Local Residents Seen Visiting and Traveling in Texas Towns
A long list of local residents and visitors comprises weekend trips and stays across Denton, Sherman, Whitewright, Dallas, Paris, McKinney, Plano, Wills Point, and other communities. Names include Mrs. H. C. Willis, Miss Vera Simmons, E A Douglas, Mrs. James Cooper, Miss Sallie Cherry, Miss Mardell Pumphrey, Tom Norris, J A Pumphrey, Ona Belle Hampton, Charles Ayres, Buster Smith, Garvin Horton, Frank White, O'Brien Johnson, Sarah Janis Hynds, Mrs. W. C. Bailey, Dixie Bassett, Anna Lou Phillips, and many others. Several are visiting relatives, attending encampments, or recovering after hospital or travel.
Hints for The Housewife Dipping casters in paraffin prevents loosening
Practical tips for housekeeping from a mid century guide. Dipping casters in melted paraffin helps keep them from coming loose under tables and chairs. Use vacuum around baseboards to deter moths, and apply simple methods for cleaning and preserving fabrics, floors, and kitchenware.
Different tastes shape humor and drink preferences
The speaker argues humor is subjective and varies by person, noting that psychologists overreach trying to standardize a sense of humor. He adds a personal preference for beer with meals and offers to refrain from jokes if tea is chosen.
1 Million 4-Hers Help Cut Farm Accidents
Farmers urged to practice farm safety as national 4-H Farm and Home Safety Program expands. Half a million youth participate to prevent rural injuries while food production rises amid labor and equipment shortages. General Motors provides over $10,000 in awards for safety records.
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General Motors
Cooperative Extension Service
The Spice of Life and Quick Quips
A collage of humorous quotes and exchanges from social life and court scenes. Jokes range from a golfer’s score to a misdirected question about a colonel’s regiment, with playful ethnic and gendered banter and a punchy final line about a mother’s reaction to a skimpy bathing suit.
A Quilt of Old Jokes and Quick Comebacks
A playful exchange of lines recalling family foibles and social quips across generations. A narrator jokes about a wife, needlework, aging, self image, and relatives at dances, with a sly jab about a raid in a bygone era. The banter reflects light domestic humor and social norms.
Taxing the Memory in Congress Chat
A congressman quips about taxing memory as he speaks to colleagues. A colleague reacts with astonishment and asks why the idea was not considered earlier. The exchange captures a humorous moment in legislative discussion.
Two Iowa Privates See Ocean Aboard Transport
Two Iowa buck privates aboard a transport bound for North Africa gaze at the sea for the first time. The first marvels at the water, while the second warns there is much more to come, saying that is only the top of it.
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Buck
Iowa
North Africa
Put at ease mix up overcoat in Newcastle mix up
In a restaurant a meek man taps a stranger as he puts on a coat and asks if he is Mr. Smith of Newcastle. The man insists he is not, prompting the lighter confusion about who owns the coat and the true identity behind the misheard courtesy.
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Mr. Smith
Newcastle
What Two Million Women Want Joke and Pricing Lesson
A humor piece mocks Ted for vanity and a shopkeeper teaching his son to double charge customers. It contrast warns how a customer should flinch at each price step. A separate sign reads Ladies Ready To Wear Clothes with an editor's note “It's about time.”
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Ted
Silent Exchange Over Father and Trouble at Midnight
A terse dialogue ends with a warning as a girl tells a man to leave after quoting her father’s habit of taking things apart to inspect failures. The exchange centers on tension and departure nearby at night.
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H. C. Willis
Denton and
Mineral Wells
John Reeves
St. Louis
Vera Simmons of
Sherman
Whitewright
E. A. Douglas of
Hillsboro
James Cooper
Dallas
Mardell Pumphrey
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Denton
Tom Norris
J. A. Pumphrey
San Antonio
Ona Belle Hampton
Lee Hampton
Charles Ayres
T. W. Ayres
McKinney Hospital
Buster Smith
Wills Point
J. E. Coggins
W. J. Barbee
Mrs
Frank Armstrong
Plano
Dick Barbee
Mrs. Garvin Horton
California
Mrs. Clay Horton
Frank White
Francine
Paris
O’brien Johnson
Bob
Memphis, Tenn
R. B. Gordon
Sarah Janis Hynds of
van Alstyne
Marion Felker
Mrs. W. C. Bailey
Barbara
Charleston, S. C
Mrs. W. M. Cox
Dixie Bassett
Anna Lou Phillips
Presbyterian
Woodlake
A. L. Groves
Denison
Maggie Montgomery
Maurice Wright
Graham
Floyd Bassett
Newton Manning
F. M. Echols
Carl May
Frank Phillips
Lee Wilson
Phillips
G. C. Allen
Commerce
Joe Brooks
Lloyd Badgett
Tokyo
Japan
Martha Joe Jones
Claud Thompson
Mrs. Burl Coursey of
Billie Lyons of
Cooper
Earl Lyons
Jim Butts
Claremont
Calif
J. E. Smith
Bess Howard
Rusk
Lucian LaRoe
John Russell
Otto Russell
Pascal Cox
Henderson
Bob Holland
Washington, D. C
C. J. Davenport
Eugene Reeves of
McKinney
Mrs. L. T. Holland
Children of
Carl Holland
Mrs. Roby Childress
Bay City
Claud Willis
Printess Compton
Daughters of
Carload
Katy
Cearvaat Rovre
Joe’ Marsh
What
Funny
United States Brewers Foundation
Columbus
Europe
Walter Winchell
Junior
Kentucky
Mindy Carson
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G. C. Stateville
Staplers
Markwell
Chevrolet
H.p
Hasty Chevrolet Company
Hitewright
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