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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1947
Page
3
A comic exchange features Peter and Billie discussing heaven and swimming while a lumberjack and merchant joke about pajamas as night clothes. The dialogue highlights playful morality and social customs with rustic humor.
A playful exchange among three boys reveals two brothers and one sister, two sisters and one brother, and a boy with no siblings yet two fathers and three numbers from his two dads. The dialogue contrasts family structures in a humorous, curious way.
A wife asks her husband about the day’s outlook as they plan shopping. He warns of a storm front with rain hail sleet snow and strong winds likely. They consider delaying plans pending the forecast and travel safety.
A fanciful exchange between Mrs Snippysnap and her husband contrasts extravagance and thrift. She muses on heavenly fashion while he retorts that such purchases won’t be needed above. The dialogue hints at moral contrasts between earthly excess and afterlife restraint.
A New York City exterminating firm received a caller asking to buy 10,000 cockroaches 5,000 bedbugs and 1,000 ants. The clerk questioned the request and the woman explained she must leave the apartment just as she found it for the landlord.
In a small Oklahoma town a minister receives a crumpled dollar as the marriage fee. Inside the envelope: a note reading Thanks, reverend. This leaves us 35 cents. Pray for us. A sign in a restaurant warns The silver is not medicine. Please do not take it after meals.
Washington reports transcripts of all Roosevelt press conferences may never be released. Authorities cite confidential remarks not meant for print. About 45 tons of Roosevelt documents sit in the Hyde Park library, with access unlikely.
Long Beach California feature on R. E. Searight a former ship in a bottle craftsman who transforms burned out bulbs into art. He creates detailed scenes from banks bowling alleys battleships and weddings showing that size is no handicap to his craft including a bride and groom in a flashlight bulb.
Doctors differ on NUE-OVO but many users report relief from rheumatism and arthritis. Readers are invited to request literature from Research Laboratories Inc. at 403 N W 9th Portland Oregon for more information and potential purchase.
Sheriff Fred Prestage will sell at auction on June 3 1947 at the Grayson County courthouse the property described as Lot 5 and the west 40 feet of Lot 6 in O T P to Gunter Texas. The sale enforces a delinquent tax judgment against Zoll Watson and Zoel Watson and their heirs with proceeds to satisfy the debt of 81 dollars plus interest penalties and costs.
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