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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1895
Page
7
A collage of notes from the Bremo area includes weathered bits: a summer girl’s travel or wager, clever racers, and a tale of Visnila’s two one-armed bikeists. Local mischief, a legal stumble in Lakeport, and a Fresno County feature on 160 acres promoting small farms appear alongside jovial anecdotes about Captain J. W. Smith and a drugstore kidney cure.
A group of six young lawyers at the courthouse recounted a joke they heard about a widow consulting a spiritualist to contact her dead husband. The punch line involved a spirit noting the husband’s location with a casual greeting, provoking mixed reactions from the widow.
An old time ad promotes Hucklen's Armor Salve claimed to heal cuts bruises sores ulcers fever sores tetter chapped hands blisters and other eruptions with a money back guarantee. 25 cents per box offered by Kingston and a ticket agent publicizing cheap summer excursion tickets to Michigan points at the lowest rates.
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