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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1935
Page
6
Practical hints cover frying eggs gelatin bread rugs cake decorating orange and lemon peels frosting fixes and a brief quip about Mrs Askit and Mr Askit. The tips advise hot skillets covered, pouring from a pitcher, burning mold to preserve bread, ammonia cleaning for rugs, alphabet macaroni for birthday messages, dried peel flavoring, toothpicks to stabilize cake layers, and a joke about horned devils and meat packers.
Fort Knox Kentucky once a wartime training center is planned for a deep underground gold vault to store billions. The 33 000 acre installation near Louisville with Hill fortifications and Bowman Field nearby trained thousands in World War I and II and now holds a potential gold reserve far larger than Washington’s vaults.
The Eastern Judicial District of Texas covering 41 counties shows rapid docket activity. Judge Randolph Bryant disposed of 717 civil and criminal cases in the year, with 409 pending at start and 423 pending at year end. Bankruptcy petitions numbered 279, many under Frazier-Lemke.
Two farmers meet the day after a cyclone. One asks about a new barn and hears it is “all right as far as I know” with the other noting the storm blew through Cobb County.
A light exchange shows an employer asking for tomorrow’s work while the unemployed reply with a remark about a march of jobless people. The humor highlights tension between labor demand and unemployment demonstrations.
Texas hosts 700 bird species with an estimated 250 million individuals. Bill Tucker of the State Game Commission warns that removing birds would devastate ecosystems, insects, and agriculture. He cites the USDA value of insect-eating birds at 44 million dollars annually and notes the broader economic and recreational importance of game birds.
Claude Callan humorously warns that a man seeking a stable marriage should wed a girl with several sisters to trigger maternal resistance to divorce. The mother’s incentives to preserve a daughter’s marriage are explained, revealing social pressures in old time families. In a separate comic exchange a resident asks for a criminal lawyer, and the local resident replies with a joking admission of uncertain proof.
Investigations by the U S Department of Agriculture reveal that cattle on western grazing lands may ingest selenium from soil and plants, causing alkali disease. Researchers Kurt Franke and Henry Knight trace a soil plant transfer of selenium, noting variable accumulation in grasses and certain vetch species.
A compilation of dubious statistics and curious assertions about fish sleep eye behavior pyramid stones teaching turnover in education governors in New York and other claimed figures. The statements mix biology politics crime and economics with questionable accuracy and obsolete framing.
Disease on deer ranges in the Uvalde area, affecting mainly does, risks a severe reduction in deer for the hunting season. Ranchers report dead does in pastures. wardens and ranchers struggle to identify the illness, which has persisted for years with minimal prior losses.
Floyd Daniels 26 of Santo suffered a triple fracture of his right arm while pitching in a game against Unity on the Santo diamond. He was taken to Mineral Wells hospital and is resting well. doctors note unusually brittle bone with three fractures, a first of its kind in the area.
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