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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1923
Page
2
In Chicago on June 11 a husband who slashed his wife's throat was forcibly made to donate blood to save her life. Theodore Marty drew a razor in a family quarrel and fled. surgeons said a transfusion saved Martha Marty's life.
In Marshall Texas Judge P O Beard denied the petition for a temporary writ to restrain enforcement of the compulsory cattle dipping law. Henry Hightower and about 700 Harrison County farmers filed against Fort Worth official J E Boog Scott and eight county inspectors. The case drew wide farmer attention as witnesses testified.
Oklahoma City, Okla June 10 The Post Office Department officially recognized Oklahoma City as a direct mail destination. Acting Postmaster General John H Bartlett signed an order making Oklahoma City the postal designation for the state capital, replacing the longtime Oklahoma, Ok. designation.
Gov McLeod and the people of South Carolina called for a day of fasting and prayer to seek divine aid against the boll weevil, deemed a judgment on the state. The proclamation designated Sunday as a prayer day for deliverance from the pest, whether by supernatural intervention or natural means.
Bernie Brand of Dallas Texas set a continuous dancing record with 217 hours in St. Louis Missouri June 10. He surpassed the 195 hour mark from the national marathon dancing contest begun June 1 and was the sole survivor of twenty two entrants winning $5 000 in cash prizes.
In Fredericksburg Texas on June 10 Elsie Langershans aged 12 heard cries from Barons Creek and plunged in to pull Arwein Peterman age 6 from the water saving his life. A college youth asked a businessman about starting in business and was advised to sell his wristwatch and buy an alarm clock.
The Craigdarroch estate in Dumfriesshire is listed for sale, drawing renewed focus on Annie Laurie the song’s heroine. Folklore links her to Andrew Carnegie and to William Douglas, who wrote the ballad after a romance with Annie Laurie before her marriage to Alexander Fergusson.
An old box advertises a laxative brom quinine product titled Colds Cause Grip and Influenza with a single Bromo Quinine tablet and E. W. Grove signature on the box priced at 30 cents.
The advertisement describes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as an ointment to ease catarrhal inflammation and an internal tonic that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces to restore normal conditions. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reports messages from spirits warning of a world ending catastrophe possibly like Atlantis. He vagueley cites a great disturbance that could be an earthquake or rising seas. A dispatch claims contact with Lord Northcliff’s spirit. skeptics doubt the reliability of such communications.
Conr ad Sauer a six year old in Cuero Texas fought a large chicken hawk in his father’s yard. The bird sank talons into his neck and back causing deep lacerations. After a brutal struggle the boy choked the hawk to death and saved himself.
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