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Lickskillet Items From The Bloomington Star
A jumble of small town notices and humorous items from Bloomington includes almanacs offered free for 1921, jokes to be read at a barber shop, local gossip about Ann Long and Ann Hawkins, church mishaps with falling stovepipe, a plan to gift the pastor pink suspenders, a milk incident, doctored digestion talk, a Gosport quartet serenade, drink odor rumors, and Aunt Sally Hawkins hatching eggs amid church animal cruelty threats.
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Love Ann Long
Gosport
Union
Baptist Church
Love Ann
Arminta Jones