Local Social News Highlights Wide Round of Visits
Miss Maye Smith visits Vernon and Wichita Falls while many families host relatives across towns. Notables include Roddy and San ders kin in Whitewright Dallas visitors in town and a Montgomery family emergency linked to a Whitewright Homecoming. A March of travel ends with an emergency appendectomy at Baylor Dallas and a Kansas funeral disrupting plans.
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Maye Smith
Vernon
Wichita Falls
Mark Montgomery Jr
Garland
Baylor Hospital
Dallas
Whitewright
Sherman
Walnut glass sides and front bookcase at Lem Tittsworth's Bonham
A walnut glass front bookcase or china cabinet is offered at Lem Tittsworth's in Bonham. The item features all glass sides and a front display area, described among available walnut furnishings.
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Lem Tittsworth’s
Bonham
The Constant Advertiser Keeps the Trade
A short piece from The Pocketbook extols persistence in many forms. It notes steady effort in speech growth patience and consistent effort as keys to lasting impact and success.
Chinese Proverbs on Righteousness and Harmony
The saying links virtue to outer order: a righteous heart yields beauty in character, beauty in character brings home harmony, and home harmony fosters national order. It emphasizes moral cultivation as the path to social stability.
Sunday School Tale Turns Into Pie and Heaven Question
A Sunday school class ends with a boy named John saying he is not ready for heaven because his mother is baking apple pie. The humorous exchange contrasts religious lessons with family moments.
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John
It’s the Law Declaration Of Independence Expresses Basic Principles
A historical reflection on the Declaration of Independence describes its core principles of government of laws and protected rights. It notes indictments against King George III, the fight for beliefs, the Revolutionary War, and the drafting of the Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia establishing checks and balances.
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George III
Great Britain
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Rights and amendments guard civil liberties
Excerpt discusses the Declaration of Independence rights and the constitutional amendments adopted about five years later. It notes governments derive power from the governed and credits courts with daily protection of these rights.
Truman signs Marines bill to elevate commandant status
President Truman signed into law a bill strengthening the Marine Corps and making its commandant a part time member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The commandant will have coequal status with Army Navy and Air Force members on Marine matters, easing past criticisms of the corps.
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Washington
Truman
Marine Corps
Navy
Corps
Joints Chiefs of Staff
Army
Air Force
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Kentuckian Tears Turned On Music Critic
An elderly man at an evening function wept softly during a performance of My Old Kentucky Home. The woman in charge asked if he was a Kentuckian, and he replied he was a music critic.
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Kentucky
Notice to Creditors of the Estate of Myer Shosid Deceased
Original Letters Testamentary were granted June 9 1952 by Grayson County Court Texas to Tessie Shosid and The Merchants and Planters National Bank of Sherman Independent Executors. Creditors must present claims as prescribed by law at 400 East Mulberry Street Sherman Texas. June 19 26 July 3 and 10 1952.
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State of Texas
Grayson
A. D
City of
Sherman
Susie Noel
Susie Noell
Frank Noel
Frank Noell
District Court
Grayson County
Texas
Birge
Fairview
G. W. Blanton
H. C. McElroy
Tex
Whitewright
State of
Samuel B. Coffin
Samuel Burton Barger
Laura Coffin Marr
Elizabeth Coffin Lewis
Jno. W. Lewis
Margaret Coffin Capen
Husband Capen
15Th District Court
Jnc
Nannie G. Coffin
A. H. Coffin
Denison
S. W. Earnest
Whitewright Sun
Myer Shosid
East Mulberry Street
Tessie Shosid
Merchants & Planters National Bank OF Sherman
L. S. Omohundro
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D. M. Roddy
David Roddy
Kay Hansard
Wanda Zimmerman
Irving
Mrs. Kugga Hansard
Ouida and
Bernedia Sanders
Jim Hicks
Lyndell Pirtle
Texarkana
Bob and
Terry Bussey
Fort Worth
Mrs
George Bennett
Y. B. Kaiser
Jack Nossaman
Ronald Norris
Cartwright
Okla
Allen T. Short
W. O. Wheatley
Alice
Little Miss Carol Jean Starr
Fred Starr
D. D. Brooks
Preston Ingram
Jean Blackerby
Farmersville
A. M. Bryant
Griffin Dollarhide
Earl Blanton
Colorado
Earl Lyons
Billie Lyons
Alton May
Jacksonville
Curlee Cummings
John Joins
J. C. Witherspoon
Caddo, Okla
Gene Hughes
J. E. Henson
Ralph Brown
Charlie Hunt
Frederick
Edna Riley
Houston
William Harrelson
J. A. Hardcastle
ETSTC
Commerce
David Price
Chilicothe
O. L. Jones
R. G. Hedrick
Muskogee, Okla
C. C. Childress
Dannie Wilson
Charles Sanders
John Kaiser
Mac
Ralph Kaiser
Lubbock
Byron Cabbiness
Brownfield
Pittsburgh
Walte
Waite
By Dick Shaw
The
Travelers Safety Service
C. H. Beseda
van Alstyne, Texas
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F.H.A. Title I Loans
L. LaRoe & Co
Pol
Lindley
Beckworth
Upshur County
Gladewater
United States Senate
Congress
U.S
Texas House
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