Whitewright Sun Offers Subscription and Notices
The Whitewright Sun lists subscription at $1.50 yearly payable in advance. Notices warn that entertainments with fees and obituaries or memorials will be charged at regular advertising rates. The paper notes Red Grange’s $50,000 football income and cites gasoline ignition risks from a workman’s cigar. Traders enjoyed sunny weather after last Saturday’s two-inch rainfall and monthly trade day grows.
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Red Grange
Los Angeles
Grange
Oak Hill Cemetery Appeal For Maintenance Funds
The Oak Hill Cemetery Association made a public appeal last week for funds to maintain the cemetery. It notes a considerable expense involved in ongoing upkeep and urges community support to ensure proper care and preservation.
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Oak Hill Cemetery
Community responses praised for cemetery work and safety record
The piece notes public cooperation with the cemetery association. It cites Texas grade crossing data from November: 12 killed and 35 injured in 28 incidents, with autos hitting trains in 10 cases and trains hitting cars in the rest. It also reports Dallas News cotton contest results: $1,000 grand prize to an East Texas farmer with over three bales per acre on worn land, praising intensive cultivation and fertilizer.
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The
Railroad Commission
Texas
Dallas News
East Texas
Free Government Agriculture Bulletins For Farmers
Government bulletins cover every phase of agriculture and by products from farm operations and are free. Sam Rayburn wants to place these bulletins in farmers hands and invites letters to his Washington office for lists of the pamphlets.
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Sam Rayburn
M. C
Washington, D. C
Analysis Leads Whitewright Friend to Conclusion
A Whitewright resident states that after careful analysis he has reached a final conclusion. The remark signals a thoughtful judgment on a local issue or topic under discussion. He emphasizes methodical review and reasoned results.
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Whitewright
Local papers praise community values and newspaper staff changes
A clashing quip from Parker’s Parra graphs mocks tax dodgers and church absence while Whitewright residents tout tax payments church attendance jury duty and voting. Savoy Star notes editor Waggoner’s career move and congratulates him. Sherman Daily Democrat covers Glenn Doss buying a quarter share in Jim Waggoner’s Whitewright Sun and his long tenure at the plant.
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Ray
Parker
Sherman Democrat
the Sun
Whitewright
van Alstyne
Whitewright Sun Sold Interest to Glenn Doss
The Star reports Glenn Doss, after thirteen years with the Whitewright Sun, has purchased a fourth interest in the paper. He is expected to continue his role and contribute to the publication’s future.
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the Star
Glenn Doss
Whitewright Sun
Glenn
Forty Years Ago in Whitesboro notes new Grayson County paper
A column from January 15, 1886 reports the Plow and Hammer as a new Grayson County publication. It hails from Whitewright and records its first issue with all the traits of a good local paper edited by A. L. McCampbell.
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Whitesboro News-Record
Whitesboro
Plow and Hammer
Grayson County
Whitewright
A. L. McCampbell
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Waggoner & Doss, Publishers
Sun
Berlin
Germany
Cemetery Association
GOV - Wright Drug Company
Texas Qualified Druggists’ League
Houston
Preston
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Star
Waggoner
Savoy Star
Jim Waggoner
Doss
Sherman Daily Democrat
Self Serving Grocery
Fleming & Stuteville
89C
S. R. Park
Dyer
Jones Drug Store
Rexall
Hat Frames
Hat Flowers
Ales
Mr. Kerr
Kerr Furniture Company Accessor
Wumairine Oe Undertaking
Lic Embalm
Whitewright, Denison
McAlester
Florence Oil Stores
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