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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1920
Page
4
A bizarre report describes two alligators packed in a mail box wrapped in cloth and shipped, seemingly content after a warm bath, alongside marketing text for Chamberlain's Tablets and Prickly Ash Bitters claiming digestive and nerve benefits with broad prices and agents named Carpenter Bron.
The State of Texan issues a citation by publication to Walter Henry, residing unknown, to appear before Justice Court Precinct No. 8, Bosque County, Clifton, on January 23, 1920. The note for $80, with 10 percent interest and 10 percent attorney fees, remains unpaid since November 14, 1917. Plaintiff Duckworth seeks judgment for the debt.
Local notes report a newborn boy to Mr and Mrs Emmett, a funeral at the Norse Lutheran Cemetery, and multiple community updates. The piece mentions Fort Worth visitor John Arsenon, house fire destroying the Iver Olson home, and various residents' comings and goings around Cranfills Gap.
Report notes a Michigan hunter fined 500 for yelling 12 ducks in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and a Connecticut offender jailed three months for repeat offenses. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act active since 2018 has led to hundreds of convictions, illustrating increased court concern for protecting migratory birds and game birds.
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