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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
4
Notice in Whitewright Texas announces that entertainments box suppers and other events with an admission fee will be charged at regular advertising rates. Memorials and resolutions will also incur charges. J. H. Waggoner and Glenn Doss as publisher and managing editor.
Published weekly on Thursdays the Whitewright Sun lists subscription price at 1.50 dollars per year payable in advance and states it will publish corrections for any erroneous reflections upon character, standing or reputation brought to the publisher’s attention.
A column critiques Republican platform planks as election talk, warning against rolling back social gains, loosening stock controls, and repealing labor laws. It contrasts prewar policy with postwar aims, notes hot weather boosting cotton farming, and urges readers to support war funding through taxes.
Fort Worth Press honors the American doughboy, the infantryman who hikes 25 miles in eight hours and can push 100 miles in three days, seizing ground foot by foot and sacrificing for country liberty and honor. Hats off to him.
Doctors warn prolonged bed rest endangers patients by causing muscle and bone loss lung collapse and constipation. They urge frequent position changes and light activity during recovery to prevent complications and deaths in the aged and injured.
Mrs. Arthur Menken's handbag held only essentials. finder Ralph Beckley said it was heavy enough to contain tools. He located it on a Hartford street after Mrs. Menken and her husband, a newsreel photographer, were chasing a bee from their automobile. The cost to mail it back to New York was mentioned.
At Camp Maxey Infantry Day Colonel Paul R. Davison recalled sharing a shell hole with Sergeant Herbert T. McKeown during the 1918 Aisne Marne offensive. Davison returned the sack of tobacco to McKeown as cameras recorded the reunion after 26 years. A note mentions mechanical chicken-cleaning fingers now in use.
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