife who is also a wonderful cook. The response underscores the joke by calling the idea ambitious, with amused disbelief at the prospect.
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