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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1918
Page
6
Washington January 22. The Food Administration plans to issue a new weekly food card for one meatless day two porkless days and two wheatless days. Officials say it will not be compulsory for households though a pending bill seeks mandatory adherence for hotels restaurants and other public eating places.
In the Fifteenth District Court Judge Cal Freeman presiding Willie Jones, a negro, was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for theft. He was proven to have stolen 750 pounds of brass from the Katy at Denison. George Burke, charged with violation of the local option law, received a three year term with suspended sentence.
Variant ad copy for The Old Standard general tonic Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic claims to drive out malaria enrich the blood and build up the system for adults and children. It is priced at 60 cents.
A mix of rural notices includes milch cows for sale or trade for dry cows, wagon for milch cow, and requests for mules. Also listed are scholarships, frost proof cabbage plants, surveyor services, a Jersey bull for service, a 178 acre farm for sale or trade, and War Savings Stamp promotion with patriotic plea.
An old advertisement promises a quick cure for colds using LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It claims it stops coughing and headache, treats the cold, and offers a money back guarantee if it fails. The box is labeled with Dr. W Grove’s signature and costs 30 cents.
County War Savings chairman R H Alexander proposes a school scheme where each pupil who buys a 25 cent Thrift Stamp may pin a Kaiser portrait, a gesture endorsed by State Director Louis Lipsitz to show children blotting out Kaiserism and autocracy and helping the nation.
The War Savings Committee markets 91 million dollars in stamps across Texas. The federal government urges every man woman and child to invest. Stamps mature January 1 1923 with 4 percent interest compounded quarterly.
President Wilson urges national thrift as essential war work. He calls for preaching thrift from every pulpit teaching it in schools and practicing it at home to aid the war effort and guard children from poverty and autocracy.
English citizens have raised 650 million dollars through War Savings Stamps in eighteen months and boosted savings deposits over 100 percent. The thrift mindset is visible in public posters warning against extravagance, with critics attacking ostentatious dress.
In Amarillo boys pledging to buy Thrift Stamps receive a poster reading Thrift boy here I am working for Uncle Sam and a signed card from Potter County Division chair. Abe Sobel, a twelve year old Beaumont newsboy, won a $5 prize for earning $3.79 in five days and now owns two government securities that will be worth $10 in 1923.
Government estimates of U S petroleum production for 1917 indicate a near fourteen percent increase over the previous record, signaling a strong year for domestic oil.
The Whitewright area reports adequate fuel with lignite supplies and tempered fears after a recent coal delivery was diverted by farmers. Foremost concern was past shortages due to missing summer coal purchases, but current stocks aid all local needs.
Mrs. Lula Lyons and Miss Audrey Cooper of Miami Texas arrive after learning ofCorneil Cooper death in Montana and the body is brought here for burial.
A patriotic piece praises the Allied cause and denounces Kaiser rule. It argues that despotism must end, asserts that the people must rule for enduring peace, and wishes success to the troops. The poem champions freedom and international unity over German aggression.
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