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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1939
Page
6
The piece contrasts fried chicken as a city luxury with farm life, noting that farmers can raise two pound fryers for a few cents, often home-produce meals, and that grain self-sufficiency and quick turnover of 60 days enable cheaper, regular meals. It laments urban scarcity and cost.
The piece argues farmers should use homegrown poultry to cut costs and support family needs, noting the value of self supply, reduced risk, and markets for surplus. It cites W A Painter of Hale County Texas, who stores fowls in a freezer locker and ships dressed turkeys to Dallas and Fort Worth, illustrating practical home-based commerce.
The note invites attendance at the Thursday 8:45 am assembly, praising current visitors and asking more to fill the auditorium. It encourages readers to speak with past attendees who will share a hearty welcome from both pupils and teachers.
The exhibit received 122 copies of famous paintings and about $24.00 was collected from ticket sales. Proceeds will be used to purchase more pictures for display.
A 13 year old boy in seventh grade is described as small and fair with black hair brown eyes weighing about 108 pounds and popular with pupils especially girls. A seventh grade girl is slim with blue eyes auburn hair fair complexion weighing about 98 pounds. Last week’s answers were Tommy Thornhill and Betty Jane Harper.
It was a busy schoolroom on Valentine Day as forty six seventh graders and their teacher prepared for the box opening. Valentines were distributed and read aloud while fatigue lingered. The highlight came when the teacher revealed two full cartons of candy bars, causing candy to vanish in moments. A playful valentine moment from the class.
A new library project creates a Bank of Memory as a cashier’s cage in a corner. Third and fourth graders receive bank books with their names and deposits of memory work, featuring poems by Eugene Fields and Robert Louis Stevenson. Children wait eagerly to deposit poems and have stamps added. Embezzlement seems unlikely.
Thursday morning the grammar school chapel featured the fourth grade in charge with a class song and a play titled America The Free. The performance illustrated many reasons why Americans should be thankful to be free.
Among the chapel visitors Thursday morning were Mrs. Frank Smith Mrs. Morehead Mrs. Evans Mrs. Sanderson Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Joe Johnson.
A patchwork of likely notes from a school scene features J R V and J H in a Valentine exchange myth, W R receiving a valentine from a sixth grader, Leroy's declared love, and varied student traits such as P A E's energy, Lloyd with dogs, B G's study habits, J L B's recent antics, H R’s lost pen, A L avoiding a show with B G while not refusing E K, and a closing trio M H M and C S.
Visitors to the Betsy Club afternoons find three camels carrying sewing boxes. Leaders M. L. V. president, P. A. E. vice-president, and A. L. secretary are seen with boxes of various sizes as the group continues its activity.
The Karnak temple in the Nile Valley remains a beauty despite ruins. It was built to honor the god Amen and features a long avenue of sphinxes a surrounding wall and a gateway to the great Hall of Columns. The temple once housed 134 stone pillars and the holy of holies with precious stone pillars.
Wallace Reeves notes Hillcrest Mausoleum as a marble Dallas landmark with green surroundings a large fish pond and a skylight that fills the interior with sunshine. The building serves as a temporary resting place for unburied bodies and cremated remains, featuring openings for interment and sealing afterward. it draws many visitors annually.
Descriptive phrases praise New Orleans with blooming roses palm trees and sea shell paths. Canal Street is described as a major thoroughfare and the Mississippi River runs nearby. The text highlights mansions a lake and century plants as local scenery.
Betty Jane Harper portrays the Taj Mahal as the finest marble monument in India. She highlights its central dome, smaller corner domes, arched doors and windows, smooth marble floors and walls, abundant light, and moonlit beauty.
Idaho Falls reporter recounts W L Browning notes a farmer trapped two weeks by snow asks urgent snowplow aid to reach town, not for illness but because he is out of chewing tobacco and cannot endure it.
A proposed medical practices act would bar street hawkers of medicine and ban faith healers from maintaining offices unless they adhere to church principles. The bill, sponsored by Representative E. H. Thornton of Galveston, could also limit massage practitioners and others offering cures. Exemptions include optometrists dentists nurses chiropodists commissioned military surgeons and physicians licensed in other states plus registered pharmacists.
Texas A and M College extension expert E R Eudaly notes cows use 4 to 5.5 pounds of water per pound of milk. Four gallons of milk require 16 to 20 gallons of water daily. He cites experiments showing cooler water in summer and warmer water in winter raises production by 11 percent with constant access, and emphasizes shady roofs over troughs as highly profitable for dairy operations.
Two longtime tenants in Clarksville receive the farms they worked for years. Elden of Sedalia Missouri left 120 acres to Mr. and Mrs. Griffin and 114 acres to Mr. and Mrs. Hooser. The will also bequeathed a gift to the Presbyterian Church.
A young boy recounts his first Sunday school day and cheerfully cites learning the First Commandment and the need to sit still, reflecting a child’s simple takeaway from the lesson.
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