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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1935
Page
7
The columnist notes welcome rain for crops in Whitewright and praises a strong church year. He highlights 43 additions, 220 weekly Sunday school attendees, a new church with 24 rooms and 400 seat auditorium, 60 baptisms, and a debt-free building. He urges voluntary tithing over the coming three months.
The article quotes Marlen E. Pew asserting that reckless driving kills and maims in daily street and highway traffic. It argues for strict laws, driver qualification, road policing, speed limits at the source, scheduled fines, and bonds to deter repeat violators, urging public anger at avoidable deaths.
Florida citrus crop damaged by a hurricane with estimates from the Florida Citrus Exchange totaling about 1,000,000 boxes. Cc E Patterson, sales manager, says losses mainly hit Lee, Sarasota, Manatee and Pinellas counties, comprising 750,000 boxes of grapefruit and 250,000 of oranges.
State enrollment supervisor Neal E Guy announces plans to enroll 14 819 Texas youths in the Civilian Conservation Corps expansion. Existing members may remain if conduct and work are satisfactory while mandatory discharges end. District admins will review relief rolls for unmarried youths 18 to 28 from relief families.
In Austin federal rules on mourning dove hunting in Texas were changed after hunter protests. The season runs September 21 to January 5 with shooting hours 7 a.m. to sunset, replacing the former 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. limit from October 1 to January 16. The north zone opens September and October, the south zone October and November.
A quirky Texas directory lists towns and playful names like Beeville Honey Grove and Lariat for varied fans from lovers of ease to soldiers. It pairs Shakespearean and literary nods with travel and profession themed names, ending on Goodnight after noting the world’s oldest beer sign from Babylonia.
Rosemary Ames, actress and Chicago society woman, rushed from Hollywood to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, for a mysterious illness. Doctors diagnosed hunger caused by the Hollywood system of eating, she said, adding the cure was food and large steaks. She is wife of Abner J. Stilwell, a Chicago banker.
A collection of miswritten classroom lines reveals misunderstandings about science grammar literature and geography. Sample phrases include smith the scientist the heart as an infernal and gravity as a force keeping us from flying away.
The AAA announced approval of the 1935 sugar cane syrup adjustment program and sent contracts to state extension directors for distribution. Sugar cane for syrup is grown mainly in Louisiana Georgia Alabama Mississippi Florida Arkansas Texas and South Carolina with contracts available to eligible producers.
The syrup program will supplement existing sugar cane adjustment schemes in Louisiana and Florida. Producers cooperating in the syrup program will receive benefit payments comparable to those paid to cooperating producers under the Louisiana sugar cane plan.
A Boston Daily Globe editorial recounts Benjamin Franklin traveling in winter and unable to find warmth at a tavern. He orders oysters in the shell for his horse, causing the crowd to gather, then explains he will eat them himself once the horse refuses.
Republicans want Lindbergh for President, but even Lindbergh would have trouble getting elected on that ticket. All kinds of printing and engraving obtainable at The Sun office at reasonable prices.
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