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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1915
Page
6
Advertisement seeks ambitious young ladies between 17 and 25 with good education to study nursing. For particulars write Denison City Hospital, Denison, Texas. Also offers 120 acres for sale within five miles at 35 dollars per acre with improvements worth 1800 dollars and favorable terms from Tom Barbee.
Rev Kirkpatrick filled his appointment Sunday and Uncle Dave Alverson attended Presbytery in town. Otto Walker of Sherman visits. Maggie Hicks spent early week with Pearl Mullins. George Garner spent Sunday with F. E. Alverson and family. Mr. and Mrs. C D Alverson visited the Blanton family. School house receives new paint. The Sun requests news items by phone.
Hogwallow News chronicles a mule slipping through a bridge crack injuring Luke Mathewson's ride and near drowning, Frisby Hancock cultivating long vines, Miss Flutie Belcher showing a new dress style, Sidney Hocks planning a haircut for a photo, and several local quirks. Also mention of a man buying bologna, a hat lost in a mill, and a cow straying.
Dallas hosts the 1915 State Fair opening October 16 featuring A Worsham carnival attractions. Highlights include Miss Essie Fay with Arabia the horse, Mlle La Rose with seven lions, Mile Marie in auto stunts, Etta Louise Blake in The Miracle Girl, Pharaohs Daughter, Neptune's Daughter with Lillian Cooley, Philippine Midgets, A Trip to Mars, Crystal Tangle, and the Jameson Band. Army units from the United States will encamp at the race track infield with artillery, aerial and cavalry displays for an educational and thrilling show.
The article warns that tuberculosis is widespread and often presents no early signs. It outlines five danger signals: a lingering cough, unexplained weight loss with loss of appetite, constant fatigue, fever or night sweats, and coughing with blood in sputum. It urges immediate medical checkups, even at free clinics, as early detection can lead to cure.
A fragmentary news page reports a man pursuing a missing person with a track, Slim Pickens involved in a shooting affray with a man from Calf Ribs. Slim dodged three bullets. It also notes local society quips and events, including a butter engagement, a lizard at a sermon, a move to Bounding Billows, and Canada’s loose money policy with foreign coins amid a coin finds anecdote from the London Chronicle.
The Italian foreign minister asked King Victor Emmanuel to sign a decree increasing staff at the foreign office. The king visited at 9 a.m. to find only a lone smoking clerk. The clerk said hours were 8 to 12 and colleagues usually arrived around 11. The king proposed that Prinetti ensure current staff duties were attended to rather than hiring more clerks.
A quote from Samuel G Blythe in Saturday Evening Post notes the Japanese show boundless curiosity about personal details yet remain unusually polite. The author lists topics such as health wealth habits eggs breakfast clothes costs travel plans and family details to illustrate the extent of inquiry considered acceptable and courteous.
A London Telegraph style exchange about hair combing and rubbing the forehead with cologne progresses to a practical moment as Dearest asks for the bill. The dialogue captures playful domestic humor and a payment cue.
A fragmentary exchange shows a mother and child discussing a sugar bowl incident. Mant Yout, nicknamed Mang and aged fear, asserts he is too big to fit in the bowl, while the mother or narrator questions who could have been responsible.
A dialogue excerpt where a father urges calm citing meekness while a militant youth mocks the idea, claiming in his school the meek are used to wipe up the earth. The Chicago Herald is quoted.
A judge notes that when everyone shares everything and public business is everyone’s business, the concept is commonly called gossip as a classroom observer responds. The exchange frames gossip as a civic morality label within a teaching moment.
The London Chronicle cites ancient references by Ovid and Pliny on milk and plant based inks. Medieval writers discuss magical and magnetic inks, while today sympathetic inks are taught and widely patented for manufacture.
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