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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1917
Page
8
A hardware dealer thanks customers for 1916 favors and pledges improved service in 1917. The note emphasizes courteous service, keeping the best price, and mutual support to save money for shoppers and grow the business beyond the previous year.
A collage of ads shows rentals including two large rooms and a furnished bedroom by L V Smith, East Whitewright. Various sales include 2000 bushels of seed oats free of Johnson grass from J P Autrey and oats by A Graves at 60 cents per bushel. Also hay, cows with calves, lubricants salesmen wanted, various wood sale prices. W R Ford and T H Sears provide wood. Sherman reports Whitewright businessman W T Hamilton returns from Texas Nursery trip noting diversified farming growth. Methodist Missionary Society meets Monday at 2 30 pm.
The program covers The Christmas Habits with scripture Ecclesiastes 12 1-7 13-14. Themes include The Habit of Prayer by John Ashe The Habit of Duty by Miss Olive Neff The Habit of Decision by Miss Cordelia Yeager. Leader Miss Cecile Doss.
Henry Howe and Ellen Wilcox marry after a year of courtship but jealousy over a telephone sparks accusations and distrust. A lightning strike shatters the home telephone, destroying the couple’s quarrels and leaving the device unreplaced.
Tonic advertisement promoting Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. Claims to act on the liver drive out malaria enrich the blood and build the whole system. Priced at 50 cents.
A collection of pithy witticisms and social observations about war, industry, poetry, and daily matters. The quotes juxtapose old views on submarines, censors, pricing, carriages, and politics with humorous quips about humor, calendars, and public life.
An old advertisement touts LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine to stop cough headache and cold symptoms. It claims druggists refund money if it fails to cure and that W. GROVE'S signature appears on each box.
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