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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1920
Page
2
Advertisement from International Stocking Mills seeking men or women to take orders among friends and neighbors for a guaranteed hosiery line for men women and children. Eliminates darning. Pay cents per hour for spare time or 249 dollars per week for full time. Experience unnecessary. Write Norristown Pa.
Erastus Pinkly quips about wanting to be procrastinated at a hex corner while a conductor demands calm. The exchange centers on the meaning of procrastinate, which the speaker notes he had to look up in a dictionary.
The American Red Cross announces a fiscal year budget July 1 1920 to July 1 1921 totaling 48 200 000 with 21 000 000 for foreign relief and 1 700 000 for domestic activities. It notes 21 000 000 less than 1919 20 and 69 400 000 spent in 1910 20.
A farm silage incident ends in two boys dead after a gas exposure and rope rescue efforts fail. An adjacent wildlife tale describes a dramatic African elephant and a hunter who narrowly escapes as the beast charges and climbs a hill with explosive force.
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