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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1937
Page
7
The essay argues the home town editor serves as a trusted record keeper of births marriages obituaries and local events. It stresses editors protect privacy avoid sensational crime coverage yet provide essential news, defend printing errors, and reflect on the editor’s moral responsibilities and public patience.
Dr. Edwin W. Kemmerer of Princeton University told the Graduate School of Banking that inflation will persist with a substantial period of rising commodity prices. He cited heavy government deficits, financing through banks, a devalued gold dollar, silver policy, and excess bank reserves as factors driving higher living costs.
The piece recalls how rival editors once fought over circulation and mocked each other, yet now competition has softened. A dying editor jokes that circulation is low, while the pastor and physician debate truth, revealing changing codes that editors value competitors as respected community members.
A collage of striking 20th century curiosities notes public figures and ordinary people in unusual roles. It sketches a New York policeman earning 2810 yearly while stashing 83500 over eight years, soldiers’ sons at West Point, a senator reading Aesop in session, a DC school quiz attempt, Civil War shells deemed live near Richmond, women barred from juries in many states, publicity sustaining the Hauptmann case, a court punishing a father for a speeding son, Dillinger era car used by a Minnesota sheriff, and Kansas religious farmers abandoning farms amid oil wealth fears.
A collection of oddities and local laws from various places including Poland, Portland, Berea, Zion City, and Port land scenes. Notes possible misprints and light humor about animals, science, and social quirks. No single narrative. compilation of brief curiosities and anecdotes.
A Rotarian Magazine piece by Dr Edward Podolsky warns against con artists who prey on compassion. It outlines schemes like the Lost Pocketbook, Helping the Poor, Selling Merchandise To the Dead, and other bereavement rackets using convincing deception to extract money from victims.
The quote expresses a personal creed for living simply earning honestly and speaking truth without hate except for hypocrisy and war. It defines no aristocracy but intellectual aristocracy and vows to serve humanity while embracing free thought and individual judgment. Bolivar is noted as the Washington of South America.
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