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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1920
Page
3
An advertisement touts Prickly Ash Bitters as a purifier and tonic for body and brain at $1.50 a bottle from Llano Drug Co. It warns against spending money on tobacco while family gas is scarce and parodies a literary style for an English news notice.
In Camden Arkansas a farmer bragged of taters for sale but left before his ad appeared provoking the paper to joke No Taters No Free Advertising. The piece blends humor about missing notices with a spoof on rocking chairs praised by French scholars and a Texas county clerk seal note from 1920.
A Northern newspaper previews the rocking chair tracing its journey from ancient Egypt ruins to 18th century invention in America. The piece notes European skepticism and the chair’s long association with New World innovations alongside ice water and steam heat.
The state commands publication of a probate citation in Llano County Texas for estate of E B Morgan deceased. G G Thorp seeks appointment as administrator with hearings set October 11 1920 at the Llano County Courthouse. Interested parties must appear and answer the application.
Report notes men in Miz country who would confront chain lightning if they believed it to be tainted by alcohol. The observation highlights cautionary attitudes toward dangerous feats and potential risk behaviors among local men.
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