Sun Bargain Days Spark Town Subscriptions
The Sun offers a $1.00 yearly rate, calling The Sun a vital Whitewright community paper. Miss Lucile Giles handles subscriptions with receipts, either in person, by mail, or at the office. An honor roll lists subscribers who paid the special rate since last week, including many local names and organizations.
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The
Sun
Whitewright
Lucile Giles
the Sun
H. E. Horton
Hugh Trotter
Willie P. Edwards
H. L. Gordon
J. E. Everheart
Robbye Martin
W. H. Stedham
C. R. Truett
J. J. Blakey
B. L. Sanderson
W. E. Hardcastle
J. H. Biggerstaff
C. B. Bryant
A. H. Fortner
Alex Benham
J. L. Yowell
W. M. Hickson
Gomer May
C. H. Stateville
L. O. Lee
G. C. Stuteville
Olivia Whedbee
D. E. Low
Sanders Cafe
Albert Reeves
M. E. Winburn
S. H. Montgomery
F. D. Layman
W. M. Holland
E. O. Young
May Abbott
W. L. Johns
D. A. Ray
Southern Ice Co
J. P. Jared
Jack Spindle
Edgar Montgomery
W. C. Holland
Laud F. Larson
Joe T. May
Bruce Pember
Inez Coffey
A. W. Jernigan
B. Wrenn Webb
J. R. Westbrook
Sherman Chamber of Commerce
Dan Hollingsworth
M. D. Honaker
G. D. Bennett
Guy Hamilton
Allred To Speak On Texas Radio Saturday Night
Gov James V Allred, recently ill with influenza, announced he will broadcast Saturday from 9 30 to 10 p m discussing the legislative situation. A previous address set for Friday night was canceled due to illness.
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Austin
James V. Allred
Texas
Oatmeal Eater Due for Surprise Twist in St Joseph
Ruth Jensen a cereal plant packer reports to police she may have dropped her wrist watch and pay check into a box of oatmeal as a housewife near St Joseph Missouri awaits a prize package surprise tied to the breakfast item.
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ST. Joseph
Ruth Jensen
Sleeping sickness kills 100 in St. Louis area
St. Louis Mo One hundred persons have died from sleeping sickness in St. Louis since late June health authorities reported today. With cooler weather the cases have diminished in recent weeks and a continuing decline is expected from now on. Only two new cases were reported yesterday.
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ST. Loui
St. Louis
Black community member saves dog then dog dies under car wheels
Bill Henderson, a prominent Black resident, restrained his dog during a public safety scare about eradicating loose animals. While away, he let the dog out to follow, and the animal was killed under Bill’s car wheels on the return trip. He wonders if his actions were right.
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Bill Henderson
Bill
House Passes Bill To Increase Taxes In Texas
The Texas House approved the omnibus tax bill by 119 to 23 after three days of debate. It carries about $6,000,000 in new taxes, aiming for a 25 percent industry rise rather than 46 percent. Speaker Calvert urged compromise as the session adjourned for a new legislative day.
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Austin
House
Revenue and Taxation Committee
Wood
Marshall
Texas
Calvert
Stinson
Senate
Board of Control Warns on Pension Fund Crisis
The Texas Board of Control forecast a near pension program crisis this week. Discontinuance or proration of old age assistance after October could hit November through February payments. Causes include $1,627,000 owed to a Dallas bank due January 1 and monthly state revenue $100,000 short, forcing drastic grant cuts from about $14 monthly.
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Texas Board of Control
Harry N. Graves
Board of Control
Old Age Assistance Commission
Dallas
Texas
Artists and Models at Palace Theatre Tonight and Friday
Feature picture at the Palace Theatre is Artists and Models starring Jack Benny and Ida Lupino. Friday and Saturday add official photos of the Joe Louis Tom Farr championship fight. Saturday shows Bill Boyd in Hopalong Rides Again. Preview Monday brings You Can’t Have Everything with Alice Faye and Don Ameche. Tuesday and Wednesday bargain nights offer Captains Courageous with Freddie Bartholomew Spencer Tracy and Lionel Barrymore. Thursday and Friday of next week present The Toast of New York with Edward Arnold Cary Grant and Frances Farmer.
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Palace Theatre
Jack Benny
Ida Lupino
Tom Farr
Bill Boyd
Alice Faye
Don Ameche
Freddie Bartholmew
Spencer Tracy
Lionel Barrymore
Rabid bulldog bites two. killed after rabies test
Constable K B Simmons notified by the State Health Department that a bulldog killed here Thursday after it bit two people had rabies. The dog with anti rabies serum marks was decapitated by Dr J N Powell and its head sent to Austin. The bite victims were Dorothy Smith and Dick Vanderburg in the business district.
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K. B. Simmons
State Health Department
Austin
Mr. Simmons
J. N. Powell
Hamiter
Lon Smith
Dick Vanderburg
J. Doug Morgan
Whitewright
Baptist Revival to Begin Oct 22 in Commerce
Dr J R Hickerson pastor of the First Baptist Church of Commerce will lead a revival starting October 22 at the church. Rev L O Evans notes the drive aims to help Texas reach 100000 won to Christ in 1937 with two daily services at 9 30 am and 7 15 pm and a Monday October 25 Palestine lecture.
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J. R. Hickerson
First Baptist Church of Commerce
First Baptist Church
L. O. Evans
Texas
Evans
Dr. Hickerson
Hickerson
B. T. U. Department
Texas Baptist
William Jewell College of
Missouri
Howard Payne College of
Brownwood
Southwestern Seminary of
Ft. Worth
Howard Payne College
Palestine
Leg Amputation In Bonham Hospital
M vin Stansbury underwent surgery at Allen Memorial hospital Monday morning to amputate his right leg after a car crash two weeks earlier. The injury to the foot was severe and the leg was removed just below the knee.
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Bonham
Vin Stansbury
Allen Memorial Hospital
Whitewright Cotton Gins Report 4,935 Bales Ginned to Date
The three Whitewright gins have ginned 4,935 bales of cotton by Wednesday noon, 1,275 more than the 1936 season. Most crop marketed locally before rainfall halted picking Friday night. rain through Wednesday delays remaining harvest. Local price 7.75, seed price 20.00, 39,889 bales ginned in Grayson County to Oct 1, up from 27,817 in 1936. Fannin County 53,456 this year vs 40,808 last year.
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Whitewright
Grayson Ginnings
Department of Commerce
Grayson County
Fannin County
Rain totals in Whitewright reach 2.83 inches since Friday night
Rainfall in Whitewright has totaled 2.83 inches since Friday night, reported by recorder C C Cates. Friday night brought 1.18 inches marking the first substantial rain since August, with September totaling only .47 inch. A slow rain began around 7 a.m. Tuesday and continued for about thirty hours, accumulating 1.65 inches and never stopping for more than a minute or two.
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Whitewright
C. C. Cates
Farm department sets 1937 wheat and corn yields
The Agriculture Department pegged this year's wheat at 886,895,000 bushels and corn at 2,561,936,000. Corn projections rose from a month ago while spring and winter wheat figures split into winter, spring, and durum components with several year-to-year comparisons.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Telephone company calls for voice personality overhaul
Washington report says Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company contends the greeting Hello must be replaced with a standardized voice personality. guidance targets lip jaw tongue workouts and pronunciation drills to achieve clearer speech and professional tone.
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Washington
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Department
Ott
J—jay
R —-Ahr
President Roosevelts crop control plan tops special session
President Roosevelt announced a special session starting November 15 to consider crop control legislation. He spoke of stabilizing farm prices, managing surpluses, and ensuring an all weather farm program with farmer cooperation to prevent future price crashes. He defended the session as democratic governance and urged focus on long term prosperity and peace.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Navy
West
Southwest
East
Far West
Chicago
Farmers Taking Cotton Loans
Sherman report shows farmers turning to government loans as cotton prices fall after a new crop estimate. Texas Cotton Growers Association and Denison compress managers say about 350 bales loaned with 400 more ready. Sherman compress notes 428 bales loaned and 150 bales processed Monday. Loans range seven to nine cents per pound.
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Sherman
M. K. Russell
Texas Cotton Growers Association
L. K. Haney
Denison Compress
Sherman Compress
Born Armless Boy Plans Law Career at College
Willie Lee Dodd of Doniphan Missouri born armless at 20 plans to enter Southeast Missouri Teachers College in November and aims to become a lawyer, possibly finishing at the University of Missouri. He writes with mouth or toes, dresses unaided, and handles daily tasks by self-taught methods, pursuing fishing as recreation.
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Doniphan
Willie Lee Dodd
Dodd
Southeast Missouri Teachers College
Cape Girardeau
University of Missouri
McKinney to fingerprint all county schoolchildren
McKinney plans to fingerprint 2,000 public school students and every county child totaling over 12,600. A. G. Sparlin, head of the county identification bureau, will supervise from the courthouse and has ordered forms from the State Bureau in Austin.
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Mckinney
A. G. Sparlin
Bureau of Identification of
State Bureau of Identification
Austin
Rabies Alert After Dog Bite In St. Louis County
A couple identified as Mr and Mrs A Daugherty driving Texas license 983 483 were sought by St Louis County Health Department officials after a two year old girl in their car sought medical care for potential rabies. The dog involved was later found to be rabid and four other people had been bitten. The couple had left the scene before investigators could confirm the dog's condition.
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Roosevelt
Moving Picture
America
ST. Louis
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