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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1941
Page
3
Austin health officials report a spring rise in measles with 1,416 cases in the eleventh week, far above the seven year median. The State Health Department urges prompt bed rest isolation, early physician contact, and proper reporting to protect vulnerable children.
A man inebriated inside the Registrar of Vital Statistics office announces he wants to register twins. When questioned he says there is only one of him. He then jokes about going home to verify the situation.
Texas anglers prepare for the May opening and join national totals in a billion dollar recreational fishing industry. U S Interior figures cited by the Texas Game Fish and Oyster Commission show fishing licenses cost Texas about seventy thousand dollars annually while tackle gear and related expenses push total sports fishing expenditures across the United States well above nine hundred and fifty five million dollars. The industry outnumbers commercial fishing eighty to one and surpasses golf baseball and other sports in spending and participation.
A 110 pound seven foot two inch panther was treed by a small 14 pound rat terrier in Blanco County and killed by Emil George of Twin Sisters. The big cat is noted as one of the largest ever killed in the county.
Two West Texas couples near Fort Davis witnessed a hawk lift a snake believed to be five feet long and as thick as a man's wrist. The hawk held the snake in one talon while likely needing the other to take off.
Former Vice-President John Nance Garner promotes smooth wires on fence bottoms to save deer and reduce barbed wire dangers. He notes most Texas cattle can be restrained by smooth wire and warns barbed wire invites screw worm infections that can kill deer. He recalls deer wading submerged with only heads showing to drown parasites.
Cedar Falls Iowa coeds pay all costs to revive dating at Iowa State Teachers College with Femme's Fancy dances and Valentine ball. Men now join in, saving pocket money as women take the lead in courting, despite initial campus protests.
A father and son joke about bachelors and marriage. The father defines a bachelor as a man who overthinks before acting and then fails to act. The son relays his mother’s view as a man who has been crossed in love. The father agrees that a married man is one who has been double-crossed.
Washington has transformed into a boom town with 14,000 new living units and crowded hotels. Nightlife flourishes at clubs like Troika as defense spending fuels lavish spending and lobbyist activity while war talk recedes from cafe tables.
Dialogue shows a boy choosing a smaller apple over none to avoid a promised thrashing. The family dynamic explores consequences and honesty in a simple domestic scene. Betty receives the smaller apple while Jackie asserts a dare to keep his own promise by accepting consequences.
Two colored boys play poker. One proclaims holding four aces. The other insists he wins with two nines and a razer. The first questions the claim, and the second asserts his hand.
A student Charles failed all five subjects and sent a distressing note to his mother. She replied that their father would be ready and urged him to prepare himself for the consequences.
A spectator remarks on the driver’s language to the mule, praising its effect on the crowd but noting the animal’s immunity to provocation. The quip highlights a lively rural tableau and character humor.
The exchange has a playful line where a boy asks why Britain prints the lion on stamps and explains it cannot be licked. The quip captures a lighthearted moment between father and son.
A Texas state liquor agent encounters a Black man by a still in the woods and asks about liquor production and sale. The exchange includes regional slang and a hint of legal trouble as the man questions the agent’s authority. A closing line shifts to a tax assessment remark about a goat costing four dollars. The dialogue style reflects period humor and social attitudes.
A town assessor quips that property abutting streets pays taxes at two dollars per front foot. Mrs Nearby boasts an ancestry traceable before Charlemagne. Mrs Chubbwitt laments lost family records in a flood.
A Speedy Distribution professor laughs at Jones remark on wealth redistribution by saying the wives and kin of rich men. A joke about loud socks aims to keep feet awake during office hours. The prompt ends with a pupil misdefining Central Africa manners and costumes.
Texas Senate discussion urged stripping appointive power from Gov. W Lee O Daniel or forcing Senate recess to review appointments. Sen Joe Hill of Henderson argued the constitution intends Senate to assist in appointments and that the governor has ignored this.
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