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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1920
Page
3
The Whitewright Sun column notes long rain, humor, and local gossipy items. It mentions J. H. Waggoner installing a Linotype, a truck caravan visiting Whitewright and nearby Van Alstyne, and light political remarks. Anecdotes include a widower seeking a second wife and a sugar shortage quip about a fly in a bowl. A Catholic-cafe ad and a Whitewright bakery claim.
An estimate values U S wartime participation at about 1 million dollars per hour with the Sun and Dallas News cited at $2.25 each as a reference point.
The Dallas Ship-by-Truck advocates were welcomed in Whitewright with a 69-person exhibit train, lunch at local cafes, and a performance by the Dallas Municipal Band. Speakers stressed good roads, truck transport, and tractor farming as portraits of growth in motor distribution. The Commercial Club executive committee met, forming chairmen for athletics, trades, cotton markets, and good roads as plans for revival of baseball, a trades day, and improved commercial welfare proceed.
Citizens Welfare Association of Sherman reorganizes to support Open Shop principles after union pressure and a series of clerks strikes. Indianapolis organizer pushes for a closed shop amid weak wage demands, targeting local merchants as nonunion tradesmen. The ad lists many Whitewright and Sherman retailers to show broad impact and frames the issue as defense of independence for businesses and farmers.
Indian Mound in the northeast Kansas City area, about one mile north of Sheffield on a bluff above the Missouri and Blue rivers, is described as built roughly 57,000 years ago by Edward who studied American prehistoric mounds. The site is labeled Indian mound and likely served as a signal mound.
The term Album traces to whitened boards used in ancient Rome to display official notices. Citizens would read announcements in public spaces as government or magistrate proclamations were posted on these boards.
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