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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1948
Page
6
The article emphasizes choosing informality privacy and home atmosphere for dinners. It highlights a pleasant host atmosphere simple food good flavors and easy table conversation as keys to making meals at home enjoyable. It notes that good dinner comes from effort time and skill shared by all.
Rev Roy L Crawford of West Methodist Church notes that this February has five Sundays, the first since 1920 and not to recur until 1976. He explains the 28 year cycle with 40 year skips at century changes and lists leap year Februarys starting on Thursday or Friday.
In 1947 taxes collected on alcoholic beverages by federal, state, and municipal governments surpassed 4.0 billion dollars, averaging about 115 dollars per family nationwide, highlighting strong revenue from liquor and related products.
Austin officials urge careful use of gas stoves after nearly 200 fires from July to November caused over $100,000 in damage. Marvin Hall warns against leaving heaters burning overnight, keeping rooms ventilated, avoiding cheap gas tubing, and testing leaks with soap bubbles. He advises professional service for issues and emphasizes using only American Gas Association approved heaters with proper venting and clearances.
Northwestern University psychologist Dr. Walter Dill Scott notes repetition pays off for ads. He cites memory decay figures: 25 percent forget after 1 day, 50 percent after 2 days, 85 percent after 4 days, and 97 percent after 7 days.
Dr William A O'Brien explains that alcohol causes illness from excess or fasting while drinking. Chronic damage most affects the brain spinal cord and liver. Alcohol acts as a depressant of the nervous system producing flushed face strong pulse deep breaths loud speech and loss of restraint.
The text explains how alcohol heightens effects with others, causes slowed reaction and poor judgment increasing accident risk, and notes delirium tremens can develop in chronic drinkers. It mentions restlessness, low mood, insomnia, and eventual perceptual disturbances, urging immediate medical and hospital care.
The text explains that chronic alcoholism rarely harms the stomach lining and that cirrhosis of the liver develops mainly in long term drinkers who also starve themselves. It notes that occasional drinkers and teetotalers have similar life expectancy, while heavy drinkers suffer consequences from lack of self-control.
An ode to paper and press reads like a period piece as Douglas Meador laments ink striking white newsprint. He reflects on the transformation of quiet forest pulp into vulgarly branded pages, praising the silent beauty of unmarked sheets before words are written.
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