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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1921
Page
2
Samuel Berman of New York City paid $10 and costs after arraignment in Norfolk for striking B R Fink a former U S Army captain. Berman said Fink forced him to do disagreeable tasks and even tried to have his mother house his sister. Fink fled into a store bleeding from the jaw.
Danville Illinois January reports Mrs Sadie Harrington wife of Ernest Harrington a Danville businessman has not eaten for 44 days claiming fasting and prayer will convert her husband who declines active church work He says he cannot join and fears charges, while she claims to be a Church of God minister and vows to endure until her prayer is answered
A London Savage Club guest humorist spoke on honesty. He recounted secretly stealing a melon as a boy, feeling guilty, returning and replacing it with a ripe one, to applause for his moral moment.
An old advertisement touts Colds Cause Grip and Influenza with LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets. It notes there is only one Bromo Quinine, features E. W. GROVE’S signature on the box, and lists the price as 30 cents.
Pittsburgh officials ban books about bandits and crime for children under 18 at the central Carnegie library. Head librarian Grace Endicott approves limiting access to forceful crime tales while permitting harmless adventure. suggested titles include Treasure Island and Tom Sawyer.
A reflective poem in Walt Mason's voice laments wasted youth and reckless living. It contrasts aging ailments with past vigor, urging young readers to walk the narrow way and avoid future regrets.
A Detroit News quotation mocks a woman's claim of careful driving after hitting a man with a car. The Sun advertises a 25 word want ad for 25 cents, offering to sell or locate items.
Local humor column covers quirky misadventures and tall tales from Hogwallow. Atlas Peck to address the public from the post office porch if weather allows, amid small-town sketches of tricksters, church scenes, and peculiar weather talk.
The report notes Sidney was found not guilty after jury deliberations. Poke Eazley showed unusual interest in a game of seven-up this week as his watch ran down. Ellick Helwanger, who yesterday attempted to ambush a crow in a bid for a shot at Sidney, departed this morning with a longer gun.
A spoofish local column catalogs oddities and misadventures around Tickville and nearby places. It mentions the Depuy Constable’s failed attempts to serve papers on Sim Flinders, a banker's daughter seen with ears showing, Washington Hocks altering a note, Atlas Peck's disturbance at the hen roost and missing hens, Columbus Allsop's child seen with a feather, Hocks moving houses, Miss Hostetter Hocks's Kansas correspondent, a Wild Onion teacher, and geese at Fletcher Henstep's pond. The piece blends rumor, small-town color, and humorous vignettes with no clear single narrative.
Temple January 11 A local statistician estimates Bell County’s past fifty years of raw cotton would not match this season’s 110000 bale crop value. He says one bale yields 8000 pairs of men’s 50 cent hose, making 88000000 pairs worth 440 million dollars, enough to pay for every Texas automobile at about a thousand dollars each.
In Constantinople Jan 10, Zora Mehmed said to be the world’s oldest man at 146, becomes ill from indigestion blamed on a set of false teeth. He has not been sick before in his long life and has spent his years working steadily.
A carrier of heavy weights from 200 to 1000 pounds bore a Napoleonic era bet to lift 500 pounds with his teeth. He ruined his teeth, wore out successive sets, and twenty years ago received another set that caused indigestion and led him to hospital. Zora was born in Turkish Armenia.
The birth record notes a 1774 mosque event. It states a man has a son aged 90 and a daughter aged 50, while his appearance is described as about 70 years old.
A quirky want column joke hinges on a reader asking if a woman’s late husband has died. The columnist explains the phrase reflects the husband’s nocturnal habits, prompting amusement over the label and its trigger for follow up letters.
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