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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1947
Page
6
A collage of jokes and sayings from lectures and social life. The pieces include a Toastmaster quip about waking an audience, a church dinner notice, joke lines about aging and the motor age, a jello moment at a children's party, a librarian quip on Risque, convention humor, child questions, Irish humor on heaven, a peacock sighting at grandmother’s, and a proverb on men and women.
An Englishman famed as a fortune-hunter tours a family estate with a girl’s father. He points to woods meadow and river, asking how far the property extends. The father’s reply ends with a warning that the land does not extend to Margaret.
A writer returns with a manuscript after a year’s experience, prompting the editor to question revisiting a rejected idea. The exchange highlights renewed ambition versus earlier rejection in a publishing context.
A reader shares a humorous verse about ongoing love and mounting bills attributed to Russell Pettis Askue. The Saint Marys News from Leonardtown Maryland includes a Card of Thanks praising the Leonardtown Fire Department and neighbors for aiding at a February 14 house fire.
Bonham jail trusty Joh Weldon Akard escaped Sunday night took Sheriff Dick Wait’s car and a pistol robbed a youth, wrecked the vehicle, and was recaptured near Dial. County Attorney John Farmer said kidnapping and robbery charges likely. State records note two sheriff sale notices in Grayson County, details on Wilbanks and Seay properties and July auctions.
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