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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1917
Page
3
Local paper from Hillsboro reports the first day of summer, new well near the drug store, visitors from Silver City and Albuquerque, mines suspended briefly, and a string of community notices. Military enlistments, arrivals, and a fatality are noted along with a lively recounting of a baseball game and a quirky department-store quote.
Postmaster General Burleson announces a nationwide ban on liquor advertisements in letters, postal cards and publications under the Heed amendment. The restriction covers at least twenty four states in full plus parts of two others and becomes effective July 1 except where specified. Specific dates apply in Utah Indiana Michigan New Hampshire and Montana. The order also includes Kent county Delaware and ninety one Connecticut towns. A series of unrelated punchlines follow about eye and soul kisses a New York cook and a man seeking a wife without rats or hobble skirts.
An advertisement claims deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers a $100 reward for any case of deafness due to catarrh cured by Hull's Catarrh Care and promotes Take Mall's Family Pills for constipation.
A tale of Henry Clay’s political wit and a Kentucky mountaineer who quits backing him over a bank bill. The hunter compares votes to a rifle that misfires, urging Clay to keep trying and treat him well.
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