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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1929
Page
8
Oakland California Wednesday night the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church members approved a resolution by 97 to 25 to admit Protestants from other churches who had not been baptized by immersion.
The Chilean navy equips its newest destroyers built in England with 21 inch torpedoes traveling 45 knots. A new guided device drives the torpedoes toward targets by adjusting their course to prevent evasion, a tightly guarded secret in British torpedo engineering.
The children of the late Mrs. Vestal express deep gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness during illness and after her death. Special thanks are given to Dr. Ross May for faithful care. May God bless you all. Signed by John Vestal Albert Vestal Roscoe Vestal and others.
In Sulphur Springs last night Waymond Wofford, while investigating noises in the yard, shot and killed his mother whom he mistook for a burglar. Mrs. Wofford cried out that he had killed her as she fell. The mother had returned home with her son after visiting a neighbor. he had gone to borrow a gun.
Farmers used fine weather for field work while influenza rages in Pilot Grove. Christmas holidays were quiet for youths as the hot tamale supper was postponed due to sickness and poor conditions. Several visitors arrived from Dallas Waco Sherman Denison and nearby towns for family and social visits this week.
A string of light jokes and wry sketches. The dialect and humor touch on sermons race relations shoe sales and a home lecture at odd hours. The items present social quirks and domestic scenes with a playful bite.
In a brief exchange Mr Meekton notes a wife’s political activity. another character admits the need to read a lot to keep up and confesses a preference for cookbooks over politics. The dialogue lightly sketches household dynamics and humor.
A light exchange reveals humor about marriage history. One man says his wife talks about her last husband, while another retorts his wife is always talking about her next. The aspirin of life ends in playful banter between trusted friends.
A famous Irish theologian Dr Clarke explains his early rising habit. When a young preacher asks if he prays about it, Clarke replies that he simply gets up. The anecdote highlights discipline over prayer as the key to his routine.
A fragmented local text shows dialect remarks about paying for a marriage license and preaching, plus advice to save fifty cents for fare and to seek employment. The lines reflect everyday concerns and informal speech from a community.
A newspaper man who called half the city council idiots faced a libel suit and, after legal advice, published a retraction in the next issue stating that half the council are not idiots.
A physician advises a deteriorating patient to quit alcohol and tobacco stop late hours avoid bright lights and eat home cooked food to recover The dialogue ends with the physician promising to make a new woman out of the patient. A separate quip notes the world changing from flat to round then crooked.
A young lady asks for squeaky slippers in size 10 for her father to alert George when he nears the hall, prompting confusion from the shoe clerk.
Paris guests visited Burr Hulett and family on Sunday. R. E. L. Binion and Misses Sarah and Pauline Binion spent the first of the week with Lee Binion in Texarkana. Ralph McCarley is attending school in Commerce. D. C. Judd was a community visitor Saturday.
Richard S. Kenney, 18, home from Boston school for holidays, was electrocuted while bathing. Police say an electric device used for health purposes caused the shock. Rescue squads worked for hours but he died before 11 a.m.
A Bronx undertaker firm announces air funeral services. It says it was the first in New York to use motor hearses and has arranged with an Armonk based airline to provide airplanes capable of carrying a coffin and an undertaker’s assistant.
Mexico passes a law authorizing President Portes Gil to negotiate with foreign governments on aggregate settlements for revolutionary damages. A committee will study total internal obligations, funded into a single issue redeemable in at least forty five years at five percent interest, with bonds secured by designated revenues. National Railways excluded from the arrangement.
A dense jumble of classified notices lists feed and poultry products, farm for rent, roommates, wanted turkey hens, sale of household items, flowers, blacksmithing, and pet stock. Names include Mrs. Tom Barbee, J. W. Hollingsworth, Grady Gillett, Dyer & Jones, J. C. Parsons, R. L. Johnson, Mrs. P. A. Short, Mrs. Buell Spindle, Floyd Williams, and Bryant King. Contact details and trade phrases appear alongside ad copy for sales and services.
A playful exchange questions how doctors treat doctors. One asks if a doctor doctors another as the doctor being treated wants, or if the doctor doing the doctoring imposes their own method. The dialogue explores medical power and autonomy in a humorous tone.
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