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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1928
Page
3
R B contends earth’s rotation speeds up as days shorten slightly each year. Tigers lose a tight tilt with 6 to 6 after a fumble and late close call. Final line shows Barbee Mayo and teammates scoring, with upcoming clash against Farmersville after beating Commerce 6 to 0.
The piece urges pupils to value politeness in daily school life and with others. It emphasizes that good manners please others, form lasting habits, and ease interactions in home, street, school, and work. Cultivating courtesy now helps future success and considerate conduct.
James A. Garfield outlines a personal ethic urging truthfulness restraint from promises and intoxicants, honest work, eye contact, frugal living, dignified company, self restraint, self improvement, and steadfast character. He argues adherence would improve moral mental and spiritual well being.
A resident argues for a city library, a live chamber of commerce, paved streets in the business area, graveled side streets, brick church buildings, more business firms, and a hospital to make Whitewright a nicer, more populous town.
German professor Brunt Mey ermann of the University of Goettingen Observatory reports the Earth’s equatorial circumference has reduced by about one and a half to two and a third miles since 1828. He cites a slight measured variation as evidence.
Miss Clyde Johnson performed Rigaudon on piano and the Pep Squad debuted a Tigerland routine for the assembly. Duets by Maxine Roberts and Madge Sears with Miss Clyde Johnson followed by Armistice holiday news. A twelve girl chorus sang Chloe with Miss Margaret Pierce at the piano. Teacher Miss Reed attended, and Mr Smith offered five dollars for a best short story. Walter Damrosch programs will air Fridays for students at 10.
Cooper High trailed after a first half touchdown but came back in the final quarter. Barbee scored for Cooper and Crosby’s Tigers answered with a late aerial assault led by Bogle. The Tigers threatened repeatedly, while Whitewright halted many Cooper drives.
Misses Lois and Velma Lee Cates visited in Sherman Sunday. Miss Marcell Smith of Canaan visited in the home of Miss Lucile Williams Thursday. Miss Mary Cornelia Roberts visited in Bonham Sunday. Miss Louise Sloan was a Sherman visitor Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Dorothy Hamilton spent Thursday in Dallas. Several guests visited Miss Margaret Coggins at Bethel on Saturday night. Elbert Bennett was in Trenton on Friday. Irene Rector and Margaret Pierce visited Sherman on Saturday. Eva Jane Skaggs and Velma Bennett visited a Kentucky town Sunday afternoon. Lauderdale spent the weekend in Denton. Roger Holcomb was in Bonham on Saturday. Dorothy Belew spent Sunday in Blue Ridge. Stella England hosted Fort Worth guest Martha Sue Tomlin for the weekend. Babe Nell Penn returned to school after illness. Guy Yowell was in Sherman. The Home Economics Club held a wiener roast Monday evening inviting several boys.
A mother asks about banquet service while a son returns home. A dentist notes unexpected gold particles in a tooth, while a victim laments a back cellar button being struck, suggesting a hidden danger or crime.
A spinster recalls meeting boys at an old swimming hole and a request for a written excuse signed by a mother after a failed engagement with a school teacher. The fragmentary dialogue hints at social expectations and age norms guiding relationships in a bygone era.
A pedestrian is sent into the path of a steam roller after being bumped by a taxi while recalling a pancake flour errand. A freckled boy explains a policeman father will allow entry to a bathhouse and a girl tests a math riddle about a product’s cube root and digit sum.
A man filed a petition with the courts asking permission to change his name. The applicant’s current name is Adam Crook and he seeks a new identity for personal reasons.
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