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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1923
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun outlines advertising rates for events with admission fees and notices such as obituaries and memorials. It warns that corrections will be printed if any erroneous reflections are presented and notes a March cold spell is expected to recur in coming years.
Denison will allocate 120000 this year for street paving. The city has begun to improve its image and property values with street work, and residents are urged to paint homes to boost appearance and pride. Early gardens yield, while warm days return work continues.
Rouse City orders an election to issue 85 000 dollars in bonds to fund a sewer system and to expand the city water works. Whitewright notes its older, lower cost installations and boasts a modern system. The Chamber offers 5 dollars for the best town slogan to promote progress, with the secretary collecting entries before the Executive Board meets.
Friends of Senator Dan S. McMillin note his election as president pro tem of the Texas Senate for the special session. The honor signals recognition of his intellectual strength and leadership. He is expected to rise to higher positions and his opinions carry weight with colleagues and constituents.
Wills Point holds a community prayer meeting each Wednesday evening as seen in the local Chronicle. Whitewright is noted for hosting five prayer meetings weekly.
Wills Point consolidates city prayer meetings into a single weekly gathering each week, drawing larger crowds than before. The plan, praised by local papers, brings together attendees who had nearly forgotten proper prayer meeting conduct, with the town’s largest theatre proving too small for the turnout.
A compilation of aphorisms and quips from several papers. The items cover law reform, child behavior, Ruhr history, Congress adjournment, Germany and Russia, public mood, sugar supply, and a quip about ancient Egypt’s King Tutankhamun reaching the front page.
The Stratford Beacon notes overcoming squareheads as a war task. An Arkansas woman cremated her third husband, while the Orange Leader mocks old maids. The Times-Picayune praises a device that “walks like a man” and compares it to pedestrians who run like a motor truck.
Ardmore Oklahoma March 20 Mrs Willie Graham 30 and her four year old son William two year old Hazel and eight month old Rosalie were burned to death in a blaze on the Twin States Oil Company lease in Healdton field The origin is unknown Authorities believe a gas stove left burning by the father who worked half a mile away sparked the fire The two room pine house with tar paper roof burned beyond entry as neighbors discovered the flames The bodies of two children lay on a bed and the mother was at the foot of the bed
Data from the Dallas Weather Bureau lists past freezing and near freezing readings from 1914 to 1923. The records show multiple March and April days with temperatures ranging from 18 to 41 degrees, including notable lows of 18 degrees in February 1922 and 16 degrees on March 19.
Due to uncontrollable conditions the organizers have postponed the planned meeting from March 25 to April 1. Several attendees did not manage to view the Passion picture, prompting the delay to ensure full participation.
A New York Tribune remark skewers England for sending statesmen to probe U.S. foreign policy capabilities and suggests Scotland Yard personnel would be more fitting.
The saying favored in modern speech traces to England in the 16th century. Tusser in Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry cites a late call to work at the eleventh hour and a full day's wage, implying timely completion honored by reward.
A. E. Major, pastor, notes that last Lordsday services pleased attendees and plans to secure them again in spring. Next Sunday topics include Morning Beginning at the Beginning and Night Mans Double Life. Neighboring pastor records show Sundays see more illness than the rest of the week.
A child adopted from an orphans home is teased for lacking real parents. The adopted child asserts his parents chose him from a hundred, while the other child’s parents had no choice, highlighting love over bloodline. The dialogue ends with the adopted son praising his adoptive parents.
In Denison on March 19 a furnace explosion sparked an early morning blaze that gutted the Brogden rooming house a 28 room frame building. W C Morris and G W Scott residences were destroyed and First Methodist Church damaged. Firemen battled flames as wind spread the fire to adjacent structures.
Mangrum Brothers built a growing freight business over recent months between Whitewright and wholesale markets. They acquired a one ton International truck early this year and last week added a two ton White truck now in operation. They run several weekly trips to Dallas with loads on both directions and move large quantities of country produce to Dallas using their trucks.
Typewriter ribbons paper and carbon sheets blank envelopes and adding machine paper available at the Sun office for purchase.
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