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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-08-15
Un pastor quiso salvar eI alma
de su esposa y de su suegra y
por ESQ las mato

Dixon consinti6 bendijo Ia union
que hizo la linda Willie May esposa
de Elliot Padrick.
Despu6s vino el cruel golpe. Fue
designado otro ministro para ell pasto-
RADIO de Greens Cut Padrick Sc alar-
mo. Lego en- su biblia 10 que result
taba de las mujereS que Sc pintaban
ell rostro, Y un dfa vic que Willie May
usaba ell rouge V Sc avergonz0.
Tn frenesf religioso Sc apoder0 de
el v denunci0 su esposa ante su ma
su mujer "viviera vistiera modesto
mente, como cuadra a una muJer> que
teme Dios" Y orden0 su esposa
que abandonara las medias de seda.
sus lindas kimonas V que dejara su
rostro sin que 10 tocara una gotta de
polvo.
Mrs. Dixon Sc mostr0 resentida con
esas palabras Y temiendo por Ia vida
de su hija, que Elliott Padrick habfa
tie cOIluuclE IL Ill lulellCludu, iS utNOl-
vic sus paiabras con agudas frases
despreciativas para los ''predicadores
habladores''.
Padrick dej6 la casa Sc fue con
su biblia bajo su brazo. Cuatro me-
ses despues de haberse marchado reci-
bio una carta de Willie May hablan-
dole de su amor hacia el y excitandole
que volviera.
LIE lleg6 tambien otra carta Ell su
soledad con los rumores de que Ell
su ausencia Willie May Sc habfa ma
nifestado alegre v amistosa hacia
otros hombres. Ell diablo mismo. di-
jo, Sc apoder6 de Elliott Padrick
cuando lego esa cafta.
Despues a su mente Sc aferr6 una
idea ardiente. Guerra vengar al Sc
nor expuisando del mundo las almas
de Willie May y de su madre. Para
su esposa escribi6 una carta rogando
la que fuera verlo Clito ell su pc
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-08-15
EsTA MEJOR.

Sc encuentra va convaleciente de
la cnfermedad que lie ha retenido en-
cana en- su Residential de Santurce
la simpatica seiiorita Alcjandrina Ga
Thames. Celebramos la mejorfa, de-
seando su complete restablecimiento
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-08-15
PARA MANATI

En- la maiana de hoy salieron para
Manatf, e yisitar la Hacienda Espe-
rnza. los seiiores wenceslao Borda y
A. Murda, que regresan por Ia tardc
de su excursion.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-08-15
Ell coNsTANTE coMENTARIo

Aver Sc dijo en- los cfrculos poll
ticos que el Gobernador Reilly embar-
caba en- ell tresporte "san Miguel q.
esta en- puerto, procedente de Panama,
en- viaje para Nueva York.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-08-15

quelo sedan Pero la pidi6 que fuera
sola. "Tengo una agradab1e sorpresa
para IT, decia. iQuieres venir Y de-
mostralme tu amor? Conffa en- mi
Y dmame.-Elliott' '@t l3l'iua
padrick saba, Y asf 10 dice, que
ella irfa con su madre V los hechos
10 demostraron asf. Con palabras fe-
Ices y suspiroS de amor la salud6 Y
despues lley6 el sedlan hacia Dover,
h2sta que lleearon al puente existen-
te sobre el rio Ogeechee
Lo que aconteci6 ALI. solamente 10
Saben las ranas que croaban en- los
charcales. Tn agricultor que crlNo
mas tarde por el puente. encontr0 ell
sedan Y Ell 81 Mrs. Dixon Y su
hija. muertas por unos disparos.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-08-15

f Los anuncios 6e este peri6dicc
son leidos por miles de personas que
toman rartv en- nuestro CONCURSO
Mandenos su anincio hoy mismo.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-08-15

La Biblid, dice, Ie indic6 10 que teafd
que hacer contra las nujeres que
Sc pi,,ta1s1y Sc empol0an D Sc
ponen medals de sedd, como
hdeia su esposa.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-08-15

CAMISETAS Z PANTALONCI-
LLOS de tela marca ''REIS",
hay todas las rnedidas, reducido
de Is centav0s "a
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-08-15

CAMIsAS DE SEDA, gran va
riedad en- coIores, hay muchas
donde escoger, 3 Dor $40, una
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
ARMS VS.. REASON

"Thcy say We have a military bud
get of five billion francs" says
Clemenccau of France. IL do not
know whether the figure is correct
or not, hut | do know that | have
seen two German invasions and do
not want to try third, and | eager
ly wish our friends in America to un-
derstand this feeling"
Americans think they do under
stand the feeling. But possibly
Americans, being at distance and
less directly influenced by fear and
prejudice, understand Il little bet
ter than Clcmcnccau aud his fellow
countrymen that anything in the way
OF swashbucking " excessive hrmA-
ne"t n;ee"'.t 90 90 1tt,. nc, 80 revenge is the very
best way to invite another invasion
when Germany shall have rrgancd
her strength.
1t is not question of what France
deserves. Americans agNc that she
deserves all that she can possibly get
out Of Germany, and far more. But
it is a question Of calm reason ant
conciliation rs an international pol
icy. Americans are inclined to think
that there is more protection in that
than in big armies.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
VARSITY GIVES SMALL-Poy
KNOCKOUT BLOW

Returning from the Thankspivinu
holidays, the university of Oklahoma
took on the aspects of an army camn
monday morning when the students
filed in line at the administration
building to have their certificates ~
vaccination officially stamped by the
registrar in compliance with an or.
der issued by the board of regents
last week requiring all students and
faculty members to be vaccinated be-
fore returning to the post holiday
classes. When the whistle at the
engineering building screamed out
its warrant that vacation was over at
eight o'clock, the student line had
already formed in front of the reg
istrar's office down the winding
stairs out on the oval and rapidly
grew past the education building, ex.
tending to the law building. No new
cases of small pox have been report
ed in week, and all patients in the
hospital are reported convalescent
so that with this universal response
to vaccination, both at the university
and in the city, marks the end of the
small pox infection in the university
city. i
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
ORR FOREIGN DEBTS

It is said that President Harding
would be glad to give prize for a
practical suggestion for the collection
of foreign debts to the United States.
While no definite reward has been Of
fered by the White House. there is no
doubt that workable debt program
would deserve rich compensation.
The president is reported as over
whelmed with gratuitOus generalitics
on the adjustment of these debts, but
when he tries to pin any of his advis-
ers down to concrete program he
finds notable disinclination or in
ability.
1t is always easier to criticise than
to make constructive suggestions. 1t
is casie' to indulge in generalities on
any many-sided question than to find
some one feasible way.
. Even when some fairly workable
plan is proposed by one faction there
is always the little problem of the
other faction which refuses to CO.
operate because it has a perfectly
good scheme of it's own ,and wants
the honor and the glory which will
accure in putting it over.
1t might pay any public official to
actually offer prize in such a con-
nection. The effort to earn it would
teach the critical citizen much about
the real difficulties of diplomacy.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
COAL AND COEEINS

Carload of Coffins arrives ut
Spanglcr" was the news Il few days
ago from the scene Of the latest mine
disaster in Pennsylvania. As COM
panion picture there was n dcscrip-
ton of women, waiting in the rain
all night at the mouth of tho ,m,rr for
their dead to be hrHHI:g up. ~ W
; 1t g s"%t s"% little while since the
country was shocked by worse mine
disaster in the west.
/ Always disasters. 1t is part of the
mining game. Miners expect it,
Those who "go down to th& sea in
hips" face no such perils as those who
go down in the earth for the fuel and
ore demanded by our industrial civil
iEation. When danger comes, the
sailor can at least breathe clean all
and face the light and struggle Il
save himself. The miner dies Ike Z
trapped rat.
These are facts that must not b'
ignored in any consideration of min
ing problems. Mining is more thar
muscular effort and hours and pay
Men in a necessary industry deserv,
recompense for what the industr!
compels them to endure.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
FEEDING RATS AND
SPREADING DISEASE

Good Morning. Have you fed your
rat? We all must do it, you know.
Every man. woman and child in this
land of the free and the home of the
brave must hustle out and provide a
dollar and eighty cents worth of food
every year to support the rats which
infest our cities and towns and
barns. An army of two hundred
thousand able-bodied men are en-
ployed the year round in producing
what rats consume and destroy.
But that is not half. The loss from
what rats devour is far outdone by
the ravages of the diseases they help
to spread. The greatest scourge
which has ever afflicted the human
race is carried by rats. This plague
killed twenty-five millions of people
in Europe at one time a few centur-
les ago.
Several of our modern. Civilized"
diseases are also directly traced to
them as carriers. They multiply at
a prodigious rate, and once gaining
the run of town require heroic eff
forts to exterminate them. If they
are bad in your town. you cannot get
busy too soon, and though there are
but few of them now. now is none
too soon to stop their devestations.
How? First of all. by building rat
proof houses and store buildings.
These cost somewhat more than the
other kind, but they amply pay out
in the end.
After the rats have come, trap
them. poison them, or spread disease
among them to pay them back for the
disease they spread among humans.
Scientists have discovered bacterial
virus which, once started among
them. carries them off.
This last named plan may not be
feasible for smaller centers of popu-
lation. Poison may prove dangerous
for humans and domestic pets, But
the trap is within everybody's reach
and is effective. Organize the chill
dren. Offer bounties on rat tails. Go
act the business wholesale; allow no
retailing. Is it not time to get busy
in our town?
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
WOMEN BEAUTIFUL.

DR.. Pabst. of New York. a skin
specialist. advises women "to make
use of cosmetics and rouge and en-
JOY themselves"
That is wise advice for the skin
specialist. good for his profit. But
it isn't good for women.
Cosmetics clog the pores of the
skin, and that isn't the worst % It.
When u woman can buy good COM
pleXion. she can neglect care of health
tha produces a good complexion.
1t would be better for women in the
next generation if women of today
had to rely on health for their good
looks. not an cosmetics.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
SOMETHING WRONG

big Ben" Garner. Of Boston, 7s
years old, poor and worried. is not
able to work at his trade any more.
He wants to be taken care of for the
rest of his life. And he will be taken
care Of, at the public expense.
Reading that. you know that big
Ben" is not carpenter. bricklayer,
blacksmith or wornout bank clerk.
His trade was thieving. He has
spent fifty years in Jail, chiefly for
petty larceny.
Too old and slow to beg and steal
successfully, he committed minor
crime and asked the judge to sentence
him for life. He will go to prison
where warm he'd sufficient food
medical care and clothes will be al
free.
But what will history say about
civilization that would take care of al
old, wornout man whose trade wa
stealing. and wouldn't take care O.
him if he had spent his life workin,
for the public welfare.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
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4 RUDE RURAL RHYMES q
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Advice To Maidens


The pumpkin is noble vine from
tropic lands below thes line. Among
our rows of corn it runs and lifts
broad leaves to rains and suns. It's
many fruits are big and bold and fill
though they lie till frost CONCEAL
them, no boy will ever try to steal
them. They have a pretty yellow
hide. but kids all know they're punk
inside. The watermelons fruit is
green as if not wishful to be seen,
but when some hopeful farmer
~rows il most every kid in ten miles
knows ii. and as it nears the ripening
date will strive to swipe is soon or
late. Yea, they will come and take
chance, though shotguns salt them
in the pants. o gentle maiden do
not fail to get the moral of this tale.
We men, of course, pick sweethearts
comely-I'm glad that Hannah is not
homely. But though you use your
time and are to doll up every out
ward part, be like the melon sweet
at heart. Mere outward beauty like
the pumpkins will win you only fools
and pumpkins. You'll stay within
your own home fence, no Lochinvar
will steal you thence. But if you
cherish from your birth some true
ideal of modest worth, not all your
beauty nyour skin, but fresh and
pure and sweet within, through fence
and bolt and bar and latch some
youth will break into the patch. Hell
say "Sweet maiden, come be mine
and pluck you from the parent vine
Yea, though you be true child OF
Ewes and seek to hide among the
leaves, while love and joy within you
risen, your heart will answer eyes
I'm hisn."
-ROR ADAMS
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
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:: SCRIPTURE :.
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, Section 5.-Matthew 5.27.,.
TRADITION SUPERSEDFn nv

iON oUPERSEDEn M,
CHRISTS LAW BY
27 Ye have heard that Il u
by them of old time. Thou sbai. as SAID
commit adultery: Snalt not
2S But l say unto YOU. Tho. 49,.
ever looketh on a woman to 10, In.s whoso-
her hath committed adulterv' 'usa .,si.t after
already in his heart. win herr
29 And if thy eye offend A.
pluck it out, and cast il fron, u tthee,I
for it is profitable for thee tba. 'nee.
OF thy members should per;sh a' one
not that thy whole body per;sh' ' and
not that thy whole body should Sho "a
30 And if thy right hand of,..,
thee. cut it off. and cast it from V,iend ,IaNd
for it is profitable for thee that .uee:: ss
OF thy members should perish Ons Ons.
not that thy whole body should ana 4,
cast into hell. Ou'u De'
81 1t hath been said, Wbosoor..
shall put away his wife, let him e;,,r
her writing of enforcement: s"e
32 But l say unto you. That x,a,
soever shall put away his wife saV V
inging for the cause of fornicat;or
causeth her to commit adultery. osS
whosOever shall marry her that Is II
divorced committeth adultery. ~
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
THE GOOD OLD DAYS

Once there was time when broth
erly love was known. when a spirit
of fairness was in evidence. when a
willingness to live and let live pre-
vailed.
But that was yesterday. and yester-
day is forever of the past.
We dream Of the days that were,
but make no effort to restore them to
the time that is.
We pity the ancients because of the
many things that they did not
possess, and the Lord judges us be-
cause of the many things that we
reject.
1t is life, as we make it. and for
which we must pay.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
BROTHERS ELECTROCUTED

Two brothers were electrocuted at
Oklahoma City Monday. one dying in
an effort to save the other.
While George Castelberry. a paint
er, % years old, was removing an
electric light bulb from a socket he
came in contact with a live wire and
was almost instantly killed. His
younger brother. William, 1S years
old. seeing his plight. attempted to
pull him from the wire and also was
electrocuted.
Both were unmarried.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
bob ADAMS
FEDERAL BUDGET FOR YEAR
is TO BE S3,1S0,S43,235

President Harding has presented
to Congress the budget for the ex-
penses of the Government for the fis-
cal year. with the total estimated
sum of S3.180,S43,235, which he said
is a half billion dollars less than
the year before. A great part of
the Governments expenses is needed
for the retirement of war debts,
which cannot be decreased, the Presi-
dent told Congress.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
CONTROL YOUR TONGUE

Perhaps YOU have noticed the fell
low who is continually making Il
noise with his mouth.
He ramhcs along for an hour and
at the end of that time nobody even
remembers what he has said.
Wise men talk to purpose. Others
should not talk.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
XACCINATE For ROIPE

Vaccination of hens for roupe is
a new treatment which W. B. VIII
farm demonstration agent, is work
ing with success in Delaware county.
The cost Of vaccination is two cents
per hen.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

General Pershing may soon know
how it feels to be unpopular. He is
going to write his memoirs.
Remember the good old days when
mother used old flour sacks to make
underwear for the children?
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08
WIVES NEVER GROW OLD

When a man begins to get gray
hairs his wife begins to let it be
known that she is considerably his
junior. And that is as it should be.
knowledge comes from experience,
and experience comes with age, it is
true, but we can never afford to ad-
nit that the feminine member of the
matrimonial firm is getting along in
years"
Our wives must never grow old.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

Some people spend lot of time in
bemoaning their fate and damning
their luck.
The same amount of time and
energy, if spent in some useful pur-
suit or in endeavoring to locate a
profitable occupation would preclude
even the possibility of even thinking
of luck or fate.
Think of the right side of life-or
don't think.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

"Prominent woman wants divorce
because she doesn't know where her
husband is" says q headline. II all
Women were to get divorces on that
ground there would be lot of free
men in this country.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

New York's wealthiest retired boot
logger has gone to Italy to live, pro-
badly attracted by the bootleg shace
Of the country.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

The fact that American citizens
bought eighty billion German marks
shows that Mr. Barnum was ultra
conservative in his estimate of the
sucker birth-rate.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

You have heard of lame ducks in
politics, of course, but you may now
refer to Congresswoman Robertson
as a lame chicken.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

President Harding's letter com
mending the record of the last Con-
gress merely confirms the impress
ion that the President is easy to
please.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

You can always tell who is boss
around the house when you see faith
er sitting on the front porch with
his shoes off.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

That 400 per cent dividend de-
clarcd by the Standard Oil Company
will be of help to the stockholders in
..-;.:.. 80. 80 f.-- their gasoline at the in
crpasinc prices.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

Can dogs find their way home
from a long distance?" asks Bill
Spivens. Its according to the dog.
If its one you want to get rid of, he
can find his way back home from
Alaska. If it's good one. he's apt
to get lost if he goes around the
corner.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

A man drove a horse through the
streets the other day. 1t attracted a
great deal of attention. There used
70 he lots of horses around here.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

Senator Tom Watson of Georgia,
says he doesn't belong to the Ku
klux. Would you consider that a
knock, or a boost for the X. X?
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

But, in view of the frightful look
ing stockings they are beginning to
wear, we are rather glad long skirts
are coming back in style.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

The LATEST girl we have yet heard
of is the one who called her mother
from the kitchen to wind the phono-
graph for her.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

Girls may wear knickerbockers if
they want to, but if they do they
need not expect us to tip our hats to
them.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

The Egyptians may not be making
the best use Of their freedom, but at
any rate they have not gone to war
over it, as the Irish have done.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

The eX-kaiser says he was
brought iIp with the Bible" The BIZ
ble, however. appears to have sur
v:ved the experience with visible
injury.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

That shipping route to be opened
E.y the Soviet government through the
Artic Sea will probably turn out to
be a frost.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

THE hour has como" declared SEN
ator GourjI in the French Senate the
other day. for us no longer to he
afraid of women" Wonder if he hir-
euppcd when he said it?
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

A contemporary says fiat legs are
indicative of great brain power"
This sounds az il it might mean
something. but we don't quite get it.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

In the opinion of Bill Spivens the
press agent of black pugilist an
nounces the day before the fight that
his man is in the pink of condition
just to make the opponent feel blue.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

A railroad official says there is too
much reckless railroading these days.
The travelling public would prefer to
see more wreckless railroading.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

This woman who married the ex-
kaiser the other day should have worn
lemon blossoms, don't you think?
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

Twenty years ago we were dis
tusstng prohibition, and we are prae-
ticing it now.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

You can't judge people by their
names. A Mrs. Hovel. of Kansas
City, lost a 1000 diamond ring.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

And while we are cleaning up the
movies, how about trying to improve
the people who go to see them.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

And yet some of these people who
are called cranks cannot be turned
from their ways.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

Congress is in session again, and
now you have something to blame it
on when things go wrong.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-12-08

Europe had troubles before this
country was discovered. but did not
have this country to blame for them.