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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1948
Page
4
Whitewright SUN J. H. Waggoner and T. Glenn Doss publish weekly with second class mail in Whitewright Texas. Subscription rates are listed for Grayson Fannin counties and outside areas with minimum six month term required.
Hubert M. Harrison urges readers to see the hidden burdens behind ordinary encounters. Acknowledging others as real people with pains and pressures, he argues for patient, considerate behavior to ease daily friction and improve the community one small kindness at a time.
A reader criticizes school literature choices praising Whittier and Longfellow while deeming Paul Revere overrated and Barbara Freitchie incident misrepresented. The piece contrasts Texas readers with Southern poets and notes O Henry’s neglected status alongside Churchill’s stature.
A 1906 column lauds Bourke Cochran as the era’s most original mind and mentor to the speaker, praising his role as champion of the gold standard in 1898’s Bryan free silver debate. It notes his Congress tenure as a leading orator and his advocacy for Irish freedom and free trade, drawing admiration from Ireland and England.
DETROIT Kaiser-Frazer Corporation and Sears Roebuck Company discuss a preliminary deal to allow Sears to distribute Kaiser and Frazer automobiles. The arrangement, if completed in two months or more, would mark the first use of mail order catalogs to market cars.
Dr. Norman Vincent Pearl reflects on eastern wisdom and the quiet heart. He cites a Chinese farmer who, after his jar of soy bean soup breaks, keeps walking and chooses to accept what cannot be changed. The tale illustrates calm resolve and long life through inner quiet.
The passage urges inner calm to solve problems without agitation. It links tranquil hearts to romance beyond film culture, praising life’s beauty from leaves shadows to twilight hills and warning that dullness erases these simple, vivid wonders.
The text asks about various life events such as visits marriages divorces purchases parties engagements breakups and memberships. It appears to be a generic questionnaire or topic list without a coherent news item or identifiable persons or organizations.
A speaker urges people to yield to God to find inner quiet and a romantic heart, claiming this leads to a wonderful life experience. The speaker notes that seventy five percent of the world's railroads are in America.
A letter from J. L. Huckaby Jr. praises Mr. Hight the Palace Theatre owner in Whitewright for supporting the local colored school. He extols community cooperation with B. R. Caraway and other white friends aiding educational opportunities for Negro boys and girls in the town.
Sunday schedules listed for Enterprise Baptist Church Church of Christ and First Presbyterian Church. Dr. W B Guerrant of Austin College Sherman will guest speak at 11 o clock service and lead World-Wide Communion observance.
Pastor R. L. Gilpin invites Christians to observe World-Wide Communion Sunday with an 11 o'clock worship service titled The Hands That Lift the Cup Must Do the Masters Work. Church school at 10 features classes for all ages and aims for a high attendance. Rally Day, new officers and teachers, Youth Fellowship at 6, and an Evening Service at 7:30 with True Worship as the minister’s theme. Public invited to all services.
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