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The
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Poll tax notices and county voting politics in Grayson
A collage of notices and opinions from 1922 focusing on poll tax requirements ahead of elections, taxation debates, and civic duties. It notes four remaining tax payment days, warns about election year urgency, and includes motion about cotton ginning in Grayson County with 1921 versus 1920 comparative figures. It also contains light social commentary on fashion and a quip about home brewing safety.
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Grayson County
The Orderly Country Town
The ordinary country town cannot rely on costly buildings to look fine. Careful maintenance of business premises homes and streets makes a pleasing appearance. Clean well kept property signals order and efficiency attracting business and visitors.
A Tale Of Civic Pride In Whitewright's Street Scene
The article praises Whitewright residents for maintaining an orderly town and urging timely upkeep of real estate. It cites lean fences, run down buildings, and shabby homes as targets for improvement, noting that one person’s efforts inspire neighbors to act and elevate the town’s appearance and progress.
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Whitewright
Advertising Drives Purchases and Store Reputation
The piece argues that consumer buying choices are shaped by how well stores imprint their image on the public mind. Advertising builds awareness, draws in new trade, and enables large purchases to lower per item costs, leading to better values and broader sales.
Public Store Advertises Low Prices and Buys Bargains
A local store markets itself on low figures, claiming it buys at reduced rates and operates with slim margins to offer customers consistently low prices.
Editorial Sparks and Some Lively Selections
A collage of quips from various papers on time versus money, war ethics, aging education, chemistry jokes, lynching references, diplomacy praise and critique, German wartime actions, animal welfare, oil well openings in Mexico, Debs’ jail stance, counsel versus warfare, women in mining, and moonshine prices in New York, reflecting 1921 era editorial wit and social commentary.
Moonshine Dealers Kill Off Their Consumers
A terse gossip note cites a claim that moonshine traders are killing customers, attributed to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The item also notes Zion City’s Voliva banishing Santa Claus, with the Buffalo Express contrasting belief in Santa with Voliva.
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New Orleans Times-Picayune
Santa Claus
Zion City
Voliva
Buffalo Express
Free night school opens at Whitewright high school
Whitewright launches a free night school in the new high school building with young men and women and business men as students. The superintendent leads the program and local businessmen aid with courses in bookkeeping commercial law arithmetic mechanical drawing English and letter writing to reach those who missed formal schooling.
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Whitewright
Walter C. Fain Dies After Weekend Death in Whitewright
Walter C. Fain, 67, a pioneer merchant in Whitewright, died at his home Saturday night around midnight. Born in Cherokee County, he moved here fifty years ago and helped establish the town's early commerce. He managed and co owned the local telephone system before Southwestern Bell took over, and had been a leading dry goods merchant and cotton buyer. Later he shipped cotton for M H Wolfe & Company of Dallas and supported Grayson College students. He leaves a large family and was regarded as a kind father. B B Cobb, superintendent of Waco schools, sent consoling remarks to Mrs Fain noting their boyhood friendship and Fains generosity.
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Walter C. Fain
Cherokee County
Texas
Whitewright
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
M. H. Wolfe & Company
Dallas
Fain
Grayson College
W. C. Fain
B. B. Cobb
Waco
Remembering Mr. Fain A Life Of Charity And Faith
The obituary notes Mr. Fain life as full of charity and Christian teaching. Survived by wife and children J N Fain Bells Walter C Fain and Mrs J L Kirkpatrick Whitewright Mrs Harry Bennett Denison Mrs Frank Bell Chicago Mrs Wade Hancock Dallas Mrs J D Wilson Jr Trenton also brother N E Fain Omaha Neb. Funeral at Methodist Church Sunday 2 30 conducted by Rev K R Isbell with interment Oak Hill Cemetery. Active pallbearers listed as W F.
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Mr. Fain
J. N. Fain
Bells
Walter C. Fain
J. L. Kirkpatrick
Whitewright
Harry Bennett
Denison
Frank Bell
Chicago
Wade Hancock
Dallas
J. D. Wilson Jr
Local pallbearers named for deceased individual
Honorary pallbearers listed include Holland W. H. King C T Lackey H C Willis Randolph Roberts of Sherman J W McMurry D S Mc Millin and J B May of Savoy. The honorary pallbearers were C W Bry ant C B Bryant B B Kimbell J W Ashley of McKinney Dero Austin and Barlow Roberts of Sherman B B Cobb of Waco and R L Cameron of Dallas.
Winter Weather Brings Freezing Temperatures and Ice
A week of severe winter weather saw a drop to 20 degrees Wednesday night, with temperatures lingering around twenty and remaining below freezing most of the time. Rain turned to ice Tuesday, leaving a thin ice layer on the ground Wednesday morning that melted later, though mist persisted through the day.
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J. H. Waggoner
United States Army
Congress
Dallas News
Bonham Daily
Editorial Sparks
Ingersolls
New York Evening Post
America
Washington Star
Missouri
Washington Post
Charleston Gazette
United States
Mexico
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
Wilson
Springfield Republican
Germany
Boston Shoe and Leather Reporter
Mr. Debs
Debs
Kansas City Star
Manila Bulletin
Brooklyn Eagle
New York
Bermuda
Walter Hest and
Sam Rayburn
Fannin County
Star Barber Shop
Bath
W. M. Morgan
J.C. Gillespie
Gillespie
C. E. Hudson
President
Hudson, Davis & Co
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