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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1928
Page
8
Local residents, including Ray Gibson and Mr. Jones of Pottsboro, visited Sunday. Many others traveled or hosted guests in Dallas, Sherman, Amarillo, and Fort Worth for family, business, or Fat Stock Show events. The piece also notes several moves, jobs, and upcoming subscription prices for The Whitewright Sun and Semi-Weekly Farm News.
The Whitewright Sun and the Semi-Weekly Farm News announce a limited one year price of $1.85 through March 17. After that date the papers will advance to $2.25 for a year.
William Ford, former Telegraph Editor of the Topeka Daily Capital, resigns to teach journalism at Washburn College. He will cover R Burkholder’s tasks for six weeks and then focus on state student promotion efforts. Ford previously worked at Hutchinson News and Herald and Wichita Eagle and is praised as a premier telegraph editor in Kansas.
The junior girls won 9 to 3 and the boys 14 to 11 against Rose Hill. Other reports note the Pilot Grove girls defeated Whitewright 31 to 2 and locals host a busy week with fans visiting from Sherman Denison and Dallas throughout the weekend.
E W Howe of Atchison Kansas outlines fifty year old New Year resolutions. He vows not to drink smoke chew or judge others harshly and lists practical limits on gambling spending anger and assisting others while noting the difficulty of keeping such vows.
A garbled OCR line lists numerous female given names linked to Artha Pepper of Liverpool. Readable elements include Pepper and Liverpool while other names appear jumbled or concatenated with unusual spellings. The fragment lacks a clear event or action to summarize.
An aphorism from the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce contrasts city progress with decline and a man's forward or backward stance. It frames civic vision and personal duty in terms of public action and collective responsibility.
The Department of Agriculture reports that despite cold weather killing many boll weevils in hibernation, it is unlikely to cut the overall infestation. An examination to count weevils entering hibernation last fall was completed just before the cold spell.
The article notes most sections saw many weevils enter hibernation during the cold snap. While freezing temps killed many, enough survived to threaten a serious weevil fight next spring. Historical records show winter survival averages 3 to 5 percent, but an unusually large hibernation occurred last fall.
An Irish Chicago undertaker recalls a tale of a man who identified a body as his father and arranged an expensive funeral. When the jaw dropped and false teeth revealed the ruse, the man fled, and the undertaker quipped that the man would have had a fine funeral if he had kept his mouth shut, sending the corpse to the morgue.
The item recalls sending a picture-card to a sweetheart on February 14 instead of orchids. It notes the 166th egg from Lady Norfolk, a prize Leghorn hen, sent by air mail to President Coolidge from Omaha in a jewel case.
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