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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1959
Page
2
Nancy Newman spent the weekend with relatives in Dallas. Many locals visited relatives in Dallas Amarillo and Sherman as well as other towns including Paris Myra Van Alstyne and Denison. Jack Walker died at his Sherman home December 31 and was buried January 2.
An Associated Press tally shows 47,875,315 Americans voted in the November 4 off year elections, nearly 3% above the 1954 record. Democrats outpolled Republicans by about six million in House races, with California, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida showing the largest gains. Eleven states posted vote decreases.
An anti litter drive targets beer cigarette and paper cup waste from car windows. Connecticut teens spent an afternoon collecting roadside beer cans, praised for their cleanup while noting enforcement costs and the need motorists to act as their own policemen to keep scenery clean.
A collage of jokes and anecdotes about politics, technology, dating, aging, sports, and daily mishaps. The pieces poke fun at a mayoral ad, piano lessons, female beauty, advice from elders, golf, a drunken robbery, odd repairs, and a Venetian blind repairman.
In El Cajon California Dr Randall Knox recalls owning Fleet for 20 years and claims the horse was born when the Great White Fleet sailed into San Diego Bay in 1908. Veterinarians note horses commonly live about 20 years. The piece also mentions evidence that Texas pecan trees once grew locally in prehistoric times.
A girl dismissed her sweetheart as Solomon notes the puzzling ways of a maid and the mysterious craft of courting. The fragment hints at romantic strain and social expectations within a historical setting.
In a remark captured from a social scene, a woman says she cannot marry until a man saves a few thousand dollars. A few months later she asks about his savings and learns he has thirty five dollars. She responds, smiling, that this is nearly enough.
An exhausted executive hides in a jammed elevator after a frazzling morning and returns plastered to address a crowd. He hiccups that everyone knows why he has called this meeting as he faces impatient passengers.
A guest arriving late at a dinner party discovers a seat by the goose carving. He exclaims about sitting by the goose and quickly corrects himself to refer to the roasted one.
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