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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1948
Page
2
A humorous collage of quips about self made men marriage luck and career advancement. A Greeley exchange on responsibility follows a knighted joke while a military promotee recalls joining officer duties. A light domestic jab lands amid a string of wry anecdotes.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a neighbor notices chalk marks on a dealer’s building and reveals he is tenth on the list for a new car. Veteran reporter Homer Dodge, long on Treasury coverage, misses a cabinet change and questions a new secretary at a first press conference. Ice cream’s U S debut came in 1809 at a White House dinner. Rex Stout served on the presidential yacht Mayflower and later became a warrant officer.
In a Georgia town counting room two hours before polls close, an official jokes about dead Republican ballots while a child asks about spring. A household power outage leads to a tense basement check as a parent warns not to touch live wires.
A committee asked John Jacob Astor for a subscription and he donated fifty dollars. When reminded that his son William gave a hundred, Astor replied that William had a rich father.
A Chicago Museum of Science and Industry exhibit traces wheel evolution from prehistoric to modern autos. Eleven wheel types can be spun by pressing a button, illustrating five decades of automotive progress with detailed explanations and animations. The Motorama display, linked to GM fairs, runs at least five years.
New York report by the National Industrial Conference Board shows farmers' net income for 1947 at about 18 billion dollars, four times the 1939 figure. Farmers' financial assets rose to around 111 billion, with savings growing from 5 billion in 1940 to about 22 billion in early 1947. Per capita income rose as farm population declined.
A door to door salesman is outwitted by a neighbor who turns the tables with a quick swap of value. The neighbor reveals a family secret tactic to distract the salesman by presenting watercolor sketches and promising more, leaving him eager to leave. The method is shared among sisters who offer handmade aprons and dahlia roots to entice buyers, inviting others to join the clever scheme.
Dr George Lawton, a psychologist on aging, urges ageless living through mental flexibility, keeping wrinkles, and four paths to vigorous maturity: intellect, emotion, social activity, and personal creative expression. He criticizes lawyers as leaders and favors business leaders who adapt to the future.
A Columbia-educated PhD, age 47, describes himself as ageless and unbothered by age. The remark contrasts with typical aging concerns while underscoring a self-identity stance from a professional figure.
It is estimated that 10,000,000 American children speak some type of secret language such as Pig Latin. The figure highlights widespread interest in coded speech among youths and suggests diverse linguistic play across households and schools.
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