Whitewright Sun notices and Texas news roundup
Publisher announces notices for entertainments and memorials will be charged at ad rates. Commentary notes G men arrest Barker-Karpis gang after fingerprints on a beer bottle. Texas Centennial Exposition nears with Roosevelt expected in Dallas. Obituary recalls Hugh Nugent Fitzgerald, longtime Texas journalist. Opinion questions highway patrols to curb speeding.
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Whitewright Sun
Barker-Karpis
G-Men
Dallas
Roosevelt
Good Streets Editorial From Dallas Journal
Lynn Landrum praises Whitewright streets and progress in The Dallas Journal editorial page. Editor Waggoner of The Whitewright Sun is commended for community insight and for remembering past hardships with rubber boots and a wooden school building.
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Dallas Journal
Lynn Landrum
Whitewright Product
Dallas
Waggoner
The
Whitewright Sun
Whitewright
Texas
Whitweright
Blacksand Belt
Four Mules Pulling Wagons Mark Whitewright Mud
In Whitewright, farmers rode wagons on bare gear with cottonseed cushions and four big mules. When four mules failed, authorities posted a danger sign on Main Street opposite Truett's Furniture Emporium. Zeb Spearman's era on The Whitewright Sun recalls black mud days and the transformation of streets praised today.
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Main Street
Whitewright
Truett
Zeb Spearman
Mr. Waggoner
How They Spend Income in New York Radio Quarterly
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce reports on how average families spend earnings. About 21 percent earn under $500, 22 percent $500 to $1,000, 19 percent $1,000 to $1,500, and roughly 60 percent $1,500 or less. Incomes $500 to $1,000 show car and home ownership around 40 percent, bathtubs or showers for four in five, and 95 percent with electric lights. Those earning $1,000 to $1,500 have over 60 percent with automobiles and 40 percent owning homes.
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New York Radio Quarterly
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
The Pessimist Poem Excerpt From The Sum Of Life
A condensed verse shows a speaker enumerating emptiness and deprivation across daily life. The poem laments poverty and futility with stark contrasts and cyclical motion, concluding that only common sense can resist the woes.
Time to Turn Leaves Botany Teacher
A witty classroom exchange frames a botany lesson as the teacher asks when leaves begin to turn and a student replies that it happens the night before exams, capturing schoolyard humor about autumn changes.
Fall in Foreign Price of Cotton Appears Checked
New York economist Alston H. Garside of the New York Cotton Exchange reports that foreign cotton prices except Egyptians are below normal relative to American cotton, but the downward drift in foreign growths has been checked this season. He cites government loans and the release of poor and lean cotton as factors. Relative consumption of American cotton shows improvement, with higher ratios in Britain, the Continent, and Japan.
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New York
Alston H. Garside
New York Cotton Exchange
Garside
United States
General Hagood Seeks Retirement At His Request
Major General Johnson Hagood commanding the Sixth Army Corps Area in Chicago was ordered home Monday night to await retirement at his own request after serving one day in his vindication command. He had been removed from the Eighth Corps Area at San Antonio and spent seven weeks on inactive duty before a new post. Hagood telegrammed the War Department requesting retirement. General Malin Craig ordered him relieved and sent home to Charleston, South Carolina to await formal retirement.
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Washington
Johnson Hagood
Sixth Army
Chicago
Eighth Corps
San Antonio
WPA
War Department
Malin Craig
Hagood
Charleston
S. C
Year-Old Heifer Nears Birth Of Normal Calf On Farm
A one year and fourteen day old heifer calf on L N Fing’s Union Ridge Upshur County farm gave birth to a normal calf. The mother was born March 24 1935 and the baby April 7 1936. Fing says he has never seen such a small dam produce a calf large enough to be described as too big to fit under its mother. Both mother and calf are doing fine.
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Mr. Ripley
L. N. Fing
Union Ridge
Upshur County
Mr. Fing
Gilmer Mirror
Poor Widow Louise Koch Leaves $19,000 to Charity
Chicago widow Louise Koch died at 81 after a life of sacrifice in hard work at washing and mortgages. She left nearly all of her $20,000 savings to charity, having supported her three sons as skilled artisans who each found trades as a roofer and carpenters.
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Chicago
Louise Koch
Believed rats could read letters to rodents from past era
A quirky historical note recounts claims that rats could read letters sent in 1882 in Maryland and 1888 in Maine, asking the rodents to relocate to a designated street address with food. The article also mentions a Buenos Aires construction exposition opening covering many building products.
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United States
Maryland
Maine
Buenos Aires
Origin Traced American Coined Words
Chicago report on Sir William Craigie advancing the Historical Dictionary of American English. It notes words like whoopee from the 15th century, O K from 1840, and blitzes, ruins of meanings, with examples such as canoes and bakers. More than 4,000 volumes read and 400,000 quotations gathered. first dictionary section ready after 10 years of work. Craigie knighted for editing the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Chicago
van Dyke
Sir William Craigie
England
O. K
Boston Transcript
Davy Crockett
Sir William
America
Caribs
Spain
France
Oregon
Mississippi
United States
William
Bryant candidate for city council in Lawrence Kansas
Time for Easy Job reports Boyd L. Bryant's life balancing work, school, and family as he runs as an independent candidate for Lawrence city council. Brazil supplies about 70 percent of U S coffee. A streamlined motor coach uses an eight cylinder engine mounted over rear wheels to improve steering.
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Lawrence
Kan
Boyd L. Bryant
University of Kansas
Brazil
United States
Political Announcements for Democratic primaries
The Sun lists candidates authorized to run in the July and August 1936 Democratic primaries. Congress: Sam Rayburn. Judge 15th District: Jesse F. Holt. Representative Place 1: H Waggoner. Representative Place 2: J W Adamson. District Attorney: R C Slagle Jr and George Hagans. County Judge: J J Loy. Sheriff: J B Benton Davis. County Clerk: E A Clayton. Co H Shorty Barrett. Tax Assessor-Collector: R P Bob Hunter. Public Weigher: Harold Doss. Constable Co A Red Pace.
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The
Sun
Resettlement Loans Rushed Before June Deadline
H. J. Solomon of the Resettlement Administration in Fan nin County warns that nearly $455,000 of cooperative loan funds for Texas and Oklahoma must be loaned by month end or be diverted. Texas holds $312,000 and Oklahoma $143,000, with only a few thousand loaned so far. Loans target diverse cooperatives from syrup mills to hospital stockholders, requiring sound plans and eligible borrowers.
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H. J. Solomon
Resettlement Administration
Fannin County
Texas
Oklahoma
A Lightning Stroke and Its Hidden Power
A report discusses the fast lightning stroke seen in big storms, noting its diameter about four inches and an inner core under an inch wide. It explains the energy contained is around 20,000 pounds per square inch, highlighting its destructive potential.
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J. H. Waggoner
Whitewright, Texas
Hugh Nugent Fitzgerald
Austin
Dallas Morning News
Austin American- Statesman
Houston
Hoffman House
Lipton
Dairy Maid
W. O. Houston
Congress
Sam Rayburn
15Th District Court
Jesse F. Holt
H. Waggoner
J. W. Adamson
R. C
Bob) Slagle JR
George Hagans
J.J. Loy
J. B. (Benton) Davis
R. B
Bob) Caraway, A. L
Dodo
Pennell V. R
Vernie) Henderson
E. A. (Earl) Clayton
Shorty) Barrett
R. P
Bob) Hunter
Harold Doss
Constable
Co. A
RED
PACE
Zwieback
Ralston’s
Heinz Baby Food
Chase & Sanborn
Admiration
Swansdown
RRA
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