Old Tidings of Tickville Mixes Small Town Doings
In Tickville, Fisby Hancock notes a note due as quiet times return. Trustees at Wild Onion School discuss a possible new teacher but decide the current small building cannot easily accommodate one. Clab Hancock appears in a new derby. A stranger pockets Poke Eazley at a Tickville show last Saturday, skipping sixty five cents hidden in a shoe. Frisby Hancock comments on the Tidings’ need to keep weekly publication to fix prior errors. Club Hancock shoots at crows mistaken for last spring’s corn raiders. Bounding Billows storekeeper expresses faith in people’s honesty despite past missteps.
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Fisby Hancock
Wild Onion School
Clab Hancock
Poke Eazley
Tickville
Frisby Hancock
Hancock
Afternoon Slim Pickins Weighs In On Gains
A humorous local note describes Slim Pickins stepping on scales unseen, reporting a satisfactory yearly gain amid general conditions. A well dressed man sells a sure proposition to locals while Atlas Peck prefers stock to bricks, and Sile Kilden upgrades glasses after meeting the Tin Peddler. Yam Sims advertises a growing hog for sale or trade, Fletch Henstep receives Congress garden seed, and Poke Eazley returns with a new store bought comb attracting family changes.
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Slim Pickins
Slim
Atlas Peck
Sile Kilden
Yam Sims
Fletch Henstep
Congress
Poke Eazley
Rat Snap Claim Ad Claims Seven Large Rats in Morning
A Woodbridge New Jersey user praises RAT-SNAP claiming seven large dead rats were collected the morning after use. The ad notes previous rat kills of 18 chicks in one night, two week guarantee, three cake sizes, and sale by Wilson-Montgomery Hardware Co. and Dyer and Jones.
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B. E. Carpenter
Woodbridge
N. J
Wilson-Montgomery Hdw. Co
Dyer and Jones
Notice to laundry patrons cash on delivery
Laundry service warns customers that payments must be made on delivery. They cannot carry small or weekly accounts and will return unpaid bundles to the store. Call No 37 to schedule pickups. agent Olen Looney asks for cooperation.
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Palm Beach
Olen Looney
Cures Sickness in a Tank by Air Pressure Therapy
A Kansas City physician treats rheumatism neuritis heart disease high blood pressure gout hookworm paralysis and other maladies by placing patients in a steel tank and increasing air pressure from 5 to 20 psi. Treatments run 3 to 12 hours daily. The 88 by 10 foot Pullman style tank holds 72 patients at a time and cost about $55000 to install.
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Kansas City
Quinine That Does Not Affect the Head Patent Medicine
Advertisement for LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE touts tonic and laxative effects with no nervousness or head ringing. Claims superiority over ordinary Quinine and urges readers to note the signature of E. W. GROVE. Price is 30c.
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E. W. Grove
Colonel on Lees Personal Staff Dies in Richmond
Colonel Thomas Mann Randolph Talcott aged 82, longtime member of General Robert E. Lees personal staff, died at his Richmond home after a long life. Only Rev. Giles Buckner Cooke of Mathews Courthouse Va remains as one of the 24 wartime officers who served on Lees staff.
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Richmond
Thomas Mann Randolph Talcott
Robert E. Lee
Giles Buckner Cooke
Mathews Courthouse
Lee
Friends of Mr. Bailey Meet in Dallas
A call from Senator Bailey's supporters for a state wide conference of "Unterri fied Democrats" to meet in Dallas on Saturday May 15 aims to unite the anti administration faction for the upcoming gubernatorial campaign. Former Senator J W Bailey will continue in the race and organizers seek statewide organization.
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MR. Bailey
Dallas
May &Th
Bailey
J. W. Bailey
Opposition to Bonus Plan Urged at New York Meeting
A mass meeting urged nationwide opposition to a soldier bonus bill under the City Post Club American Legion and aid to disabled veterans committee. Speakers included U S Senator William H King of Utah and Representative Herbert C Pell Jr of New York. The meeting voted to oppose the bonus plan and push for care for disabled veterans and dependents of the dead.
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New York
City Post Club
American Legion
Committee For Aid To
United States
William H. King
Utah
Herbert C. Pell Jr
No Worms in a Healthy Cil Changes to Health Tonic Ad
An advert discusses worms in children and claims GROVE S TASTELESS chill TONIC enriches blood improves digestion and strengthens the body to dispel worms after two to three weeks. It touts pleasant taste and low price. A stray political line about Bolshevik rage and a chorus appears amid the ad text.
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Grove
Build Strong With Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
Do you feel weak and cough or鼻? This nature remedy claims to restore vigor and protect against colds. Made from wild roots and barks including wild cherry bark with stillingia and Oregon grape root, the Medical Discovery supposedly aids digestion and blood formation to resist illness. Send 10¢ for trial tablets or Catarrh Tablets to Pierce’s Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo, New York.
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Dr. Pierce
Dr. Sage
DE Pierce
Invalids
Buffalo
N.Y
With your fingers you can lift off corns and calluses
A tiny bottle of Freezone at drug stores promises quick relief for hard corns soft corns and corn between toes. Apply a few drops to the affected area and the product claims to numb pain and remove the corn or callus root and all without pain.
Rant on old-time workday values from Walt Mason
A terse verse laments postwar shifts away from traditional labor ideals. The speaker warns that spending and praise of others lead to social decay while urging individual effort and skepticism of modern politics. The poem condemns reliance on leaders and questions the direction of society.
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Walt Mason
Dallas Visitor Dr J B Hall Spends Saturday
Dr J B Hall, a Dallas visitor, spent Saturday in the city touring local sites and meeting residents. He expressed interest in regional developments and spoke with community leaders about potential collaborations.
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J. B. Hall
Dallas
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S. C. Horton
James B. Ledberry
Williams Mill Mpg. Company OF Ark
Texarkana, Ark
Williams Mill Manufacturing Co
Ark
Texarkana
McCarty-Davis Co
the Man’s Store
the Sun and
Dallas News
Hannibal
Williams
James B. Sedberry
Williams Mill Manufacturing Company of
Blue Ridge
Real Truck Service
City Meat Market
Garland & Hileman Proprietors
Mary D. Oil Co
W. M. Flemming
Sherman
Texas
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