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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1934
Page
2
The page reflects varied topics from moral preaching to education reform and curious sea monster speculation. It stresses personal virtue and child upbringing for social progress while praising a new one subject study approach and questioning the reliability of bare facts amid reports of sea monsters and unexplained unemployment.
The text traces ancient use of magnification from glass water globes to early lenses and spectacles. It notes Seneca on water-filled globes, Bernard de Gordon's 1307 reference to convex glasses, and Descartes and Hooke’s microscope experiments and lens fabrication.
A New York Herald Tribune report states up to 37 Ceratopsia species thrived in North America about a million years ago. These horned herbivores inhabited the western inland sea edge from the Gulf of Mexico to Alberta, with skulls over eight feet and bodies 17 to 21 feet long.
Tit Bits Magazine notes distinctive female octopuses guard their eggs by turning over and washing them with a continuous water stream until they die after incubation. In captivity an octopus studied scallop behavior, blocking the shell valves with a stone and using a rockfish as bait for crabs.
The Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society reports a prominent Christian church holds many slaves. The Christian Coptic Church of Egypt runs 450 churches and monasteries with ten bishops in Egypt, plus others in Khartum and Abyssinia. Estimated 5,000,000 enslaved people remain across China Abyssinia and Arabia.
Pathfinder Magazine notes rabbits and hares are nonruminant rodents that move jaws as if chewing cud. It explains cud chewing animals belong to the ruminant family and biblical coney in Deuteronomy and Leviticus differs from the English coney, an old term for rabbit.
A German archaeologist reports uncovering vestiges of an early civilization on the Arabian peninsula that lived in tall buildings. He says the city reveals ruins up to 15 stories high and may point to descendants of the Queen of Sheba.
A brief note explains coots, being small, dive rather than fly when disturbed on the water and find surface navigation easier than paddling.
A neighbor, 65, suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage with rapid paralysis. The doctor outlines emergency steps, the need for calm family behavior, timely physician and nurse involvement, and key points for managing such cases at home.
A surgeon notes that hemorrhage control and patient condition dictate outcome. A temperate life yields value. surviving the wound is fortunate. The leg may recover, but the arm could be permanently damaged. The patient is reported as doing well.
Fresh lime absorbs moisture to freshen the cellar. A glass washboard lasts longer than zinc. Make a hearth brush from an old broom by soaking and trimming. Carbonated water cleans mirrors without streaks. Remove paint and mortar with hot vinegar, turpentine, and sand if stubborn. Open a glass bottle with a glass stopper by lighting a match nearby. Tinware cleans with moistened newspaper and soda, then polishes with dry newspaper. Remove iron rust from fabrics with salt and lemon, then hot water. Brown fat with the meat in a pan to tenderize it before cooking.
A humorous exchange where a rag merchant asks for beer bottles and a lady retorts she does not drink beer, prompting the merchant to improvise with vinegar bottles in a light, comic moment.
Texas Grayson County notice announces an election in Whitewright city hall on the first Tuesday in April 1934 for a two year mayoral term. Officers named are W H Horton presiding judge J N Powell assistant judge and J W Henry R C Vestal as clerks.
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