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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1921
Page
6
A former carpenter recalls a brief, tragic career and a chaotic life led by a zealot for architecture. A wife recounts a string of misfortunes including his failed house painting, a baby show mishap, and a porch project that ends with a scaffold accident and his mounting misbehavior as she narrates their domestic trials.
An ad promotes Hayes Healing Honey as a cough stopper by healing throat tissues. Each bottle includes Grove s Open-Trate Salve for chest and throat, to be applied on children with a cold or croup. The two remedies in one carton cost 35 cents. ask your druggist for Hayes Healing Honey.
Honey Grove Texas September 9 Green Shelton a local farmer found cotton bolls with nine locks in his field He showed the locks to neighbors who tested them and confirmed they were real The next day he found more bolls and brought two samples to town He declined offers up to 2 25 per boll noting this is the first known instance of bolls with more than six locks
An old pamphlet style claim attributes gas to fermenting sour waste in the intestines and promotes Adler-ika with buckthorn bark glycerine as a universal remedy. It asserts cleansing both upper and lower bowels removes accumulated matter and relieves gas and sour stomach.
Miss Myrtle Badgett relocates her millinery shop from the Ray building to the J F Lilley dry goods store signaling a business shift to a new downtown corner.
A narrator recalls telling a carpenter to use remaining lumber and order more as she laments her husband’s mistakes. She directs the worker to remember her in prayers, signing as Nannie, expressing deep distress in body and spirit. The tone is personal and earnest.
Sherman, Sept 11. Joe Hall and Roy Hewitt, once Sherman residents, will be tried in Grayson County for the murder of Bob James, a service car driver, near Honey Grove two months ago. The venue change from Fannin County was granted after a jury pool of 125 could not be seated. Hall was captured and implicated Hewitt. both men are jailed in Sherman awaiting trial.
New York September 13 Miss Mille Gade 22 a swimming instructor at the New York Woman s Christian Association completed a 145 mile swim started at Albany last Friday arriving at Battery Park at 10 57 this morning A launch and a row boat accompanied her down the Hudson she slept and ate aboard the launch The distance including detours was about 153 miles in the water 63 hours 35 minutes She finished in good condition but said she faced exhaustion several times and was struck in the face by a large fish driftwood made night swimming perilous.
Miss Gade, Denmark’s champion woman swimmer and Danish Girl Scouts member, completed the Albany to New York crossing in six days one hour and seven minutes after swimming seven and a half miles on the final day and covering daily distances between nineteen and twenty six miles. She used forest stroke early and trudgeon’s crawl later, losing eight pounds. Her party said she nearly cut the existing record in half, last set by a man named Cooper eleven days four hours twenty five years ago.
The parlor car of the Limited was raided by two masked bandits who burst in and ordered everyone to surrender. The larger robber shouted the demand, while a tense confrontation followed as he threatened to rob all the men and kiss all the women aboard.
Daily delivery offer from The Denison Herald priced at 50 cents per month. Mentions Associated Press News Sunday Comic Section and a sales agent named Guy Stedham.
Two men threaten travelers in a tense in-car moment on a railway journey. A "smaller" robber proposes robbing the men while sparing the women, provoking a sharp rebuke from a female passenger who orders him to mind his own business. The scene centers on the confrontation and the dynamic between assailants and bystanders.
A tonic and laxative remedy named LAXATIVE BROMO QUINING is advertised as superior to ordinary Quinine. It allegedly avoids nervousness and head ringing. The ad urges consumers to look for the full name and the signature of EH W GROVE and notes a 30c price.
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