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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1924
Page
2
D. S. McMillin rents building west of the First National Bank to Beiver Bros. of Paris for a dry goods store. Fixtures and a new show window are being installed, with stock arriving soon. opening planned shortly after December first.
Gov. Pat Neff and the State Parks Board will tour Texas and Oklahoma sites late this month inspecting park locations from the Oklahoma line to the Mexican border. The trip includes Texarkana and Laredo with invited governors of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon meeting in Laredo.
Mrs. Harry M. Daugherty, wife of the former United States Attorney General, died at their Town street home in Columbus Ohio at midnight from pneumonia. She had been an invalid for years but was in better health this summer. Illness began last Monday and pneumonia developed Thursday. she had been unconscious for two days as Mr. Daugherty rushed back from Washington upon learning of her condition.
Mr W B Holcomb and Miss Alma Ruth Chumbley married in Bonham on October 15 by a Baptist minister. Bride later joined husband in Lubbock and they will reside in Ralls Texas. Friends wish them happiness.
A collage of quotations from various papers lampoons politics virtue and society. It humorously contrasts hoped public virtue with cynical campaigning while noting shifts after war and elections. The piece surveys ideas from multiple editors on leadership, manners, and civilization.
Homer Castons barn was struck by lightning during a storm Friday night between 11 and 12. A mule perished and feedstuff was destroyed. total loss estimated at about 1200. Insurance partly covered the property.
A collage of satirical lines about fashion aging gender roles and taxation from various papers. It notes thin hair on old fur coats and jokes about hair loss among women and a tax remark about Harry Sinclair in 1923. It also mocks consumer spending and rouge use with regional quips from several newspapers.
F M Sloan of Whitewright Texas Route 1 advertises buying turkeys for the Thanksgiving market. He plans four trucks on the road and calls at doors, offering the highest market price and urging birds be ready by November 15. The notice also promotes Pierce's Cafe offering meals for 50 cents.
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