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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1923
Page
6
The Edgewood Enterprise reports a man named Brown who sought a local minister claiming his sister died in a Fort Worth auto crash. He begged for the body to be buried in Edgewood and a funeral to be arranged, but funds and delays stalled the plan as locals aided him with small donations and free transport.
A visitor seeks money from a preacher on the day of a funeral, claiming to need funds for arrangements. The preacher declines, and the imposter vanishes after being pressed to accompany him to a bank. The paper vows to pursue the suspect "Brown" to prevent further harm to his supposed relatives.
A piazza trick instructs a friend to stand eight inches from a wall with the side toward the wall and arms relaxed. The person contracts the arm muscles near the wall, moves the arm away until the back of the hand touches the wall, then presses the hand against the wall for about fifteen seconds before relaxing and stepping away.
An old newspaper ad touts The Home Guards Livergard as the supreme laxative and Lungardia as a remedy for coughs colds and sore throat sold by J. L. Kirkpatrick in Dallas Texas with Lungardia Co. as the producer.
A physician explains a patient experiences their arm rising to a near horizontal position without effort, held briefly, then falling. The patient senses an outside force lifting the limb, but the movement is described as a purely physiological phenomenon rather than suggestion.
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