Hogwallow News: Tiny town misadventures stitched in humor
The Postmaster laments upside down stamps while Calves wander, jailer hires a prisoner, and households swap irons. Rain harms Poke Eazley crops, Boundings Billows slashes shoe prices, and single folks seek matches. A stray cat and dog arrive at Jefferson Potlocks, while moonshine stills elude a Musket Ridge detective.
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Clair Hancock
Tickville
Tobe Moseley
Tobe
Yam Sims
Sile Kilden
Jefferson Potlocks
Jeff
Flutie Belcher
Sid Hocks
Musket Ridge
By Their Fruits and the Quiet Man of Faith
The piece recalls a plain working man who attended a small church as a quiet listener. When a poor wife faced ruin, he stepped forward with aid, guiding her from despair, while the narrator reflects on weather as a metaphor for genuine service. The author Austin Callan urges that real acts of mercy nourish humanity like rain reviving a garden.
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Austin Callan
666 Quick Remedy Fights Constipation and Liver Torpor
A brief medical notice promotes 666 as fast relief for constipation biliousness loss of appetite and headaches caused by torpid liver. The claim ties the remedy to digestive and systemic discomfort without clinical endorsement. It markets a simple treatment with listed benefits and common ailments.
The Country Weekly Motto Embracing Home Journal Life
A compact statement by B. A. defines the Country Weekly as the home minded chronicler of birth love and death the market connector and messenger of goods and news. It portrays the paper as a broad community voice serving readers young and old with comfort inspiration and history in weekly form.
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Country
Wets Find New Homes In Dry Nation List Places
A humorous list targets thirsty readers by naming towns with alcohol themed names such as Rye New York Bourbon Illinois Green River Kentucky Cliquot Missouri Champaign Illinois Brandy City California Port Oklahoma Sherry Texas Brandywine West Virginia Brandy Key Kentucky Brandy Camp Pennsylvania Gina Massachusetts Wine Virginia Tank Pennsylvania Booze Tennessee Drinker Pennsylvania Aqua Virginia Vichy Missouri Lithia Florida. Take your pick.
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Rye
N. Y
Bourbon, Ill
Green River
Cliquot
Champaign
Brandy City
Cal
Port
Okla
Sherry
Tex
Brandywine
W. Va
Brandy Key
Brandy Camp
Gina
Mass
Wine
Tank
Tenn
Drinker
Aqua
Vichy
Lithia
Fla
No Worms in a Healthy Child
An advertisement claims that children with worms show poor color and stomach issues. It promotes GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC as a two to three week remedy that enriches blood aids digestion and strengthens the whole system to dispel worms. It emphasizes pleasant taste and a 60 cent price per bottle.
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Grove
Railroad Time Table Ad for Sugar Cane Service
An old newspaper fragment promotes a railroad time table with a fountain service by P. J. Pierce & Sons of Sugar Cane. The note describes sugar cane growth, stalks tall and narrow leaves, resembling corn and reaching 15 to 18 feet, with harvest after ripening sent to a sugar mill.
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Pdackie
Coca-Cola Company
Atlanta, GA
the Country Weekly
the Sun
R. May, M.D. Ross
R. May
B.s.md
Kirkpatrick’s
Res
Dr. D. M. Durham
J. B. Hall
G. J. Hornbuckle
Office
R. B. Nall
Commercial Bank Building
Sherman, Texas
Wilbur Carter
Kelly Building
Hubert Bookout
Henry Wilson
Bookout & Wilson
Linz Annex
Sherman
Texas
Jas. D. Buster
Commercial Bank Bldg
R. C. Hoyle Chiropractor
Whitewright
P. J. Pierce & Sons
South Bound
Wood Oesheeseoetlers Socass
North Bound
Sun
Hudson, Davis & Co
Armstrong & Company
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Pep
Ford
Bob Sears
Whitewright, Texas
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