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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1922
Page
4
A collage of local notices and commentary from The Whitewright Sun about fees for obituaries and events, plus editorial quips. It includes a mock legal jab about a natatorium and a Lake Leonard travel tease from the Leonard Graphic, with rural life reflections on poultry, farming costs, and a note on cotton picking and editors’ trials.
A nostalgic sketch recalls a relative once dubbed a flapper for rebellious dress and actions in youth. Protests by clergy and ladies followed her bloomers episode on the village green, and a moral weekly denounced her as a shameful influence of the era. Now she pursues old, time-honored items as a scrapper.
Walt Mason notes the persistent tremor of social shock as damsels of the past challenge clerical norms. He recalls auntie’s spring chatter and the perennial cry that youth lack sense, framing old values versus changing reputations.
A collage of quips from multiple papers comment on labor, prosperity, reform, and politics. Notable lines include Organized labor versus loafing, truth’s reach, prosperity’s infancy, and a jab at coal bills. Readers glimpse a era where wit masks social critique across press.
A collage of quips and notes from multiple papers notes Conan Doyle on death and spirits, a German prophecy about civilization, tax gaps, highway speed trials, and prohibition costs. It also reports on a Farmers Union gin firm buying a bot weevil exterminator, tested near Weatherford and ready for Whitewright, with machines to burn or dust weevils. A final line advertises 666 as a cold remedy and tonic.
A nostalgic poem celebrating the homecoming. The speaker, a parent, returns to a welcoming family scene with a warm embrace, a glowing table, and shared joy after a day of toil. It underscores love, sacrifice, and enduring faith through hardship.
Dr. Arthur Hunter cites two million insurance cases to claim alcohol shortens life by four to six years. Regular drinkers die six years younger. those who reform before insurance still die four years younger. Tuberculosis mortality among drinkers rose 46 percent versus abstainers. In France, 52.8 percent of TB deaths were immoderate drinkers. 18.5 percent abstainers. In London pneumonia cases, among 2000, mortality with alcohol was higher.
A Progressive Farmer piece notes low death rates among abstainers, cites 19 percent deaths among those without alcohol history, and reports Denmark claim every pint of brandy shortens life by eleven hours while beer costs twenty-five minutes. It contrasts Germany’s beer image with data showing 10 to 30 percent mental illnesses linked to alcohol in hospitals.
A humorous note recounts new neighbors asking if locals are modern and the punch line that they borrowed a radio late at night, illustrating neighborhood quirks and everyday satire.
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