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Let’s offer a leather medal to the daily newspaper that doesn't send a photographer <ont to the soo tomorrow and make some caretaker get poor ole’ groundhog out of his pleasant hibernation. It’s a wonder the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals hasn’t found out about the practice and done something to prevent it. The story is circulated about among newspaper men that > this policy of digging the groundhog out at the zoo is frowned upon by the zoo-keepers, but they know that the photographers are determined to have that rnnualpicture. : t ••-r
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The lady-government of Rappahannock’s county seat has now ^ begun to get fan-mail from abroad. Among the latest crop was one from a gentleman in Italy who , wishes to correspond with “some young, cultured dynamic woman of the City of Washington, Vir- ; ginia” and he states quite frankly that his object is matrimony. He describes himself as being quite handsome, and sent a picture of himself. The photo now reposes on the bulletin board of Rappahannock News office and everyone is invited to come and pass a critical eye. (All “young, cultured, dynamic women will please form in a line on the right.)
The pipe-smoking printer at the office has taken a good look at the gentleman and has already drawled, “What's wrong with him . that no woman in Italy will marry him?” .
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There is another letter, also posted on the bulletin board, which states that a firm in France is looking fof prospective markets and wishes a list of distributors and importers of wines and liquors. Someone suggested that they wanted to undermine the industry of the county; that apples are the product here, and “applejack” is the proper means of wetting the whistle. Therefore, those frenchmen should keep their grapes—or whatever the product —at home and not interfere with Rappahannock's business.
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One of the first fan-letters that arrived in the county came not to the ladies in general, but to one lady in particular. A gentleman
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