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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1947
Page
6
A humor column sketches Pat and Mike in a hunting misadventure with a dramatic duck drop. A doctor asks how to tell insanity and a psychologist offers a quiz about Captain Cook. A fiancé seeks a hiding place for money and a veteran hints at his sock basket trick.
A strong man at a fair challenges others to squeeze more juice from a lemon and offers five dollars as prize. A small, pale man steps forward and draws out a tablespoon of juice, revealing himself as the tax collector.
A banker teases a farmer roadside about posture while pointing to a field with full and empty heads. A priest, faced with a flatnosed woman, calls her an angel fallen from heaven, then adds humor by noting she has fallen on her nose.
At a Bar dinner Judge Leibowitz and peers debated a recent Supreme Court ruling. The discussion touched on flaws in phraseology, yet the judge noted that in some localities justice matters more than wording. He recalled a frontier case from Leadville with a lurid verdict implying lynching to curb disease. A Texarkana tale follows, about a Negro pastor’s move west and a maid’s joke on husbands versus houses.
In St Martinville, Mama Lou a 12 year old male mule mare gave birth to a two day old black horse colt. Farmers gathered around the newborn, noting the unusual hybrid birth. Veterinarian George Broussard of New Iberia verified the mare as the first of her breed to produce a horse in Louisiana, with only three similar cases known historically.
A mix of health guidance and random notes covers diseases linked to animals, pet safety, and child protection. It mentions public health roles, hunter caution with game, farm stock, the rise of commercial baking, England’s radio workforce, Greenland’s size relative to Texas, Iowa student fashion votes, and bike safety implications for sixteen year olds.
Chicago report quotes Dr. Martin F. Palmer on teaching dogs to vocalize simple phrases like want out and feed me. He cites Institute of Logopedics research in Wichita showing dogs can be taught to talk with time and patience, though not to hold long conversations.
Health warning notes that humans can contract diseases from animals. Dogs and cats may transmit mango, ringworm, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, diphtheria, mumps, intestinal worms, whooping cough and rabies. Rabbits, squirrels, guinea pigs and rats can carry tularemia via contact or ticks and fleas. Goats can spread anthrax and undulant fever to people.
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