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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1923
Page
7
Abe Martin offers a textured portrait of a hick town where community transparency rules and neighbors know each other’s business. He contrasts it with city life, noting the limits and the steady pull of respectability, family ties, and quiet contentment.
We sincerely thank friends who helped after the death of our husband and father J A Lyons. Your kindness and comfort aided us in our loss. Mrs J A Lyons Oscar Lyons Mrs H Robbins Lee Lyons. Tires tubes gasoline oils cup grease accessories See me before you buy R S Morehead.
In Jasper Texas on May 6 two Black women fought during church services. One poured gasoline on Mish Donnigan and threw a lit match, burning her fatally. The incident followed a disputed church collection and the accused deacon’s wife is jailed awaiting grand jury action.
A 1923 Whitewright notice thanks the Ladies of the Presbyterian Church for a floral offering and loving words that moved the writer deeply, describing the surprise and heartfelt gratitude.
The State of Texas Gray County sheriff to sell on the first Tuesday in June 1923 at the Grayson County courthouse the land on East Fork Trinity in Elmont described as part of a survey to Watson to satisfy a $3,491.93 judgment for W S Hibbard plus costs. The sale is by order of the 15th Judicial District Court and sheriff E F Everheart with deputy B D Dye.
Emma Dee Randle writes a heartfelt thanks for carnations and kind words, expressing gratitude for the warm appreciation and the sense of unity in love and faith across distance. She cites scripture and promises that love and God’s presence bind hearts despite separation.
An advertisement describes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a local ointment plus an internal tonic. It asserts catarrh is worsened by run down health and promotes the product as improving general health, sold by F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio for over 40 years.
A humorous exchange about a wife disguising her evening outings to lure her husband home earlier. She taunts with a plan to outperform his attempt to catch her out. The joke hinges on mistaken routines and domestic play.
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