Whitewright Sun Adds Notices and Ramblings of 1943 Era
The Whitewright Sun announces mailing status and advertising rates, notes editor and publisher, and surveys local topics from employment, victory gardens, and a Denison Herald Army Engineers feature to tax law changes, Senate fights over merit, and a hopeful House rejection.
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Denison Herald
United States Army Engineer Corps
Denison District U. S. Engineers
Denison Engineers
Whitewright
Southern Patriot Critique on War Crop Efforts
The Sun notes a copy of The Southern Patriot from Nashville Tennessee and a Southern Conference for Human Welfare memo highlighting the eight page tabloid's focus on the South’s alleged unpatriotic failure to contribute war crops. Editor James Dombrowski leads a panel including three doctors and a woman.
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the Sun
Southern Patriot
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
Nashville
Tenn
South
James Dombrowski
McKellar Bill Balances Reform and Patronage Plot
In Senate debate on the McKellar bill two aims confront each other reforming a growing bureaucracy and expanding patronage. The measure leans toward patronage by requiring Senate confirmation for high salaried federal employees, a constraint some see as unnecessary for the reform goal. The O Mahoney amendment would force Senate approval of policy making officials instead.
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Senate
Hatch
McKellar
United States
Congress
O’mahoney
UNBLUSHING LIARS ATTACK GERMAN PROPAGANDA BLITZ
In a wartime editorial tone the piece denounces German and Italian aggression while highlighting Allied bombing of Axis cities. It rebuts claims that Britain started bombing, naming Goebbels and Nazi rhetoric as falsehoods. It condemns German cruelty from Warsaw to London and calls the Nazi press brazen iniquity.
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United Nations
Axis
Britain
Goebbels
Spain
Warsaw
Rotterdam
London
Coventry
Liverpool
Birmingham
Atlanta Constitution
The Liquor Bill and Wartime Drinking
The Christian Herald notes 1942 alcohol figures show 2.25 billion gallons consumed, up 13.26 percent from 1941, averaging 1.3 quarts per person weekly. Legal liquor expenditures reached about 4.098 billion dollars, amid wartime austerity calls aimed at saving dimes for the war effort.
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Christian Herald
Letter to a Soldier in Blue Gray Ink
A wartime lover writes a restrained note to her absent fiancé, balancing affection with duty. She avoids painful memories, confesses only ordinary details about weather and family, and prays for his safety. Her heart remains tucked behind careful phrases as he serves.
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Latham Owens
Liberty
Your Affectionate Wife Martha Letters George Washington
A poignant scene shows Martha Washington writing to her husband in private prayer yet crafting safer verses about blooming flowers and healthy horses. She signs the letter Your affectionate wife Martha and mails it to General George Washington at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
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Martha
George Washington
Continental Army
Valley Forge
Pennsylvania
A Touch of Texas in Los Angeles Memories
A columnist recalls childhood shopping with a nickel and three-for-a-penny candy choices. He tours Beale Street recollections, Beads for 15 cents, stars’ homes, and a grand oil city temple amid Beaux Arts sights at the Biltmore, ending with Beale Street echoes and a mesquite memory.
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Los Angeles
Biltmore
Wells-Fargo
Beale Street
Memphis
Texas
Pershing Square in the center of the business district tale
The narrator recalls lessons from a rocking chair with letters printed on it and the symbol ampersand read as and so forth. A teacher later corrected the impression that the ampersand was part of the alphabet and a joke is shared about a man misreading a football coach as having four wheels.
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Pershing Square
Hot Tamales Depend On Illinois Corn
Sam Allen of Jonesboro runs a $10,000 yearly business selling corn husks to tamale manufacturers. A one man operation most of the year, he hires cutters during autumn harvest. Husks are husked cleaned and baled, with about 5,000 husks per 50 pound bale shipped to firms in St Louis Chicago Texas and Georgia. Demand now outpaces supply.
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Jonesboro
Illinois
Sam Allen
Allen
St. Louis
Chicago
Texas
Georgia
What to Write to Servicemen
Office of War Information offers tips for homefolks writing to soldiers sailors and marines based on servicemen surveys. TELL HIM how the family helps in the war how anxious they are for his return and how busy the family is with duties at home.
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Office of War Information
Special Service Division
Army Service Forces
Boyhood reflections and hometown news clipped for you
A compact reminiscence compiled from the local paper. It threads family hardship and community life with updates on friends, sports, social events, and wartime effects on the town. The piece invites thoughts on past places the boy visited and hints at future prospects.
Hints for Everyday Fixes and Household Tips
The passage offers quick home hacks from candle and knife care to grafting wax handling and fabric care. It suggests cooling copper alloy pots to avoid warping, whitening ivory with turpentine, using pork rind to keep wax from sticking, squeezing hot compresses with a potato ricer, and paraffin on stockings to prevent darning. It also notes the best refrigerator shelf for storing milk.
Heart's Desire Waiter Exchange
In a brief comic exchange a waiter asks how the lady wants her rice and the spinster responds wistfully that it was thrown at her, capturing lighthearted social humor.
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Postoffice
J. H. Waggoner
Glenn Doss
Whitewright Sun
House of Representatives
Ation
Pascal Farley
Boyce House
Chas. C. Pinckney
the Housewife
Community Public Service Company
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