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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1920
Page
6
A vintage classifieds snippet promotes Prickly Ash Bitters as a liver and bowel remedy priced at 1.25 dollars and Texas Wonder for kidney and bladder troubles priced at 1.25 dollars. It mentions W. Ransom & McInnis and Dr. B. W. Hall’s sworn testimonials from St. Louis Missouri while noting availability through druggists or by mail.
In a lighthearted collection a reader muses that happiness in marriage comes from sincere affection. A lodging chatty tale jokes about shared water at a strange price. A book seller laments upliftings during rush hour as a squeaky streetcar ride disrupts reading with a passenger on his toe.
A Paris profiteer predicts retirement on rents in a brief remark about a contract. The Washington Star discusses the supply of furnishing waste baskets for the League of Nations and the lack of a surplus paper supply.
Hon Leslie Wills Sprague, noted platform orator, will speak at our Chautauqua on The Present Unrest. He is recognized as a thoughtful commentator on economic and industrial issues.
Henry Clark, nationally known lecturer, presents How's Your Health? a compelling plea for conserving the most vital resource health. The talk stresses practical steps to improve well being and public awareness of health as a key societal asset.
Fredericksburg commissioners awarded the full highway No. 9 contract to M. M. Craven for 127902 dollars to build the Fredericksburg to Mason County line road. The contractor must bond with the county and follow government plans, with payments in sections and ten percent retained until final acceptance. One half the contract price will be funded by the Fredericksburg government, making additional bond road projects feasible.
An unnamed speaker berates universities during a conference while claiming not to be corrupted by higher education. The bishop quips about Mr N and Mr X being thankful for ignorance, framing a tense exchange with a gentle musical aside.
The Brooklyn Eagle prints a patriotic poem about universal nature and global kinship ending with a comic aside on rising prices and taxes. It contrasts hopeful world unity with mockery of contemporary economic troubles. The piece blends Enos Mills and Charles M. Schwab references with light satire.
The Isoston Transcript complains that despite demand for all kinds of labor, every letter of the alphabet except fair is out of work. The quirky remark blends wordplay with a labor sentiment, underscoring a punning take on employment and letters.
Job notice seeks men with wagons and teams to chop and haul cedar posts. Work pays well, short hail, long job, good timber. Contact J. L. Thompson Lake Victor BE G Mobley Burnet or D. C. Paine Manchaca by telephone or letter.
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio promises one hundred dollars for each catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Public signature by A W Coles. Medicine taken internally and claimed to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Joe Crofts, a 16 year old, told of two masked men stopping him near Hyatt's gate on the Marble Falls road last Wednesday night. The youths forced him to reveal his name and write a check, burned a deer and threatened to kill him if he spoke of the incident. Officers searched for clues but found none as the robbers and horses fled after the assault.
An essay argues the grocer’s boy may be displaced by clerkless shops. It notes Rochester's era of a one million dollar yearly trade without grocer’s boys, with many stores adopting wall shelves, enamel tables, price tags, and large signs to guide customers.
New York May 10 Fannie Hurst described a marriage pact with Jacques Daniel son a pianist and impostor, five years in place. They meet by appointment about twice weekly and keep separate studios, while pursuing careers and enjoying theater or motor trips after phone–made arrangements. The arrangement, she said, is a happy solution rather than a fad or ideology.
A Galveston widow recounts a proposal by a local dairyman who claimed to have a steady supply of milk and to visit her home at 4 o clock in the morning for five years, noting she had heard and snored in relation to the matter.
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