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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1929
Page
7
A letter urges Americans to heed insect threats during National Insect Killing Week starting July 7. It warns of mosquitoes, flies, fleas, bedbugs, roaches, and moths harming health, livestock, and homes, and emphasizes widespread use of insecticides and screens to combat pests.
The article urges a sustained warlike campaign against insect pests to protect paying crops. It cites Colonel M. A. Reasoner of the Army Medical Corps, noting insects have caused more deaths than all wars and destroy billions in property annually, urging a decisive offensive now.
B Legg, former Denison and Whitewright theater operator now at Van Alstyne, sues in Fifteenth District Court at Sherman for 120000 with 80000 as actual damages and 40000 as exemplary. Defendants include Dent Theatre Inc Denison Theatres Inc Publix Theatres Dallas New York Paramount Famous Lasky Ridouts and U L Dent. The suit accuses a nationwide theater chain monopoly of controlling output preventing first run pictures.
The sheriff is commanded to publish a writ summoning all interested parties in the estate of Aaron C Bowman and Charles Bowman minors. Maude Etna Murdock guardian has filed the final report with Grayson County Court. The hearing is at the Sherman court house on the first Monday in August 1929.
Every week reports from advertisers in The Sun wanted column come in favorably. Seldom is there disappointment in securing results. If you have anything to sell or want to buy anything, let it be known with a little twenty five cent want ad. Last Thursday a party advertised a house for sale in this column. He sold it Friday. Try The Sun want ad column for results.
A Birmingham News column muses that the everyday car a reader owns is the fine vehicle the advertisement praises, celebrating practicality over flashy promises and inviting steady satisfaction.
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