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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1964
Page
3
A trucker wins a sweepstake but his wife delays informing him to avoid a heart risk. The doctor privately asks what he would do with large winnings, and the trucker offers to share with the doctor, who then dies from the surprise. The page also presents a string of jokes about daily life and miscommunications.
The text notes Hadrian's 125 A D laws limiting hot bath water supply for miners and permitting women to use baths while men worked. It also cites the 1315 famine in Ypres Belgium where about one tenth of the population died of starvation.
Emerson Radio and Phonograph with Texas Instruments unveiled an 11 inch transistorized TV priced under 150 dollars in New York. Benjamin Abrams predicted rapid industry shift toward transistor sets by 1965 to 1969 with lower power and portable designs, while the article notes the term porphyry meaning purple stone from Egyptian quarries used by Romans.
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