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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1926
Page
2
Directors of the Texas Commercial Executives Association chose Sherman as the 1917 convention city at a Dallas meeting. They cited Sherman's industrial progress and balanced city development as inspiration for members, with plans to focus on Texas industrial expansion.
Inventory shows an $85 million estate of Mrs Anna M Harkness widow of Stephen V Harkness with about $16 million in estimated inheritance taxes. Will admitted to probate April 5 designates Edward S Harkness as executor and residuary beneficiary of roughly $60 million with charitable bequests totaling $360,000. Federal taxes may reach $8 million and New York State taxes about $3 million with additional $5 million due to other states.
Babe Ruth hit three home runs in the fourth game in St Louis and earned a Chevrolet after one ball shattered a plate glass window at an auto showroom. The Bambino accepted the coupe with a grin, noting changes in the times from past sporting mischief to modern rewards.
An advertisement touts Borozone as a flesh healing preparation available in liquid and powder. It claims rapid wound healing and germ purification, with prices for liquid at 30 60 and 120 cents and powders at 30 and 60 cents, sold by J L Kirkpatrick, druggist.
Denton Substation No 6 of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station announces two new grain strains named Denton wheat and Nortex oats. A prize was offered for best names with awards of ten and fifteen bushels respectively. S. A. Thompson of Denton proposed the wheat name. no oats name was submitted.
Berlin reports a smearproof ink by chemist Max Lewin. Demonstrations show the ink remains clean on paper and on the hand, does not evaporate in a bottle, and is absorbed chemically. It promises major use for bookkeepers and clerks seeking tidy, ink free records.
A humorous exchange turns on tenure and tenure is time in the net lab where a boss asks about the office boy’s service. The boy replies four hours while the boss recalls two years of apparent service. The joke echoes workplace humor through a mismatch of perception.
The ad touts Laxa Tive Brom quinine as superior to ordinary quinine with tonic and laxative effects avoiding nervousness and head ringing. It urges remembering the full name and seeking E. W. Grove signature for credibility and claims of good taste and health.
The USDA reports a steady rise in beef supplies since 1921 with 1925 output at 7.146 billion pounds, 1 billion more than 1921. Pork production, high in 1923 and 1924, dropped by over 1 billion pounds in 1925.
Hog slaughter in 1925 exceeded every prior year except 1923 and 1924, with upward of 10,000,000 fewer hogs slaughtered than those peak years. Excluding those years, 1925 saw the largest annual slaughter in industry history.
The blood red automobile linked to the 1914 assassination has been offered for sale for the twenty-fifth time without buyers. Superstition clings to the car as four former owners died in it and others were killed or injured, fueling belief it is cursed.
The passage lists Texas political and agricultural scales: eighteen U S House members and district coverage of fifty three counties in the eighteenth district, thirty cities over ten thousand, Texas ranking second in livestock value, farm crops near one tenth of U S value totaling about one billion dollars annually, cotton output rivaling India and the largest among nations, about one third of U S cotton.
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