Corns and shoes through history reveal foot care lessons
The article traces footwear from sandals to modern shoes and explains corns form from tight fits. It credits ancient peoples and crusaders for adopting shoes, notes 1940 Bureau of Engraving and Printing note about currency destruction, and ends with a personal claim about avoiding corns by wearing looser shoes.
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Esquimaux
Egypt
Europe
Holy Lands
Lymouth
New World
Government Money and the Life of a Dollar Bill
The article explains that government money uses the strongest paper and must be government supervised. Worn bills are sent to the Treasury by banks and businesses to be exchanged. They are inspected, recorded, and destroyed by burning, with the dollar’s average life nine months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Minister Advertises For Man Servant Turns Bridegroom Ditching Duties
A minister advertised for a man servant. A young man arrives and is shown chores such as dishwashing cooking and grass cutting. The man grows worried and finally says he came to get married but will count himself out if the duties are as described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parson
For Sale and Notices Classified in Whitewright Sun
Classified items include animal listings such as a sow and a freshening heifer, white piggy sows, a bay mare, and multiple cows and heifers. Other entries advertise Sun sales books, farm and rental offers near Pilot Grove, poultry shipments, poultry buildings, and a Dallas News subscription deal. Also listed are auto loan services, a Sherman household job, and a 1942 estate probate notice for Lizzie Lee Pennell in Tom Bean Texas.
Hoarder's Sugar Goes To The Dogs
Eighty pounds of sugar were dumped down the drain after a bell rang and a housewife confessed she feared an investigation. A neighbor said the man was rounding up unlicensed dogs. The fragment includes a Texas citation about a Grayson County estate final report for E H Cannon, to be heard December 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
N. Y
Writ copy witness and clerk attestation note from Grayson County
A notice attached to a writ shows execution details. Clerk H Grady Thompson of Grayson County Texas certifies the document at the county court in Sherman on November 27 1942 with deputy Iva Medlin signing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Grady Thompson
Grayson County
Texas
Sherman
A. D
Iva Medlin
Your Wonderful Watch
A brief look at how watches are built shows about 150 parts including wheels cogs springs and screws. Tiny screws number about 50 000 fits perfectly and the balance and hairspring make 422 000 pulsations daily throughout life.
Guardian’s final report in estate of W P Scott referenced
The Grayson County Probate Court will hear Gertrude Scott as guardian on December 3, 1942, in Sherman. The final report on W P Scott N C M was filed and a summons appeared in the county newspaper. Interested parties may appear and contest the report. publisher affidavit dated November 24, 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
Texas
Grayson County
Grayson
E.H. Cannon
J. H. Neill
E. H. Cannon
Court House
City of
Sherman
A. D
W. P. Scott
Gertrude Scott
Guardian
H. Grady Thompson
Iva Medlin
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Hico News
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Washington
Billie Hatfield
J. W. Wilson
Whitewright
Sun
Henninger
Pilot Grove
Ideal
Tom Barbee
Hanson
Fred Henninger
L. LaRoe & Company
Dallas News
Whitewright Sun
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
Arthur Lee Pennell
Tom Bean
Lizzie Lee Pennell
T. W. Ayres & Son Gossard
Pocketbook OF Knowledge
Court
England
U.S
iEyEr
ADID
Lac Saint Jean
Quebec
Ac” Eels
the Sun
Ife Sy.te A & Ibuyzwarsbonds
U. S. Treasury Department
K. Wolens
America
K. Walens
Coats
Enro
Wilson Bros
Kvolens Department Stores
Ernest Lilley
Denison, Texas
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