Whitewright Sun notice of ads and corrections policy
The Whitewright Sun outlines subscription price of $1.50 per year payable in advance and notes publication weekly on Thursdays Standard notices including entertainments box suppers and bene fits with admission fees will be charged at regular advertising rates Memorials and resolutions will also be charged for Any erroneous reflections will be corrected promptly upon notification to the publisher
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Whitewright Sun
Friday the 13th superstition and its global quirks
The piece surveys Friday the 13th lore and double occurrences in a year, noting Republican ties to 13, cross cultural avoidances such as Italians in lotteries and Turkish fear, and famous 13th day events from Paris to Washington. It cites historical figures Louis XIII, Nansen, Wagner, and symbolic 13s in American imagery.
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Turkey
Judas Iscariot
Valhalla
Loki
Paris
Louis XIII
France
Nansen
Richard Wagner
Washington
America
Admiral Perry
Lake Erie
Fort Sumter
Atlantic
Friday the 13th Oddities Around a Nation’s Symbols
The piece notes 13 stars on the shield above the eagle and 13 more on the opposite side while remarking that people never refuse a quarter or accept 13 cents or $13 in change, nor refuse a salary of $1,313 even when offered on a Friday the 13th.
World motor vehicle statistics show growth across regions
Global motor vehicle use rose to 37,275,264 on Jan 1, led by the United States with 26,000,000. Europe tallies 7,257,099, the Western Hemisphere outside the U S 1,926,231, Africa under 500,000, and Asia under 600,000, highlighting vast foreign market potential while Europe and England push output to meet demand.
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United States
Europe
Western Hemisphere
Africa
Asia
Canada
England
Dallas Times-Herald
Historic bale of cotton kept for hard times in Laurens
R Hall Fleming of Ora South Carolina owns a 443 pound middling bale stored for over seventy years in the Laurens Bonded Warehouse. The bale, grown on his grandfather’s Cross Hill plantation in South Carolina, was baled with horse power and a large screw pit in 1862. It has survived two generations and remains a symbol of self reliance alongside a market price historically around 40 to 42 cents per pound.
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Laurens
South Carolina
R. Hall Fleming
Ora
Mr. Fleming
Cross Hill Township
Icy Winter on the U C Railroad in 1843
F E Bartlett recalls a brutal Dallas area winter when water froze in a boiler on the U C Railroad. He stoked a fire to thaw the frozen boiler on a hill near Dallas, knocked a flame aside, and later brought the flame into the depot to show the crew. In spring the thaw unleashed a depot fire.
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U. C
Dallas
F. E. Bartlett
Bells Ball Team in Auto Accident Near Durant
In Durant Oklahoma Bill Rouse 41 was killed in a head on collision when his car met a machine driven by Otis Franklin of Tom Bean. Franklin was transporting Bells Independent basketball team members to a Caddo tournament when the wreck occurred on a curve five miles north near Blue. Bells coach W A Moulton said no Bells players were injured though Franklin's car was wrecked.
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Durant
Okla
Bill Rouse
Here
Otis Franklin
Tom Bean
Franklin
Bells Independent
Caddo
Blue
W. E. Moulton
Bells
The Sun notice request for reader visits and items
A Sun note asks readers to mention visits in the paper and to send in items of any kind as a courtesy. The call stresses courteous sharing of news about guests, travels, and personal notices for publication.
Printing the News Harsh or Kind Editor’s Dilemma
A Gilmer Mirror essay on when to publish scandalous personal stories in a small town paper. It argues editors must balance public interest with compassion, noting that pleasing all readers is impossible and conscience should guide decisions.
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Gilmer Mirror
Humble Beginnings and Self Made Success Lessons
A compact essay argues that pride in humble origins fuels later success, citing Henry Ford Edison Rockefeller as examples. It notes many topple from false pride that shuns humble tasks, while stressing that diligent, hands on work can lead to an honorable, useful place, not necessarily in elite positions.
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Henry Ford
Thomas A. Edison
John D. Rockefeller
Ford
Edison
Rockefeller
Women Run The City Desk In 1950s Paper
In a metropolitan daily's offices all operations from advertising to circulation are handled by women led by an efficient editor. A quick exchange over timeliness of copy ends with a sharp directive to use only current material. A sharp rousing line from a red headed reporter interrupts for urgent news. Governor McAlister of Tennessee creates honorary colonels.
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Texas Press Messenger
Roosevelt Downs Talmadge In Georgia Primary Test
In Donalsonville Georgia Democratic voters in Seminole County backed President Roosevelt over Gov Eugene Talmadge by more than five to one. The unofficial tabulation showed 661 Roosevelt to 120 for Talmadge in the nonbinding preference primary announced by election official G B Garwood.
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Donalsonville
Seminole County
Georgia
Roosevelt
Eugene Talmadge
G. B. Garwood
Talmadge
Buried Alive Cow Survives Seventeen Days in Snow Drift
In Ridgeway Missouri a cow on Albert Harding’s farm was buried for seventeen days under a snow drift against a haystack. Melting snow revealed the cow’s plight as it fed on hay and drift while air entered through a small hole in the haystack side.
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Ridgeway
Albert Harding
Arson charges filed against Denison men
Arson charges filed against O F Harlow Orville Couch and T H Grubbs related to a dwelling fire that damaged a home occupied by Harlow and his family. Firemen doused the blaze, then a second fire with gasoline exploded on Couch. Harlow and Grubbs jailed. Couch hospitalized in Sherman with severe burns.
Fire tragedy of 1918 repeats in Midland home blaze
In Midland Michigan Alba Thomas farm home fire claimed three young Thomas children ages 22 15 and 11 William Estella and Birdie perished in the blaze mirroring a 1918 tragedy that also killed three Thomas children and left survivors.
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Midland
Mich
Alba Thomas
William Thomas
Estella
Birdie
Thomas
Periscope Device Aims to Replace Abdominal Examinations
Los Angeles physician John C. Ruddock proposes a tiny abdominal incision to insert a miniature periscope that can reveal internal organs in the abdominal cavity. The device could allow direct viewing of organs, potentially reducing need for invasive surgical exams.
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Los Angeles
John C. Ruddock
Describe a medical periscope used for internal viewing
The text explains a medical periscope constructed from small metal tubing with a tiny electric bulb at the tip, about the size of a grain of wheat. A rubber bulb at the other end forces air into the cavity to raise organs for clearer view, revealing the stomach kidneys liver gall bladder peritoneum ovaries omentum and uterus.
Facts About Population and Global Statistics 1935
The text notes about 20 million Indians in the Western Hemisphere with only 35,000 American Indians, an accidental US death rate of one every six minutes in 1935, a world population over 2 billion growing by about 20 million yearly, more pyramids in Mexico than Egypt, and large numbers of deaths and injuries from accidents. It also mentions red snow in Japan and Spanish land survey measures used in Texas.
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Western Hemisphere
United States
Mexico
Egypt
Japan
Texas
Election Notice for Whitewright Mayor 1936
State of Texas Grayson County election notice sets Whitewright city hall election room as polling place on April 7 1936 to elect a two year mayor. Officers Horton presiding Henry assistant Powell Wright clerks. By order of city commission March 2 1936 F M Echols mayor Attest Jesse Wallace city secretary.
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State of Texas
Grayson
Whitewright
Texas
W. H. Horton
J. W. Henry
J. N. Powell
J. M. Wright
F. M. Echols
Jesse Wallace
Regularly clean gas burner copper coils for efficiency
Keep the copper coils in a gas burner clean by brushing or wiping weekly. Soot acts as an insulator and using clean coils reduces gas required to heat water.
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J. H. Waggoner
Whitewright, Texas
the Pathfinder
World Statistics ON Motor Cars
Bells Ball
Newspaper of the Future
McAlister
Tennessee
Roosevelt Downs Talmadge
Denison
A. F. Nossaman
First National Bank Bldg
Joseph W. Miller
Frank D. Layman
Ed Westbrook
Bass, Parrish & Taylor
Sherman
S. A. White
Penn Apts
Admiration Coffee
Admiration
P&g
RED Hart
Campbell’s
Frazier
PORK
White Swan
Mangrum
Money Savers
Magnesia
Kirkpatrick Pharmacy
R May, Man
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