Whitewright Sun notices and local updates end year
The Whitewright Sun reports a busy start to the year with promises of new homes and high owner occupancy, notes on poll tax deadlines to vote, and Grayson County planning its first pro baseball since years. It also recounts a Denton case where a 14 year old girl forced a cab driver and a man to pay while facing juvenile delinquency charges.
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Grayson County
Sherman
Pistol Point
Denton
Kingston
Mead
W. K. Baldridge
Eva Lee Knoop
Texas humor and a doctor’s language gag
A column recalling Mark Twain style quips about a half cow joke, and a Temple surgeon Dr A C Scott Jr who prepared a speech for the Pan American Medical Society in Mexico City by translating English words into phonetic Spanish and memorizing them, misplacing emphasis on every word.
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A. C. Scott Jr
Temple
United States
Pan-American Medical Society
Mexico City
Rover
Texas 1945 Crop Values Decline Report
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics in Austin reports Texas farm crop value for 1945 at 754.9 million dollars, about 18 percent below 1944’s 916.3 million. Declines tied to reduced cotton sorghum and wheat production, plus adverse weather delaying seed cotton and hurting yields. Cotton lint and seed fell about 87 million year over year. wheat dropped to roughly 61 million while sorghum for grain reached 72 million. Corn also edged lower by about 4.7 million. Price levels remained similar to 1944 with small shifts across commodities.
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College Station
Texas
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Austin
BAE
Nature
Runaway Girl Halted at Madill
Madill Oklahoma sheriff and town police halted a taxicab on Thursday night in a bid to recover a runaway girl, with details of the operation and individuals involved not fully disclosed in the fragment.
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Madill
Okla
Homer Spicer
Gangling Movie Comic Dies in California
Laguna Beach California Slim Summerville born George J Summerville in Albuquerque New Mexico fifty years ago died Saturday night after his third stroke in recent weeks at his home. Funeral services followed by cremation were held Tuesday. He worked as a poolroom porter before Edgar Kennedy discovered him and helped him reach Mack Sennett. He appeared in Keystone Kops era films directed comedies and later starred with Zasu Pitts and had just completed The Hoodlum Saint when stricken.
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Laguna Beach
Calif
Slim Summerville
George J. Summerville
Alburquerque
N. M
Edgar Kennedy
Mack Sennett
Zasu Pitts
Hirohito's Brothers May Have To Work For Living
Jiji news agency counted 12 princes unemployed in the imperial household as Japan's postwar downturn hit. After lavish 1945 times the household faced shortages and tax burdens as bombings shifted attention, prompting talk that even Hirohito's brothers may seek work to survive.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hirohito
Jiji
Imperial Household
Asia revolt sparks feared third world war says Nehru
Reuters reports from Udaipur Rajputana quote Jawaharlal Nehru predicting a third world war could begin from Asia's revolting masses. Speaking to an all Indian states peoples conference Nehru said Asia will not submit to empire or domination and will revolt.
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London
Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian National Congress
Reuters
Udaipur
Rajputana
Asia
Nehru
Church Services and Schedules
Central Christian Church holds Sunday school at 10 a m. Church of Christ offers communion at 11 a m. Assembly of God with Rev E A Doty preaches at 11 a m and 8 p m. Rev E P Wootten leads morning worship at 11 a m with Training Union 6 10 p m and class 6 10 p m, evening worship 7 p m. Prayer hour Wednesday 7 p m. Choir practice Wednesday 7 30 p m.
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Central Christian Church
E. P. Wootten
Duke R Barron Pastor Service Schedule and Sermon Topics
Duke R Barron, pastor, announces church services with Sunday school at 10 am and worship at 11 am. Choir rehearsal Wednesday at 7 pm. W.S.C.S. installs officers Monday at 3 30 pm. Sermon at 11 am titled God the Employer Man the Employee. Evening sermon topic The Grace of Meekness.
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Duke R. Barron
Letter from rural writer seeks companionship for woman
A woman in a remote rural spot writes to a daily paper saying she and her sister are not truly lonely since they have each other, but they crave the company of another woman to talk to. The brief note captures quiet isolation and desire for companionship.
Sun Honor Roll Subscriptions and Renewals Listed
The Sun publishes an honor roll of readers who subscribed or renewed over the past week. Names include W. L. Coggins Jack Nossaman Cc E Rice Grover C Brown Pvt Freddie R Garner Mrs Frank Phillips Arnold Henson Cc E Young Finis Alverson J A Worsham J M Franklin Ernest D Sanders Mrs Robert B Birt Co J Davenport E B Pritchett Billy B Pritchett E M Pritchett Mrs Clarabel Harris J Don Biggerstaff Mrs J C Waldrop Mrs Joe Miller Mrs W A Kirkpatrick Mrs Robbye Martin M D Oliver Clarence Woosley J H Reeves Ballon Lay A W Alverson S D Fulton.
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the Sun
W. L. Coggins
Jack Nossaman
Cc. E. Rice
Grover C. Brown
Freddie R. Garner
Frank Phillips
Arnold Henson
E. Young
Finis Alverson
J. A. Worsham
J. M. Franklin
Ernest D. Sanders
Robert B. Birt
Cracks At The Crowd
An elderly man hopes the unexpected will strike financially to enable rent payment and cover light and gas bills. He envisions providing for his mother, ensuring she can travel home in finery as planned.
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Father
Envious kin and quiet family tensions surface
The text sketches a web of relatives and neighbors with unspoken rivalries and hints of financial strain. A son-in-law may soon work to help with a bank note, a rich brother's wife is questioned, Aunt Ellen fusses despite Uncle Tom’s death, and neighbors the Smiths adapt after moving. Small acts reveal ongoing frictions within a close community.
Sound Logic Malinty in Life Insurance Circular
A humorous exchange on a life insurance circular mocks a "table of expectancy" as Casey explains it shows statistically shorter remaining life after age 60. The quip satirizes actuarial tables and aging expectations in a rural newspaper context.
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Malinty
Casey
Shure
Private and Sergeant Debate Clever Girl Friend
A playful exchange has a Private asking if his girlfriend is clever and the Sergeant responds that she has brains enough for two. The banter frames the soldier’s affection as a reason to marry, highlighting light military humor and relationship dynamics.
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Harmonson Strain
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Lee
Denison
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