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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1920
Page
1
In Charleston the street scene features chimneysweepers singing as a black donkey cart nears, a vivid ethnographic vignette. The ad recounts Adler-ika relief claims for sour stomach gas and constipation with a pharmacist endorsement and a town newspaper quote.
Excerpt from Table Talk by William Hazlitt describing a preference for solitude or sociability. The speaker cherishes blue sky green turf and a long walk to dinner, preferring to brood alone rather than engage in empty rhetoric or half-hearted companionship.
A fire guard in Shenandoah National Forest found himself in a tense stand when three bears appeared at the foot of his lookout. With no weapon, he asked to leave for a gun but was told to stay due to fire risk. Youth's Companion later reported the incident.
The French academy will include the English word gentleman in its official dictionary redefining gentilhomme as a nobleman with noble acts and lofty manners. It notes English words like home and phrases such as smoking jacket and dance hall have seeped into French usage, blurring origins.
An ownerless alley dog is abused by adults but befriends children. He leaps into a river to save a boy drowning, and is adopted by the child's family. The formerly mistreated dog becomes a respected companion, no longer an alley dog.
A green countryman returns from New York and mishears metropolis as a place that "wasn't open" in a Boston Transcript quip. The postmaster's puzzled reply highlights linguistic humor from the era.
A waiting passenger observes a melodramatic farewell between an Italian father and son. The old man rants in despair while the son departs to visit a married sister. A companion translates that the worry stems from a season ticket loan and a harsh reaction if it is lost.
Leipzig hosts a colossal monument nearly 800 feet tall called The Battle of the Nations. It required about one million cubic meters of earth for its base and sits within a large enclosure. Nearby Rome's Capitoline monument to Victor Emmanuel II cost about $20 million and took 31 years to finish.
The smallest paper now issued in New York measures about five by six inches. It contains brief news items designed for quick reading, while another local oddity, The Deaf Mutes’ Journal, is a real four page weekly edited by members of a deaf and dumb school.
Cartoon caption quotes a line about a practical joke priced at one dollar that could buy a pork chop, reflecting humorous consumer satire. The remark appears in Cartoons Magazine.
Classified brief offers a good second piano for sale at a low price. Bargain condition implies immediate acceptance, with application through the office for further details and purchase.
Mrs. George M. Burns of Kansas City Missouri reports six months of stomach trouble and indigestion with no appetite and constant nerves. After traveling from Chatauqua Kansas to Sedan to obtain Tanlac she notes improved appetite, nine pound weight gain, stronger health, steady nerves, and ability to do housework. Tanlac sold everywhere. Cervelat Chili Sausages and Special Ham. See Harry E. Paulus.
An advertisement touts genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as safe and prescribed for over twenty years. It urges consumers to accept only an unbroken Bayer package with directions for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain and notes handy tin boxes of 12 tablets for a few cents.
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