HOGWALLOW NEWS Lighter Local Tales And Quips
A morning chase by a cow unsettles Raz Barlow while Poke Barley limps on a sore foot. Sidney Hocks retires from the Ex celsior Fiddling Band and ponders music studies. Rat holes in Rye Straw store invite questions. cricket mite hunt planned. Frisby Hancock jokes about horses, Tin Peddler retorts. Rye Straw cat disappears. proprietor replaces watchful eye on rat holes. Slim Pickens weighs to no effect. a twin’s watchweek misfortune. Peachie and Yam Sims aid a passerby. The Old Miser tightens lending as cogs creak. Tickville gains a new one story business next to the livery. Mail Carrier’s tale ends before the excerpt.
Local oddities and roadside antics reported this morning
A driver repeatedly moved a large rock blocking the road to Bounding Billows, saying he plans to keep doing it. Jefferson Potlocks muses that life alternates between woes, and Atlas Peck’s wife hung an old meal sitter outside to watch flies struggle against it.
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Atlas Peck
Valley Farm Four Act Play At Whitewright City Hall
On last Thursday night the American Legion benefit in Whitewright presented Valley Farm a four act play at City Hall. The entertainment featured good acting music by the local band and other interludes between acts. Though not heavily advertised the show was well received and worth attending, with crowd size smaller due to competing attractions.
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American Legion
Whitewright
Valley Farm
Leonard Graphic
Fashion Found Wanting Policeman Exchange
A London Opinion cartoon caption shows a policeman demanding a boy recall his missing mother. The boy answers he could not reach her skirt. The item pairs humor with a claim about cures for dengue fever, labeled with page numbers 666 and 923.
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Alfred
London
Are Apricots So Named and Its Etymology
The piece traces the origin of apricot from apricock to praecox, linking the fruit name to the term precocious. It explains the shared roots in Latin and Greek for “early ripe,” noting the apricot’s Armenia origin and its early spring flowering. The closing line advertises Willard Battery from R. S. Morehead.
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Armenia
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Cure for Catarrh
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a tonic for repeated colds and acute catarrh. It states the remedy builds up the system and cleanses the blood, acting on mucous surfaces. It guarantees cure or $100 against catarrh, with testimonials and Toledo, Ohio as the company base.
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Hall
Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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Hogwallow News
Dunk Botts
Raz Barlow
Sidney Hocks
Excelsior Fiddling Band
Ellick Helwanger
Cricket Hicks
Frisby Hancock
Frisby
Rye Straw
Slim Pickens
Tickville
Peachie Sims
Yam Sims
Fletcher Henstep
Jefferson Potlocks
Dig Uteller Sez
Dyer & Jones
Rexall Store
E. W. Grove
Willard
R. S. Morehead
Ift
Swift & Company
Swift
U.S. A
The
Lerand
Beene
Chesterfield
Liccett & Myrrs
Toracco Co
Fordson Tractor
John Yeager
Sears Auto Co
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