Whitewright notices urge town pride and veterans settlement
A Whitewright post notice urges readers to attend upcoming events and prop up the town with positive word of mouth. It also highlights a Kansas American Legion veteran family story and extols civic confidence. Tulsa World War I veterans plan a Scott County Arkansas homestead settlement on 2,500 acres for 100 ex servicemen, each with 160 acre parcels, seven months to ownership.
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American Legion
Independence
Kansas
Manna C. Bruner
Union
Tulsa
Okla
Scott County
Arkansas
America
Legionnaire: Pioneer Homesteads Spread Across Many States
A group of sixteen settlers, granted residence credit for up to two years of army or navy service, plan to winter on their land clearing timber building and hunting to establish a central trading point named Legionnaire. Four pioneers are married, all with farming experience. Homesteading is now possible in Washington Michigan Montana New Mexico Wyoming Louisiana Alabama Colorado Idaho and Oregon.
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Washington
Michigan
Montana
New Mexico
Wyoming
Louisiana
Alabama
Colorado
Idaho
Oregon
Lining Up at the Hitch Rack in Whitewright
The Dallas Morning News notes a hitch rack return in Gray son County as horse drawn vehicles reemerge. Farmers fill hitch rack spaces while youths recall the Thomas Flyer and towns move from autos to horses, gas stations, and improved roads before a new cycle of rural transport.
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Dallas Morning News
Whitewright
Grayson County
Dispatch
Miller’s Hill
Kentuckytown
Gray Bill
Tom Bean
Truett
Main Street
Beck and
Jude Transporta
Whitewright Trade Territory Learns Pneumatic Lesson
The passage notes farmers will use pneumatics again but owe nothing on them next time, implying real advancement. It highlights Whitewright’s good fortune as its trade territory learns the lesson more promptly than others.
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Whitewright
Moonshiners and Sunshiners of the Mountains
The article discusses the enduring moonshining tradition in the Kentucky and Tennessee mountains amid prohibition. It portrays moonshiners as taking risks for profit while families suffer, noting that illicit stills threaten freedom and cause misery in homes.
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Kentucky
Tennessee
Sunshining versus moonshining in moral life
A Dallas Times-Herald editorial urges choosing sunshining over moonshining. It argues a sunshiner spreads light and kindness, lifting others without harm, while moonshining corrupts and degrades. The piece extols cheerful, wholesome influence as the higher path.
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Dallas Times-Herald
Mrs Keach Explains How Rat Snap Helped Farm
Mrs Keach details her rat problem on the farm and how RAT-SNAP eliminated 17 rats while sending the rest away. The product is sold in three sizes 35c 65c and 1.25 by Dyer & Jones and Wilson Montgomery Hardware Co.
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Dyer & Jones and
Wilson-Montgomery Hardware Co
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J. H. Waggoner
The
Sun
Beasley Shoes
Dia Uteller Sez
Dyer & Jones
Rexall Store
Mrs. Keach
Rat-Snap
Wilson Bros
Gordon Clothing Co
Your Clothiers
Amestic
R.j.reynolds Tobacco CO
Winston-Salem, N.C
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