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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1916
Page
6
A local notice highlights Mrs Whitewright and her daughter being styled in the season’s new spring hats. The piece praises a favorite milliner in Whitewright for delivering chic, smart headwear for admired women.
Ely News notes ideal weather for farm work but dry soil hinders crops as farmers press planting. Whooping cough and tonsillitis strike Vester Samples. Dr. Cobb treats the boy. New merchant Mr. Slagle stocks groceries. Bonham and wife visit Andrews near Randolph. George Garner teaches music. Grover Gillett improves his farm. Oats sprout where sown yet wait rain. local politics warm, Woodmen Circle grows with meetings and fruit suppers. Mrs. Wm. Morrow recovers from pneumonia. Higgin Frailicks injures his arm. whooping cough rages locally. Tom Graves among others.
Pleasant weather over three weeks allows fields to be plowed oats sown and corn planted with crops moving along well. Rev W A Kirkpatrick preached Sunday and Congregational Day planned for next week with members urged to attend for important business. Rev Smith to preach at M E Church Sunday at 1la m. Prayer meetings and Sunday schools growing in attendance. Mr and Mrs Ben Reynolds and Mr and Mrs Chas Alexander mentioned in local visits. George Garner spent Wednesday with Hardcastle family in Wemtuckytown.
A testimonial from Mrs. Marrin Hallman and Mrs. Perry Fannen praising Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for female ailments. They claim it relieved suffering and built up their systems as they entered womanhood and maturity, urging others to try it for women's health concerns.
The town notices ongoing drought concerns with comments on dry soil and uncertain planting prospects. Mentions neighbors visiting relatives and various locals like Mr Slagle, Mrs McMillin, and the Alversons. Travelers from Kentucky and Texas towns are noted among the social updates.
Bryan Weber of Sherman visited family members over the weekend. Kentuckytown and Whitewright students met for a joint discussion on woman suffrage with Kentuckytown’s Ben Foster and Chesley Rutledge and Whitewright’s Leon Davidson and Elvy Hampton among speakers. The Whitewright team won as a parody song ridiculed the issue. A singing class is forming to boost local organizing efforts and prayer services draw crowds.
The Wilson Galt wedding cake is credited to Marian Cole Fisher and Pansy Bowen domestic science experts. Calumet Baking Powder is cited as the exclusive choice for purity safety and wholesomeness, endorsed by millions of housewives. Offer to send a free recipe and cake history by mail.
Mrs BE IL Law and Miss Marion spent Sunday in town visiting relatives. Mrs. John Webster visited her daughter Mrs. Edgar Montgomery last week. A nice program will be rendered at the school Friday and all are invited.
A fragmentary verse piece portrays a militant shepherd guiding through trenches and brutal battles. The speaker invokes biblical imagery to frame war as a chronic condition of need struggle and peril across hellish fronts.
The text mourns Ellis O. Jones, invoking shadows of death and life under threat from tyranny and taxes. It speaks of unscathed survival yet still discomforted by danger, emptiness of cup, and a march under an unseen War Lord. The tone is solemn and archaic.
An advertisement touts Col ds and LaGripp 5 or 6 doses 666 as a remedy for chills fever col gripp e and gripe. It claims to act on the liver better than calomel and to prevent sickness, priced at 25 cents.
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