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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1948
Page
7
A collection of humorous vignettes and exchanges from everyday life. Jokes include veterans and marriages at the fair, a rookie’s military retort, a welfare question, a tax quip, a game show mishap, a boarder’s money question, and a child ironing a doll dress on Sunday pondering Sabbath duties.
A round-faced boy from Shreveport recalls extreme heat, noting Texas summers stay hot and do not fool you. He explains enduring August and September before October relief, while officers test inmates at the nearby insane asylum.
A father lectures his son on success saying heredity to credit good results and personal fault for failure. The boy accepts, summarizing the idea that outcomes depend on factors beyond and within one’s control.
A collage of Texas vignettes blends quips about dry air aiding health with humorous tales. A widow prodigiously recovers after joking that her husband marry Mary to care for children, a flivver driver dodges a cursing car, and a possum-hunt ends with a broken back and a philosophical father.
Answers cover attorney fees for VA claims, spousal admission to VA domiciliary care, GI Bill correspondence course eligibility, and hospital benefit assignments. A separate 1948 Texas foreclosure sale notice lists A L Lowery et al. taxes, liens, and sheriff sale details for Grayson County on March 2, 1948.
The State of Texas Grayson County and intervening taxing units recovered a judgment in the Grayson County District Court and a sheriff sale notice is issued under case number 56122 detailing the sale action and jurisdiction in Grayson County on a date in January 1948.
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