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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1937
Page
4
J H Waggoner publisher announces subscription price of 1.50 per year payable in advance and that notices of entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission fees will be charged at regular advertising rates. Corrections will be printed upon notification.
The Whitewright Sun reports a 25 percent insurance penalty starting March 1 due to a bad fire history. The piece cites McKinney and Dallas News, noting cities with frequent fires face higher rates, while arson declines but financial desperation can drive incidences.
In 1935 the motorist paid about one eighth of all U.S. taxes, with total taxes at ten billion and motor taxes over 1.25 billion. Special motor taxes averaged 22 percent on the automotive investment, and the tax burden on the industry grows heavier. Only tobacco faced a similar level of taxation, a fact aiding this tolerated injustice.
A Fort Worth Star-Telegram passage notes that taxes are collected on sales including gasoline and oil, with the tax burden not immediately felt by most, except the poor who cannot afford to buy a gallon at a time.
Dallas Times Herald notes that Texas dentists must meet licensing standards and several dental societies urge additional laws banning advertising. They argue advertising misleads the public and should be prohibited, though such a ban raises constitutional questions despite existing consumer protection statutes.
A Washington bureau pamphlet lists tiny wonders such as St Anthony's chapel in Festina Indiana with eight capacity, Monaco's eight square miles as the smallest country, a fish in a Philippine lake half an inch long, and an ultramicrometer from the U S Bureau of Standards measuring to one billionth of an inch. It notes H McBroom of Houston built an electric motor under an inch high weighing a quarter ounce. Bristol County Rhode Island spans 24 square miles as the smallest U S county. The tale of Che Mah, a 28 inch tall dwarf brought by P T Barnum in 1881, ends in Chicago in 1926 at age 88.
An analysis in Today’s Taxogram argues that if the total net income of all U S corporations in the last year were taxed, it would cover about one quarter of the nation’s total tax bill, challenging the view that only individuals bear taxes.
Smith asks Brown about opera costs. Brown replies twenty dollars, then explains the real expense was his wife's new hat. The exchange highlights a humorous misunderstanding over what counts as the actual cost.
Whitewright student Kermit Hollingsworth will present a three night series on The Life of Christ for the Central Y M C A Senior Hi Y Council talks at the Dallas Y M C A. Hollingsworth, a Southern Methodist University theology student and North Texas State Teachers College graduate, is the son of Mr and Mrs J W Hollingsworth of Whitewright.
Charlie Ross of Stephenville was duped by two Dallas confidence men posing as liquor owners. He paid a $500 deposit at a South Harwood Street hotel and the men vanished, leaving him wiser but poorer.
W A Jack Little acting director ordered Old Age Assistance Commission district supervisors to confer with county commissioners on pension applicant eligibility. The order, issued to comply with a Feb 24 House resolution, requires at least one meeting per district with commissioners, more if needed.
A beauty column by Ade laide Kerr extols rest as essential. Eight hours sleep and a half hour daily rest are key, with American women urged to schedule calm breaks and avoid rushing. Relaxation, quiet thoughts at night, and light bedding conclude the regimen.
San Francisco reports a machine that diagnoses disease via voice pulsations, a kymograph variant by Dr. Paul Moses after twelve years in nervous-disorder study. It records larynx and mouth vibrations to detect early changes from disorders like general paralysis, Parkinsons, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis.
Nashville Tenn Gov Gordon Browning signed a measure making child marriages illegal in Tennessee. The law prohibits marriages where either spouse is under 16 and allows county clerks who miss verification checks to face fines and removal. The bill was driven by national criticism following the 9 year old Eunice Winstead elopement with 22 year old Charlie Johns in Sneedville.
Notched wooden staves eight feet long served as receipts to lenders, shown at the Bank of England Museum. The exhibit includes money from various countries, assignats from the French Revolution, exchequer tallies like treasury bills, and a silver plate collection with hall marks dating to 1649, the bank's founding.
A humorous captioned exchange shows a mother presenting a new breakfast cereal to a child and the child reacting with playful exasperation. The line captures domestic humor and everyday breakfast routines with light tone.
In Stockton Missouri a customer paid a $400 bill to lumberman John Keep using paper tax tokens worth one mill each. Keep counted the tokens for nearly two days and quipped he must have weighed them. The bill had been overpaid by 15 mills.
A humorous exchange shows Mary apologizing after dislodging a marble clock from the sideboard. The madam asks if it stopped, and Mary replies that the clock did not stop but descended to the basement, prompting lighthearted doubt about the timepiece’s fate.
In the scene Maudie asks what's wrong with the car as it squeaks dreadfully. Jimmie replies there’s pig iron in the axles and that nothing can be done about it.
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