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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1920
Page
6
A country editor overhears women on a train criticizing his paper and announcing they will no longer complain about mistakes. They recount misreporting on a town fire, leading the editor to silently step outside to sing the Doxology. Adverts promote RAT-SNAP rat poison and 666 medicine as a malaria remedy.
Denison Texas Herald-Oil reports on the Preston Anticline field with notices and brief industry updates. Advertising rates are listed at 35 cents an inch while subscription remains 50 cents a month.
The Sun charges $1.50 per year in advance while the Sun and Dallas News combination costs $2.25. This notice outlines pricing for readers choosing either single paper or bundled subscriptions.
Pearce recounts how a brickmaker who believed he could be moral outside the church is moved by a dirty brick in the road. He compares his own worth to a brick in a wall and decides to join God’s people to be built into the building of God and have a place.
A nece physician extols Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for tired nerves and run-down, irritable women. The testimonial from Mrs. Georgia Demeris Berry says the remedy regulated her functional disturbances, improved sleep, and restored strength. It notes availability in tablets and liquid form in Evant Texas and nationwide through druggists.
Venezuelan writer Jesus Semprum lauds Pershing's new men in World War I context. He contrasts them with veteran conquerors and portrays their arrival as timely and liberating for France. The prose, allegorical in tone, celebrates American troops delivering decisive momentum.
A newlywed husband teases dinner out, while his wife boasts of progressing with cooking lessons. The Ohio Observer anecdote contrasts a wife's kitchen triumph with a boastful hostess who laments not knowing her ancestors well enough to impress guests.
A correspondent reports temperament exercises causing four watches to stop in three months. A watchmaker notes watches stop when balance springs become magnetized, and Prof Sylvanus Thompson suggests the movements may generate high tension frictional electricity that could magnetize the spring.
A French farmer near Ypres at Reninghe and his family paid a heavy toll in the war. He fathered 386 children with 22 sons serving on multiple fronts and 13 were killed. In 1917 a widow was killed by a shell at Dunkirk. The farmer and one daughter also died after being shot by a German patrol returning from Lille where they had joined a centennial celebration.
J W H Dew a Royal Society of Arts fellow discovered the process for artificial mother of pearl after long testing. He worked through the war to reconstruct the method of production used for buttons dress trimmings and other items. Before the war most of it was imported from Germany.
An advert promotes Texas pecan groves as a lucrative long term income with little care, claiming high per acre returns and independence in ten years, alongside a cigar and cigarette stock claim from P. J. Pierce & Sons. It also pitches Herbine for digestion and breath, sold by Dyer & Jones.
The ad claims impurities weaken the body and that Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic purifies blood with iron and quinine. It touts energy, color in the cheeks, and appetite improvement, noting it is not a patent medicine and has been a home favorite for over thirty five years. It sells at 60 cents per bottle.
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