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strictly on the business side, another item of news reports: “We take advertisements* lc per word.”
The printers at Rappahannock News were planning to do something to squelch this competition, but then the boys came into the printing office, turned on the charm, and departed with a large supply of free paper on which to print their news. What can you do in a case like that? (Editor's note: We are considering a merger if, and when, we’ve gotten our wits sharpened. We would hate for a conference with the Browning Boys to end up with their owning our paper—and that could happen if they got really wound up in their talking.)
Reports from the elder Brownings state that father wasn’t any too happy about the sons' printing and distributing their “Flint Hill News.” Being a banker, and shall we say, a little on the conservative side, father protested that he wouldn’t have his sons making a nuisance of themselves worrying people to buy the papers. Mrs. John S. (mother) came to the
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