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All Mixed Up

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
February
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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When the editor of tho Woodvilla B1omt got sick aud had to leavo town k, he got Raudolph Horton TuOb ut the paper. Now, Mr. Tucker was not au expert editor, but he could write nice little verses and sweet ling society items aud said he conld manase the ofíico first rate. He wanti -I fcöshow a little extra enterprise, bo he made a big spread on local news and wrote up the notices for the advertisers in fine style. When bis oopy was all in, he went homo light liearted and happy. But alas and alack ! The tramp printer, who was the foreman, printer and pri 3sman and who had not been fully sober for a month, got the news and business notices all mixed in making up, and when The Blower appeared items like the following greeted the aatonished citizens: "Go to Smith's for fresh Jersey bntter. Guaranteed to be strictly all wool. " "Wanted to ezohange a fino dun colored, Shorthorn piano, perfectly gentle, for an upright cow in good tune." "Stubbs & Tubbs, dealers in green hides, rags. scrap iron, etc. Meals at all hours. ' ' "Reward of $10 will be paid for the arrest and detention of one of the most desirable residence lots in town. When lust heard from, was working on a steamboat in Alabama. " "Get your meals at the Snide House. Fresh steak and hash every 30 days, made of the finest corrugated steel and warranted to last a lifetime. " " Some very artistic fresco work has just been done on the interior of Judge Hamp Rollins, who was again elected justice of the peace last week." The effect of this breezy issue of The Blower was such as to cause Mr. Randolph TuCker to abandon journalism and seek the more congenial calling of

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Ann Arbor Democrat