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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1927
Page
2
Austin May 18 Governor Dan Moody says he is too busy governing Texas to engage in partisan politics or endorse potential U S Senate candidates. He states his name should not be used to influence any future candidacy and emphasizes focusing on good administration and his current duties.
Summer travel boosts requests for certified birth certificates says Dr J C Anderson state health officer. Many certificates unissued due to unregistered births cause inheritance and legal issues and aid in school and driving age verifications for families moving from Texas and other states.
Quick cough relief billed as Hayes Healing Honey with Grove Open-Trate Salve for chest and throat. Salve used on children for colds or croup, claims the pair heals throat tissues and through skin pores to stop cough. Packaged together at 35 cents, with instruction to ask the druggist.
Dr. George W. Truett pastor of First Baptist Dallas and SBC president lectured at Peabody College. He urged study and prayer, saying prayer is as definite a force as electricity and should be used with faith and in right relations with others. He described talking with soldiers near the front and the deep instinct to pray in crisis.
T E Thornton, a prominent Ida farmer of 50, died Thursday afternoon at 4:30 from pneumonia. He lived on the Mrs Mel Roberts farm. Funeral services were held Friday at 3 pm at Cedar Methodist Church with Rev Ben Ball officiating. Burial followed in Cedar Cemetery.
Funeral services for a Sherman area resident were led by members of the Odd Fellows Lodge and were attended by eight children including Lola Mae, Lucy B., Lorene, Lorna Lee, and John Taliaferro Thornton. Survived by wife Jennie and three brothers, the deceased was born in Effingham Illinois and moved to Texas as a child. He was a longtime Sunday school superintendent and a Methodist and Odd Fellows member. Active pallbearers included C A Key, W P Vaughn, Cecil Vestal, J W Chaney, C L Nichols and C W Pingston.
The Texas capitol remains the largest statehouse in the United States and the seventh largest building in the world. Including the statue atop, it stands seven feet taller than the national capitol in Washington, though the latter is larger overall.
In Evanston on May 18 Professor R M Page of Northwestern University posed What is love? Answers poured in. Miss Eleanor Hinton faltered and Miss Eleanor Raymond said love is a feeling stronger than friendship.
Miss Noel wins the cup as she argues love cannot be reduced to a formula. Miss Ditterman criticizes the notion that love is only a passing emotion, while Miss Noel fires back that it lasts longer than that.
In New York City an accomplished one-armed paper hanger, aged sixty, has pursued his craft for forty five years showcasing skill and dedication in a life spent mastering wallpaper and design.
A stark street vignette shows a beggar imploring for a nickel to buy coffee while a man offers a five dollar bill and then accepts the change. The exchange captures a moment of quiet urban hardship and transportation-era manners.
Bow Wright Drug Co advertises Leto's Pyorrhea Remedy to treat sore or bleeding gums and pyorrhea with a money back guarantee if not pleased. The offer claims the product is unlike anything used before and assures certain results.
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