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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1929
Page
6
A set of light comic exchanges features a student quipping about his father saving money and earning items, a girl noting doughnuts imply rings, a boy recalling a church visit with a slipped prayer, and farmers joking about a daughter’s college graduation and fieldwork.
A dialogue captures a man recalling his father’s stance on their engagement. The father reportedly warned about youthfulness but hinted his age would progress as he began to support his partner financially. The exchange highlights familial attitudes toward marriage and financial responsibility.
A humorous exchange presents a doctor offering a new anti splinter serum instead of a traditional extraction. The patient asks for a splinter removal but the doctor jokes about near eternal relief from splinters, emphasizing futuristic medical advances in this serum age.
The Phillipsburg Post quotes a letter said to have come from an Iowa man to a large corn syrup maker. The letter jokes that after taking six cans of the syrup, his corn problems remain unchanged.
In a storm disaster on an ocean liner Isaac volunteers a prayer as the ship faces sinking. The captain notes a missing life preserver and calls for prayer as passengers brace for disaster.
Jessie signs her letters Jessica after boarding school. Her brother Tomica replies with playful, invented nicknames for family members and items, mentioning Aunt Lizzica and Uncle Samica and a choice between a Fordola or Chevica. The note ends with Your brother Tomica.
A black domestic worker asks about companionate marriage. The mistress explains Judge Lindsey’s theory that a spouse may dissolve a marriage at any time and remarry without formal divorce. The worker then exclaims that whites are becoming more like blacks every day.
A doctor visits a patient next door and jokes that he will “kill two birds with one stone.” The remark lightens the scene as he attends to care and conversation, with a gentlemanly flare. The exchange hints at neighboring duties and shared humor.
Dialogue unfolds as Simmons explains turning down Senator Green’s offer to be his private secretary due to the requirement to sign letters reading Green per Simmons. The exchange highlights a personal conflict over professional allegiance.
A humorous exchange shows a lecturer asserting no boy in the audience has harmed forests while a boy admits to shooting woodpeckers, highlighting a clash between grand rhetoric and a simple, troubling admission. The moment reflects a playful, provocative bit emphasizing environmental themes.
A Black man charged with deserting his wife pleads he is a refugee not a deserter, prompting a courtroom exchange as the judge admonishes him for leaving home and breaking marriage vows. The man insists the judge does not know his wife.
A judge questions Mose about three months of unpaid alimony as the burglar overhears a joke about a second wife failing to be a worker. A whispered inquiry asks if the burglary yielded anything while a lawyer remains unnamed and misidentified.
In Australia a school teacher received a crude note misread as an insult. The illiterate writer was arrested but intended a compliment, intending to say Sir as you are a man of knowledge I wish to enter my boy in your school. The court heard the miscommunication and the writer’s true intent.
A New Year message urges self improvement while acknowledging human flaws. The piece notes aspirations to live nobly, compares progress to forming a diamond, and ends with a vow to strive toward a higher likeness under divine guidance.
A fragment of verse speaks of the soul's ascent through changing seasons. It contrasts humble past with grander temples and a dome that hides heaven, suggesting spiritual growth beyond former shells as time flows.
The West and East Texas Chambers of Commerce will stress poultry raising as a major Texas industry valued over 100 million dollars annually. They will seek large funds for disease research and industry improvements, with support expected from the Agricultural and Mechanical College.
An advertisement urges shoppers in Whitewright to buy typewriter paper carbon adding machine paper and typewriter ribbons from The Sun.
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