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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
1
The New York Herald Sun merger triggers anxiety among veteran journalists. An elderly copyreader with over forty years at the Herald laments the shop's likely closure and questions the permanence of his new position.
An old time newspaper advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable alternative to calomel. It warns calomel causes biliousness and cramps, promises quicker liver relief, and asserts the product is pleasant and safe for children.
A veteran keeps a luck piece of metal and other tokens as talismans against bad fortune. The piece recounts hospital stays after bullets, pocket charms, and the quirky belief in luck amid college memories and everyday life as described in a Chicago Tribune column excerpt.
A boy recounts a day at the bathing beach with his father and mother. He says he joined in fun with other boys who teased a big woman, then consolingly adds he did not tell them she was his mother.
A Memphis Commercial Appeal column reflects on the American spirit amid disloyal natives and immigrant examples. A Russian immigrant refutes a witness fee, saying he owes the United States his life, illustrating devotion born from hardship in a modern American context.
The piece argues private control pleases the public while railroads must prove reliability and improve service. It notes funding is the main hurdle, citing wheat shipments in Minnesota and investor caution about dividends. It advocates honest management and diligence to restore confidence and efficiency.
Bar Harbor resident Miss Orances Wood aided Walter Phillips a newspaper man with failing sight. The act led to social advances and a fortune claim while Miss Wood, once at the University of Maine, sought a teaching job in Oak Bluffs. The incident drew attention from editors and local figures.
A passage notes a man alternating between garret and cellar moods with a private rock mentioned as a prudent retreat. The dialogue contrasts elevated aspirations with downbeat practicality suggesting a vivid character study.
Electricity brings automatic pumping and constant hot water to farm homes. State health officials promote sanitary baths with in floor toilets and sewage systems. Electric power illuminates houses and barns, assists milking, pulping, and cleaning, easing daily farm labor.
Twelve Italian girls stranded at Ellis Island since October face a 49 word reading test to enter the United States for a limited 90 day period. They will wed American soldiers if a pending Calder bill exempts them from the test. otherwise several may be allowed to marry after learning the words.
In Llano Wy H Todd reports severe back pain and frequent kidney trouble. After using Doan’s Kidney Pills bought at Bruhn Drug Store the pain subsided and kidney function normalized. He endorses the remedy and cites a full recovery with price 80 cents.
Vincent Beede contemplates why dream humor fades and why waking astonishment rarely carries over. He muses on dream absurdities such as Lloyd George dining on a mud pie and a tailor ironing a coat while a man smokes a saxophone, wondering if some laugh at us in slumber.
Chief Yeo Tian M. L. Levy of the U S Recruiting Station Houston explains that fingerprinting helps resolve identity in Navy cases such as child custody disputes and ensures correct identification of sailors. He notes that memory loss and aphasia are managed, while the Navy provides comprehensive care including diet, exercise, medical and dental services, with twelve men to crew ships.
The author argues that good tools enable better work and that experts should be preferred over untrained hands, reflecting on the value of specialized skill in the craft.
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