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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1926
Page
3
Gov elect Dan Moody announced he will not consider applications or petitions for public officer appointments for some time. He stressed continuing duties as Attorney General require focus for about thirty days and that appointment decisions will come after mid December. He vowed to select only highClass capable honest and efficient appointees.
Miss Norma C. Brown associate editor of the National Enquirer and ordained minister will speak Friday night at 7 o'clock in support of constitutional government. She has filled her father's pulpit for fifteen years and was chaplain of the Illinois senate at twenty one. Admission free.
A pet buzzard named Buzz owned by Raymond Blair a Rose Hill fireman rides atop cars for pleasure. Buzz retrieves himself to his owner in crowds and can locate home from any car stop. On Thursday he rode from city hall to the post office with no mischief aside from drawing attention.
A medical ad warns that neglect of a minor wound can lead to blood poisoning or lockjaw, advising disinfection with liquid Borozone and Borozone Powder. It lists liquid prices 30c 60c and 1.20 and powders 30c and 60c, sold by J. L. Kirkpatrick, Druggist.
A tonic tonic claims to restore energy and vitality by purifying the blood with iron and quinine. It touts color to the cheeks, appetite improvement, and child appeal, promising malarial and grip germ destruction by its strengthening effect. 60c.
Berlin reports a Vienna medical association journal stating Bernard Scheinberg near the German border fathered 87 children from two marriages. He had 69 offspring with his first wife who died at 56, including four quadruplets seven triplets and 16 twins. Sixty seven are living. His second marriage yielded 18 children including two triplet sets and his second wife survives.
Judge Silas Hare discharged the jury in the Arthur Hanson murder case from Sherman after the foreman said agreement was hopeless. The panel stood 8 to 4 for conviction since ballots began, with two jurors' ill grandchildren cited as a factor in not continuing over the weekend. Hanson pleaded self defense as the case moves to a later term in Fifteenth District Court.
In Kremenchug Ukraine on November 17 110 year old Ivan Shtcherbin marked 97 years without missing a day of work and was named chair man of the permanent Congress of Building Workers.
An inch of rain delivers more than 100 tons of water to one acre without runoff. Plants require several pounds of water daily to produce each pound of mature matter, meaning crops like wheat or corn need substantial water during growth.
New York American reports concern over the Harvard Princeton breach warning it could trigger a wave of breaks. The piece says such a collapse may come to pass if relations between the two programs deteriorate, leading to the debacle of football under its own weight.
Governor Mirian A. Ferguson pardons Albert Tankersley former Fort Worth tax assessor who was convicted in four embezzlement cases and given two year sentences in each. Also pardoned was W P Cupp Bluffdale bank official sentenced for a false entry at Farmers State Bank Duncanville.
Denton Record Chronicle recalls frontier borrowing practices in Collin County. J. N. Rayzor narrates how neighbors loaned cash from beds or family Bibles, notes were unknown, interest rarely charged, and hospitality ruled daily life on a ranch near Weston.
Mrs Lois Watkins and her son returned to their Leonard home Friday after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs W T Ross. She was accompanied home by her mother.
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