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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1956
Page
8
Census Bureau estimates 5,135,000 Texans will be old enough to vote in the November presidential election. The 1952 figure was 2,076,000 Texans voting in that year. Nationwide, about 102,750,000 civilians will be eligible. About 7,500,000 new voters will reach voting age, including 3,300,000 men and 4,200,000 women.
A rural Arkansas couple escaped unharmed when a kitchen stove exploded and threw them through the roof. Their friend noted their luck and the couple joked they had not been out together in over 20 years.
University of Iowa Hospitals records over 15 years show patients with blood group A, especially men over 60, suffer hip fractures more often than other groups. Researchers Buckwalter and Tidrick presented findings at an American College of Surgeons meeting, noting heredity may play a role.
Studies on 13 healthy young men on a 1000 calorie per day diet for 24 days show that more fat on the body leads to more fat loss on a low calorie plan. Fat loss is greatest in the thickest areas, and the final silhouette remains with proportion differences unchanged. Research by Garn and Brozek from Fels Research Institute Antioch College and the University of Minnesota reports in the Journal Science.
Dialogue captures a wife taunting her husband about control and meals. She boasts she can make him behave as she exerts dominance over household tasks and food. The exchange hints at power dynamics and manipulation within a marriage.
Classified list of local ads includes lost sow reward in Whitewright, rentals in Grove, sales of stoves heaters and farms, furniture and hardware deals, flowers, life insurance, paint and wiring supplies, groceries specials, and furniture displays in Bonham and Bells. Notable items mention Whitewright and Bells Texas addresses and phone numbers.
Osage Indians of Oklahoma earned more than 20 million dollars in the last fiscal year, with income flowing into a tribal fund and distributed to members by headrights. Bu reau officials credit new wells and repressuring of aging wells for the rise after a long decline from 30.5 million in 1923 to about 2.5 million in the 1940s. An old superstition states a serpent will not touch white clover.
Fort Worth. Tarrant County Court Judge W. H. Tolbert declared that Texas voters send boys to do men's jobs in the State Legislature. He said the practice leads to lax laws and questioned the lawmakers' understanding of justice.
A compiled note cites unusual rules including Iowa forbidding accepting tips, Oklahoma bans beer drinking in underwear in Cushing, Massachusetts prohibits feet hanging out windows for cooling, and Galveston Texas bars camels from wandering unattended in the streets.
A chicken feather proves handy for brushing crumbs from a pop-up toaster. The simple household hack uses a natural feather to clear crumbs without removing the appliance.
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