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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1946
Page
6
A collection of quick quips and quizzes shows lawyers flirting with bar jokes and misheard phrases. A politician riffs on milk aid while a rural visitor pursues a playful city adventure with a beauty shoppe mix up. The light humor blends wordplay, family lines, and social scenes.
A heated exchange unfolds with a man accusing a woman of infidelity and intimacy while she retorts with a sharp retort that the man is a stranger to her. The dialogue captures a tense moment of distrust and sarcasm.
A terse exchange between guard and inmate turns on an obvious jailhouse joke about bigamy. The prisoner asks what he is in stir for and the guard quips about enjoying liberty, highlighting a humorous, non-graphic moment from the facility.
A lighthearted quip turns on a spouse’s tendency to growl. The speaker notes the husband has no den because he growls in every room, implying a humorous, affectionate critique of his behavior at home.
A temperance speaker addressed schoolchildren and placed a live worm in a water jar. The worm wiggled until the lecturer moved it to an alcohol jar, where it continued to wiggle briefly before likely settling.
A lecturer's parliamentary law lecture sparks a farce as an eager girl proclaims a bizarre lesson about worms and alcohol. The scene shifts to a garden job where a man’s two Black workers are discussed, culminating in a tale of domestic conflict and a hospital visit after a wife overhears her husband’s threat to “lick his wife” for nagging.
In a sharp exchange, Junior asks how to catch crazy men. Pop coolly answers that a bit of rouge lipstick a hair-do and a pretty dress are enough to lure them. The dialogue captures a blunt humor and practical slyness.
In a chapel a slightly off-center private bowed his head whenever Satan was named. Curious, the chaplain asked a dog about it. The dog replied that politeness costs nothing and, after all, we never know. The Office of War Information held the line on weighty words. Here is an episode that.
Public legal notice commands the Sheriff or a constable to publish in a Grayson County Texas newspaper for at least ten days to notify interested parties that Scott Williams Jr as administrator filed the estate final account on September 6 1946 in County Court Grayson County. The hearing is set for September 23 1946 at 10 a.m. in Sherman. Interested parties must appear to contest.
An M. A. A. F. bomber over the Bay of Marseilles accidentally discharged four tons of propaganda pamphlets. The salvo struck a German lighter, sinking it. The crew claimed the hit as the war’s heaviest propaganda blow.
A dialogue features a mother and children Mary Rastus Pigface in a Highland dialect arguing about thunder and interruptions. The exchange shows family dynamics and humor as the mother scolds Mary while the others tease about the thunder’s intensity and waking everyone.
A Scotch farmer asks a minister to marry in the back yard to let rice tossed for hens. An absent minded professor arrives at his garage, misreads the scene, and races to the police station shouting that his car has been stolen.
A new household cook asks about the mistress's son. The mistress answers that her son has returned to Yale, signaling a family note of distance and education. The fragment hints at a domestic scene and a separating moment.
A narrator recalls hometown tales including a jailbird brother and a fire at old man Jones house. A comical legal quirk unfolds when a Negro judge orders payment for a cow a man cannot afford, detaining the debtor until another man repays the sum, illustrating frontier justice.
In the reconstruction days follow ing the War Between the States the carpetbaggers who came into control in the South appointed many Negro judges. What they lacked in legal.
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