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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1925
Page
7
Dunk Botts reports the Rye Straw storekeeper rewrites old accounts while a postmaster sheds a long standing housecleaning dispute. Wash Hocks opposes bill boards on vacant lots to spare weeds and Fletcher Henstep reappears as "A Taxpayer" criticizing bad roads mismanaged by authorities.
A string of humorous vignettes from Tickville and surrounding places. Luke Mathewson advises action over speech to win youth, Atlas Peck jokes about coffee, Little Frdity Flinders visits grandma for cake, and several locals weigh in on trains, marriage, and aging with playful banter.
The Borozone treatment comes in liquid and powder, claimed to purify wounds of germs and rapidly mend flesh. Liquid prices are 30c 60c and 1.20, powder 30c and 60c. Sold by Bow-Wright Drug Co.
A brick toppled from a building striking the sidewalk about ten feet in front of a man. He remarks that a person will live longer by walking slowly.
A Swannville farmer, A. Meals, reports an unusual field incident after spotting a snake in his crop. The brief note describes a surprising encounter with a reptile on his Swannville farm, unfolding into a local anecdote from the Red River area.
A local report describes a startling scene where a king snake, about fifty-two inches long, was killing and swallowing another snake nearly its length. The survivor measured about forty-eight inches, and the event was observed in Annona News locality.
A Southern Lumberman quotation notes a New York beggar discovered to own a country home and two automobiles, illustrating how circumstances can redefine a beggar in public perception.
The Norfolk Virginian Pilot notes a quip that the basic law guarantees pursuit of happiness but not at fifty miles per hour, reflecting on rights and limits in a concise editorial aside.
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