Local notes on visits and openings in town
Local items report Rev. J F Alderson visiting his daughter Mrs S H Montgomery and several townsfolk guests and visitors. Notes mention Lena Mae Gowdy Dallas visit, Lola Myrick Trinity University student home from Waxahachie, Leila Parrish returning from Paris, C C S Truett McKinney visiting relatives, J B Head weekend with parents in Sherman, Mrs J A Barnes Terrell visiting her father W O Brents, Morris Hughes Van Alstyne visiting relatives, Tom King Madill Oklahoma weekend with parents. Also mentions new glasses fitting at R L Johnson Optometrist, a boy welcomed into Robert Bow and wife home, arrival of a girl to Ronald Vestal family, and a gasoline iron explosion causing interior damage before flames were extinguished. Construction progresses on a brick veneer residence for Miss Sue Stephens with foundations laid.
Weekend Visits and Local Happenings Near Whitewright
Local notes chronicle visits by Dallas and Madill residents including Mr and Mrs C C Hill, Mr and Mrs Marvin Bryant and others. The piece mentions shopping ads for Johnsons and Moreheads Filling Station, a radio roof joke from Arkansas Gazette, Triumph the Cecil B DeMille film at Odeon Theatre, and community events like Parent Teacher Association efforts and a Whitewright football support group.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Odeon Theatre
Free hourly giveaway of Gold Plume Coffee at store
Beginning at 10 o clock Saturday morning one pound of Gold Plume Coffee will be given away free on every hour until 5 oclock. To claim a prize you must be in the store when your name is called. All housewives cordially invited to attend. David son & Barbee.
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Davidson & Barbee
Fort Worth ministerial student visits homefolks
Mr and Mrs R C Brown from Fort Worth visited Sunday with their son in law and best friends Miss Lucile LaRoe Verma Mangrum and Maxie Echols joining in the Sunday family gathering at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C., Brown
Fort Worth
Brown
Brite College
T. Cc. U
Lucile LaRoe
Verma Mangrum
Maxie Echols
Auto radiator anti freeze preparations offered
Cold weather is coming and Huffines & May invite customers to have their auto radiators filled with antifreeze solution. They promise readiness to meet this need and suggest visiting before investing in antifreeze preparations.
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Huffines & May
How To Lengthen Life By Saving Time
Ninety five year old Ezra Meeker visits a Tacoma newspaper office and refuses to wait. He says he has no half hours to spare. Edison reportedly slept four hours daily, extending his life by about three years. The piece argues trimming sleep and using saved time for study can add years to life.
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Ezra Meeker
Tacoma
Wash
Mr. Meeker
Life Is Not To Squander Spare Time
Fort Worth Record notes that time is common to all and should be used wisely. Some squander minutes like money, while others live well and long, regardless of calendar measures. The quotation contrasts wasted and well spent hours and frames time as nature’s equal payout.
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Fort Worth
Strange customs of phone use across lands
The Ohio Committee on Public Utility Information notes that while the telephone is standardized its use varies with customs and conditions. In Abbyssinia messages are written and handed to the operator who shouts it into the receiver, with no one else allowed to use the instrument. A goldfish has more privacy than a phone message.
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Ohio Committee On Public Utility Information
Abbyssinia
Noted Social Rules for Operators in Cuba and Russia
A widow in Cuba with a large family is sought as the operator with rechange housed in her home. In Russia, calling an operator by any title other than Comrade or Citizeness is a penal offense.
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Cuba
Russia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rev
J. F. Alderson
Mrs
S. H. Montgomery
Pierce
T. H. Lively
Michigan
Lena Mae Gowdy
Dallas
Davidson & Barbee’s
Lola Myrick
Trinity University
Waxahachie
Leila Parrish
Paris
Cc. S. Truett of
McKinney
J. B. Head
Sherman
His
Luther Head
J. A. Barnes
Terrell
W. O. Brents
Tom King
Madill
Okla
W. H. King
Johnson's
Pryant King
Jones County
R. L. Johnson
Optometrist
Robert Bow
Ronald Vestal
J. P. Layman
Sue Stephens
Hale’s Leader
Prince Albert Tobacco
Universal Mills
W. M. Cox
Sanitas
Giles Variety Store
C. C. Hill
Marvin Bryant
Madill, Okla
J. R. Pennington
Frank Montgomery
Texas Panhandle
Gomer May
Oscar Jones
Elizabeth May
Johnson’s
R. E. Hickman of
Mexia
W. A. Kirkpatrick
C. B. Bryant
el Paso
Murray Bryant
John Haden
Durant, Okla
Lucian LaRoe
Ethel Gordon
Elgie Fields
Walter Keeling
East Grand Avenue
Morehead
Lee Minor
West
W. A. Brents
Maurine May
R. H. May
Arkansas Gazette
Ed Malone
Bertha Grigg
Howe
Gertrude Schooling
C. W. Luck
Lester Hileman
H. L. Durham
Whitewright
Burleson College
Greenville
Jack Everheart
Lester Short
Garnett Nichols
Loren Mangrum
Martha Bow
Winnie Bell Carter
Gordon Bros
Gordon Clothing Co
Gordon’s
S. R. Park
Mangrum
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