17 Year Ago In Whitewright Tragedy And Town Happenings
The Sun notes Dr. FE Montgomery killed when his car struck by a Katy freight train at 9 30 Saturday. Prosperity Week events include sewer project planning by Perry O Neil of Dallas. Local societies elect officers. Grayson County normal students attend Austin College. Local industry expands with new warehouses and road work.
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FE. P. Montgomery
Katy
The
Sun
Commercial Club
Perry O’neil
Dallas
W. P. Vaughn
Claud Phillips
Earl Johnson
Roxton
H. Brodhead
Whitewright Electric Company
Thurston Montgomery
Plainview
Odd Fellows
J. F. Dixon
N. G
Harry Brown
W. G
B. F. Gafford
J. H. Waggoner
Masonic Lodge
Jack McMillin
J. N. Powell
Randolph
John Watson
Powell
Julian Montgomery
Austin
Helms Bros
Canaan
Grady May
Whitewright
Southern Methodist University
Whitewright Mill & Elevator Co
Beatrice Mill
Dictatorship In United States To Begin This Week
Washington reports a power shift as Congress adjourns and the executive branch gains control over new deal policies. The piece warns of bureaucracy, lobbying, and large peace time spending while noting potential investigations and drift toward London for monetary reform. It ends with a odd medical claim about St Vitus Dance treatment.
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Washington
Congress
Executive Departments
United States
Wilson
Roosevelt
London
White House
Republic
Twelve Years Ago A Sun June 17 1921 Items
Highlights include Dorothy Ryon injured by a backfiring family car, T H Lively injured in a Dallas area crash, high school credits rising to 20 percent, W B Hestand buying bankrupt stock, Mary Davis going to University of Texas summer school, Lt Roger F. Davis's six weeks at Camp Knox, wheat corn and oats prices in April, and P M Jarvis showing boll weevils threatening cotton.
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Dorothy
H. M. Ryon
W. O. Brents
Mary Davis
Austin
University of Texas
Roger F. Davis
A. & M. College
Camp Knox
United States
M. Jarvis
Earths crust shrinking at five inches per millennium
A historical note claims the Earth’s crust is gradually shrinking at about five inches every 1 000 years. It frames the observation as a slow global change discussed in scientific circles of the period.
Hair cutting blamed as main cause of baldness by doctor
Dr. Bruno Oetteking of Columbia University says trimming hair is the principal cause of baldness. He argues that grooming practices do not affect hair loss and cites medical perspective.
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Bruno Oetteking
Columbia University
Delightful day dress and town updates from Whitewright
A fashion note promotes a smart floating dress design with printed crepe in eight sizes and yardage details. The piece shifts to a lighthearted town column praising steady rainfall and harvest prospects in Whitewright, humorously proposing a weed cutting golf alternative and noting long-time Sunday school attendance by Sarah Janway.
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Whitewright
Sarah Janway
Revival notes urge continued services and spiritual revival
Monday notes urge ongoing revival efforts across churches and schools, arguing spiritual renewal drives material progress. The writer offers help to start community meetings near Whitewright and stresses protracted services despite costs, asserting God rewards spiritual life.
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Whitewright
Nineteen on the birthday cake and the danger age
A Department of Justice report drawn from FBI fingerprint data shows youths under twenty one dominate crime records for auto theft burglary and larceny in early 1933. The study warns the pattern is alarming for church home and society and absolves the individual youth.
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Bridge
United States Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
German marriage aid law taxes single men and women
Berlin reports a Hitler policy to crowd women from earning wages by linking marriage loans to employment and income rules. The plan imposes a tax on bachelors and spinster women while offering about 250 dollars per couple as a repayable loan to boost marriages and reduce female work.
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Berlin
Explorer predicts Maya race extinction due to male surplus
Count Byron de Prorok warns the Maya in South America face near extinction as six men compete for each woman and many are killed in feuds, suggesting widespread fatal losses among the male population.
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South America
Byron de Prorok
Texans and Oklahomans Agree on Boundary Line
Texas and Oklahoma legislative delegations agreed to accept a U S survey locating the Clark parallel as the official boundary between the Panhandle districts. The Clark parallel runs along 36 30, set in 1860, and the disputed strip measures up to 824 feet in Cimarron County and up to 474 feet in Texas County Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma City
Texas
Oklahoma
Panhandle
John H. Clark
United States
Cimarron County
Texas County
Beaver County
Unbiblical Surgery Claim Sparks Family Debate
Aunt Jerusha Podger of Coon Lake Iowa argues against doctors removing Uncle Eli’s appendix citing scripture. A neighbor questions the claim as she cites a Bible line about not separating what God has joined. The Sun sells typewriter paper.
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Eli
Jerusha Podger
Coon Lake
Iowa
Aunt Jerusha
Jerusha
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