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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1929
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun publishes weekly on Thursdays under J. H. Waggoner as publisher. It lists subscription price at 1.50 per year payable in advance and notes post office registration as 2nd class matter.
Whitewright hosts social gatherings with visitors from Oklahoma and Texas. Sherman to welcome Governors Holloway and Moody for Red River Valley Fair on October 7. Utilities talks include Farmersville electric plant plans and Whitesboro review of selling light, water and sewer systems.
Whitewright experiences busy home improvements with two new dwellings under construction and several remodels. Residents consider a grand street dance before paving. Merchants boast large fall stocks and attract shoppers as the town plans paving and commerce grows.
The Sun office processed a $13,000 job on Monday and a banker walked in with a small package he claimed to cut into pieces. The sheets held six of the new ten and twenty dollar bills, and he left with the cut paper after taking care to gather the bills he had exposed.
Concrete work began Saturday morning at the northern Sherman city limits and will extend to Denison city limits, estimated eight weeks for this unit. After completion, work shifts to the Howe-Collin unit via Van Alstyne, then the Howe-Sherman segment. The piece notes slow progress on Highway 6 and questions the timing for Highway 76 in Whitewright, where right of way is not yet secured. The editorial discusses land posting to protect property and warns hunters to respect landowners rights in the fall, citing local farmer concerns and incidents of grazing livestock and crops damaged by reckless hunting.
The Wolfe City Sun notes both towns boasted twelve pages of home print ads last week. Chain stores dominate modern merchandising from dry goods to banks, driving price quotes and pushing smaller towns toward consolidation and newer advertising methods.
A humorous editorial squib from the Quannah Tribune Chief’s Main Street column mocks a stocking less fad and the reaction of editors and readers. The piece quips about leg shows and skirts, with playful inuendo about age and aesthetics in a small town paper.
A loud Albany News column quotes a notice about campus fashion and women’s attire. It praises shapely women and athletic campus life while mocking prudish norms, describing transitions from hobble skirts to freer dress and the public display of leg and movement.
A Dallas News brief notes a tart editorial remark about reparations and a joking aside about British and Scotch. It then puns on manufacturers of invisible hairnets as a playful aside.
A collage of joke lines from Punch Detroit News Kay Features Day ton Journal and Winston-Salem Journal. The bits include a philosopher thinking with murmuring crowds, a water melon being 92 percent water, optimistic revolver use, budget system jokes, and a marriage of two very heavy adults in Huntington.
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