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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1925
Page
10
Each year about twelve hundred log homes travel from Oregon and Washington to Southern California on four sea going timber rafts. The cargo weighs roughly thirty million pounds and contains over five million board feet of lumber per raft.
Southern California and the Mexican mainland receive four rafts of seaborne lumber into San Diego annually. Virtually all the lumber goes into residences, adding housing capacity for about 6,000 people to the American Southwest each year through this shipping channel.
A circus elephant-banner salesman argues a dry goods merchant should advertise despite long local success. The merchant, proud of 18 years in business, asserts no need for ads, noting the church on the hill has stood sixty years and still rings its bell every Sunday morning.
A nine year old girl visits a florist seeking violets for her sick mother. She offers a dime, insisting violets are affordable and claiming her father is dead. The exchange centers on a simple act of sympathy amid hardship in a shop run by a young proprietor.
A dying girl longs for spring and violets. A florist buys her by exchanging a dime for a hundred violets marked 75 cents a dozen. He wraps the blossoms, helps her to the door, and pockets the dime with reverent thanks, a scene of mercy cited by the Jewett Messenger.
A humorous scene at Economy Drug features a clerk asking what kind of toothbrush the customer wants and the customer replying with a playful line about giving him a big one because Dave has ten in his family. The exchange captures light community humor.
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