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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1932
Page
8
Local families travel to Sherman Durant and Commerce for visits. Metas Faye Moats wed Grady Young at Durant Oklahoma with Moats relatives in attendance. Residents send regards to kin in Los Angeles while others visit Trenton Greenville and Denison.
Desert News reports visits across Royse City Dallas and Sherman with families visiting relatives. The Presbyterian Church plans a Thursday barbecue chicken supper with homemade ice cream and cake, featuring stringed music to benefit Reynolds orphanage.
Dren from the orphanage will give a program at the church Sunday afternoon. A tenant house on Will Akridge farm was destroyed by fire Thursday night. Occupied by Reuben Shelton, most contents saved. little insurance carried. Mrs. Lloyd McSpedden of Whitewright visited aunt Mrs. J. H. Matthews Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Matthews and John Kelly joined Lawrence Kelly family at Howe Sunday. Angie Matthews of Delba visiting J. H. Matthews and relatives here.
Nocona residents report visits among neighbors and relatives this weekend. Mr and Mrs Oscar Burkhalter and Mrs Mason of Canaan traveled to see Mr and Mrs John Mason. Several listed trips include Ector Bonham Whitewright and other local stops with family groups.
A historical note recounts free blacks in the prewar South owning enslaved people. Professor Woodson’s study cites 1830 free blacks comprising one seventh, 1857 South Carolina saw a slave owning man with 200 slaves, and about 40,000 free blacks owned nearly 100,000 slaves. A Charleston man bought a female slave as a wife and later sold her for a $50 profit.
A terse exchange reveals Brown has not seen Smith for about three months. The reply confirms Smith has been dead for roughly that period, implying a long disappearance and a fatal outcome.
The Sun prints a political advertising notice announcing candidacies for the Democratic primary on July 23, 1932. Targets include SAM RAYBURN for Congress, CLIFF HUGGINS and others for district attorney, JAKE J. LOY and ALLIE NOBLE for county judge, W. N. BUTRIDGE and R. H. MAY for district clerk, C. M. COLE for county clerk, ELBERT M. BARRON and R. C. SLAGLE JR for flotorial representative, J. H. WAGGONER for Representative Place 2, J. W. WASHBURN and J. R. WESTBROOK for county commissioner, J. R. RIDDLE and HOBART THRASHER for constable.
A George Washington Bicentennial Commission study frames Bunker Hill as a turning point. It notes Patriot rifle marksmanship and delayed British bayonet charges influenced Howe's later tactics and British command decisions.
Sawtelle California resident S A Lanier reports losing seven pounds in a week after starting Kruschen Salts in his coffee. He weighed 243 pounds six months ago and now weighs 190 pounds, advising readers to take half a teaspoon daily with hot water and limit fat foods.
A speaker declares interest in running for Congress at large, with hints of aiming for governor or attorney general. He jokes about salaries for family, pledges to abolish ad valorem tax, fund schools via sulphur firms, and quickly end the oil and utilities mood, promising an honest government run for the people.
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