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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1920
Page
2
A husband and wife quarrel over a new fur hat and the wife’s tears. He compares her to a tree species while she protests being labeled. The exchange ends with a quip about names reflecting the willow in the name. The piece blends humor with domestic tension and a fold of dialect.
An appreciative listener tells a book agent that he does not want the books but will buy a full set if the agent brings phonograph records of his engaging talk about them. The exchange highlights a barter of spoken performance for a complete collection.
Advertisement style copy asks if the watch can be lent with the buyer arguing time is money. It promotes Dr Peery's Dead Shot as a quick reliable remedy, contrasting with buying many bottles of other patent medicines.
Sir Herbert Tree warned that flattery makes the great small and the small great. He quipped that criticism with butter would claim the critic to be both best of critics and worst of friends, explaining his paradox to a surprised critic.
At the Jungie Hop Mrs. Chimp reports George Giraffe hurt his neck while dancing cheek to cheek with Heloise Hippo. Mrs. Rhino arrives asking how it happened. The Buffalo Express notes the gaff in social scene chatter.
The new baby brother sleeps while Mary Elizabeth is chided for playing and laughing aloud. She complains that since the baby came she cannot even whisper laughter.
The state high court ruled that cities may not levy automobile for hire license taxes above $1 per the state law. Hallman Fink, convicted in Cabarrus county for operating without the $20 license, saw the case reversed. The decision challenges municipal ordinances taxing for hire cars beyond the general tax.
A mixed fragment lists Diamond Dyes claiming simple directions for upgrading worn garments and draperies with fadeless color. It also includes an ad style claim for Hall's Catarrh Medicine with a money back promise and a sidebar about dyes and color cards.
The text states that Russian platinum production has almost ceased with Russia historically supplying about 90 percent of the world’s output and the United States consuming about half of global production.
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