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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1922
Page
2
An old Bayer aspirin advertisement touts genuine Bayer tablets with directions and affordable pricing. It warns against counterfeit packs and notes the product as a salicylate from Bayer Manufacture in a period voice.
Financial review contrasts US gross debt to per capita figures and notes 1922 receipts and deficits. An adjacent promotional message urges readers to pursue action through Tyler Commercial College with courses in shorthand bookkeeping cotton classing telegraphy and finance, offering correspondence options and a free catalog.
The 18 month old baby of dancer Evan Burrows Fontaine is named Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Jr by the mother who explains the child wants a name not gold. The dispute follows Whitney’s engagement to Marie Norton and Fontaine’s claim he sought marriage while at Yale, a claim she says damaged his career.
A short classified note invites readers to place 25¢ want ads in the Pecos Enterprise with quick cash for items like chickens and eggs. Contact J. W. Moore for posting details, listed as Pecos Toxtas.
Fragmentary OCR reads a timestamp and code sequence 11 258 with notation PM. No clear event or names to identify. Possible log entry or schedule note. Further readable context needed to determine subject.
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