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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1945
Page
3
A compact set of humor bits featuring a Sunday School tease with Johnny, an old inhabitant boasting health from a pre germ era, a barber and customer misfire over a red tie, wartime jury dynamics with eight women on the panel, a man who cannot rise early and a prankish alarm clock delivery.
A summer home in Maine prompted seeking higher quality milk from a French farmer. The regular dairyman warned of deceit, claiming the neighbor would even adulterate cream to sell milk. Atributed quote from Herbert Woodin in the Religious Digest. A radar joke concludes with a nautical exchange about depth.
A humorous armchair meditation questions Army life and privacy while a antique shop assistant is fired after he painstakingly patched wormholes in a treasured century desk. The fragment ends with a professor admitting frequent absent-mindedness and trouble recalling names.
The speaker recalls a memory lapse about names and numbers from a memo book after a general checkup. He describes writing to a man whose name and address baffled him, only to receive a cordial reply confirming that he had already been served. The man turns out to be his wife's first husband.
A light verse style item notes a humorous yarn about a sweater snagging on a nail and the ensuing chill after a few blocks walked. The piece playfully riffs on weather and wardrobe mishap without naming people or places.
A landscape architect guided a woman through a formal garden, highlighting a sundial. He explained how the sun casts a shadow on the dial to indicate the time, sparking her curiosity as she marveled at future inventions.
Two women who had been apart for years unexpectedly meet. They recall a red-haired boy who warned of a dreadful act if she didn’t marry him. The twist comes when one woman reveals the boy is now her husband, shocking the other.
A minister’s long sermon prompts an unusual audience reaction as coughing rises. He asks a member for the cause and learns the sounds are time signals rather than coughs, a humorous note on attentive listening during the sermon.
A Detroit News caller asked to speak to columnist H. C. L. Jackson. The operator said he was in the composing room and the woman replied she would not bother him while he is composing, a note attributed to Editor & Publisher.
Notices summon heirs and respondents in two cases in Grayson County Texas. First, administrator Claude Lackey reports final accounts in the estate of J B Mullins with a December 1 1945 hearing in Sherman. Second, Ida Belle Anderson sues Clifton Anderson for divorce on cruelty grounds with a December 10 1945 appearance in Sherman Court.
Notice is hereby given that on October 22 1945 letters of administration on the estate of Lee Lumpkin England deceased were granted by Texas to Callie C England Route 2 Whitewright Texas All persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present same within the time prescribed by law and all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make a settlement Callie C England Administratrix Estate of Lee Lumpkin England Deceased
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