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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1920
Page
2
Dallas November 1 there is a marked shortage of jobs in the city says E C Cox ex aminer in charge of the municipal and United States employment service. For the first time in years common laborers cannot find work and hundreds lacking specialized skills struggle to secure employment as daily applications reach 125 to 150.
Vernon Texas Oct 31 Groups of women in Wilbarger County have been crafting fall hats at home demonstrator led sessions. Attendees learned millinery techniques including ostrich plume curling and velvet pressing. One meeting yielded about 110 dollars in hats with estimated value per hat at eight dollars.
Franklin, Pennsylvania, hosts the Fulcrum Oil Company which markets bracelet watch oil at 75 cents per eighth ounce. A barrel, containing 51,200 eighth ounces, calculates to 38,400 dollars, using the oil's price and volume.
Read Mrs Phillips wire requesting RAT-SNAP from Exterminating Co Westfield NJ. Customer reports RAT-SNAP rid rats quickly after moving from PA. Product offered in three sizes 35c 65c 125 for sale by Wilson Montgomery Hardware Co and Dyer Jones.
Austin October 29 Governor Hobby declines to urge Texas ginners to close for thirty days. He says stopping ginning would not preserve value and could encourage price manipulation while preserving grade by baling. He favors keeping processes going to avoid deterioration and protect farmer interests.
Omaha reports that hundreds of thousands of bushels of corn may be burned as winter fuel in Northern Nebraska due to high coal prices and abundant corn. New corn unshelled sells for about 15 dollars a ton, cheaper than soft coal. Farmers consider corn as a substitute, a practice noted by C. H. Gustafson, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, with many regions reporting serious interest.
Vernon Texas Nov 1 The federal grand jury that adjourned at Wichita Falls failed to indict Vernon dealers for alleged sale of extracts for beverages and cases against local merchants were dropped A raid last July yielded large quantities of extracts which an officer from Wichita Falls redistributed to the merchants today
A light local item reports Moseley’s mule finishing hay then starting on Columbus All sap’s straw hat while Jefferson Potlocks inspected the Tickville train and dismissed it as a wheat thresher. Sap Spradlen comments on the hoot owl remark.
A collection of light anecdotes from Tickville covers quirky quotes about a graveyard walk, a high priced circus, cash only shops, and locals like Clab Hancock Yam Sims Miss Flutie Belcher Atlas Peck Raz Barlow and Sile Kilden. It sneaks in a six legged calf sighting and local ads for German & Roberts real estate.
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