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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1918
Page
2
A brief line from The Llano News by M C Wilkes indicates the weekly publication and its second class mail status under act of 1878. It mentions advance subscription terms and refers to the Llano Post Office.
A frustrated search for a missing child leads parents to place a newspaper ad. A reply arrives at their door with an alligator that had swallowed the child but later released the pair alive. The ad cost 25 cents. buyers later sold the gator for 5.60 dollars and others displayed the child in a local museum per week.
A Georgetown youth invested forty dollars in swine and earned a net gain of one hundred forty four dollars after selling five pigs for twenty five dollars each. Total receipts reached two hundred eighty four dollars from the original investment as of January. Also mentions local notices, obituaries, and wartime letters from France.
Captain Petsch and his wife return to Fredericksburg after serving in World War I. He trained at Camp Gordon and Camp Travis and rose from lieutenant to captain before discharge. His record earned broad praise as the community greets their homecoming and notes his impact on local social and club circles.
Local ad notes limited stock of ties and holiday items arriving for Obrionaras Rath. Visit to see selections and compare prices while supplies last.
An obituary notes Edward Cetorer Lisi, aged about 60, died after illness. He married Bula F P Shaward in 1938 and left a young wife and four siblings. Services were conducted by Rev Len Noties and the W O W fraternity helped with the ceremony. He was a devout Christian and remembered by family as loving and faithful.
Up to Date Secretary Lane reflects on how war alters life outlook. A couple contemplates marriage and future, while the girl jokes about wedding costs and violet gifts. The page advertises groceries and local notices for livestock and cotton picker supplies in Round Mountain Texas.
An early 20th century advertisement touts a one hundred dollar reward for a catarrh cure Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It claims decades of use, explains a blood based mechanism, and urges purchase via F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio with testimonials and 50 cent price.
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