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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02
RHEUMATISM

is completely washed out OF the sys-
tenn by TIE celebrated Shivar Mineral
Water. Positively guaranteed by
money-back offer. Tastes fine; costs
trifie. Delivered anywhere By McRae
Grocery Co.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02
Poodle Dog Lost.

Lost, a nearly white poodle dog,
aged 6 months, answering to
name OF "Topsy." Strayed last
Saturday night. Reward for re-
turn to Express Office.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02
Tire Lost.

Lost, a United States Usco-tred
tire, 3OA3A, on rim, between
Rockingham and Everett's Pond.
Reward for return to Post-Dis-
patch office.
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of two rooms which will be use
as music rooms" These room
will be tastefully fitre. Up, an
in them will be kept their mus
cal instruments, records, etc
His Rockingham friends are gla,
to note the success of "Nath'
in our sister town.
\ Williamson won the champion
ship of the Eastern Carolina Base
ball League.
Mrs. Amanda Hart left Wed
nesday for Oxford and Norlin;
to visit friends.
Mrs. Frank Cole, Jr., and chi.
dren, of Norlina, spent the week
end with Mrs. Frank Cole er
route to Stanly.
The Richmond Garage Satur.
day bought two-ton Patriot
truck from the Dixie Motor Co
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Green and
Mrs. Pete Green and baby re.
turned Sunday from a visit to
Mrs. w. M. Russell, at Star.
Col. John S. Cunningham, Fed.
eral Prohibition Director, spent
Monday in the city comforting
with local officials regarding en-.
forcement of the prohibition law.
Miss Bernice Turner, principal
Of the Elementary department OF
the city school, and teacher OF
the first grade, returned here
Sunday night after a visit to her
relatives at Statesville.
Mrs. A. c. Everett and Hous.
ton Everett went to Burlington
Tuesday and will return Friday.
Mrs. Everett goes to visit a
school friend.
Mrs. Fannie Dunn Monday
moved into the house opposite
the Baptist church that was for.
merly occupied by H. L. Guthrie.
She will continue her boarding
house there. The r. B. Napiers
are fixing up the house vacated
by Mrs. Dunn, and will move
in in a few days.
Mr.. H. B. Humphrey has
moved his optometrical Office to
the Office vacated by T. T. Cole,
and which was formerly used by
Smiths Print Shop. This gives
MIR. Humphrey an Office on the
first floor and on Main street.
He is installing a cutting ma.
chine to better serve those seek.
ing spectacles etc.
Ellen Terry, colored, daughter
of Calvin Terry, who was shot
by Watt Dockery May End and
whose life was despaired of, is
slowly partially recovering. The
bulletlodged in her spinal column,
and she is practically paralyzed
from the waist down. She can
sit in a chair. now but must be
propped. \ Watt Dockeay has as
vet not been apprehended; he is
said to have Led to Virginia.
Some ONO passing an auto on
the courthouse square last Satur-
day morning overheard two men
sitting therein planning for a va
cation. Tie men were Milt
Fowlkes and Bob Ledbetter.
But perhaps the said M. F.. and
B. L. will liken this to a woman
making lightbread-b she
and we knead something to fill
up with.)
Mr.. R. F. MCGEE, of South
Carolina, a graduate of Clemson
College, has recently accepted a
position with the fadkin River
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02

Read the Post Dispatch. 1t
gives you the news, and is
worth the iii Of $500.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02

! DenH6Ll-LOVlngtOn reunion &C
] count on page 16.
Mrs. Sallie Shankle went to Mt
Gilead Sunday to spend a month
with her brother.
Miss Helen Long and Elizabeth
Shaw are visiting Miss Mossie
Long, at Duke.
4. Mr.. ]. c. Clark returned Satur.
day after spending a week in
Norfolk and Durham.
/ Miss Carrie Calling returned
Saturday from a ten days visit
with friends at Norwood.
DR.. and Mrs. F. D. Austion and
children, spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Williams.
State College opens Sept. 9TH,
Meredith the 7th, Peace Institute
the 9th, St. Mary's the 10th.
R. B. Terry, of Laurens, S. c.,
came here Saturday night to
spend ten days with his relatives.
Owing to slack business, the
Seaboard Ry will Saturday lay
off 81 men from the Raleigh
shops.
Born, this Thursday after
noon to Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E.
Smitter, a daughter, Ruth Hen
drika.
Beginning next Sunday the
Library will resume Sunday,
hours the same as week days:
from 3 to six p. m.
The French prize fighter, Car
pentier,, in pictures at Opera
House Wednesday and Thurs
day of next week.
Mrs. D. c. Galloway and daugh-
ter. of Hamlet, spent the week
end with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Alfred.
Mrs. ]. LeGrand Everett went
Wednesday to Four Oaks to at
tend a district Missionary meet
ing. She will return Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gather and son
and w. R. Culberson, J., left here
this afternoon in their Car for
Statesville; they will return next
Tuesday.
E. B. Terry and family, and
Herbert w. and Miss Sarah Belle
Terry will return tonight from a
two weeks visit in Durham and
other points. f f
Mrs. Don Clement, formerly
Miss Alice Vanderford, came
Wednesday night from Salisbury
to spend a week with Mrs. H. c.
Wall.
Mrs. D. L. Coppedge and chill
dren spent from Monday to We'd
nesday in Raleigh with Mrs. R.
M. Chamblee, formerly Miss
Jesse kirkland.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Alfred, Mr..
and Mrs. D. c. Galloway, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charlie Alfred motored to
Jackson Springs and Pinehurst
Sunday.
Marlborough Pegues, Jr., came
Wednesday night to visit rela-
tives here for a couple of weeks.
He will enter the Citidal at
Charleston this fall.
Mr.. w. A. Frye and wife and
four children will leave Midway
Monday for Raleigh where they
will work, Mr.. Frye with the
Seaboard and the children at
Pilot mills.
Mrs. Ray Baucom, of Chester,
Pa, will go to Asheville about
Sept. 18th; Mr.. Baucom will join.
her there a couple of weeks later
and then they will come to Rock
ingham for visit.
Miss Effie Eugene Ingram re-
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-03-12
GOVERNMENT MAY TAKE OIL
INDUSTRY IN HAND AGAIN
Shipping Board Fails to Get Bids for
Even a Small Portion of
Fuel Oil, Needed

WashingtOn March 6-Failm'e of the
shipping board to secure bids for even
a small proportion of the oil fuel need
ed for its ships during the year be-
ginning April ], has brought the sug-
gestion that President Wilson might
be urged to invoke his war powers to
meet the situation. Restoration of full
control over the oil industry might be
necessary. it was said
Shipping board officials said its fuel
situation was very serious On pro-
posals of 24,0O0.000 barrels, they re-
ceived yesterday bids on 100000 at
prices ranging from as TO 90 per cent
higher than last year. Existing con-
tracts viii expire within the next three
weeks and at no point has the board
a reserve supply for more than few
days.
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NEEDFIRE OLD FOLK CUSTOM
Part of the Ritual of Publication That
Has Survived in Scotland Until
Recently.

In folk CUSTOM needfire is fire kim
died by friction of two sticks of wood
or of rope on a wooden stake to
ward off demons of disease. Among the
many customs and beliefs connected
with fire one of the most important is
that of ritual publication. The new
fire is supposed to regenerate, as fire
sacrifice is designed to sustain, the
invisible beings. Needfire is a prac-
tice, usually, of shepherd peoples TO
ward off disease from the fiocks. In
historic times the sparks for kindling
the needfire were obtained by twirling
a wooden peg around wooden post.
AS in the case of new fire, the need
fire was almost always accompanied
with the extinguishing of the fires of
the locality, and the neighbors also
rekindled their fires from it as in the j.
new fire ceremony. In practice, the
people passed. or the herds were driy-
en- through or between the flames OF
the needfire for publication. The need
fire custom survived in the highlands
of Scotland until recent date, and
probably traces of this superstition
still exist in parts of Europe.
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TIRED OF HIS LITTLE SPREE
RUNAWAY" Canary Glad to Be Back
in the Comfort and Safety
of His Home.

Mrs. Robert Tomlinson of Martins
vile has canary that answers to
the name of Woody, relates the Indi-
annapolis News. Last fall the bird es-
capped from the cage and flew away.
Immediately the whole town was
asked TO keep its figurative eye on
Woody. He was reported here and
there, feeding with the town sparrows.
Mrs. B. would call up and say that she
had seen him, but by the time his
owner came he was gone
For whole month Woody cavorted
around with the pests of the neighbor-
hood. Then dark. rainy days began
to dawn. Still Woody stayed with the
sparr0ws. A neighbor called up from
the other side of the town one day
and said that Woody was sitting
around in her trees, the very picture
of despair. There is little doubt that
he was thinking of his warm cage
at home. SO his owner HE'D herself
over to the spot and hung his cage
in one of the trees. Then she went
In to gossip. The rain continued to
fall and presently Woody hoped into
his cage and the tragedy was over,
for that night he had his regular warm
spot in the dining room.
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Brotherhoods to Try New Bill.

| Washington, March 3. - Definite
steps were taken yesterday toward set.
Element of the railway wage contro-
versy. pending since August. Repre-
sentatives of railroad workers with the
exception of one group. agreed to CO.
operate with the government and the
railroads in giving a trial of the new
transportation act with its arbitration
clauses and President Wilson, in let
ters to both the association of railway
executives and heads of the - work
ers' organizations. requested that they
select representatives to sit on the BIZ
partisan wage board. Prompt action
was urged by the president so that the
negotiations between employer and en-
ploye might not longer be delayed.
The group of workers which has not
entered into the agreement was the
Employees and Shop Laborers, which
recently Withdrew from conferences
between union heads and the railroad
administration Committeeman from
the locals of the maintenance union,
however, will meet in Chicago tomor-
row and it was believed would follow
the lead of the other workers.
In a statement last night, the union
Spokesman declared that While they
could not approve of the transporta-
ton act they had agreed TO aid in
giving the lawsa trial "in the interest
of railroad labor and 'as American
citizens"
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CAL0M Ell!
It's Mercuryl Quick
sllverl Shocks the
Liver-Dangerl

You're bilious, but take "Cascarets"
You have throbbing sensation in your
head, bad taste in your mouth, your
eyes burn, your skin is yellow, with
dark rings under your eyes; your lips
are parched, your bowels are consti-
pated. No wonder you feel foggy,
mean and ill-tempered. You need Cas-
carets tonight. Don't continue being
a bilious nuisance to yourself and
those who love you, and don't resort
TO harsh physics that irritate and in
jure. Remember that most disorders
of the stomach, liver and bowels are
ended by morning with gentle, harm
less Cascarets-they work while you
sleep, never grippe, shock, sicken or in
convenience you. They're grand ADV.
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B0SCHEE'S SYRUP.

A cold is probably the most COM
mon of all disorders and when neglect
ed is apt to be most dangerous. Sta
tistics show that more than three
times as many people died from in
fiuenza lavt year, as were killed in
the greatt5t war the world has ever
known. For the last fifty-three years
Boschee's Syrup has been used for
coughs. bronchitis, colds, throat ir-
ritation and especially lung troubles.
1t gives the patient good nights
rest, free from coughing, with easy
expectoration in the morning. Made
In America and used in the homes of
thousands of families all over the
civilized world. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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STOP CATARRH! OPEN
N0STRILS AND HEAD
Says Cream Applied in NostriIs Re-
Iieves Head-CoIds at Once.

Ii your n0strils are clogged and
your head is stuffed and you can't
breathe freely because of cold or
catarrh. just get a small bottle of
Eiy's Cream Balm at any drug store.
Apply little of this fragrant, anti
septic cream into your nostrils and let
1t penetrate through every air passage
of your head, soothing and healing
the infiamed, swollen mucous MEM
brane and you get instant relief.
All! How good it feels. Your nos
trils are open, your head is clear, no
more hawking, snuff1ing, blowing; no
more headache, dryness or struggling
for breath. Ely's Cream Balm is Just
what sufferers from head colds and
catarrh need. It's Delightfully."-.
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Crew shaekIed. Ship Reaches U. S.

Norfolk, Va, March 6.-The shipping
board steamship Poughkeepsie, with
"a members of the crew in irons
guarded by bluejackets from destroy
ers, arrived Thursday at Hampton
Roads. Department of justice agents
brought the prisoners to Norfolk last
night for arraignment before the Unit
ed States commissioner.
Cable dispatches from Hamilton,
Bermuda. said members of the crew
of the steamer had mutinied February
. when their articles expired.
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side and back stopped paining, and
kidneys acted normally. / could sleep
well at night which / couldn't do be-
fore. certainly advise anyone suffer-
ing from kidney disorders TO use the
Anuric Tablets. Mrs. Louise Gilfl-
Ian, 289 State st.
The kidneys and bladder suffer from
the wear and tear and we get chronic
infiammations sometimes indicated by
backache, painful voiding of water
dull, heavy feelings. Perhaps the uric
acid is stored up in the system in
excessive amount, and consequently
when the urate salts are deposited in
muscles and joints one suffers from
lumbago (pain in back) rheumatic
pains, govt, etc.
Nothing will act so nicely as "Anu-
ric" (anti-uric-acid), recent discovery
of DR.. Pierce's which can be had at all
drug stores. "Anuric" washes away the
poisons, cleanses the bladder and kid
neys-rendering them antisepGc-con-
sequently one is soon cured of lum-
bago, rheumatism, govt, and the body
is put into clean, healthy state.
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RAILROADS GIVEN
BACK TO OWNERS
U. S. RELEASES CONTROL, HELD
FOR 20 MONTHS, OF 2so
LINES
HINES STILL HAS HUGE TASK
Will Stay in office Until May I and
Settle Demands. - Brotherhoods
Will Cooperate and Give New
Law Tryout
HINES STILL HAS HUGE TASK

Washington March 1---America'S raj
transportation systems, operated as one
great public utility since Dec 2S.s 1917
| again were divided among their 30 re-
spectiye owners when the government.
released control at midnight Direc-
tor General Hines. as the agent of the
president, handed over the properties
and equipment, valued at approximate
1y $4,000 900, 100000, to their old direc-
tors free except for the jurisdiction re-
tanned by the government in the rail
road reorganization bill.
While all arrangements for formal
restoration of the carriers to their
owners We're completed Saturday by
Mr.. Hines. Instructions went out yes
terday to operating representatives in
forming them that they would report
TO the proper officials of the corpora
tons, which resume control at 1901
a. a., March L.
Of the gigantic organization created
by former Director General McAdoo
as a wartime expedient, only a small
put VIII iCHitllll INCSiOitbi blIlCldlS,
federal managers and treasurers and
many high officials comprising the di-
rector generals staff, ceased to func-
ton as such at the designated hour
Some of these have gone back to their
former places as officials of the cor
porations. While others have entered
into new lines of endeavor.
Mr. Hines will continue in his pres
ent capacity until about May /. Al
though without any railroads to direct |
he still faces the settlement of literal |
Iy thousands of claims, contracts and |
grievances Only 147 of the 230 COM
)ensation contracts with the corpora
ions actually were signed during the
government control, and the remain
Ter will continue to be the subject of
With the lines again under private
control there will be almost immedi-
ltely resumption of their days of
Corporation heads have
months. The various roads will at
empt to divide again the business
which has been handled jointly during
ederal control, reports indicated.
The roads go back TO private control
lnder largely new conditions. The
abroad bill, signed last night by the
resident. gives the systems certain !.
ew privileges, but as an offset it en-
argos the interstate commerce COM 1.
lission, both in power and personnel.
he corporations no longer are mas
ars completely of their bond issues,
or are they allowed to stand solidly
gainst labor, for labor's demands, if :
OF met by arbitration and negotia- !
ons between the parties concerned,
D to the high court provided in the
III and on which sit. in addition to
Dor and railroad representatives, pub
5 representatives as well.
Development of water transpotra- =
ON, instituted by the railroad admin u
tration. is TO be continued under di- q
ction Of the department. =
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EUROPE TO GET 100000
BARRELS OF YANKEE FLOUR

Washington, March Give million
barrels of federal grain corporation
soft wheat flour will be sold on credit
in Europe soon unless congress author
ICES $50000,000 loans to finance the
sales, julius Barnes. head of the cor
poration, told the house rules commit
tee yesterday. He said he now had au-
thority to make the sales on credit but
hoped the loans would be authorized.
The flour will be sold for $1075 bar
rel.
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Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little
Freezone on an aching corn, instantly
that corn stops hurting, then yoB lift
it right out. Yes, magic ~
A tiny bottle of Freezone~ costs but
few cents at any drug store, but is
sufficient to remove every hard corn,
soft corn, or corn between the toes,
and the calluses, without soreness or
irritation.
Freezone is the sensational dis
covery of Cincinnati genius. 1t is
wOnderful.-Adv.
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OUCH! MY BACK! RUB
LUMBAG0 PAIN AWAY
Rub Backache Away With Small
Trial Bottle of Old "St.
Jacobs OIL"

When your back is sore and lame
or lumbago. sciatica or rheumatism
has you stiffened up, don't suffer Get
small trial bottle of old, honest "St.
Jacobs Oir' at any drug store, pour q
little in your hand and rub it right
on your aching back, and by the time
you count fifty, the soreness and lame
ness is gone. M
Don't stay crippled! This soothing,
penetrating oil needs to be used only
once. 1t takes the pain right out and
ends the misery. 1t is magical, vet
absolutely harmless and doesn't burn
the skin.
Nothing else stops lumbago. sciatica
backache or rheumatism so promptly
1t never disappoints ADV.
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You Can't Cure Rheumatism
With Linirnents and Lotions

If you are afflicted with Rheu-
Hnatism, why waste time with lini-
ments, lotions and other local APP
plications that never did cure
rheumatism, and never will?
Do not try to rub the pain away,
for you never will succeed TRY
the sensible plan of finding the
cause of the pain. Remove the
cause, and there can be no pain.
You will never be rid of Rheuma-
tism until you cleanse your blood
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rs occupation conc.

X-That burglar client of yours
doesn't seem very grateful to you for
getting him acquitted.
Y-He says proved him so innocent
that his pals daren't trust him with
big job-London Answers.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-03-12

OF the germs that cause the dis
ease. S. S. S. has no equal as a
blood cleanser, scores of sufferers
say that it has cleansed their
blood of Rheumatism, and remov-
ed all trace of the disease from
their system.
Get bottle of S. S. S. at your
drug store and get on the right
treatment to-day. If you want
special medical advice, address
Medical Director. 40 Swift Labora-
tory, Atlanta, Ga.
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RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.

To half pint of water add / o. Bay Rum,
small box of Barbo Compound, and 4
OF. of glycerine. Apply to the hair twice a
week until it becomes the desired shade.
ANY druggist can put this up or you can
mix it at home at very little cost. 1t will
gradually darken streaked, faded gray hair,
and will make harsh hair soft and glossy.
1t will not color the scalp, is not sticky or
greasy, and does not rub off.--Adv.
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NAME "BAYER" ON
GENUINE ASPIRIN
"Bayer Cross, on Aspirin like Sterling" on silver.

'Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" marked
with the safety "Bayer Cross" can be
taken without fear because you are
getting the true. world-famous Aspirin,
prescribed by physicians for over Is
years.
Always buy an unbroken package of
"Bayer Tablets of Aspirin which con-
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How,x This2

We offer $1,000 for any case of catarrh
that cannot be cured by HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is taxi
en- internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
Sold by druggists for over forty years.
Price 75c. Testimonials free.
F. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-03-12

For your daughters sake, use Red
Cross Ball Blue in the laundry. She
will then have that dainty, well-groom-
ed appearance that girls admire. sc.
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cuticura Soap for the Complexion.

cuticura Soap for the Complexion.
Nothing better than Cuticura Soap
daily and Ointment now and then as
needed to make the complexion clear,
scalp clean and hands soft and white.
Add to this the fascinating, fragrant
Cuticura Talcum and you have the
Cuticura Toilet Trio.-Adv.
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Doubtful.

'Do you think their compilations
are natural?" Il don't know, but they
call them the camouflage twins.o
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Forty commandments could have
been put into the Mosaic law, but ten
were considered enough. w
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Looked Like 1t.

Clerk-You can't keep me down.
Employer-What are you trying to
do, hold me up?
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Public schools can teach the speak
ing of good English, but environment
teaches harder
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Show us a man who thinks he under
stands women and we'll show you a
gold brick buyer.
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Nothing TO Prevent.

Caudle-Did the robbers escape?
Gable-0h. yes; easily. The Off
GERS trailed them with bloodhounds.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-03-12

Burnt sienna is paint manufac-
tured from the natural earth obtained
near Sienna, Italy.
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tains proper directions TO safely relieve
Colds, Headache. Toothache, Earache,
Neuralgia, Lumbago, rheumatism, Neu-
ritis, Joint Pains. and Pain generally.
Handy tin boxes of twelve tablets
cost but a few cents. Druggists also
sell larger "Bayer" packages. Aspirin
is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Salicylieacid.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-03-12

There is usually room at the top of
a mans head for hair.
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A popular poet can show his ac
quaintances real money.
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married cynic's idea of wise guy
Is a fellow who had chance to marry
bis wife but didn't.