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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1926
Page
7
The article traces purses from ancient Rome and Greece to modern times. Early purses were leather bags with drawstrings, later network bags for many uses. Women wore netted bags as hair fillets, hunters used game bags, and purses evolved to hold papers and provisions before leather pouches reemerged.
A Kentucky village tale recalls Aunt Harriet saving for a grand party but staying in the kitchen to wash dishes while guests enjoyed the eve and the mystery of the hostess's absence. The anecdote highlights hospitality, humor, and frugal virtue.
The alfalfa plant originated in southwest Central Asia with Arabic roots. Persia first cultivated it and spread it to Greece in 490 B C. It later reached Europe, then the Spaniards carried it to Mexico and South America, finally entering the southwestern United States as irrigation expanded after mid‑19th century.
A man known for dictating business letters to a dictaphone is asked to address a public meeting for the first time. He imagines addressing a recording device to ease nerves, then begins with a formal, scripted intro.
The Cinque Ports once known as Sandwich Dover Hythe Romney and Hastings were enfranchised by Edward the Confessor and later by William I. They supplied naval contingents and under Edward I provided 57 ships though their powers waned after 1688 as privileges faded.
George Eliot argues that poetry suits all ages and that beauty and ugliness coexist in each era. She cites Garrick as Hamlet and defends literature’s reach beyond ageist limits, noting how both children and adults find wonder in nature and art.
Mrs Seardale asks for a divorce after a quarrel about custody and property. Mr S agrees to split assets with the car and children. The exchange highlights a tense break in their marriage and the couple’s plans for separation.
A Collier's piece outlines 11 driving tests addressing speed control, stopping precision, signaling, backing, parking, and hill starts. Authors urge treating personal auto travel as a transportation service and suggest drivers should be held to these standards to reduce fatalities and injuries amid rising traffic.
David Sarnoff of RCA claims radio has added about three thousand words to the English language. The remark appears meant to be reflective rather than boastful, noting that modern jargon often muddies rather than expands communication.
The Star Telegram comments on how radio tends to extend language by adding words and spellings, noting the already immense vocabulary and pointing to modern curiosities like incomposs ible and izzat as examples of new or altered terms.
Dialog shows Roscoe and Rosco debating dog howls as a possible omen of death. Roscoe suggests the howl could signal fate while Rosco links it to a future event if the dog howls again. Short, eerie exchange reflects superstition.
A terse exchange features a boy and a woman with a fishing inquiry turning into a puzzled silence. The country boy and the speaker exchange terse lines reflecting rural conduct and curiosity in a clipped social moment.
A teacher urges James to spell cloth and then asks what his coat is made of. James remains silent before replying that his coat is made of his father's old pants, drawing a quiet laugh.
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