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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1945
Page
4
The excerpt from the Whitewright Sun includes subscription rates, editor corrections policy, a devotional poem about progress, biblical Q A sections citing scripture, and lists of verses related to the Ten Commandments. It reflects a small town periodical mix of notices, verse, and religious Q A.
We Americans have much to be thankful for as war ends and victory is ours. Thousands have been mustered out and returning youths bring smiling faces to Thanksgiving tables. We honor heroes and the civilians who supported the Army and Navy, and celebrate the American way and free enterprise renewed after war.
A columnist offers a playful title about constructing a home for Alice in Dallas. The text recalls an Austin headline following the San Antonio killings of Ben Thompson and King Fisher, noting their famed gunfighter legacy and the line praising their end.
Question and answer dialogue on whether Egypt's plague of darkness was an eclipse citing Exodus. It also asks about unleavened bread in Genesis and Leviticus, then offers guidance on living a clean life by filling the mind with God.
In August 1837 General Memucan Hunt presented Texas annexation to the United States while Mexico threatened invasion and Texas faced an unstable government. Hunt framed annexation as a American benefit, arguing it would gain Texas natural resources and a growing market, avoid European competition, and strengthen the United States.
The narrative details a stalled Texas offer to join the United States in 1837 1838, with Secretary of State Van Buren citing constitutional limits and avoiding offense to Mexico. It notes European tariff rivalries, ongoing Texas-European treaties, and Hunt’s rebuttals as Van Buren remains firm through 1841.
Farmers who drilled small grain on contour with terraces in fall 1945 should report to the AAA office in Sherman at once. Payments will be made for Soil Building Practice in the year the work was done, changing from prior practice of paying the following year. Much of Grayson County's fall seeded grain follows contour methods.
W. W. Gunn, secretary, directs that contour be turned in immediately to the AAA office at Sherman as payments will soon be made in the county offices.
Austin. The University of Texas reports 2,213 ex servicemen enrolled, up from about 225 in the 1944 winter term. About 400 rehabilitants, or 50 percent, are registered. Veterans should plan 60 to 90 days self financing. benefits if eligible are retroactive to enrollment. Those entering in spring, March 1, should apply now for certificates of eligibility.
Two California children sue the father’s new wife for damages claiming she lured their father away from their mother. Janice Mae Smith, 17, and Howard Smith, 15, seek $20,000 from Mrs Vivian Westbrook on grounds that she enticed the father.
The document describes how "guile, artifice and design" lured Ralph Smith, 40, engineer, away from home and caused a divorce from Florence Smith. The complaint alleges Mrs Westbrook deprived the plaintiffs of their father's support, care and a normal home life to which children are lawfully entitled.
Clinton F. Wood, 50, a Tulsa oil company auditor, died after a wasp sting during a duck-hunting trip near Tishomingo Oklahoma. Doctors reported swelling from the sting blocked his airway leading to death on Monday.
A reflective verse by Edgar A. Guest notes trees bare gray skies and signs of year’s end. Birds depart as storm approaches while flowers sleep in cold earth. Yet faith remains and the line Eternal is the spring endures.
The article notes Texas covers a much larger geographic area than the distance from Chicago to either the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico, highlighting Texas geography rather than urban progress or population trends.
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