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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1954
Page
4
The notice lists subscription rates: Grayson and Fannin Counties two dollars. outside counties two dollars and twelve and a half cents. Foreign subscriptions (except soldiers) five dollars. It also promises full correction of any erroneous reflection upon any person, firm, or corporation brought to the publisher’s attention.
A Cherokee County woman leaves God as beneficiary in a will and a case names God as a party. An Oklahoma City woman wills sunny disposition and her neck to two daughters. A jealous husband bequeaths $1,000 to a new husband if his widow remarries. A bitter husband leaves a quarter for bus fare to a place to drown herself. A benign drunkard directs a barrel of beer at his grave. Christopher Janus of Chicago inherits four Egyptian dancing girls. A Boston philanthropist bequeaths 100000 for prizes to polite public school pupils. A woman tats her will on her back while a man writes it on a turtle. An Englishwoman corks hers in a bottle and tosses it in the sea. Even Robert Louis Stevenson left his birth day to a Christmas-born girl.
Poem notes differing attitudes among women toward aging hair. Some accept gray without complaint while others openly prefer dyeing to cover gray.
Washington reports a Treasury drive to sell an extra 1 billion dollars in U.S. savings bonds in 1954 led by Earl O. Shreve. Past years ran 3.6 and 4.4 billion. target is 5.5 billion with emphasis on boosting 100 dollar bonds and payroll purchaser base beyond eight million buyers.
Jackson Tenn post office reports a dead letter with a scrawled note on the envelope saying Man done dead Won't be back any more The envelope appeared to contain a bill and the case raises questions about the sender and receiver and how the mail was handled
Willie Roy Lacy age 20 of 4020 Ivanhoe was charged with a three beer burglary at Walker's Tavern 4004 Ivanhoe Friday night. He said he planned to wreck the place out of anger but drank a beer to cool off and took two beers home before police detained him.
A collage of anecdotes and quips features a mislaid stud themed domestic humor a toll bridge price joke a clever girl reversing a torn map a lawyer’s habeas corpus gag a pharmacist exchange a job applicant’s wit and a playful Groucho Marx cameo set in a bustling city scene.
The Texas State Department of Health urges sanitation and community cleanup to stop fly breeding. Key steps include proper garbage storage in tight lidded containers, disposing of rubbish, cleaning animal shelters, and screening homes to prevent disease spread.
In Schenectady New York a woman explains to firemen that her washing machine would not run and she called the fire department for help. The alarm was real but the response was blamed on the machine, not a fire.
State Comptroller Robert S. Calvert reports 1,863,619 total poll taxes paid before the January 31 deadline, including 223,518 exemption certificates. The figure compares to 2,338,261 in 1952, with last year showing 1,406,? and 164,28 exemptions, about 460,000 fewer than this year.
A suburban reader jokes that the coal bill should have traveled by freight while the coal itself should have been mailed, quipping about a mistaken shipment method in a playful, lettered remark.
A Paris shopkeeper writes to a customer offering cloth matching an enclosed sample for 9 francs. The note emphasizes the quoted price and suggests fidelity to the sample’s color and quality.
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