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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1924
Page
6
Dallas visitors and regional residents appear in this column with notes on social calls and shop findings. Mentions include Gordon Bros. grocers, Johnson's jewelry, and upcoming Odeon Theatre showings for The Covered Wagon. Local families from Denison, Leonard, Tioga, Sherman, Bonham, and Royse City are cited with visits and travels.
Pierce's Cafe advertises big fat oysters available for take home either cooked or raw. A local note reports Mr and Mrs Elbert Blount returning to Cleburne after a two week visit with the Beasleys.
Monday drew many traders and visitors to White Wright with third Monday trades day gaining popularity each month. The Woman's Missionary Society plans a miscellaneous sale Saturday at the McMillin building from 1 to 6 PM, offering attractive items.
Movie fans welcome The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough at the Odeon Theatre Wednesday Thursday and Friday of next week. S. E. Jones builds a modern home on West Grand Avenue nearing completion and expected to be ready around December 15.
Final figures show Mrs Miriam A Ferguson with a majority of 122 545 votes over Republican candidate Dr George C Butte. Ferguson totals 420 910 votes while Butte has 298 365, a figure about two hundred thousand higher than any Republican in recent years.
W R Hooper visited Vernon with Willis Bailey and Andrew Montgomery for the district football final between Vernon and Amarillo, won 14 to 0 by Vernon. Star Vernon player Glenn Ryan, formerly from north of town, features in the team.
Local agent Joe Hamilton announces moved office to the Whitewright Mill and Elevator Co facility. He invites friends to visit and offers Magnolia Oil Company products, with telephone number 27 for contact.
A fragment notes a pictorial rendition of Emerson Hough’s The Covered Wagon and invites readers to view the illustrations if no further images appear this year. The reference hints at a visual adaptation accompanying the well known narrative.
A three day engagement on November 26, 27 and 28 at the Odeon Theatre. The unknown phrase proclaims the film as without doubt the greatest and most popular ever produced.
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