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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1928
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun discusses subscription details, local humor about names Smith and Jones, fishing jests, and the Beaumont convention’s afterglow. It notes Texas cotton weather, the approaching National Democratic convention in Houston, and Texas and Arkansas Press Association joint meeting at Texarkana.
Three men in Whitewright touted a fluid claimed to kill all grass weeds but it needed manual application. Farmers planned to buy a carload but lost interest when they learned each weed required individual treatment. Dick Pennington canceled a large order after discovering the labor requirement.
A Miami Beach gathering including Harvey 38, Firestone, C. W. Barron, Glenn Curtis, Gar Wood and Clayton Sedgwick Cooper urged Florida East Coast dairying and poultry development. Barron of the Wall Street Journal argued exploitation of agricultural potential could ease Florida's economic troubles and suggested Texas imitate Florida by producing its own dairy and poultry needs.
A Kansas man, acting as a justice of the peace in a moment on his farm, commanded a fight involving his son and a farm hand. The rail fence broke, he fell into the next county, and he exclaimed I have lost my jurisdiction.
Dunk Botts reports a Tuesday night lecture at the Wild Onion school house described as extremely dry. The Rye Straw Storekeeper wonders when the next rat incident will occur. Dock Hocks cut a teacher’s hair and built a bonfire outside afterward. A Jefferson Potlocks boy was injured attempting to see passersby through a window.
Tobe Mosley keeps an owl as a pet but the bird defies a bedtime rule. The pair clash as Tobe favors sleeping at night with the chickens while the owl roams and hunts by night and naps by day.
A mail carrier reports a strange noise from his buggy last week that baffled him and his horse. After he greased the axles, the unusual sound ceased and service continued with no further issue.
An editorial urged civic duty and intelligent voting ahead of elections. It warned of apathy's erosion of rights, compared citizens to soldiers at their posts, and urged readers to educate themselves about candidates to judge wisely. The piece ends noting a merchant ad in The Sun.
A preacher questions what a hen is and calls lying a sin while recounting tears shed over truth telling. The rhetorical exchange mixes humor and moral admonition as the speaker warms up.
In court the prisoner, asked for mercy, replies he has nothing to offer as sentence nears. He notes he had ten dollars, which his lawyer took. The judge proceeds with the proceedings.
A dialect exchange explains an alibi as proof of being at a prayer meeting to show one was not at a craps game. The speaker clarifies the concept by contrasting legitimate absence with a false claim.
A humorous exchange questions if the florist next door has children. The clerk quips a daughter described as a budding genius and a son called a blooming idiot.
A grocer asks a deputy sheriff about Charlie Diggs a fellow townsman seeking credit The deputy replies Diggs is honest having been arrested twice for stealing and acquitted three times
A Mississippi dialect exchange features Rastus arguing with an owner about a dog. The owner insists the dog is not in pain but simply lazy, while the dog sits on a thistle, prompting humorous misunderstanding.
A printer’s misplaced comma alters the sense of a brief tale. Moving the comma after girls changes the statement about who fought.
Gilda Gray recalls a joke about a circus parade where the owner asks a newly engaged African American boy named Alec to ride in the parade and then in the lion’s cage, asking what he will ride in and receiving the grim task.
A worker resists a perilous assignment to ride in a lion cage as his employer insists it is safe. The dialogue highlights the man's fear and ethical pressure from the boss.
A humorous quip plays on a wedding timing joke with a pivot from December to May and a pun on labor day and rest day. The exchange features Chlp Johnson delivering the joke to a Madam. The line reflects playful wordplay in period slang.
J. A. Mapes, a Haskell County farmer eight miles northeast of town, lost the thumb of his right hand when a mule bit it off while he was adjusting the bridle bits. His thumb slipped into the animal’s mouth during the incident.
In a period of shrinking work hours caused by labor-saving machinery and other factors, the piece argues that enjoyment comes from productive effort. It stresses using spare time for self-improvement, outdoor life, arts, sciences, and philanthropy while maintaining that true happiness comes from working well and avoiding idleness.
The article extols work as a creative force guiding human progress. It argues that industrious employment brings happiness and is a durable foundation of true thrift and constructive social progress.
Lester Haile was taken to Sherman by ambulance Thursday morning and is expected to undergo an operation. He has suffered poor health for several years.
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