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Durant Weekly News, 1921-01-21

The front page of 1921-01-21. 446 words, read by machine from the Library of Congress scan and reproduced without correction.

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"Yours truly" saw a young lady on Thin! Avenue the other day wearing the shortest skirt he ever saw, no one could guess in a thousand years what I thought about, Onion Sets, Onion Sets. I asked a friend of mine how in the world would a woman jiut out onion sets wearing a skirt that short. He said, "Don't worry son", any woman on earth will corne out of these short skirts for a "mess" of new "garden onions" lie said, they'll soon be getting out old mothcr-hubbards and checked aprons and miike the dirt fly. We have Onion Sets "Till the Wotld Looks Level" Our store is regular headquarters for onion sets, lied and Yellow ones, fine as you ever saw, another thng you get what you pay for, 32 lbs in a bushel, 8 gallons in a bushel, 4 lbs to the gallon. Don't buy an onion set until you spe our's.

pathlc association, Dr. F. A. Engle Engle-hart, - hart, Engle-hart, president, announced Tuesday If it become a law, It will not go Into effect for five years to give am ample - ple ample time for the sale of and wearing out of all the high heels on the mar market. - ket. market. "Also, it would gte women ac accustomed - customed accustomed to very high heels an oppor opportunity - tunity opportunity to accustom themsehes gradual gradual-lyUo - lyUo gradual-lyUo the wearing of low heels, he said. The hill has the backing of osteo osteopathic - pathic osteopathic physicians, surgeons and spec

District court in the sum of flOOO. Oeo. I'rultt was the next ao face the outraged dignity of the laws. It be being - ing being alleged that he had annexed some harness from the general merchandise store of A. Wlndotn, of Achllie, without going through the formality of getting the owner's consent. Petit larceny was the charge and Judge Prultt thought that 125 00 and cost would square matters. Lacy T'mltt was also charged with having a fondness for leather goods, aintl In his rase the charge was grand larceny, and he was held to the Dis District - trict District court under a $1000 bond.

Dallas was the scene of a holdup last Friday which equalled any put up in the old days In the Wild and Wooty West when a band of six men entered the postal substation on Jackson street Just across from the Union Station, shot and wounded two of the employees and escaped with a registered mall pouch containing It whs estimated around $200,000 worth of cash and se securities. - curities. securities. . The gang got into a watting auto

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