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The weather man must have been saving up all the worst tricks of the clouds for the past several winters in order to throw them all at us these past two weeks. Most of us are ready to cry “uncle,* for we’ve already had enough—and winter doesn’t even begin until next Thursday— December 21—'marking the short* est day of the year.
Wind, snow, sleet, rain, ice, and cold—we are getting it alL Someone remarked yesterday that we had already had as much winter weather this month as we've had all winter for the past three years.
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Shades of the old medicine men 1 Stories of the picturesque old covered wagon peddlers of tonic and pills—with their Indians and the wild testimonials that the marvelous tonic will do everything from killing the fleas on the dog to growing hair on a billiard ball— are all put to shame with the modern story.
Our grandsires may have done well in their day but the Senator from Louisiana who is putting on the Hadacol shows has all the old birds licked! The tale goes that one of the big shows in a southern city, with movie-stars present, attracted a crowd of 10,000— with admission only by the presentation of s box-top from the Hadacol box 1
When most of us first started
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