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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1922
Page
7
A hotel wedding tale recounts a bride and groom in love while a ferryboat memory haunts a lonely woman. The bridegroom reveals a past kiss with a stranger on Staten Island bound for Manhattan, then returns with his new wife, who probes his silence and memory in a gentle domestic revelation.
A local wag in Staunton Virginia circulating verse lampooning Harding. The poem riffs on biblical phrasing to mock shifts in salary taxes and unemployment under the Republican administration, ending with a jab about living in a rented house.
Typewriter paper 8 by 11 inches offered at Sun office at a price lower than competitors. The ad emphasizes affordability and direct sale, inviting customers to purchase locally.
Ole Ander visits town and asks a restaurant owner for squirrel whiskey. The proprietor offers Old Crow instead. The Swede declines, saying he does not want to fly, only to jump around a bit.
A humorous exchange shows Bob replying a quarter of twelve as the time he got home. Mrs Jones challenges the notion after hearing the clock strike three. Bob quips that three is indeed a quarter of twelve, delivering a playful math pun.
Residents north of Dodd City report a gigantic eighteen to twenty foot snake in Fannin County near Honey Grove. A local youth recalls seeing the reptile in a pasture by a barbed wire fence, then fleeing as an automobile neared, leaping the road embankment and crossing a watercourse.
An 19th century style ad touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a remedy for nasal catarrh and frequent colds. It asserts internal action through the blood to cleanse mucous surfaces, with testimonials free and a $100 guarantee for uncured cases. Available from F O Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
Onlookers recount a large agile snake crossing a stream in a single motion, using its body as a temporary bridge. The creature, resembling a black snake but much larger, may be a boa constrictor and is thought to have escaped from Mollie Bailey Circus in the region.
Honey Grove Citizen reports a snake that eats only twice a year, swallowing a live rabbit whole. Observers say the creature can outrun even the swift jackrabbit, enabling it to capture a rabbit in its woods semiannually.
An advertisement claims LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets cure a cold in one day stopping cough and headache. It mentions E. Groves signature on each box and lists a price of 30 cents.
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