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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1920
Page
12
A provocative passage in a Mattie Coo book argues that children are born with unequal traits inherited from moral ancestors, contrasting free and equal rights with perceived hereditary weight from weak and sinful pro lineages. The excerpt notes that while children should be born free and equal, the sad fact is that they are not.
A compact home cookbook note describes economical puddings using rice with sweet milk and raisins baked to a creamy texture with nutmeg, served hot with hard sauce. It adds a molasses raisin steamed pudding with sour milk and baking soda, plus a suet pudding steamed for hours with an egg sauce.
A recipe text describes making a fruit apple dessert with sugar water cornstarch butter and spices layered with buttered bread crumbs baked in moderate oven with a cream sauce. It also provides a chicken olive tomato bake with cornmeal water onions oil tomatoes olives catsup and seasonings baked for thirty minutes. The article credits Trie May weed and Western Newspaper Union from 1920.
Use squeezed lemons to clean brasses and dish covers. Apply a pinch of whitening and rub in with the lemon as a sponge. You will remove much dirt quickly with little trouble. Articles stay cleaner longer than with ordinary polish.
WANTED a loud second hand gramophone for reprisals appears in a wartime English paper. The terse ad suggests a demand linked to retaliation efforts, reflecting wartime sentiment and sparse local classifieds.
A novel insulated residence built on a refrigerator principle has been tested in Canada. The house, used for a year by the designer and his family, endured 40 below zero with electric heat. Walls feature cement plaster over metal lath, a concrete outer skin, asphalt paper, wood lath, plaster, and granulated cork insulation. Construction cost ran about 10 percent above standard methods.
The Channel Islands Jersey Guernsey Alderney and Sark are described as Great Britain's oldest possessions. Once part of the duchy of Normandy they joined the English crown after William the Conqueror in 1066. They kept local customs and laws, resisting imperial acts unless named, with about 96 000 inhabitants.
Youth's Companion lauds the British National Lawn Tennis Association for changing rules to allow a one-armed player to toss the ball from his racket when serving. The note frames the adjustment as an act of sportspersonship honoring injured veterans and equality for disabled competitors.
The telephone industry in 1917 employed 262,629 people, with 171,119 of them women. Salaries totaled $175,670,449, while plants and equipment were valued at $1,492,329,015 and produced revenues of $391,499,531.
The remodeling of London saloons to attractive forms is a counter move by brewers and licensed victualers against prohibitionists who vow to make London dry. Architects are being hired to design large airy public houses offering both food and drink.
An aging box shows the lone medicine Bromo Quinine with E. W. Grove’s signature. The ad touts relief from colds grip and influenza using this laxative tablet priced at 30 cents.
Rats are described as the worst pest, spreading disease and causing immense economic loss. The piece cites $200,000,000 in annual US crop and property damage and explosive rat population growth. It urges organized extermination with food denial and official guidance from the Department of Agriculture and its biologists.
Mr and Mrs Gilmore Webster visited the latter s parents Sunday John Bradford of Dallas spent the week end with his sister Mrs J D Judd Mr and Mrs Joe Smith and son Garland spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Stanley Garland Clayton Garland is improving which cheers friends Several attended Bells picnic Mrs Cora Butts visits her daughter Mrs Willie Queen in Clarksville Miss Ruby and May Adams visited Bells Pearl Edwinson returned home with them for a few days Mr and Mrs Barnes Mr Mcdougal and family and Albert Butts were in McKinney Sunday Miss Maggie Hulett spent Sunday with Miss Lucile Hampton at Desert Roberta Sloan visited her sister Mrs Gilmore Webster at Whitewright Saturday Rev Bow of Kentucky preached here Sunday and Sunday night The Methodist meeting will begin here Sunday Everyone is invited to take part in the services each night.
Druggists refund popey if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles. Instantly relieves itching and promotes restful sleep after the first application. Price 60c.
FOR SALE Ford touring car in good running condition. Dewey Williams four miles south of town. FOR SALE FLOWERS and pot plants for funerals and all occasions. Call Mrs. Mary Hestand telephone 181. FOUND Man's watch owner can have by describing and paying for this ad. Frank Montgomery. FOR SALE FLOWERS for weddings and funerals pot plants bulbs pepper and egg plants. Mrs. P. A. Short telephone 198. LOST Saturday afternoon between my farm and Whitewright a leghorn hat in wrapper from Madden's store Denison. Finder return to J. R. Pennington or Sun office and receive reward. Slaton on Santa Fe land 90 per cent tillable with grass. Biggest bargain on South Plains. Price 30 per acre terms 1-3 cash. Several land listings: 376 acres near Slaton with improvements 800 cultivated 200 cotton. 320 acres unimproved with school on land $30 per acre. 599144 acres good land five miles of Slaton $55 per acre with rent if bought within 380 days. 160 acres near Lubbock and Slaton $50 per acre. 1600 acres 4 miles south Slaton with eight wells and fences best South Plains land. If bought now potential $10-$20 per acre before Christmas. R. J. Murray Owner Slaton Texas. 4J23
1804 acres with two improvements sets, 225 cultivated including 100 in cotton. Land fenced with chocolate loam soil, top cotton land. Located three miles from O'Donnel Texas railway town, 35 miles south.
An 19th century tonic claims to restore vitality by purifying and enriching the blood. It promises a strengthening and invigorating effect and is priced at 60 cents.
A claim promotes Laxa Tive Bromo Quinine as superior to ordinary quinine with tonic and laxative effects. It asserts no nervousness or aging in the head and urges readers to look for the signature of E. W. Grove.
In Ennis Texas on Saturday at 730 pm Joe Hawkins and Edna Davis both Ennis Daily News employees were married in the newsroom lobby with Rev W E Brittain officiating. Flowers decorations and pink and white ice cream plus angel food cake were served to families and staff. The couple and guests include News force members and relatives. Honeymooning in Dallas.
Local notes report good health with several visits. Mrs Williams guests in Clarksville. Mrs Pace of Whitewright visits her children. Adie Hugh Jones and Lynn Lewis Cooper attend Bells picnic. moon light gathering at Robert Allisons with ice cream and sodas sold. George Bennett’s cow killed by lightning. Bennett family visits Savoy. J B Wells moves to Lubbock for wife’s health. church attendance noted at Enterprise and Klondyke. visitors from Orangeville.
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