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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1950
Page
8
The narrator laments creditor pressure and recounts a string of misfortunes from 1945 onward, including ruined equipment, lost livestock, family antics, moonshine, illness, and employment woes. He jokes creditors should be pallbearers and notes future luck remains elusive despite hope.
Austin lawmakers face calls from Insurance Commissioner G B Butler to modernize Texas insurance statutes. He criticizes polio policies that protect on page one but void on page four and urges comprehensive reform aligned with other states. The insurance code committee will not rewrite Butler's proposed overhaul.
Charles A. London, 42, survived a rattlesnake bite at his farm amid medical advice. His wife described the home treatment: rubbing alcohol, snuff dusting, turpentine, alum cream to induce vomiting, then frying eggs on the wound as part of the improvised care.
The government has set aside the entire output of stainless steel containing columbium for the defense program. The National Production Authority notes the alloy is mainly used in equipment for chemical and industrial processes and is not used for consumer goods like autos and refrigerators.
Warfarin, formerly Compound 42, is a 0.5 percent concentrate for baiting rats and mice. One pound mixed with 19 pounds bait yields 0.25 percent. ready-to-use formulations appear. Not a miracle poison, it requires 5 to 14 days of consumption and causes internal bleeding. Low human/animal risk at proper bait strength. wildlife service cautions harm if ingested long term. Bait boxes at accessible sites advised. feeding stations replenished daily early on. Rats need 5 to 15 days access for control. Also notes Alexander Graham Bell’s birth in 1847 and death in 1922.
A cluttered listing shows for sale three room houses tractors washing machines and dresses plus rents and buying notes. Local businesses like Farley Hill and Babcock Auto Store offer prices, services and plants with Thanksgiving dinner note from Trenton Methodist Church.
After three years of field and lab testing, the Army Quartermaster Corps developed plastic plates and saucers to replace heavy chinaware. Tests covered soldier acceptability, military requirements, and annual replacement cost, with extreme climate durability and rag filled phenol formaldehyde as a main ingredient. Adoption as standard item pending a new Federal specification. The Danville Illinois district features coal mining and metal works.
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